[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] One son of Colonel Van Cortlandt was killed in Spain in 1811, one died in Madras and one in Afghanistan. Their graves "Were severed far and wide, liy mount, stream and sea.1 " William llieketts, the second son of Stephen, mar-ried and left descendants still living in Westehester County. The only daughter of Philip and Catharine De Peyster Van Cortlandt, Catharine, was killed in 1736 — she was just eleven years of age — while walking with her nurse on the north end of the battery. The gunners were preparing to fire a salute on the south end on the occasion of the King's birthday, when a cannon exploded and a piece striking the little one caused instant death. Philip Van Cortlandt died in 1747,'2 and by his will gave the estates to his four sons. Abraham and John died unmarried, Stephen and Pierre succeeded to their rights. He devised to his son Pierre, " all that my house and farm or lott of land described on the map or survey of the Manor of Cortlandt, known by the name of South lott (No.