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. Cortlanclt, Yorktown, Stepkentown (now Somers), Salem (now North In area Salem and Lewisboro), and about a third of Poundridge. it was the largest of the six Westchester County manors, considerably exceeding in this respect the Manor of Philipseburgh, which in its turn was several times larger than the four other manors (Pelham, Scarsdale, Fordham, and Morrisania) combined. Its eastern boundary was fixed in the governor's grant at a distance twenty miles from the and coincidHudson, ed at the time with the boundary line between New York and Connecticut; but the ultimate State line, as adjusted by compromise under the " Oblong " arrangement, ran somewhat to the east of it; so that the extreme northeastern portion of the county, as well as a part of the extreme northwestern section, was never included in this manor. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, younger brother of Stephanus and anTLANDT