His letters and despatches to Governor Andros, and to the different Boards and officers in England charged with the care of the Colonies and the management of their affairs, remain to show liis capacity, clear headedness and courage. - Equally esteeme<l and confided in by the governments of James as Duke and King, and by William and Mary in the troublous times in which he lived, and sustained by all the Governors, even though, as in Bellomont's case, they did not like him ])ersonally, no greater proof could be adduced of his ability, skill, and integrity.

' III. Col. Hist. 588.

-In veils. III. .nul IV. (,f ilie Col. Hist, of N. Y.

With this sketch of their Father we pass to the disj)osition he made of his (ireat Manor among his children, and their management and final division of it among themselves :

The whole number of the children of Stei)lianu8 vau Cortlandt and Gertrude Schuyler, his wife, who were married on the KHh of September 1()71, were fourteen ;

1. Johannes (John), born 'H Oct. 1()72, married in

l()9o Anne Soi)hia vau Schaack and left one child Gertrude, who married I'liiliii \'^er[)lanck grandson of Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck the first of that family in America.

2. Margaret, born 12 Aug. 1674, married to Col. Samuel Bayard only son of Nicholas Bayard the youngest of the three nephews of Gov. Stuyvesant.

3. Ann, born 13 Feb. 1()76, married Etienue (in English Stephen ) de Lancey, the first of that family in New York, where he arrived, a fugitive Huguenot, on the 7th of June, lliSt}.