[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] west room of the second story the fire-place jambs are lined with one hundred and six tiles, five inches square, each one illustrating;i p.i>-u^e of Scripture. The iron fire-brick is dated 1700, and has upon it a casting representing Elijah as being fed by the ravens." 12 HISTORY OF WESTCHKSTKK COUNTY". bans), Jacobus Van Cortlandt (a brother of the second Mrs. Frederick Philipse), who was born July 7, 1658, and died in 1739. The husband in Hi!)!) bought of his father-in-law the fifty acres alluded to above. This tract formed the nucleus of the large Van Cortlandt estate in Lower Yonkers, now within {he city of New York. Jacobus and Eva Van Cortlandt were the an-cestors of the Yonkers (youngest) branch of the Van Cortlandt family (for an extended account of this branch, see the New York Genealogical and Bio-graphical Record, vol. v. pp. 108-171). 2. Philip Philipse, date of birth not given, but entry of baptism on New York Collegiate Church Records, March 18, 1668. His father owned an estate, called "Spring Head," on the island of Barbadoes, and placed this son upon it. Philip married Maria Sparks, daughter of the Governor of the island. It is sup-posed the marriage took place about 1G94. Philip and Maria both died in 1700, leaving but one child, — Frederick, — born at Spring Head but five years be-fore their own death, and seven years before the death of his grandfather, one of whose direct heirs he was to become.