[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] odor of salted hides and fresh sole leather is always perceptible to the stranger passing through it. Wil-liam Beckman died in 1707 at the age of eighty-five, leaving one daughter and three sons, Henry, Gerard MRS. COKXK1.IA ItKKKMAS. and Johannes. Gerard G. Beckman, the purchaser of the property here referred to, was a grandson of William Beckman. About the year 17(i.) he married that remarkable woman, Miss Cornelia Van Cort-landt, second daughter of Pierre Van Cortlandt, pro-prietor of the Van Cortlandt manor and manor-house still standing and occupied by the Van Cortlandt family, north of the Croton River. Her father was Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York under George Clinton from 1777 to 1795, and was distin-guished for his vigorous support of the cause of inde-pendence during the Revolutionary War. On her marriage with Gerard G. lU'ckman, at the age of seventeen, she removed, with her husband, to New York City, and resided while there in the street bearing his family name. When the storm of war burst upon the city, she removed again to the scenes of her childhood in the country, first at Croton, and then at Pcekskill, where she remained until the restoration of peace. An interesting account of her high character and noble patriotic devotion during that long struggle is given, together with an engraved likeness, in the work entitled "The Women of the Revolution," by Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellet, published in two volumes by Baker & Scribner, New York, iu 1848.