…Andros was his fast friend ami stood as godfather for the little Mary Van Cortlandt (Mrs. Van Rensselaer).

…Colonel Van Cortlandt was ordered to Philadelphia to a court-martial on Arnold. The mem-bers agreed with one accord to cashier him; but they were overruled and the sentence changed to a repri-mand from the commander-in-chief…

…Pierre Van Cortlandt's is one of the great names of Westchester County, second, indeed, to none in all the illustrious and noble ar-ray. This is not the place for a particular account of his career, which, in its…

…Van Cortlandt house, in the valley below. This old mansion, in which General Pierre Van Cortlandt re-sided until his death, stands back at a little distance from the road, on the west side, among tall locusts. The house, which…

…Afterwards the heirs and devisees of Stephen Van Cortlandt sub-divided and disposed of their various tracts of land to parties whose descendants still oc-cupy the same. Out of the immense tract comprising the present four towns of the…

…Spooner (1900)] The second of the two strips on the Hudson which always remained independent of the Van Cortlandt estate was a three-hundred-acre parcel front-ing on the inner and upper part of Peekskill Bay, which was deeded…

…These grants Dongau now sold to Van Cortlandt, who received a further confirmation of these rights from the Indian owners, and set himself to the task of fixing the boundaries of his estates. Tradition tells that he set out in…

…His first wife having died in 1090 or 1691, he married, November 30, 1092, Catharina Van Cortlandt, daugh-ter of Oloff Stevensen Van Cortlandt, and widow of the late wealthy merchant, John Dervall. She brought him two fortunes, one from…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] It is hardly probable that the wise, well-balanced Van Cortlandt would admit to intimate relations a man who possessed no good qualities.'2 Van Cort-landt received from Edmund Randolph the appoint-ment of deputy secretary…

…They all proceeded to one of the highest points on the estate, and pausing) Tryon an-nounced to the listening Van Cortlandt the great favors that would be granted to hiin if he would espouse the royal cause and give…

…Van Cortlandt de Pcyster, daughter of Frederic de Peyster, Sr., of the city of New York, a lady who is connected with many of the ancient families, as the Livingstons, the Beekmans, Van Cortlandts, Van Rensselaers and others whose names…

…The oldest titles known to the writer are that of the farm of the late Henry Robertson, which his grandfather, William, bought ot Daniel Merritt in 1744, and the Jay estate, which came from Colonel Jacobus Van Cortlandt to his…

…At its northwest corner it touched the estate of Stephanas Van Cortlandt, the brother of his second wife — an estate which also (1<;!>7| became one of the great manors, called Cortlandt Manor, running east from Croton Bay to the…

…Stephenus Van Cortlandt's land to the said river to toother creek, and so running up said creek in several courses to a certain tree marked with ' R,' and from the said marked tree southerly by marked trees all along…

…i " Begraaf lyst van moeder Gertrqyct Van Cortlandt, over! U Prluio November, Anno 17:.':!." — Van Oortlaodl papers. : Aluahain He Peyster, Mayor of New York in 1001, w:us " a native ol the city anil was personally popular. He was about…

…5; Phillip Van Cortlandt, lot No. 6; Andrew Johnston, lot No. 7; Andrew Miller, part of north lot No. 8; Stephen De Lancy, south lot No. 5; Stephen Van Cortlandt, south lot No. 6; and half of lot No. 7…

…James Stevenson Van Cortlandt, at the age of eighteen, in 1S<;2, was made aid-de-camp to General Corcoran, and served on his staff until that general's PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT. sudden death. He then returned to the regiment…

[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 19 458 Wells, Lemuel, Map of Estate, divided in 1843.... ", 21..' 448 661 Van Cortlandt, Catherine E., Autograph of... 436 394 436 272 118 274

…The his-tory of this land, known as the Van Cortlandt Manor, is given elsewhere. With the exception of two tracts of land contain-ing, together, two thousand one hundred acres, the whole of the town of Cortlandt was included…

…Lamb, the two best authorities on these matters, detail at length the trials and dis-comforts to whirli Van Cortlandt, Philipse ami Bay-ard were subjected during the usurpation of their powers. Van Cortlandt managed to escape, but the other…

…this was fixed as the north boundary of the West Patent, and so remains, Van Cortlandt's line dividing New Castle from Yorktown and Cortlandt on the north. Until 1S4(! Somers, (formerly called Stephen-town) extended south to this line…

…Cortlandt, on the first Tuesday in April in the year of our Lord 1760, to choose town officers for ye said Manor for the ensuing year ami the respective names and offices of those chosen. "Pn.RitE Van Cortlandt, Supervisory…

…The Van Cortlandt patent starts at the same point on the Croton River, and runs "due east," whereas the Philipse Manor line bears about southeast, or S-48° E., by the magnetic needle, in this present year, 1885. The wedge…

…h he ought to have had." ' A return of fever sent Van Cortlandt south, and he joined Washington at King's Bridge, near the residence of the Yonkers Van <\>rt-landts, and acted for a few days as aid to…

…Spooner (1900)] The subsequent history of the whole great Van Cortlandt estate, from the proprietary point of view, is well repre-sented by that of the share which fell to young Stephen de Lancey, the son of the chief justice…

…General Pierre Van Cortlandt, Reuben R. Finch, Philip Clapp, James B. Travis, Ebenezer Frost, John Garrison, Aaron Ward, John Owen, Aaron Vork, Joshua Hyatt, Jonathan Morehouse and Joseph H. Anderson. General Pierre Van Cortlandt was chosen president and Isaac Seymour…

…These persons were doubtless lessees under Van Cortlandt, and later, perhaps, became pur-chasers. On March 20, 1762, Andrew Johnson leased to John Hempstead a certain lot of land, lying and being at Plum Brook, in the Manor of Cortlandt…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] The earliest grant bears the date of August 24, 1683, covering certain districts in the town of Cortlandt. June 17, 1697, William III. of England, conferred on Stephanus Van Cortlandt what are really feudal rights and made…

…Thus Stephanus Van Cortlandt became the proprietor of nearly the whole of Westchester County along the Hudson from Croton Bay to the Highlands. In the interior his bounds, both at the north and the south, ran due east twenty miles…

…Philip Hughes, Chaplain of a Regiment of foot, and Mary his wife; Philip Van Cortlandt, of Jamaica in Queens County, Gentleman, and William Ricketts Van Cortlandt, of the City of New York," for the sum of two hundred and five…