Editing Yonkers, New York (section)

=== Early settlements ===
[[File:Philipse Manor Hall.jpg|thumb|alt=Large, two-story building with a statue in front|Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site]]
The indigenous [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] village of Nappeckamack was located near the Neperah stream (now the [[Saw Mill River]], also known as Nepperhan Creek), which flowed into the Shatemuck ([[Hudson River]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Early Yonkers History – Yonkers Chamber of Commerce |url=https://yonkerschamber.com/early-yonkers-history/ |website=yonkerschamber.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304234459/https://yonkerschamber.com/early-yonkers-history/ |archive-date=March 4, 2023 |access-date=March 4, 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> The land on which the city is built was once part of [[Colen Donck]], a {{convert|24,000|acre|km2|abbr=off|adj=on|sp=us}} Dutch [[land grant]]. It ran {{convert|12|mi|0}} north from the present-day [[Manhattan]]–Bronx border at Marble Hill, and from the Hudson River east to the [[Bronx River]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eberlein |first1=Harold Donaldson |last2=Hubbard |first2=Cortlandt Van Dyke |title=Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley |year=1990 |publisher=Dover |isbn=9780486263045 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYktB96BLdgC&pg=PA7 |access-date=27 May 2024 |archive-date=June 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608190705/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Historic_Houses_of_the_Hudson_Valley/kYktB96BLdgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA7&printsec=frontcover |url-status=live }}</ref>

Adriaen van der Donck (d. 1655) built a [[Sawmill|saw mill]] near the confluence of Nepperhan Creek and the Hudson River.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Yonkers (N.Y.). |title=Charter of the City of Yonkers |date=December 12, 2008 |publisher=Gazette Press |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 |access-date=27 May 2024 |archive-date=June 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608190705/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Charter_of_the_City_of_Yonkers/TSM9AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA5&printsec=frontcover |url-status=live }}</ref> Near the site of Van der Donck's mill is the [[Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site]], a [[manor house]] owned by [[New Netherland|Dutch colonists]]. The [[historic house museum]] is also an archive. The original structure was built by white workers and [[Slavery in the colonial history of the United States|enslaved people]] for [[Frederick Philipse]] and his wife, Margaret Hardenbroeck de Vries, around 1682. Philipse was a wealthy Dutchman who, at his death, had amassed an estate which included present-day Yonkers and several other Hudson River towns.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Harry T. |last2=Kaplan |first2=Nathan Julius |title=The Borough of the Bronx, 1639-1913 |date=June 23, 2010 |page=156 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYZPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156 |access-date=27 May 2024 |archive-date=June 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608190706/https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Borough_of_the_Bronx_1639_1913/XYZPAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA156&printsec=frontcover |url-status=live }}</ref> Philipse's great-grandson, Frederick Philipse III, was a prominent [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|loyalist]] during the [[American Revolution]] who had economic and political ties to English businesspeople. Because of his political leanings, he fled to England. American colonists in New York State confiscated and sold all lands and property belonging to the Philipse family.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Benjamin |first1=Aline |title=From Rags to Riches in 1686 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/30/archives/westchester-weekly-from-rags-to-riches-in-1686-a-land-barons.html |access-date=6 November 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=October 30, 1977 |archive-date=November 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106193719/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/30/archives/westchester-weekly-from-rags-to-riches-in-1686-a-land-barons.html |url-status=live }}</ref>