[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The first settlements were in the neighborhood of Croton and Peekskill. The Indians continued numerous, though for the most part peaceable, until an advanced period in the eighteenth century. Stephanus had fourteen children,1 of whom eleven were living at il Johannes, married Anne Sophia Van (Mary), married, first, Kil^en Van Kens^aei, Schaaek and eft one child, Gertrude, who fourth patroon and first manorial lord of Rens-'n „ Verplanck, grandson of Abra-selaerswyck. 6. Gertrude, died unmarried 7. Zm Tsaacsen Verplanck, the first of that name Philip, married Catherine de Peyster daughter fn America 2. Margaret, married Colonel of the first Abraham; from this couple sprang Samuel Bavard, only son of Nicholas Bayard, the eldest line of Van Cortlandts now British ^e youngest of the three nephews of Gov-subjects. 8. Stephen, marred CatalmaStaats ernor Stuvvesaut. 3. Ann. married Etienne these were the ancestors of the Van Cort (Steph n) Te Lancey, founder of the de Lancey landts of Second River • (the Passaxe) N^J family of New York City and Westchester now extinct in the males. 9. Gertrude mar-County. 4. Oliver, died a bachelor. 5. Maria ried Colonel Henry Beekman; no issue. 10. V]::'--■ i;.;fii. -.i;';':^;'lB!;il?;ii;:i '. -170 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY the time of the father's death; and he devised the manor lands to them in equal shares, excepting that the eldest, Johannes, received, in addition to his equal portion, the whole of the peninsula of Ver-planck's Point.