Pierre Van Cortlandt, first Lieutenant-Governor of the State. There is also a bust of this individual in the bank, presented by his son the late Gen. Pierre Van Cortlandt.

A short distance below the town is situated the property of Captain Jas. Requa, a lineal descendant of Daniel, who emigrated from La Ro. chelle in France, to New Rochelle in this county and afterwards purchased a farm on the Hudson a little south of Tarrytown.

The house is pleasantly located on rising ground overlooking the Albany and New York Post Road and commands beautiful views of the surrounding country. In one of the upper rooms the visitor is shown some ancient portraits in crayon, of the Huggeford or Hugeford family, viz: -- Peter Huggeford, M.D., born and educated in England and one of the most accomplished physicians of his day in this country. He practised in Rye as early as 1753; and is last mentioned in 1772; he subsequently removed to the Manor of Cortlandt and was probably (says Dr. Fisher) the first regular physician in the north-western portion of Westchester county. Being a royalist he retired to the British army when war was declared. His fine farm of two hundred acres was confiscated, and subsequently given by the government to John Paulding for his services as one of the three distinguished captors of Andre, the British spy. The property is now owned by Jacob Strang. He was buried in St. Peter's church-yard at Peekskill, notwithstanding that his gravestone is still to be seen in Trinity church-yard, New York. A portrait of Elizabeth