Philipse family

The Philipse family was a prominent Dutch family in New Netherlands and the British Province of New York. Its members owned both the vast 81 mi² (210 km²) hereditary estate in lower Westchester County, New York (Philipsburg Manor), and the roughly 250 mi² (650 km²) Highland Patent, later known as the "Philipse Patent" (today's Putnam County and parts of Dutchess County). Frederick Philipse, the first lord of Philipsburg Manor, was New York's richest man.

Among the family's numerous enterprises, the Philipses engaged in the slave trade. Some of the victims of the slave trade they kept for themselves: while many families in colonial New York owned slaves, most possessed one or two house slaves; the Philipse family owned more than 120 enslaved men, women, and children. Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, the family had its lands seized in 1779 by the Revolutionary government of the Province of New York and sold by its Commissioners of Forfeiture. Though never compensated for their losses by the Colonial government, various family members did receive payments from the British government in following years.

• Map of Philipsburg Manor with current borders overlaid on the property
• Map of Philipse Patent (showing the Oblong and the Gore)