Introduction: The relation between the picturesque and the historic -- Nappeckamack, the trap-fishing place -- The younger Adriaen Van Der Donck -- The Philipse family -- The rise of a great merchant -- The making of a manor -- The manor system -- The second lord of the manor -- The third lord of the manor -- Courtship and marriage of Mary Philipse -- The attainder of Frederick Philipse -- The heart of the neutral ground -- The dissolution of the manor -- The preservation of the Manor Hall -- The Manor Hall itself -- The manor in picture and literature
