[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] placed on the list of His Majesty's Council, in place of James (Lewis?) Morris, Jr. He icceivcd«the ap-pointment in 1730, and took his seat the following year. The colonial manuscripts commend his regu-lar attendance tit the meeting of the Council, adding, "he resides in the city." In 174(1 he accompanied Governor Clark, Judge Horstnanden and Philip Liv-ingston to Albany to meet a deputation from the Six Nations. No wonder that they chronicled "a voyage to Albany," for in those days men made their wills, and arranged their earthly attiiirs before starting on so perilous a journey. It appears from •several memo-randa that Philip Van Cortlandt made frequent vis-its to the Manor estate. Mills were built, Hour soid to the tenants and shipped to convenient markets, t he sloop, or J'erini/ii't plying constantly between the city and " Croton's River." The five sons, — Stephen, Abram, Philip, John and Pierre,' — came and went at their pleasure, finding at their country home constant occupation; fish were abundant and deer were still to be found in the for-est. John, the fourth son, in 1730, when twelve years of age, tamed the deer upon whose head his hand rests in the quaint ohl picture hanging in the hall of the Manor House, where hang also its horns, long ago preserved by the loving care of his brother Pierre.4 John died tit an early age. He served as coroner in New Ifork, and from the brief journal left by him