He had the character of being a worthy citizen, and a man most liberal in his charitfes."c Among the wealthy citizens of New Amsterdam in 1654, occurs the name of Oloff Stevens who contributed the sum of 150 guilders towards

a The record of the marriage of Burgomaster Van Cortlandt Is February 26, 1642. Oloff Stephensen of Wyck te Duurstede, (Wvk bie Duurstede, a village of the Netherlands, 13 miles south-east of Utrecht,) to Aimeken Lookermans of Turubout now in Belgium, 25 miles east of Antwerp. See atlas pub. by Laurie and Whittle, No. 53, Fleet St., Loudon, 12 May, 1794.

b Valentine's Hist, of the City of N. Y., Putnam's.

c O'Callaghan's Hist, of N. N.

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putting the city in a state of defence." In a tax list for the city of NewYork, A,D., 1674, the estate of Oloff Stevensen Van Cortlandt is assessed at 45,000 guilders; his eldest son's, Stephanus, at 5,000 guilders.6

In 1664 the name of Oloff Stevensen Van Cortlandt, occurs as one of the six commissioners appointed to meet the English Deputies at Governor Stuyvesant's house in the Bowery, to treat concerning the surrender of the colony.

Oloff Stevens Van Cortlandt died sometime subsequent to 1683, leaving issue by his wife Annetje Lookermans, two sons and four daughters, viz: Stephanus, Jacobus, (ancestor of the Van Cortlandts of Yonkers, Maria, who marr. Jeremias Van Rensselear, Catharine, who marr. first John Dewal, secondly, Frederick Philipse; Cornelia, who marr. Baronet Schuyler; and Sophia, who married Andrew Teller.