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 :

1. Stephanus, born 7 May 1643, married Gertrude

Schuyler.

2. Maria (Mary), born 30 July 1645, married Jeremias Van Rensselaer.

3. Johannes (John), born 11 Oct. 1648, died a

bachelor.

4. Sophia, born 31 May 1651 married Andriea

Teller.

5. Catharine, born 25 Oct. 1652, married

1. John Dervall,

2. Frederick Philipse.

6. Cornelia, born 21 Nov. 1655, married Brandt

Schuyler.

7. Jacobus, born 7 July 1658, married Eve Philipse. * After the death of the oldest of these children,

Stephanus, his Manor vested in his own survi vi ng children as joint tenants under his will. Their Father, Stephanus van Cortlandt, the first and only Lord of the Manor, was one of the most eminent men of the Province of New York after it become an English Colony. Except the Governorship itself, he filled at one time or another every prominent office in that Province. And when Lt. Gov. Nicholson went to England at the outbreak of Leisler's insurrection and actual usurpation, to report in person to King William, he committed the Government itself in his absence, to Stephanus van Cortlandt and Frederick Philipse. * A fact that caused Leisler, to seek their lives and forced them to escape from the City of New York to save themselves.