The Van Corilandt Cemetery is situated on the summit of a hill west of the mansion. Here is a marble tomb erected to the

Memory of the Honorable

Pierre van Cortlandt,

late Lieutenant-Governor of the

State of New York,

and President of the Convention that

framed itie Constitution thereof during

the Revolutionary war with Great Britain.

He departed this life on the first day of

May, in the year of our Lord 1814, in the

ninety-fourth year of his age.

He was a patriot of the first order, zealous to

the last for the liberties of his country ;

A man of exemplary virtues ; kind as a neighbor,

fond and indulgent as a parent ; an honest man --

ever the friend of the poor ;

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respected and beloved. The simplicity of his private life was that

of an ancient Patriarch.

He died a bright witness of that perfect

love which casts out the fear of death,

putting his trust in the living God, and

with full assurance of salvation in the

redeeming love of Jesus Christ, retaining

his recollection to the last, and calling upon

his Saviour to take him to himself.

Near the Lieutenant-Governor are interred the remains of his illustrious son, Gen. Philip van Cortlandt. who died November 21st, 1831, aged 82; and Johanna van Cortlandt, wife of the Hon. Pierre van Cortlandt, daughter of Gilbert and Cornelia Livingston, born at Kingston, ifi the county of Ulster, the 28th day of August, 1722, died at her residence at Croton, on the IGth of September, 1808, aged 87 years, &c. Also a tomb bearing the following inscription : -- - \ x.