History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 16 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In 1674 already he was rated at eighty thousand guilders, which was far beyond the fortune of any other person in the city. His first wife having died in 1090 or 1691, he married, November 30, 1092, Catharina Van Cortlandt, daugh-ter of Oloff Stevensen Van Cortlandt, and widow of the late wealthy merchant, John Dervall. She brought him two fortunes, one from her former husband and another from her father. All these estates and all his own accumulations besides came to him before the Manor of Philipsburgh was confirmed to him in 1693. At his death in 1702, he owned, in addition to this manor, his former New York City residence on Stone Street, between Whitehall and Broad, besides other property in city mortgages and real estate, and also a place in Bergen County, N. J. He was known as " The Dutch Millionaire." He was a New York