[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] 1750. This Jacobus (third proprietor) anglicized his name to James; he was the highly respected and prominent Colonel James Van Cort-landl of the Revolution. Though an undoubted patriot, and resi-dent within the British lines, ho was not disturbed by the enemy in his possessions, and, indeed, so great was the respect in which his character was hold, was able frequently to exercise powerful influ-ence with the British authorities in New York in behalf of his dis-tressed countrymen. lie died in 1800 without issue, whereupon the "•Little Yonkers" estate passed to his brother, Augustus; and after the death of flu1 latter the principal portion of it (including the man-sion) was held, until its purchase by the City of New York, in the family of his daughter Anna, who married Henry White, the White heirs of Augustus assuming the name of Van Cortlandt agreeably to a requirement of his will. The Manor of Pelham, having been reduced to one-third its original dimensions in consequence of the sale in 1GS9 by John Pell (second lord) of six thousand acres to the Huguenots of New Rochelle, never subsequently to that time enjoyed very conspicuous rank among the great original landed estates of Westchester County.