…Van Cortlandt succeeded Verplanck as member from Cortlandt Manor. Morris was a delegate for only one year. The de Lanceys and Wil-kins were from Westchester Borough, Wilkins being assemblyman during the four closing years (1772-75*. James de Lancey.

…Pierre Van Cortlandt, and copied for Stone's " Life of Brant;" also for the Indian Gallery at Washington by permission of William Caldwell. '•Manuscript journal of Philip Van Cortlandt published in Am Mag. of History. 134 HISTORY OF WKSTCHKSTKK COINTY…

…Its first senators were Pierre Van Cortlandt and General Lewis Morris; and upon the organization of the senate (June 30, 1777) Van Cortlandt was elected its presiding officer and also lieuteant-governor of the State. As General Clinton, after his…

…Somen was carved out of the old Cortlandt Manor and was first called " Stephen Town." All of this territory was first represented in the Hoard of County.Supervisors by Pierre Van Cortlandt in 1700. He continued in that capacity until…

…The western portion, or west of the " twenty-mile line," to Croton River, belonged to ] Cortlandt Manor, for which a royal patent or • charter was issued to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, June 17, 1697. The commissioners who surveyed the "manor" in…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] named royal councillors for New York, and as among the number were Philipse, Van Cortlandts and Bayard, it was manifest their course was approved. For a long time Van Cortlandt had been advancing moneys to the government…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Kitchewonks had two important vil-lages,— one where Peekskill now stands, called Sack-hoes, and the other upon Van Cortlandt's Neck, con-necting Senasqua or Croton Point with the main land. Here they had a…

…More than a century ago Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt gave land for a meeting-house and ceme-tery. No deed was given, however, until 1831, when General Philip Van Cortlandt, his son and successor, |ave a written title for the…

…Titian's Mistress, Heely; Augustus van Cortlandt of Yonkers, Jarvis; Mrs. van Cortlandt, (a miniature) Leslie. The views of the water from this place are of a beautiful description. Jn the immediate vicinity are located the residences of Mr. Daniel…

…And (hen, attended by his staff and joined by Governor Clinton, Lieutenant-Governor Van Cortlandt, and other representatives of the State government, he followed. The following itinerary of the dis-tinguished party through Westchester County is from a memoran-dum…

…Van Cortlandt was chosen Schepen in lfi">4, with a -salary of two hun-dred and fifty guilders, and was sent to confer with the Indians at Esopus, who bad risen and slaughtered the settlers in that region, and a…

…Spooner (1900)] At the time of Bayard's arrest, fearing a like fate, he saved himself by hasty flight.' It is an interesting fact that Leisler was related by marriage to both Van Cortlandt and Bayard; and Philipse also became…

…the nior.v of 'Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, n retired Royalist Officer of the American War, died at llailslmm May, 1st I. aged 71.' "— " Fields, Paths and ( liven Lanes," by Louis J. Jennings, p. 58. CORTLANDT. I I'll tion…

…Van Cortlandt survived her husband for some years, dying in 1723. In her position, as executrix, she had much to contend with. Bellomont, in the most offensive manner, contested the accounts of Van Cortlandt. He demanded a settlement immediately after…

…genitors of all the Van Cortlandts of subsequent generations; Steph-anus being the founder of the so-called elder Van Cortlandt branch, t-Stephanus, whose history is given in the text; Maria, married Jeremias Van Rensselaer; Johannes, died a bachelor…

…land for the pur-pose of a reservoir on Great George Street, owned by Augustus Van Cortlandt and Erederick Van Cortlandt, of the Van Cortlandt fam-ily of our county, was purchased and works were built and put in operation…

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

…15, 1787, Augustus van Cortlandt and.John War-ner, trustees. In accordance with the act passed for the relief of the Episco-pal church, passed March 17, 1795, it was again incorporated, Sept. 7, 1795. Augustus van Cortlandt and William…

…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…

…The lands of Appa?nog/tpogh were originally granted to Stephamus van Cortlandt in 1(383, by the Indian sachems Pewe-mind, Oskewans, and others, as mentioned in our description of Somers, (fcc. The principal aboriginal settlement in this part…

…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…

…Pierre van Cortlandt, August 29th, 1841." The marble font was the gift of his son, Colonel Pierre van Cort-landt. The site of this church was formerly occupied by a military magazine, destroyed by the British army in 1777. Large…

…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…

[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 1728, ob. Ic23 I clay, of Santa Cruz, West In dies. James van Cortlandt, nat. 3d March, 1:2(5, ob. 1st April, 1781. Helen van C.=James Morris, nat. 4ih Jan. 1768 I III

…Church of Cortlandtown is a manuscript volume entitled " Kerkelyk Aanteken boek voor De Mannour van Cortlandt," (that is, A Church Register for the Manor of Cortlandt,) containing a list of baptized infants, to which is appended the names of the…

…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…

…Mary Hunt ' ' 120 Jacob van Tassel 0 Abraham Archer 1-20 Pe!er Acker 186 Pierre van Cortlandt 150 Abraham Acker • i 239 ditto. 120 William Dalcher v'. J.-