…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…

…Had this been done by a Van Cortlandt, a Philipse, a Van Rensselaer, or any three of the " Lords of the Manor," on the Hudson River, the act would have been engraven on the rocks with the point of a…

…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…

…During most of this time the family of l'ierre Van Cortlandt were absent from their home. They rented a farm from their kins-folk, the Livingstons, at Rhinebeck, removing there in 1777.

…The present Lord Elphinstone, one At the termination of the war, he went to of the Queen's lords in waiting, is a great-England to reside, and died at Hailsham, in grandson of Colonel Van Cortlandt. Of the 1S14.

…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…

…Tradition says it was built by order of Stephanus Van Cortlandt soon after the Van Cort-landt Manor was granted. It can scarcely be said that he " builded better than he knew;" for he built it as the boundary line…

…10, still farther east, to Stephen De Lancey, who married Anne Yan Cortlandt, a daughter of Stephanus Van Cortlaudt. By will Ste-phen De Lancey devised all his estate in the town (now North Salem) to his eldest son, James…

…of Morgan Lewis, the Governor of I New York in 1804, and is related to the Ludlow, Livingston and Van Cortlandt families of this State. The children of this marriage have been six in ii.— 17. I number, of whom…

…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…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] tenant Jesse Truesdale, Second Lieutenant John Van Wart and Capts. Solomon Close, Titus Reynolds and Kbenezer Slawson. In 177* Jonathan Horton was major commanding the North Battalion of West-chester County. Two ( panics having been con-solidated…

…The records are extremely meagre." But he gives the sujier-vi-.r-of 111.' precinct before 1772, viz.:.lames Van Cortlandt, 1750-5J; J M entry, 1788-61; James Van Cortland, 1702-72. himself finally passed away February 11, 1842…

…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…

…Augustus Van Cortlandt. THE MAVOIt"S ADDRESS. "Ladies and Gentlemen : — As president of this mats-mooting, it is solely my duty to maintain order and have the arranged programme carried out. It is a pleasure to mo that what is…

…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…

…Had this been done by a Van Cortlandt, a Philips, a Van liens-BeUer, or any three of the 'Lords of the Manor,' on the Hudson river, the act would have been engraven on the rocks with the point of…

[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…

…Historical context from James Stuart's 1833 travel account and Pierre Van Cortlandt's 1787 correspondence documents early regional orchard operations and establishing cider's significance as both commodity and currency in colonial America.

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…