These were ancestors of the ' van Cortlandt of Second River ' (the Passaic) New Jersey, now extinct in the males.

9. Gertrude, born 10 Oct. 1()88, married Col. Henry

Beekman. No issue.

10. Gysbert, born 1689, died young.

11. Elizabeth, born 1691, died young.

12. Elizabeth, 2d, born 24 May 1694, married Rev.

Wm. Skinner of Perth Amboy.

13. Catharine, born 24 .June 1696, married Andrew

Johnston of New Jersey.

14. Cornelia, born 30 July 1698, married Col. John

Schuyler of Albany. These were the progenitors of the Schuylers des(;ended from (Jen. Philip, who was their son, and from his brothers and sisters. ^

3 Tin- geiiealogj aluive given is Inkcn from » trann-ript of tlie entries in tlie van (Jortlandt family l>il)lc, ohtaiiicil from one of llic elilcst bi-anrli, the Engliiili one, by tljc late (Jen. Pierre van C. of Croton in l»2li anil

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

This large family, of which four sons and seven daughters lived to maturity, the latter of whom married into the first families of the Province, and three of the sons, (one having died a young bachelor) marrying into the same or allied families, formed a family connexion, of great extent and influence. It wielded a power, social and political, during the Colonial era which largely controlled tlie society and the politics of the Province, and in social matters its influence has continued to be felt to this day. All the marrietl daughters, except Mrs. Bcekman who had no issue, had large families, and those of the sons were also numerous. And when to these were added the children of Stephanus's younger brother Jacobus van Cortlandt of Yonkers, and their wives and husbands, it will be seen what an enormous family circle it was, and will explain why at this day all these families now so widely extended, are by the marriages and inter-marriages, among their descendants, so connected together as to form an almost inexplicable genealogical puzzle.