Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford was a British diplomat.
Portrait by William Haines, c. 1808
Frederick Philipse III
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Frederick Philipse III was the third and last Lord of Philipsburg Manor, a 52,000 acres hereditary estate in lower Westchester County, New York, and a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War.
Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
…during the American War of Independence. While quartered in New York in the winter of 1776 to 1777, he met and courted Maria. She was the daughter of Frederick Philipse III (1720–1785), the third and last Lord of Philipsburg Manor and a descendant of the Dutch founder of the city. At first, her father rejected Lionel…
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Philipse Manor Hall (the Lower Mills manor house) in Getty Square, Yonkers
Philipsburg Manor House (the Upper Mills manor house) in Sleepy Hollow, New York