Steven van Cortlandt a lineal descendant of the ancient Dukes of Cortlandt or Courland.a Jacobus married Eva Philipse daughter of the Hon. Frederick Philipse of the manor of Philipsburgh. Besides the Yonkers estate, Jacobus van Cortlandt was a large landed proprietor in the town of Bedford, in this county. This individual was one of the

See Cortlandt -town, vol. i. 50.

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five members returned by the High Sheriff to represent the city and county of New York in the Colonial Assembly A. D. 1691.

By his will dated 12tli of May, 1739, he devised, and bequeathed unto his son Frederick van Cortlandt,

All that my farm situate lying and being in a place commonly called and known by the name of the Liltle or Lower Yonckers &c., and all other tho land, meadows and real estate, I am seized of or have a right to in the Manor of Philipsburgh &c. for his natural life, and from and after his decease to the heirs male lawfully begotten, &c. To his eldest daughter, Margaret, wife of Abraham de Peyster, property in the city of New York, and the same to his remaining daughters, Anne, wife of John Chambers, and Mary, wife of Peter Jay. a

Frederick van Cortlandt only son of the above testator, married Frances Jay, daughter of the Huguenot, Augustus Jay, by liis wife Anna Maria Bayard.