[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Gertrude van Cortlandt, exe-cutrix of Stephanus van Cortlandt, deceased, the sura of eight pounds proclamation money in full of quit-rents, for all the lands lying within the Manor of Cortlandt, to the 25th day of March last, pursuant to the within patent, as witness my hand. J. BYVERLY, Collector. Stephanus van Cortlandt, first lord of the Manor of Cortlandt, was the son of the Hon. Olotf Stevensen van Cortlandt, imme-diately descended from one of the most noble families in Holland, their ancestors having emigrated thither, when deprived of the sovereignty of Courland.^ The orthography of the surname is properly Corte-landt; the first syllable Corte or Korte, meaning in the Dutch language short; ^ the second, landt, (land) literally the short land, a term ex-pressing the peculiar form of the ancient Duchy of Courland in Russia. Courland in Russia, (says Schiutzler,) formerly constituted a