[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Van Wyck, was at the Manor House with her brother, General Van Cortlandt, and the old gentle-man, loyal to the wish of his kinswoman, had them hung where the giver desired they should he, a desire in accordance with his own. By some forced construction of their being furniture they have for fifty years been absent from their proper places. ■ Bolton's " History of Westchester," vol. i., page 1011, Btatcs that he died in 1740, hut the manuscript journal of John Van Cortlandt, under date September 27, 1747, says, "Came away from Crotou's Biver in our own boat irilh foliar, anil arrived home (New York) next morning, break of day, being the 21st of September, 1747." 3 "This will was proved November 17, 1748, in New York. The fishing rights of the Van Cortlandt's are said to have extended 2 miles to the marked rock at Sing Sing." — Bolton, vol. i., paije 1(19. ii. — 39 ingston* having married sisters, daughters of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, of Albany. With their eldest born, Philip Van Cortlandt, they left New York for Croton River, and here all the succeeding children were born. For a time all passed peacefully, I'ierre pursuing the avocations of a country gentleman of thai daj, busj -ing himself with his farm and his mills. He did not forget the claims of hospitality; the mas-sive half-door with its huge brazen knocker was always open to his guests.