Philip Van Cortlandt, who afterwards took such an active part against the Revolution ; a silver shaving cup or christening bowl with two handles, very curious, brought to this country by Oloff Stevenson Van Cortlandt from Holland in 1638; a gold papspoon, with little golden bells on the handle to charm the babe while it was feeding, which was also brought from Holland ; a silver tea kettle formerly belonging to the De Peysters -- Catharine De Peyster having married Philip Van Cortlandt, son of Stephanus in 1709; it was made in France and probably taken to Holland from that country by the Depeysters; a sugar sifter of beaten silver work brought from Holland; large silver bowl used for " suppaan," to which may be added two, magnificent pitchers, inscribed as follows : --

PRESENTED

GENERAL PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT

BY THE

Directors of the Westchexter County Bank, June, 1836.

THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT.

In the dining-room is the large table brought from Holland and taken during the Revolution to Livingston Manor by Joanna Livingston, the wife of Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt. The mantel contains a very handsome clock, manufactured in Paris to commemorate Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign ornamented with sphinxes, emperial eagle, &c, composed of French ormolu and white marble. The buffet which surmounts the mantle contains some curious china and glass, among which may be enumerated a porcelain figure of a monster, with the body and legs of an elephant and a grim head, half brute and half human, and some Japanse figures upon its back all indicative of the connection of the first emigrant to America with the Dutch West India Company. This very curious ornament for many years stood on the parlor mantel piece at Castle Philipse near Tarrytown, then occupied by the Beekman family -- but in 1847 Cornelia Van Cortlandt, wife of Dr.