[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] After some years Pierre Van Cortlandt and his wife returned to their old home, the Manor House. Free-born Garretson, who had married a cousin of both, was an ardent Methodist, and became a constant vis-itor, bringing with him Asbiiry and many other gieat preachers of that denomination. Mrs. Van Cortlandt, whom Asbury calls " a Shunamite, indeed," hail always a prophet's chamber in readiness for the welcome 4 Mr. Stuyvesant married the sister of Mr. Van Cortlandt. &See Original Documents, Sir Henry Clinton's Secret Record, from Captain lieekwith's report July 1, 1781. Magazine American History text and noto May, 1884, page 41(8. 0 " The Women of the American Revolution," by lira. Ellet, vol. 2, page 191. 432 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. guests. The site of the Methodist Church at Croton, and its extended burial-ground, was Van Cortlandt's gift, and he largely aided in the erection of the c hurch. In 180S his wife entered into rest at the age of eighty-seven. Many years before her death, she selected a spot in sight of her window to lay a be-loved little daughter; here, too, were buried Stephen and Gilbert, (who hail died in New York,) in 1786, and here the mother was laid to rest. She " was a model wife, a model mother and a model Christian; she made the Manor House an earthly paradise."1 On the 1st day of May, 1814, her husband followed her at the age of ninety-four. " A man of exemplary