[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] he Jfnr Stephanas Van Cortlandt (for by this title he is named in all the old papers) now took formal possession of his manor. It is more than probable that as soon as he had purchased of the In-dians and before he received the royal charter, he had built the present Manor-house and also the Ferry-house; certainly the charter distinctly states that he built hut/six. Tile Manor-house was obviously built for defense, and when the Indians held their annual feasts and Kintekoyes,' the tenants with their fam-ilies took refuge here for shelter and safety. The walls are pierced at intervals of two feet with loop-holes for musketry, and a row of these apertures ex-tends along the present flooring of the second story, reached no doubt in those days by platforms or lad-COBTI.ANDT MANOR HOl'SE, CROTON. ders from within. The size of the house shows the fact of its purpose, as it is only forty by thirty-three feet, and bad it originally been intended for a dwell-ing-house it would have been more spacious and the comfort of its prospective inmates better con-sulted. The old Ferry-house is quite a different structure. It is apparently as old as the Manor-house; its roof slopes steeply from the front, and originally it long room was prepared for the waiting travellers, with a large fire-place set comer-wise at either end. Here they awaited the convenience of the phlegmatic ferry-man, a Dutchman, no doubt, who slowly and carefully propelled a large scow across the Croton River by ropes.