He was a merchant in New Amsterdam, and like his father took an active i)art in public affairs. In June 1729 he was recommended to the King for appointment as a Councillor of the Province by Governor Montgonierie in place of Lewis Morris jr. The appointment was made the 3d of February 1730, he took his seat in April of the same year, and continued in the Council until his death on the 21st of August 1746, when he was succeeded by Edward

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I Tliis is the common name of the uorthern part of this Town.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

Holland through the recommendation of Governor Clinton. lie was a prominent member of the Commission on the part of New York, in the case of tlic Colony of Connecticut and the Mohegau Indians. His wife was Catharine daughter of Abraham do Peyster to whom he was married in 1710. ' He left him surviving, six children, five sons and one daughter, Catharine, who was killed by the bursting of a cannon on the Battery while watching the firing of a salute in honor of the King's birth day June 4th 1738, in her 13th year. By the death of his elder brothers, Johannes who left only a daughter, Gertrude, the wife of Philip Verplanck, and Oloff, or Oliver, who died a bachelor, Philip became the head of the Van Cortlandt fannly. His five sons were Stephen, Abraham, Philip, John, and Pierre. Of the five, Abraham, Philip, and John, all died unmarried.