Pierre Van Cortlandt, June 13th, 1SB5 : -- " You will see in Sieutans memories of Nelson, (the author of " Fasts and Festivals ") page 136, a reference to a Dutoh translation of Common Prayer Book'"-- (Ho refers also to an autograph note from Mr. Julian Verplauck's regarding the edition of 1711, as a great curiosity just added to the State library.) " Let me congratulate you on possessing an unique copy (as far as I know) of this precious rtcni. I hold myself happy that the old (governor's book was used by me at Briar Cliff on Trinity Sunday of 1865, more than a century after Pierre's ancestor wrote his autograph 011 its leaves."

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whore we held a council. Saturday I rode down to Mr. Stuyvesant's (his brother-in-law), stayed there until Tuesday. Then rode triumphant into the city with the commander."

In this same apartment is a small mahogany writing table at which his excellency DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York, was writing when he expired so suddenly on Monday, i ith of February, 1828. This valuable relic was the property of Hendrick Romeyn Beck, who left it to his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Van Cortlandt. A small silver plate inserted under the table bears the following inscription: -- "At this table DeWitt Clinton was sitting when he died." There is also preserved a desk seal of DeWitt Clinton, given by his sons to Theodrick R. Beck. There is a fine bust of the Hon. Pierre Van Cortlandt, executed from the original portrait by Jarvis; and a portrait of Gen. Pierre Van Cortlandt, executed in crayons by Valdenuit in 1797. Also the silver mounted pistols of the Lieut. Governor. The suit of apartments on the principal floor are painted to imitate oak wainscoting.