[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This was the same Jacobus Van Cortlandt who married Eva, adopted daughter of the first Frederick Philipse, and founded the Van Cortlandt estate of the Little or Lower Vonkers, above Kingsbridge. He purchased lands of the Indians and settlers of Bedford as late as 1714, and his landed pos-sessions in the town ultimately amounted to 5,115 acres, which he bequeathed to his son Frederick Van Cortlandt, of the Lower Yon-kers, and his three daughters, Margaret, wife of Abraham de Peyster; Anne, wife of John Chambers, and Mary, wife of Peter Jay. The whole of the original estate was partitioned in 1743. Frederick Van Cortlandt receiving 1,424 acres, Abraham de Peyster 1,110 acres, John Chambers 1,282 acres, and Peter Jay 1,209 acres. Upon the death of Peter Jav (1782) his share was divided among his sons, Peter, Frederick, and John (the chief justice). John Jay subsequently became the solo proprietor of the Bedford estate, and after his re-tirement from public life made it his home, dying in the old Jay man-sion in 1829. Tie was succeeded in the proprietorship by his son, the distinguished Judge William Jay, who in turn was succeeded by his son, the Hon. John Jay. The great "West, Middle, and East Patents" of central West-_1 " History of Bedford," by Joseph Barrett, Scliarf, ii., 59G.