History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 295 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Olaf Stevense Van Cortlandt, the first of the name who came here from Holland, was from Wvk bij Durnstede,6 a village in the Netherlands thirteen miles southeast of Utrecht, and was the son of Stevan and Catharine Van Cortlandt. The latter, according to the date on the portrait her son brought with him, was born in 1566anddied in L630.1 Stevan, his lather, was living in South Holland in L610. A branch of the Van Cortlandts came to Holland from Courland and entered into the military service.8 Their coat-armor is recorded in the Hall ol Records at Amsterdam, and was brough.1 by them to this country in L636.9 Oloff or Olaf Van Cortlandt was a soldier in the ser-vice of the West India Company and came to America in the " Haring" accompanying William rvieft, director-general of the company's North American Provinces. They reached New A m-sterdam in 1638, having wintered at Bermuda.