The settlements were in the neighborhood of Croton and Peekskill. , peaceable part most the for though Indians continued numerous, until an advanced period in the eighteenth century. at Stephanus had fourteen children,1 of whom eleven were living il Johannes, married Anne Sophia Van Schaaek and eft one child, Gertrude, who 'n „ Verplanck, grandson of AbraZm Tsaacsen Verplanck, the first of that name fn America 2. Margaret, married Colonel Samuel Bavard, only son of Nicholas Bayard, ^e youngest of the three nephews of Governor Stuvvesaut. 3. Ann. married Etienne (Steph n) Te Lancey, founder of the de Lancey family of New York City and Westchester 5. Maria 4. Oliver, died a bachelor. County.

(Mary), married, first, Kil^en Van Kens^aei, fourth patroon and first manorial lord of Rens7. selaerswyck. 6. Gertrude, died unmarried Philip, married Catherine de Peyster daughter of the first Abraham; from this couple sprang the eldest line of Van Cortlandts now British subjects. 8. Stephen, marred CatalmaStaats these were the ancestors of the Van Cort landts of Second River • (the Passaxe) N^J now extinct in the males. 9. Gertrude marno issue. 10. Beekman; ried Colonel Henry

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the time of the father's death; and he devised the manor lands to them in equal shares, excepting that the eldest, Johannes, received, in addition to his equal portion, the whole of the peninsula of Ver(This peninsula was so called for Philip Verplanck, planck's Point. family it congrandson of Johannes, who inherited it, and in whosefirst half of the tinued uutil sold to a New York syndicate in the One of the eleven children, Oliver Van Cortpresent century.) landt, dying without issue in 1706, bequeathed his share equally The ten remaining among his brothers and sisters and their heirs. 1730, when a diviuntil undivided and intact property the kept heirs Cortsion was determined upon, which followed in due course. landt Manor remained a separate political division (embracing also, for purposes of representation in the assembly, the Eyke and the Krankhyte patents) until divided into townships by the New York The original townships carved out of it were State act of 1788.