Summer is here, which means it is time to start thinking reunion.  This year the Phillips-Knapp reunion falls the weekend of September 19-20.  On Saturday the 19th we will have our traditional picnic at the park in Haverstraw.  For Sunday we have exciting new plans. Research over the winter has revealed that Daniel, Eli and Gilbert Phillips were indeed born at Phillips Manor as some of us were told by our grandmothers.  Eli gives this information in an affidavit he filed with his Revolutionary pension application.  There is no evidence that they were part of the Phillips Family of the Manor, but could be shirt-tail relatives.  They most likely lived northeast of the Manor, in a town now called Phillipsburg.  We will continue to research this matter. Our plans for reunion Sunday are to visit both the Phillips Manor Hall and the Phillips Farm, both of which are just across the river in Westchester County.  We will eat lunch in a nearby restaurant, and get private tours of both locations.  In addition, we will try to find a speaker who can tell us more about the Manor family and other Phillips families in the area.  It should be both fun and educational. Try to arrange to join us!   Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. Attorney, historian, genealogist, grandmother 155 Polifly Road Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 (201) 567-9440 office http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/