[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] twenty miles from the Hudson, and coincid-ed at the time with the boundary line be-tween New York and Connecticut; but the ultimate State line, as adjusted by com-promise under the " Oblong " arrangement, ran somewhat to the east of it; so that the extreme northeastern portion of the county, as well as a part of the extreme northwestern section, was never included in this manor. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, younger brother of Stephanus and an-TLANDT MANSION, NEAR KINGSBRIDGK. Gysbert, died young. 11. Elizabeth, died young. 12. Elizabeth, 2d, married Rev. William Skinner, of Perth Amboy. N. J. 13. Catharine, married Andrew Johnston, of New Jersey. 14. Cornelia, married John Schuyler, of Albany; these were the progenitors of the Schuylers descended from General Philip, who was their son, and from his brothers and sisters. (The above is taken from Edward Floyd de Lancey's History of the Manors.) THE PHILIPSES AND VAN CORTLANDTS 171 cestor of the so-called Yonkers branch of the Van Cortlandt family, was born on the 7th of July, 1G5S, and on the 7th of May, 1691, married Eva Philipse, adopted daughter of the first Frederick Phil-ipse. In 1699 he purchased from his father-in-law fifty acres of choice land in the " Lower Yonkers," a property which he increased to several hundred acres by subsequent purchases. Out of this land was erected the historic Van Cortlandt estate, about a mile above Kingsbridge.