[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] of Major Gen. Lincoln, or any other your superior officers commanding at that place. You will also, if occasion should require it, alter the above route agreeably to orders from either Major General Lincoln or the quarter-master-general. You will be particularly careful to collect all your men that are in proper condition to march, and will use your best endeavors to prevent desertion. Given at King's Bridge this 25lh day of August, 178L Geo. Washington. At the battle of Yorktown, in Virginia, Col. van Cortland t ap-pears to have served on piquet guard; for his conduct on this occasion he was advanced to the rank of brigadier general. To his care the commander-in-chief entrusted 700 British and Hes-sian prisoners of war, which he conducted in safety to Freder-icksburg. During the spring of 1782 his cainp on the Flat Fields was visited by General and Lady Washington. ^ Upon the suspension of hostilities Gen. van Cortlandt retired to the manor house at Croton; he was afterv/ards chosen one of the commissioners of forfeitures, and represented for sixteen years this district in Congress, declining re-election in 1811. Gen. van Cortlandt accompanied the Marquis de la Fayette in his tour of the United States in 1824. The general died at his house on the Croton November 21st, 1S31, and with him expired the en-tail. By his will he bequeathed to his brother, Gen. Pierre van Cortlandt, fiOO acres; to his three sisters, Anne van Kensselaer, Cornelia Beeckman, and Catharine van Wyck.