Beekman, Anne wife of Philip S. van Rensselaer, so long the Mayor of Albany, at which city she died in 1855 at the age of 89 years, and Gertrude who died, a child in her eleventh year in December 1766. Of the four sons, two, Gilbert, and Ste{)lien, died in early life unmarried. The eldest was the celebrated Colonel Philip van Cortlandt of the Revolution, who at its close was made a Brigadier General, and died a bachelor Nov. 21st 1831. To him the jjortiou of the Manor containing the Manor House descended, and there he lived all the latter part of his life. Upon his death it passed to his youngest brother Major- Gen' Pierre van Cortlandt. The latt^-r was born the 29th of August, 1762, and died in 1848. He married 1st in 1801, Catharine, a daugliter of Governor George Clinton, by whom he had no issue, and 2nd Anne Stevenson, of Albany. He wius all his life a resident

Fi-liruary, 1824, Lt. Col. James Driimiiioiid KI|iliiiistoue, wlifii lie lusiiiuiiil tlir iiiinic of HuUlt before Klpliinstoiiu. Slie dieil lii Feli. l»l.'>, leiivitif; four sons aud four daujjliters, tliu oldest of wliicli sons William Iliiller Fuller KlpUiiiiitouu li. N. is the 15tli aud prescut Baron Eliiliiustoia-i

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of the Manor, and one of the most prominent men of Westchester, and its representative in Congress. By his second wife he had one child, a son, the late Colonel Pierre van Cortlandt, who died only on the eleventh of July 1884, leaving him surviving, his widow, Catherine, eldest daughter of the late eminent Theodrick Romcyn Beck, M.D., of Albany, one son, Mr. James Stevenson van Cortlandt, and two daughters, Catharine, the wife of the Rev. John Rutherfurd Mathews, and Miss Anne Stevenson van Cortlandt. The Manor House and adjoining estate is still the home of Col.