View No. 9: Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow

Watercolor on Linen / 12.5“ X 18.5”

About a quarter of a mile up the Pocantico River tributary, a house and grist mill were built by the same Adrian van der Donck who built the sawmill in Yonkers. It was an important source of flour for the residents of New Amsterdam down river. Later acquired by the same Margaret and Frederick Philipse who were owners of the manor and mill in Yonkers (View No.7), it was operated by African slaves who were by then being traded in the colonies.

After the American Revolution, the 52,000-acre estate associated with the manor and mill was confiscated from the Philips family who had remained royalist, and the farmland was sold to many of the tenant farmers who had previously worked the land. Now fully restored, the house and grist mill are among the earliest colonial-era buildings remaining in New York State today.