[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] At the time of the surrender of the province to Nicolls he was one of the Dutch commissioners to nego-tiate the terms of the capitulation. Under the English government he continued to be a prom-inent and influential citizen until his death (April 4, 1684). He mar-ried Annetje Locker-mans on the 26th of February, 1642, and by her had seven children, three sons and four VAX CORTLANDT MANOR HOUSE, CROTON. daughters.1 Of these children Stephanus, the eldest (born May 7, 164:?), and Jacobus, the youngest (born July 7, 1658), were the pro-genitors of all the Van Cortlandts of subsequent generations; Steph-anus being the founder of the so-called elder Van Cortlandt branch, t-Stephanus, whose history is given in the text; Maria, married Jeremias Van Rensselaer; Johannes, died a bachelor; Sophia, married Andries Teller: Catherina, married, first, John Dervall, and, second. Frederick Philipse the first; Cornelia, married Brandt Schuyler: and Jacobus, noticed in the text. THE PHILTPSES AND VAX COKTLAXDTS 165 of Cortlandt Manor, and Jacobus (who married Eva, stepdaughter of the first Frederick Philipse) the founder of the younger or Yonkers branch. Stephanus, a native-born Dutch-American, received an excellent education under the direction of the scholarly Dutch clergymen of New Amsterdam. He had just become of age when the English fleet, in 10(34, in the name of the British king and of James, Duke of York, demanded and received the submission of New Netherland.