Query From Michael Gherke Mike9493@aol.com 09 July 1996

I am Michael Gherke, a Ph.D. student in history at West Virginia University. I am doing research on Margaret Philipse, also spelled Filipse, and Flipsen, a seventeenth century New York merchant. I would very much appreciate sources for this remarkable woman.

Sources consulted to date are:

Booth, Mary L. History of the City of New York (1859)

Hall, Edward Hagaman Philipse Manor Hall (1912)

Bonomi, Patricia A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York (1971)

Ritchie, Robert The Duke's Province: A Study of New York Politics and Society, 1664-1691 (1977-primary)

Murphy, Henry C.; trans. Jaspar Dankins and Peter Sluyter Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour in Several of the American Colonies in 1679-80 (1867)

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York

I am hoping there may exist a collection of papers on Margaret Philipse which I may be able to obtain through I.L.L. Or, other sources which I have failed to uncover. Of course, any help is very much appreciated.

Responses:

Biemer, Linda Briggs Women and Property in Colonial New York: the Transition From Dutch to English Law 1643-1727 (mid-1980s, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor)..chapter on Philipse

Kim, Sung Bok Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664-1775 (Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1978; reprint 1986)

Wentworth, Ann K. "Woman of Business or Lady of the Manor: an Archaeological Examination of Changes in Gender Roles Among the Hudson Valley Elite During the 18th Century"(Ph.D. diss. UMI 1994)

Other Contacts:

Dr. Alix Schnee, Site Manager Philpse Manor Hall P.O.Box 496 Yonkers,
NY 10701 914-965-4027

Ms. Radiah Harper Sumler, Director of Programs, Historic Hudson Valley 150 White Plains Road
Tarrytown, NY 10591 914-631-8200

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