(America250) Lecture: How Philipse Hall Lost its Manor: Revolutionary Confiscation in New York
Explore how this hidden history has been
hiding in plain sight at Philipse Manor Hall. Once stretching over 250,000 acres, almost all of the Philipse
family’s land was confiscated by the new state of New York. Why? Who got that land? And what
happened to the Philipses? It’s a story that demonstrates how the Revolution created democracy on the
ground, in the most literal sense, while along the way generating opportunism, intrigue, exile, and,
among some Patriots, even regret and remorse.
