…Additional hamlets include Cortlandt Manor, Crompond, Crugers, Montrose, Verplanck, Van Cortlandtville, Furnace Woods, Mount Airy, and Oscawana. ## Transportation Metro-North Railroad service connects residents to New York City via Cortlandt and Croton-Harmon stations. Croton-Harmon also provides Amtrak service…

…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…

…26S HISTORY OF THE Upon the partition of Cortlandt's manor in 1734, the lots (in-cluded in this town) fell in the following order to the devisees and heirs of Stephanus van Cortlandt, viz., one-half of south lot…

…Richard Ingoldsby to Stephanus van Cortlandt, Nich Bayard, John Pell and William Richardson, Lewis Morris, inventory. A true inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of Coll. Lewis Morris, deceased, appraised at the planlation, the day of…

…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…

…Upon the partition of the manor of Cortlandt among the heirs of Stephanus van Cortlandt in the year 1734, the following al-lotments were made in this town. North lot No. 2, Andrew Miller; ditto No. 3, Gertrude Beeck-man…

…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…

…Stephanus Van Cortlandt's land, &c., &c." Here followeth the schedule or particular of wampum and goods paid for the said land. 100 fathoms of white wampum, 60 guilders of silver, 8 fowling pieces, 8 blankets, 10 match coats, 8…

…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…

…Steven van Cort-landt, then residing at Cortlandt, in South Holland, father of the above mentioned OlofF Stevensen van Cort-landt. Like his illustrious ancestors, Oloff Ste--:-■ vensen van Cortland chose the military profession. As early as 1639, we find…

…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…

…The property had been enclosed by fencing since at least 1831, as documented in Philip Van Cortlandt's will codicil. Van Cortlandt bequeathed the land "to be used for a burying place" and stipulated that "the Meeting House and the…

…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…

[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Jacobus ■van Cortlandt in possession of the old Younckers, A. D. 1701.^ 1692, we find an Indian chief at Bedford called Wappowham.^ The last remnant of his tribe in this place was a noble Indian by…

[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

…Van Cortlandt will be glad to be informed thereof, that he may communi-cate the same to the corporation of this city for their approbation. =^ He remains their most obedient humble servant, Augustus VAN Cortlandt.

…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…

[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] We have previ-ously shown that Verplanck's Point, (by the will of Stephanus van Cortlandt,) passed t© his son Johannes or John, whose daugh-ter married Philip Verplanck. In the year 1734, we find Philip…

…Stephanus van Cortlandt, the first grantee under the Indians, by his last will, dated 14th of April, 1700, devised and bequeathed the whole manor of Cortlandt to his eleven children, who thus became seized in fee. In 1734 the devisees…

…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…

…b The following item occurs in the will of Frederick van Cortlandt, dated 2iid of Oct. 1749 : " whereas, I am now about finishing a large stone dwelling house on the plantation in which I now live, which, with the said…

…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…