Of him it may well be said : " Write me as one that loves his fellowmen."

The interment took place in the family burial ground at Croton, where repose the remains of those sterling Revolutionary patriots, Lieutenant Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt and his sons. General Philip and General Pierre, and of his grandsons, General Philip G. Van Wyck and Recorder Pierre C. Van Wyck and numerous other members of the Van Cortlandt and Van Wyck families.

Of the ancestry of Dr. Van Wyck a few words may be added.

Cornelius Barentse Van Wyck came to America in 1660, from Wyck, a town on the river Teck in Holland. He married Anna Polhemus ; their son Theodorus who was born September 17, 16tiS, and died December 4, 17')3, married Margaretta Brinckehoff, February 3, 168.5. They were the parents of eight children, one of whom* Abraham, who was born November 7, 1695, married Catherine Provost in 1717. Of their nine children, the eldest, Theodorus, born

November 30, 1718, married Helena Sanford, August 2, 1740, and they were the parents of twelve children ; one of their sons, Abraham, was born in 1748, and married Catherine, daughter of Lieut. Gov. Pierre Van Cortlandt, January 7, 1776. Their children were Theodorus, Pierre Cortlaudt, Van Wyck (who was for many years Recorder for the City of New York) and Philip Gilbert Van Wyck, who. was born June 4, 1786, and married Mary Smith, daughter of Col Abraham Gardiner, and granddaughter of David Gardiner, fourth proprietor of Gardiner's Island. Their children were Joanna Livingston Van Wyck, now residing at Sing Sing; Catherine, wife of Stephen H. Battin ; Philip Van Cortlandt, who died unmarried, January 12,1842; Eliza, wife of William Van Ness Livingston, who died December 9, 1865 ; Gardiner, who died unmarried, April 7, 1860 ; Annie Van Rensselaer, who married the late Hon.