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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 315 words

New Y'ork the 3rd August, 1728, is born my second son Augustus Van Cortlandt ; his godfather my father, Augustus Jay, godmother Margaret De Peyster.

New Y^ork, 28th March, 1730, is born my third son, Frederick Van Cortlandt ; his godfather Peter Jay, godmother Judith Jay.

New York, 28th March 1732, is born my daughter, Eva Van Cortlandt; her godfather Jacobus Van Cortlandt, her grandfather, godmother Anna Van Cortlandt, and died the lOthof June, 1733, and buried in the vault by Gerardus Stuyvesants.

New York, 22nd of May, 1736, is born my second daughter, Anna Marica Van Cortlandt ; her godfather Peter Valette, godmother Marica Valette.

New Y'ork the 5th November, 1737, is born my second daughter, Eva Van Cortlandt ; her godfather Abraham De Peyster, godmother Marica Jay.

Died the 12th of February 1749-50, my loved husband Frederick Van Cortland, in his olst year, and buried in the vault at the Little Yonkers.

The record is continued in English by other hands, and states that Francina Van Cortlandt died August 2, 1780.

Of this family, Jacobus, the eldest son, better known as Colonel James Van Cortlandt, died without children, April 1, 1781 ; Frederick died in 1800, without issue ; Anna Marica was married to Nathaniel Marston, and after his decease to Augustus Van Horn ; Eva married Henry White.

Augustus Van Cortlandt, the second son, married for his first wife Miss Cuyler, and after her decease. Miss Catharine Barclay, of Santa Cruz, W. I. His children were James Van Cortlandt, born March 3, 1736, and died April 1, 1781 ; Helen, born January 4, 1768, and married James Morris, of Morrisania (whose son, Augustus Frederick Morris, assumed the name of Van Cortlandt, and inherited from his grandfather a part of his estate in Lower Yonkers); and Anna, born January 18, 1766, who married Henry White, son of Henry White and Eva Van Cortlandt.