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.

ephen the eldest who succeeded his father as the . ad of the family, was born the 2Gth of October 1710, married, in 1738, Mary Walton Ricketts, and died the 17th of October 1756, leaving two sons Philip and William Ricketts, Van Cortlandt. Philip the elder, the fourth head of the family born 10th November 1739, preferring a military life, entered the British Army, in which he served many years, dying on the 1st of May, 1814, in his 75th year. He is buried in Hailsham Church where a mural monument is erected to his memory. He maiTied on Aug 2d, 17G2, Catharine, daughter of Jacob Ogden of New Jersey. They had the large number of 23 ciiildren (several being twins) of whom twelve lived to grow up, five being sons and seven daughters. The former all became oflicers in the British Regular Army. They were