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.

died in 1708, at the age of 30 years, a bachelor, and devised by will dated the 3cl December, 1706, his entire share of his father's estate equally among his surviving brothers and sisters and their heirs.

Philip Verplanck was a man of good education, good ability, and one of the best surveyors in the Colony. To him his relatives entrusted the surveying and division into parcels of the whole Manor. How well and thoroughly he performed the duty his survey and map remain to attest to us to-day. The original of the latter disappeared, at a comparatively late day, but in 1774, before the American Revolution, a lac-simile copy (the oldest in existence, and often wrongly called the original Manor Map) was made from it by the well known surveyor of the City of New York of that period, Evert Bancker, and is now among the Van Wyck paj)ers in the possession of that family ; of which by their permission, a reduced copy accomi)anies this e.ssay. To it are made all the references of parcels, lots, and owners herein mentioned. It speaks for itself of the ability of Phili]) Verplanck, who was the same Philip Verplanck mentioned above, who sat for tlie Manor of Cortlandt in the Assembly of the Province from 1734 to 17(jS, thirty-four years.