…Besides other appropriate memorials to Peter Jay, Peter Augus-tus Jay, Esq., Mary Rutherford Jay, Margaret Munro, Golds-borough Banyar, Eva Munro, Harriet van Cortlandt and Mary Jay, wife of Frederick Prime, Esq. The adjoining territory upon the west, constitutes…

…6th July, 1658=Jaco'jus van Cortlandt. Annetje Philipae— Philip French, Hon. Frederick Philipse, second Lord of the Manor of Phllipsboroodh, heir to^Joanna, da his grandfather Vrederyck, and hia uncle Adolphus, born at Uarbadnes A. I lady was D…

…do for us, our heirs and suc-cessors, give, grant, ratify and confirm unto our said loving subject, Stephannus Van Cortlandt, all the aforesaid certain parcel and tracts of land and meadow within their several and respective limits and bounds…

…whole estate, both real and personal whatsoever and wheresoever, I do give, devise and bequeath, to my brother Jacobus van Cortlandt, one-fifth, and to all the children of his deceased brother Stephanus, and the daughters of his eldest son…

…Stephen van Cortlandt of Cortlandf, South Holland. This lady appears habited in a plain black dress, wearing a high neck ruffle and in her right hand holds a clasped book. In one corner of the pic-ture is inscribed "aetat…

…One of these was recently disinterred in makino-some improvements on the Kingsbridge road nearly opposite the Van Cortlandt residence; it proved to be on examination the full Harper's Indian Traits, inlrod. i. 19. COUNTY OP WESTCHESTER. 405 sized…

…Beeckman married Cornelia van Cort-landt; thus after the forfeiture of the Philipses a portion of the manor again reverted to a connection of that ancient family; Ja-cobus van Cortlandt, having married Eva Philipse, daughter of the Hon. Frederick…

…In the same street fornierly resided Susannah de Lancey,a daughter of Etienne de L-mcey Esq., and Anne Van Cortlandt his wife. Her house during the Revolution afforded an asyhim for the persecuted, who found here a safe protection…

…107 The Dutch Reformed Church of Cortlandt town was incorpo-rated 3Uth December, 1794; first trustees, William Lent, Peter Goetchius, Hercules Lent; elders Abraham Lent, Benjamin Dyckman, Jacobus Kronkhite, deacons.^-To this church is annexed the Van Nest Reformed Dutch…

…ERECTED AND BUILT BY FREDERICK PHILIPS AND CATHARINE VAN CORTLANDT HIS WIFE, IN 1699. The interior of the building has undergone considerable re-pairs and alterations^ semi Gothic lights having supplanted the old fashioned square headed windows. The pulpit and…

…To his daughter Eva, wife of Jacobus van Cortlandt, a house and ground in the city of New York, &c., also a mortgage of Dr. Henricus Selynus upon ye lands of John Richbell, deceased, 20 miles into ye country and…

[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Frederick Philipse, Maik Noble, Esq., Augustus van Cortlandt, Esq.,a and the wardens and vestry of Trinity Cliurch, New York.b In 1845, owing to the large increase of families within this parish, and the numerous…

…These sales clearly show that the -rea^ lots were agam sub-divided by the devisees of Stephanus van Cortlandt. Many of the descendants of the above mentioned grantees still occupy the patrimonial estates in fee simple. The.oldest record relating…

…Some of these lands must have subse-quently reverted to the Indians, for in 1699 the Kitchawan tribe again released the same territory to Stephanas van Cortlandt. This individual had previously obtained a charter from the » Salem was incorporated on…

…The arti-cles of union agreed upon by the Synod of 1771 were subscribed (among others) by Johannes Ritzema and Pierre van Cortlandt of Westchester county. The Dutch Reformed Church at Tarry-town is attached to the mother church, its…

…James van Cortlandt, obtained restitution of every thing. With-in a few years trees have been cut down near the site of Gist's camp and found to contain balls buried six inches in the wood. » Simcoe's Mil. Journal…

…in all probabi-lity they owed their lives to the Indians' expectation of surround-ing and taking them prisoners."* Bordering the road north west of the Van Cortlandt's, is the old Hadley property, now owned by Major Joseph Delafield…

…The reso-lutions which the committee of safety have passed upon the subject are here-with transmitted. " I have the honor to be, with great respect, sir, your most obedient and very humble servant, " By order " Pierre van Cortlandt, Vice…

…Ward, Daniel Drake, Esq., Colonel James Holmes, John Thomas, jr., Esq., Jonathan Piatt, Esq., Robert Graham, and Major Philip van Cortlandt. The two following resolves were then unanimously entered into, viz. : Re-solved, that the thanks of this body be…

…New York, and John Bartow, Isaac Willett, Lewis Morris, Jr., Peter de Lancey, Nathaniel Underbill, James Graham and James van Cortlandt, inhabitants of the said borough town of Westchester, in communion of the church of England, as by law established…

…both their lands, and that, if either the said Frederick Philipse or the said John Pell, shall at any ' Van Cortlandt papers. b This individual was for many years alderman, and mayor of New York city iu 1678. « See Royal…

…York, July ye 10th, 1733, this day at 4 o'clock in ye morning dyed Eva van Cortlandt, was buried ye next day ye 12 en ye voute at Mr. Stuyvesant's about six and seven o'clock." The situation…

…Gertrude Beeck-man, daughter and devisee of Stephanus van Cortlandt. Here are situated an extensive snuff factory, and a wire factory, both propelled by water power; also about 20 dwellings. The scenery of the Peekskill creek is remarkably rich and…

…It ap-pears that Adolph Philipse and Jacobus van Cortlandt purchased (in the lifetime of John Richbell,) the fee simple of certain lands in Mamaroneck, embracing one full and equal half moiety of the west neck; the whole of which…

…Oloflf Stevensen van Cortlandt. Oc^ Coat of Arms and Signatures of the Founders of Sleepy Hollow Church. To face page 322, vol. i. Arms. az. a demi lion rampant, rising out of a ducal coronet ar, si Hon. Vrederyck Fe…

…Isaac Wiilett and Nathaniel Underbill, the elder, to be the present churchwardens and Peter de Lancey, James Graham, James van Cortlandt, Lewis Morris, John Smith, Theophilus Bartow, Cornelius Wiilett and Thomas Hunt, to be the present vestrymen of the said…

…Whereas, our loving subject, Colonel Stephanus Van Cortlandt, one of the members of our Council of our Province of New York, &c., hath by his petition present-ed unto our trusty and well beloved Colonel Benjamin Fletcher, Captain Gen-eral…

…Catharine Depeyster, and has one son, Cortlandt. The four da. of Haz-ard are Phcebe, Hannah, Jerusha, and Abigail. 2. John mar. Frances Perry, 3. Daniel mar. Elizabeth Field, and left one son James, and two da. James had Edward…

…Thereupon it was resolved, that Colonel Van Cortlandt and Mr. Z. Piatt^ be directed to re-pair immediately to the Highlands. '^ » Jour. N. Y. Pro. Cou Book I. 523. t-A distinguished ofEcer of the American service, grandfather of Lewis…

…Pierre Van Cortlandt, by liis wife Joanna Livingston, whose birth took place in the old manor house, by the banks of the Croton, on the 2d of August, 1753. Here her infancy and youth glided av/ay, and but a…