He was also engaged in several temporary public matters as a Councillor and Commissioner during the administration of Director Stuyvesant, notably in the Connecticut boundary matter in 1663, and the settlement of Capt. John Scotfs claim to Long Island in 1664. He acted in similar capacities under the first English Governors, Nicolls, Lovelace, and Dongan, and was chosen the Trustee of Lovelace's estate to settle it up in 1673. He married on the 26th of February, 1642, Annetje Lockermans ofTurnhout, near Antwerp, a sister of Govert Lockermans, who came out with Director von Twiller, in 1633, and was so prominent afterward in New Netherland affairs. "Govert Loockermans after filling some of the

1 1. O'CoU. 180. Alk. Rcc. 1., 89. The Dutch troops in New Amsterdam were detuchments from the regular army raised in Holland by the West India Company, and were changed from time to time.

-He was also one of the "Eight Men" a similar body, in 1646.

highest ofiices in the Colony," says O'Collughan, (vol. 2, p. 38, n.) died, worth 520,000 guilders, or $208,- 000 ; an immense sum when the period in which he lived is considered." Olofif Stevense van Cortlandt died on the 4th of April, 1684, and his wife followed him about a month afterwards.' They had seven children, the oldest of whom was Stephanus, and the youngest Jacobus, who respectively, were the progenitors of all of the name now living. The former founded the oldest branch, the van Cortlandts of the Manor, the latter the younger branch, the van Cortlandts of Cortlandt House, Yonkers. The names of Oloff Stevense and Annetje van Cortlandt's seven children were :