…In tracing the title, the place which previously belonged to the Philips Manor is found to have been conveyed by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt, to Ann Covenhoven, by deed dated December 6, 178"). On…

…Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt were appointed such commissioners lor the Philips-burgh Manor, and in 1785 they oifered it for sale in tracts which had been mapped out for the purpose. These tracts, as far as they were…

…The value of Colonel Morris's personal property, etc., exclusive of his real estate, as appraised by Stephanus Van Cortlandt, Nicholas Bayard, John Tell, and William Richardson, was estimated at above £4,000. Among the chattels enumerated in the inventory…

…There he died in 1822, at the age of seventy -six years, and there, twenty-five years later, on March 14, 1847, his wife, Cornelia Van Cortlandt Beekman, gently fell asleep in the ninety-fifth year of her age. Beekmantown…

…Van Cortlandt, secretary. This association did a large amount of very excellent and valuable work during the whole period of the war. It was an aux-iliary branch of that great national benevolent and humane organization, the United States Sanitary…

…Livingston, to the State Senate, in opposition to General James Talmage and General Pierre Van Cortlandt, Clinton-ians. Mr. Townsend was, for seven years, a Vestryman and for twenty-six years Warden of St. Paul's Church. Jonathan Ward, son…

…James Van Cortlandt, of the Borough of West-chester, occupying the chair. It appointed a permanent county com-mittee of ninety persons, twenty of whom were empowered to act for the county, and to that committee was referred the authority…

…it had deposited its sick and wounded in the yet unfinished stone church, nor if the tradition in the Van Cortlandt family be correct, until after a grand evening parade on the Green. A halt was made lor a few…

…rendered, The prisoners were sent to the interior, ami as both (iencral Clinton and Colonel Dayton were ill, Colonel Van Cortlandt took command of the New York Division and the New Jersey troops, and marched seven hundred Hessian and British…

…Thus these men took, or tried to take, all of Bedford south of the line which Van Cortlandt had caused to be surveyed across that town for the southern bound-ary of his manor, but which he had to abandon…

…Among the names are those of Pierre ' Van Cortlandt, Jr., Peter Jay Munroe, Lewis Morris, I Stephen De Lancey, John Quick, etc. Epenetus Wallace, M.D., was at this time clerk of the board. I The reports of subsequent years…

…younger branch of the Van Cortlandts, but this was a strictly friendly conveyance, the two families being closely allied by marriage. Even in the three manors where no second lord succeeded to exclusive proprietorship — Cortlandt, Fordham, and Scarsdale — sales of…

…The delegates from Westchester County were Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Colonel Lewis Graham, Colonel Gilbert Drake, Major Ebenezer Lockwood, Gouverneur Morris, William Paulding, Jonathan G. Tompkins, Sam-uel Ilavilaml, and Peter Fleming. The third provincial congress was the last of…

…The first Lord Phil ipse and his second wife, Catharina van Cortlandt, gave proof of sub-stantial interest in their denomination by securing the organization of the Tarrytown church in 1697 and building a house for it in 1699. No…

…At the death of General Philip Van Cortlandt, his brother succeeding to the inheritance of the Manor House, he gave it to his son Pierre for his residence, 1 " Known over the civilized world as the author and founder of…

…A locality in Sing Sing and in Cortlandt. Probably a variation of Kitchawong. Keskistkonck. — Var., Kisco, Keskisco, Cisqua. Originally an Indian village situated on the bank of a creek. Massachusetts, Kishketuk-ock, " land on the edge of a creek." Kestaubnuck…

…Philipse and Van Cortlandt, who had been sent into retirement by Leisler, were recalled to the council by Sloughter, and both of them thus resumed their old-time prominence. It has already been recorded how Philipse, on account of the…

…On the following day a skirmish took place not far from the Van Cortlandt mansion, near Cortlandtville. The enemy having possessed the village of Peekskill, a party of them, numbering about two hundred, the next day took position on a…

…On questions involving a division the vote was usually fifteen to ten, Pierre Van Cortlandt and John Thomas being inva-riably among the minority.

…1772-74, Colonel James Van Cortlandt; 1773-82, none; 1783-84, Israel Honeywell; 178G, William Iladley; 1787, David Hunt. This closed the precinct period. We find the following proceedings of the supervisors with their dates : October 7, 1772, William Stivers…

…For the latter, the Van Cortlandt family, see that part of this history relating to our late town of Kingsbridge. But we have given all that is necessary for any one who wishes to know the general history of Yonkers…

…Washington assembled his troops from their different encampments on the west side of the Hudson, brought them across King's Ferry, and ou the 2(>th established his headquarters at the Van Cortlandt house north of Peekskill. lie at once…

…Two miles east of Katonah is the Jay estate, owned by that family since 1743, when Mary, wife of Peter Jay and mother of Chief Justice Jay, inherited it from her father, Colonel Jacobus Van Cortlandt.1 It then consisted…

…In 1002, Mar garet having died, li<-married for his second wife Catherina, daughter of Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt and widow of John Dervall — an-other fine alliance from the substantial point of view. His commer-cial and financial operations…

…Catherine Van Cortlandt in 1(592. The first wife, Margaretta, must have died therefore, be-tween these two dates, probably not later than 1690. As the service for which the congregation expressed its gratitude must have been rendered by her…

…A few rods above the Van Cortlandt mansion the road splits into two branches, that to the left going over Gallows Hill and the one to the right passing tlie old church. At the junction of these roads stands the…

…Its precise location was at the entrance or neck of Teller's Point (called Senasqua), and west of the cemetery of the Van Cortlandt family. The traditional sachem was Croton.

…Lord" Philipse, in connection with his first wife, Margaretta, who must have died before 1692 (when he married for his second wife Catharine Van Cortlandt), for the many blessings enjoyed by the church through their instru-mentality. < )n several occasions…

…old manor-house, still standing, but after the Revolution conveyed by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt, to Gerard G. Beekman "for and in consideration of the sum of Nine thousand and forty pounds lawful money…

…Kobert Graham, of Westchester; Stephen Ward, of Eastchester; Colonel James Holmes and Jonathan Piatt, of Bedford; John Thomas, Jr., of Bye; and Samuel Drake and Philip Van Cort-landt of the Manor of Cortlandt.