[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] This ferry-house is built of brick and timber, while the Manor-house, or fort, was of solid red free-stone, brought from Nyack in the useful Periagua Over each window (when windows and doors were inserted) were small Holland bricks, presumably put " kinli koyo, an Indian dance; as the Indians were lilieral in the use of "lire-water," they became at these dances ferocious and dangerous. CORTL in as ornaments. De Heer Stephanus Van Cortlandt now began to give much attention to his Manor, although it would not seem that he remained on it for any length of time. Family tradition has it that Gov-ernor Dongan often came to the fort to pursue his favorite sport of hunting and fishing. The broad bay of the Croton, extending to the tidewater of the Hud-sou, was the haunt of numberless ducks, including the famous Canvas-Back, and abounded in fish oi many kinds. The large Croton, or Striped Bass, and many smaller speeies, gave him ample sport and em-ployment.1 Van Cortlandt had purchased of the Indians, pre-vious to his receiving the charter, the territory known as Meanagh (Verplanck's Point) and lauds lying to the eastward, called Appamagnpogh. These were now all gathered into the manor and the bound-ary lilies ascertained. He still continued his active life in New York, and, although not bred to the law, he held the office of Justice of the Supreme Court in 1693, and was chosen as Hist judge of the Common Pleas, in Kings County.