He went with his Heginient to the northern frontier, and occupied Ticonderoga, very much to his disgust ; quarrelled with General Schuyler, who commanded in that Department ; declined to continue in the service, after tlio term of the enlistment of his command had expired; became a Loyalist; took the Lieutenant-colonelcy of the Corps of the Westchester-county Refugees; continued to live in Bedford, until about 1810, when he removed to New Havon, where he died, on the eighth of July, 1824, aged eighty-seven years.

An extended notice of hin\ may be feeen in Jones's Hattonj of A>w York during the Ilernhilionari/ liar, ii., 3.''4 -3:iG ; and, in his Notes to that History (ii., 618-(121.) Mr. de Lancey has re-produced, in full, an exceedingly interesting autobiographical tract, from the Colonel's own pen.

< I'hilip Van Cortlandt, eldest son of Pierre Van Cortlandt, was born in the City of New York, in 1749 (?), and was a graduate of King's (now Columbia) College, in the class of 17.i8 (?). He was a Surveyor and a Country Merchant and Miller ; a Major in the AVestchester-county Militia, under Covernor Tryon ; and a member of the Provincial Congress by whom he was made Lieutenant-colonel of this Regiment. He continued in the military service, until the close of the War of the Revolution ; after which he was one of the (Joniniissioners of J'orfeitures ; represented Wcstchester-coiinty in the Assembly, 1788-'9, 1789-'9(); the Southern District, in the Senate, 1791-'4 ; his District, in Congress, 1793- 18119; and died on the twenty-first of November, 1831.-- (Bolton's llistorij of Westrh fter-coimtii, original edition, i., 58-60 ; (/le «ame, second edition, i., 111-112; etc.)