C; came to Xew York 17.')6 ; married Frances, daughter of Robert Ellison ; became assistant pastor of Cliurch du St. Esprit, taking charge 17G4-GC, until a new minister could be engaged in Europe. After his removal to King's Bridge he used to preach in Fordham Dutch Church. lie was commissioned .)«ly li, 177.5, " French interpreter to General Schuyler and chaplain to the troops in the Colonic," with pay of major, ami went with General Montgomery to Canada. He served as chaplain ijuiing the war, and on the reorganizatii>n of Columliia College, in 17^4, was made professor of French, auQ so continued until his death, December 6, 1787, in his sixty-sixth year.

* So declared in a letter shortly prior to his resignation. lie meant to come to .\merica, " where his pride and poverty would be much more at their ease.''

5 \ little way inside of the gateway of Mr. William Ogden Giles. O.Veic I'nrk G'i.-.elleer, October 7, 177.1, contains his advertisement of the King's Bridge farm " at jirivate sab ."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

and his brother Frederick, of the Yonkers, heartily favored resistance.

The news from Lexington was shouted at every threshold along the old Boston road in the night of April 22d, as the herald spurred on towards New York. A few days later the inhabitants were aiding to unload, at King's Bridge and the hills beyond, upward of one hundred cannon,' which had been carted out from the city for security. On the 8th of May the new committee for Westchester County, on which Frederick Van Cortlandt represented the Yonkers, chose Colonel James Van Cortlandt as deputy to the new Provincial Congress, and he attended its first meeting at the exchange in Broad Street.