[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] mon."—"Old Maryland Manors," by John Johnston, A ll. '•There is a record of a Court-Baron held at St. Gabriel's Manor in 1050 BJ the Steward of Miltresi Mary Brent. There is also extant the original record of Court-Baron and Coutt-I.eet held at St. Clement's Manor between the years 1669 and 1672, It is reasonable to suppose that on other manors, also, these courts were held, and the fuel that these records were kept on the manors themselves and not with the pule lie records at St. Mary's sufficiently accounts for their disappearance." — Boharfl "History of Maryland." No reconls have been found of any proceedings of the holding of these courts on the Manor of Cortlandt, probably for the alaive reasons. •i The Manor of Cortlandt sent it« first Representative, Philip Vet Blank, to the Twentieth Colonial Assembly July £1, 172*. He served unlit lb.' close of the Twenty-ninth Assembly, February «, 17'iS. That yeiu I'ierre Van Cortlandt was c hosen a Representative, the certificate of his election being signed by Jeremiah TravlsS, Iti' hard Currey, Abraiii I'urdy, Moses Travis, Isaac Hullleld (c..««/.i/dc), Hachaliali Brown and Jeremiah Drake. was paid to the Crown of forty shillings on " the feast day of the Annunciation of our Blessed Virgin Ma-ry." This royal charter, with the great seal of Eng-land attached, and headed by the grim visage of William III., is among the heirlooms preserved in the old Manor-house on the Croton River. The Hon.