History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 106
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Xcw 'host One of his sons. Rip Van Dam, Jr.. mar-iam Coekroft, of i granddaughter of Steph-brother James was the ancestor of the present This couple had a daugh-Coekroft family of Sing Sing. Dam, who married Will-ried Judith ISayard. anus Van Cortlandt. ter, Margaret Van THE ELECTION OF 1733 241 for the same period. Cosby scornfully refused to listen to so impu-dent a proposal, and Van Dam stubbornly declined to accept any less equitable terms. This unseemly dispute over a paltry matter of salary led to official proceedings of the most peculiar and arbitrary nature, which aroused the people to strong resentment, and out of which was developed a question of popular right as fundamental and weighty as any that ever came up for decision in colonial times.