[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] H I I «..L 'If/',,.Kji;i I'l COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 329 We are indebted to the Evening Gazette for the subjoined notice of this remarkable lady. "Cornelia Beeckman was the second daughter of Lt. Gov. Pierre Van Cortlandt, by liis wife Joanna Livingston, whose birth took place in the old manor house, by the banks of the Croton, on the 2d of August, 1753. Here her infancy and youth glided av/ay, and but a short time before the war, she left its scenes for a life in New York, whither she re-moved upon her marriage with Gerard Becckman. When the Re-volutionary troubles ran high, she came back to the old house at Peekskill, where part of her family resided. Exposed, of course, to all manner of insult and aggression, well-known herself, and in connection with her father, subsequently lieutenant-governor of this state, under Clinton, (but at that time, president of the Committee of Public Safety.) with her brother serving in the army, and many relatives and intimates, all zealous whigs and devoted Americans, her unconquerable will and high spirit bore her safely and uncompromisingly through those trying scenes. We copy from a graphic sketch, by an able and we fancy well-known pen, the following notice of her life during this disastrous period. " One little incident we recollect to have read in a letter writ-ten by herself, in 1777.