[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] the estate of Oloff Stevensen van Cortlandt is assessed at 45,000 guilders; his son's, Stephanus, at 5000 guilders.^ The Hon. Stephanus, (son of Oloff Stevensen van Cortlandt,) was born on the 7th of May, 1643. This distinguished person-age, upon the death of his brother-in-law, Jeremias van Rensse-laer, A. D., 1675, became one of the three administrators of his estate, during the minority of Killian'van Rensselaer, (then 12 years old.) Stephanus van Cortlandt had charge of the books, for which duty he received one hundred schepels of wheat. ^ Iq the year 1677 he was elected Mayor of the city of New York. He was also a member of the Governor's Council, and a Colonel in the provincial militia. Stephanus van Cortlandt died in the year 1700, leaving by his wife Gertrude Schuyler, eleven children, who intermarried with the DePeysters, DeLanceys, Beeckmans, Skinners, Bayards, Johnsons, and VanRensselaers.