History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 83 (part 13)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] (This peninsula was so called for Philip Verplanck, grandson of Johannes, who inherited it, and in whose family it con-tinued uutil sold to a New York syndicate in the first half of the present century.) One of the eleven children, Oliver Van Cort-landt, dying without issue in 1706, bequeathed his share equally among his brothers and sisters and their heirs. The ten remaining heirs kept the property intact and undivided until 1730, when a divi-sion was determined upon, which followed in due course. Cort-landt Manor remained a separate political division (embracing also, for purposes of representation in the assembly, the Eyke and the Krankhyte patents) until divided into townships by the New York State act of 1788. The original townships carved out of it were Cortlanclt, Yorktown, Stepkentown (now Somers), Salem (now North