The Manor house contains interesting pictures, manuscripts and relicts of the past. There may be seen full-length portraits of the earlier Van Cortlandts in their younger days -- one representing John Van Cortlandt as a boy of about twelve years of age, dressed in a long blue coat reaching to the knees, with large cuffs turned up to the elbows, knee breeches, scarlet stockings, high shoes and silver buckles, his right hand resting on a stag. It deserves to be mentioned here that the head and horns of this very animal (as descendants of that wild race which anciently spread from the Hudson to Connecticut) are still preserved in the hall. The late General Pierre Van Cortlandt has left this memorandum relative to them -- " That the deer of which this is the head and homs was raised by my uncle John Van Cortlandt about the year 1730, and which head and horns has been preserved and kept by my late father until his death and still by me. Pierre Van Cortlandt." Another portrait represents Pierre (afterwards Lieutenant-Governor) as a boy of about ten years of age, in a scarlet coat, with white silk stockings and a grey-hound by his side. Abraham, still older, is depicted in a russet coat and red stockings, with high-heeled shoes and buckles. These paintings are said to be over 140 years old, and represent three sons of Philip Van Corto Gen. Philip Van Cortlandt '3 Diary.

IQO HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.