[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] And there, where.lesus is, true rest and joys abide in. Cod's will did Anna' serve, liod's aid did lliinuuht pray. In Ibis al..lie alike thai bolh have passed una) • 1 I.uko ii., sr.. f'il Samuel i, In, 11. Krom II C Murphi 's Anthology of New Nelherhind (Bradford Club, No. 4), New York, I8B& CORTLANDT. 425 carefully educated under a learned tutor from Europe, and very early entered into public life, his first ap-pointment being to the Court of Assizes. At the age of thirty-four be was chosen mayor, being the first American born mayor of New York. In 1685 Nicholas Bayard was made mayor, and with Van Cortlandt, drafted the famous Dongan charter under which New York became a city. lie was also in military life, rising from the rank of ensign, in L668, to that of Colonel in 1693. At that date he com-manded the King's County militia.1 In 1 < 17 7 he was appointed the fust judge in Admiralty by Governor Edmund Andros, who held him in high esteem and in his letters home represents him to be " an eminent man and well deserving to be one of the Royal Coun-cils." In 1686 and 1688 he was again named one of the council by James 1 1., anil the colonial docu-ments bear ample testimony to his worth and ability. Andros was his fast friend ami stood as godfather for the little Mary Van Cortlandt (Mrs. Van Rensselaer).