As a compensation for large sums of money advanced to the government he obtained, as we have seen in 1697, a Royal Charter for Lordship and Manor of Cortlandt. After a life of honesty, fortitude, and charity, he died 25th of November, 1700, leaving by his wife Geertruy or Gertrude, eldest child (Guysbert having died in infancy) of Filyp Pictersen Van Schuyler, and Magritta Von Sleecktenhorst, eleven children, who intermarried with the DePysters, DeLanceys, Beeckmans, Schuylers, Skinners, Bayards, Johnsons and Van Rensselaers.

On the 14th of April, 1700, Stephanus Van Cortlandt made and published his last will and testament as follows : --

a M. S. vol. City Rec. X. V.

b Moultou"s sketch of New Orange, 1669, Stephanus Van Cortlandt In behalf of Oloff Stephanus Van Cortlandt his father, applied for Letters Notary 011 Dan'l Whitehead, late of Masbeth Kills, town office, N. Y., vol. 1, p. 74.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

WILL OF STEPHANES VAN CORTLANDT.

Know all men by these presents, that, I, Stcphanus Tan Cortlandt, of the city of New Yorke, merchant, being distempered in body, but of good, sound and perfect memory, praised be Almighty God therefore do make, publish, and declare; this my last will and testament, (this 14th day of Aprill, in the j'ear of our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ, one thousand seven hundred, in the twelfth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord William Third, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.,) in manner and form following, that is to say, I bequeath my soul into the hands of the Almighty God my Heavenly Father, from whom I received it, and by whom of his inker grace I trust to be saved and received into His eternall rest, through the merrittsof my dear Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ.