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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 313 words

The daughters were, 1. Mary Ricketts, married John M. Anderson ; 2. Elizabeth, married William Taylor, Lord Chief Justice of Jamaica, and left oue sou, Colonel Pringle Taylor of Pennington ; 3. Catharine, twin with Mrs. Taylor, married Dr. William Gourlay of Kincraig Scotland ; 4. Margaret Hughes, married 0. Elliott-Elliott of Berkshire and died without issue ;

5. Gertrude married, Admiral Sir Edward Buller and lelt issue ; - 0. Sarah Ogden van Cortlandt, died

> C«l. IlUt. N. Y. V, and VI.

' Lady ISuUer's only surviviDg daughter, Auna Maria, married, 25tli of

single ; 7. Charlotte, married Gen. Sir John Fraser ; 8. Sophia married Sir Wm. Howe Mulcaster R. N.

The second son of Philip, William Ricketts van Cortlandt, born the 12th of March 1742, married l^lizabeth Kortright, and had two sons, the eldest of his own name, who married 1st Miss Stevens, and 2ndly Miss Cornell, and Philip, who married Mary Bunker, and one daughter Eliza, married to her cousin Mr. William Ricketts. Descendants of William Ricketts van Cortlandt still own and dwell upon portions of the property that fell to his Grandfather Philip van Cortlandt at the division of the Manor in 1732-33.

Pierre van Cortlandt, the youngest son of Philij) the third son of Stephanus, born the 10th of January 1721, and who died the 1st of May, 1814, in consequence of the deaths in early numhood of his brothers Abraham, Philip, and John, unmarried, and of the death in 1756, of his eldest brother Stephen, and the absence in the army of his nephew Philip, Stephen's eldest son, became early and closely identified with the affairs of the manor and the interests of his relatives therein. Marrying Joanna a daughter of Gilbert Livingston he naturally leaned to political side of his wife's family in the party contests anterior to the opening of the American Revolution.