This second Frederick was for many years one of the council of the Governor. He was a merchant in the city much respected. His grandson, Frederick, represented Westchester for a quarter of a century in the Assembly, as did also a Fifth Frederick, wliose estates were confiscated after the Revolution. This family was connected by marriage with the Van Cortlaudt and Morris families. The estates of Philipse were in the towns of Yonkers and what is now known as Mount Pleasant.

The connections of the Van Cortlaiidt family, both in this country and England, during the colonial period, were very numerous and distinguished. It is a family which an honored State and country gladly recalls to memory.'

The first of the De Lancey family, Stephen, appears as early as 168(5, having been compelled to flee from the religious persecutions which were then so bitterly going on in France. He settled in New York as a merchant, and married Anne, daughter of Stephen Van Cortlandt. Their oldest son, James, the Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of New York, married Anne, daughter of Colonel Caleb Heathcote. James's brother, Peter, married Alice, daughter of

1 A trustworth.v and bighly interesting history of the Van Cortlandt family, specially prcjiared from original family ilociiments by Mre. C. E. Van Coi tlaudt for this work, is given elsewhere

Governor Caldwallader Colden, and Oliver, another brother, held many positions of trust, among which were Receiver-General and member of the Governor's Council. He was also an officer in the French War, rising afterwards, in the Revolution, to the rank in the British service of Brigadier-General- This family, so marked for its political influence, became connected by marriage with the Aliens of Pennsylvania, the Lloyds and Joneses of Long Island, the Waltons, Barclays and Crugers of New York.