[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] When the States Prison was removed to Sing Sing, he was made one of the board of inspectors and faith-fully and carefully performed the duties of this office, serving most of the time as president of the board, lie was warden of the Episcopal Church at Peekskill -and one of its most liberal benefactors. His loss was deeply felt w hen in July, 1848, after a very brief ill-ness, he died in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He, too, was laid to rest beside bis parents in the old burial-ground. His only child, Pierre, succeeded to the inherit-ance of his ancestors. In 1836 he married Catharine E., the daughter of T. Romeyn Beck, M.D., of Al-bany,1 and of Harriet, the daughter of.lames Cald-well. His youth was spent at Peekskill and for this home. he never lost his affect ion. At the death of General Philip Van Cortlandt, his brother succeeding to the inheritance of the Manor House, he gave it to his son Pierre for his residence, 1 " Known over the civilized world as the author and founder of medi-cal jurisprudence, a science which he substantially created He ranks, wherever law and justice are administered, frith Blaekstone and Bacon, Grotius and D' AgueNsau." — lion. A. If. Bradford. 436