[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] William Kicketts and Catharine. The latter died young. Philip married Catharine Ogden and took an active part in the Revolutionary struggle, enlist-ing on the side of England, and was frequently en-gaged against the Americans in the field.* At the termination of the war he went to England to reside] and died at Haikham 1 in 1814. He had twenty-three children, twelve of whom reached maturity, (he sons all attaining high rank in the Hritish Army and the daughters marrying into the best English and Scotch families. The present Lord Blphinstone, one of the Queen's Lords in waiting, is a great-grandson of Colonel Van Cortlandt. Of the English branch, no male descendant of the name is living, but CbrtlanM used as a Christian name, is transmitted front genera-i Named after his maternal uncle, Pierre flilllbvlme !>■• Peyster, who married, in 17:ti, Catharine, daughter of Amil S liuiilrr. •• Mi iiiorumluin written hy Pierre, nephew of John Van Cortland*. — I'iiii i'>rll<imtt /'iy»r*. ■Burke*! Landed Gentry ' "On the north wall (of the church) I «iis struck with a tablet t.. the nior.v of 'Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, n retired Royalist Officer of the American War, died at llailslmm May, 1st I. aged 71.' "— " Fields, Paths and ( liven Lanes," by Louis J. Jennings, p. 58. CORTLANDT. I I'll tion to generation in the female line, and in many ways they have evinced a strong attachment for the old home.