[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Van Cortlandt was energetic and vivacious and the old house was gay and cheerful. In 1811 she died, alter a short illness. Van Cortlandt was sent by his district to Congress in 1811-12. During his time of service his father-in-law, Georgft Clinton, the vice-president, died in Wash-ington, attended with unremitting devotion by his son-in-law. The tie between them bail been a strong one and the letters of Clinton show that he loved him as his own child. In 1813 Pierre Van Cortlandt mar-ried at Albany, Ann, daughter of John Stevenson, an eminent merchant. Her mother, Magdalen Douw, was the daughter of Volckerl Peter Douw, vice-presi-dent of the Provincial Congress, an associate of Philip Schuyler as Indian commissioner and the first judge of Albany County. Mrs. Van Cortlandt was a lineal descendant of David Pieterse Schuyler, the elder brother of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, from whom her husband was fifth in descent. Their winters were spent in Albany and in summer they returned to Peekskill. In 1S1") their only child, Pierre, was born in Albany and there Mrs. Van Cortlandt died, in 1821. In 1800 Van Cortlandt was a Jeffersonian elector, in 1840 a Harrisonian elector, in 1844 a candidate as a Clay elector. He served as major-general in the militia of his district, James Fenimore Cooper at one time acting as his aid. From 1833 to 1848 he was President of the Westchester County Bank.