…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…

# Van Cortlandt Manor Van Cortlandt Manor House stands as a 17th-century property built by the Van Cortlandt family near where the Croton and Hudson Rivers converge in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York. Currently operating as a museum…

…Thomas Scharf (1886)] he Jfnr Stephanas Van Cortlandt (for by this title he is named in all the old papers) now took formal possession of his manor. It is more than probable that as soon as he had purchased of…

…The Manor of Cortlandt sent it« first Representative, Philip Vet Blank, to the Twentieth Colonial Assembly July £1, 172*. He served unlit lb.' close of the Twenty-ninth Assembly, February «, 17'iS. That yeiu I'ierre Van Cortlandt was c…

…He was confirmed in the possession of all this territory by a royal charter granted June 17, 1697. The his-tory of this land, known as the Van Cortlandt Manor, is given elsewhere. With the exception of two tracts of…

…1 Van Cortlandt had purchased of the Indians, pre-vious to his receiving the charter, the territory known as Meanagh (Verplanck's Point) and lauds lying to the eastward, called Appamagnpogh. These were now all gathered into the manor and…

[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Trinity Church, New Rochelle, i. 398. charter for, i. 413. ministers of, i. 422. Tryon Governor, visit of, to Cortlandt manor house, i. 110. Tuckahoe, orthography of name, ii. 491. Methodist ii.piscopal Church of, ii…

…This Indian track, in an exact straight line, is to-day the accepted boundary of the Manor of Cortlandt, and the north-ern boundary of the comity. He now applied for a royal charter, with the varied rights appertaining thereto.

…van Cortlandt. This individual had previously obtained a charter from the » Salem was incorporated on the 18th of March, 1791. b See page 6. 264 HISTORY OF THE Crown, erecting the whole of his possession into the lordship and manor…

…from the Indians by Heathcote was the Croton River; but before the patent was issued Van Cortlandt had obtained the charter for his manor, the southern limit of which was a due east line running twenty miles from a point…

…Van Cortlandts, whose families were both represented in the governor's council at that period, espe-cially, as the lord of the manor of Cortlandt, was ranger within the forests of Cortlandt. The manorial proprietors of Phil-ipsburgh and Cortlandt…

…Philipse, was that of fifty acres, known as George's Point, to his son-in-law, Ja-cobus Van Cortlandt, October 16, K399.1 Meanwhile, November 1, 1683, the county of West-chester, one of New York's ten original…