[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Stuyve-sant's, 4 stayed there until Tuesday, then rode trium-phantinto the. (Jit;/ with the Commander-in-Chief." In 1778 he was one of the commissioners appointed to extinguish the Indian titles of the State and the manuscript journal of these proceedings was presen-ted by his grandson, Pierre Van Cortlandt, to the Al-bany Institute and was printed by that learned society. Van Cortlandt always retained a most devoted attach-ment to Washington, and was constantly a guest at the dinners given by his Excellency, when the latter was in New York. At the close of the war, Van Cortlandt returned to the Peekskill House and resided here forseveral years. This house, occupied during the struggle by Gerard (J. Beekman and his wife (Cornelia Van Cortlandt was for a time the American headquarters. Wash-ington nominally stayed at Peekskill, but every even-ing mounted his horse and attended by bis orderly rode off to this mansion.5 Mrs. Beekina.. allowed no hands but her own to make his bed and arrange his room, which for fear of surprise was a secluded one. This lady's lite had been full of adventures — her braving Colonels Fanning and Bayard, her spirited replies to the insults heaped upon her, husband — her threatened capture by Tryon, the stealing of her "riding beast," the brave demand for its return, which secured its restoration, are all graphically told in the sketch of her life by Mrs. El let," and form a part of the Van Cortlandt family history.