…west, up to the aforesaid creek which lies by said Stephenus Van Cortlandt's land." These boundaries embraced eigh-teen hundred acres. The royal patent confirming this purchase was is-sued December 28, 1685. It is commonly known as " Ryck…

…Van Cortlandt Park was constructed mainly out of the ancient Van Cort-landt estate of the Lower Yonkers. The city's purchase included the historic mansion (erected by Frederick Van Cortlandt in 1748), which was placed in the custody of…

…Jacobus Van Cortlandt, of y* city and province of New York, and Zachariah Roberts, sen'r, of Bedford, a sertain track of upland medow land and swamps... to begin where Bever dam river and y* Cross River meets and so…

…purchase thus made is described in the deed as follows: " Being on the east side of the Hudson River, at the entering in of the Highlands, just over against Haverstraw." Earlier in the same year (July 13, 1683) Van Cortlandt…

…and Bedford, and within the angle formed by the boundaries of the Van Cortlandt and Philipse Manors, in 1(59(5. It is probable that the Richbell purchase was understood to affect this tract, for Colonel Heathcote thought it prudent…

…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…

…By reference to a map of the manors of Westchester County it will be observed that the northern section of Bedford Patent overlaps Cortlandt Manor, taking a quite considerable area from that manor. On the other hand, Stephanas Van Cortlandt…

…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…

…sion) was held, until its purchase by the City of New York, in the family of his daughter Anna, who married Henry White, the White heirs of Augustus assuming the name of Van Cortlandt agreeably to a requirement of his…

…of Colon Donck by Adrian Van der Donck, 106; of Weckquaesgeck by Stuyvesant, 114: of lands by Thomas Pell, 115; Turner's purchase, 115; of Rye and adjacent lands by Peter Disbrow and others, 124: of Mamaroneck lands by John…

…Other purchasers were John Hadden, who bought some three hundred and twenty acres on both sides of Tippett's Brook just north of the present Van Cortlandt Lake, and Francis French and associates, who wore the original owners of the…

…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…

…Cortlandt, 1750-5J; J M entry, 1788-61; James Van Cortland, 1702-72. himself finally passed away February 11, 1842, at the age of eighty-two years, both childless and intestate. Some people still living in Yonkers remember the purchase…

…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…

…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…

…Gerard G. (Cornelia Van 4iiii 444 517 601. Cortlandt), 427. 527. 53a. Barbadoe's, 130, 150. Betts. William, of the Yonkers Land. 144. Barrett Joseph 223 224. 420. 457. 600. Birch, Harvey, see Crosby. Enoch Barretto Point, 5. Bird. Colonel…

…Van Cortlandt and others, bearing date August, 1701, although the property had then already been owned by the parties named for years. The explanation of this apparent confusion has been anticipated. First, the grant was given, then the purchase had…

…This gentleman also has the charge of and cultivates the two remaining farms of the Van Cortlandt prop-erty, which adjoins his own estate. He married Rosalie Hanks, of Lewisboro', and has two children — Isaiah and Mary. In the northeastern…

…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…