Philip Verplanck

Philip Verplanck (June 1695 – October 13, 1771) was an American sheriff and politician in colonial New York.

[5] Reportedly, acting according to a directive established by Stephanus Van Cortlandt, he partitioned the manor into 40 tracts.

In the 1750s, however, his wife's cousin, Pierre Van Cortlandt, superseded Verplanck and took charge of the manor lands.

[5] In March 1762, he was made co-executor of the estate of his cousin, David Verplanck of Beeren Island in the Manor of Rensselaerswyck.

[9] Through his son Philip, he was a grandfather of Anna Maria Verplanck (1773–1816), who married Col. Andrew Deveaux, the Loyalist from South Carolina who is most famous for his recapture of the Bahamas in 1783.