This determination continued not only during i\Irs. van ('ortlandt's life, which terminated in 172.'!, but up to the year 1730, when it was agreed to divide that part of the ^^anor lying north of the Croton River. During this period the population gradually increased, the rents were applied, in part, to its development in building of mills, the making of roads, and aiding those tenants who desired to take up lands, The few ])eo])le brought in, and imjirovements undertaken, by Steplianus van Cortlandt between his first purchase and his death, were settled and made in the western portion of the Manor, along the river, and in its immediate neighbourhood. The progress was from west to east, not from east to west. The access to New York and from Albany was by water the landing jjlaces being at the ferry near the Manor House, and near the mouth of "John Peak's Creek " as well as at a spot south of the latter in Ryke's Patent. Johannes, or John, van Cortlandt the eldest son of Stcjjhanus, had married Anna Sojihia van Schaack of Albany, and had only one child a daughter who became the wife of Pliilip Verplanck son of Abraham Isaacson Verplanck the first of that name in America. To her wa-s devised by her Father at his death, the Point, from her husband's name called " Verplanck's Point," and his one eleventh interest in the Manor.' Oliver van Cortlandt, the second son of Stephanus,

'Johannes liaa sometinips iK-en raUpJ tlie "Second Lord of the Manor," bnt this is an error nn the porsoiml ilignity was ended by the division made by Stephanus in his will.