He married on the tenth of Sei)teniber, 1671, in his 28th year, Gertrude, daughter of Philip Pie-

I II. V. S. Laws, Ch. 1459, p. 576.

'The win ia recorded in the N. Y. Surr. Off., Lib. 2 of Wills, p. 78.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

terse Schuyler, of Albany; and died, as has been stated ou the twenty-fifth day of November, 1700, at the comparatively early age of fifty-seven years, leaving hiui surviving his wife and eleven children.

His father, Olofl" Stevens, or Stevense, van Cortlandt, came to New Netherland, a soldier in the service of the West India Company, arriving there in the Ship Haring (The Herring) with Director Kieft on the 28th of March, lG38.i

He was a native ot Wijk, a small town in the province of Utrecht, in Holland. But of the origin of his family nothing is definitely known. He had a good education and the positions he subsequently held, his seal with the van Cortlandt arms, still in the possessession of his descendants, as well as articles of Dutch plate bearing the same arms, show that his position was good, and that of a gentleman. He remained only a short time in the military service, having been appointed by Kieft in 1639 "Commissary of Cargoes,'' or customs officer, and in 1643, Keeper of the Public Stores, of the West India Company, a responsible position under the provisions of the Charters of Freedoms and Exemptions, being the Superintendent of the collection of the Company's Revenue in New Amsterdam, most of which was paid in furs. In 1648 he resigned from this ofiicial position, was made a freeman of the City, and entered upon the business of a merchant and brewer, in which he was eminently successful, becoming one of the richest men in New Amsterdam.