[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] < )f Madame Olaf Van Cortlandt, Valentine writes :* "Every one will recognize the GoetVrow of the famous Burgomaster of Nieuw Amsterdam, anil the mother of his family. Little is known of her personal history, save that she lived on the Brouwer Straat, in a good old double stone house with little windows, immense fire places and a steeple roof. We know that it was a noisy household, for the burgomaster had never less than a dozen negroes lounging round his establish-ment, 1 and madame must have been a patient lady." The good man went to his rest sometime previous to K5X3, full of years and of honours. His widow died May '4, K>84, and good Dominie Selyns, whose muse was always ready with poetical effusions for fonts, bells, marriages or funerals, wrote her epitaph.* Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the eldest son of Olaf, was born in New Amsterdam in 1(543; he was '-' Manual of tin' Common Council. 3 Among tlirin was no iloiilit Christopher, taken from the ship " St. An-tholie," Silvester Perez, skipper, ley the privateer " Itaveii," commanded by Captain Sebastian HacIT, near Cape Morante. The cargo of the "St. Anlhoue" was a valuable one, consisting of sixty negroes mufactiired silverware, strings of large pearls, etc. The slaves were dis|>osed of in various ways, J../iii and Mode/nil, the pro|HTlv of the pilot, Juan lial-