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. Alexander Wells, of the Supreme Bench of California, and whose only child, Gertrude Van Cortlandt, married Schuyler Hamilton, Jr., great-grandson ot Alexander Hamilton ; David Gardiner, who died unmarried, December 16, 1848, and Dr. Pierre Cortlandt Van Wyck, the subject of this article.

The Van Wycks of Holland, are an aristocratic and wealthy family, and continue to bear the same coat of arms as those brought by the Van Wycks to this country upwards of two centuries ago.

HEXRY K. HUXTIXGTOX.

The first known ancestor of Henry K. Huntington, ^I. D., in America, was one to whom tradition ^has assigned the name of Simon. He \vas an Englishman, and in 1633 started with his wife and family for this country. His death occurred during the voyage, and his son Christopher, who succeeded to the paternal cares, brought the family first to Norwich, Conn., and finally to Windham, in the same State, where a permanent settlement was effected. The branch of the family from which Dr. Huntington is descended has apparently remained within a short distance of the original homestead, for we find by an examina-