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

MANSION, NEAR

KINGSBRIDGK.

Gysbert, died young. 11. Elizabeth, died young. 12. Elizabeth, 2d, married Rev. William Skinner, of Perth Amboy. N. J. 13. Catharine, married Andrew Johnston, of New Jersey. 14. Cornelia, married John Schuyler, of Albany;

these were the progenitors of the Schuylers descended from General Philip, who was their son, and from his brothers and sisters. (The above is taken from Edward Floyd de Lancey's History of the Manors.)

PHILIPSES

CORTLANDTS

cestor of the so-called Yonkers branch of the Van Cortlandt family, was born on the 7th of July, 1G5S, and on the 7th of May, 1691, married Eva Philipse, adopted daughter of the first Frederick Philipse. In 1699 he purchased from his father-in-law fifty acres of choice land in the " Lower Yonkers," a property which he increased to several hundred acres by subsequent purchases. Out of this land was erected the historic Van Cortlandt estate, about a mile above Kingsbridge. He left the property to his son, Frederick, who married a daughter of Augustus Jay (ancestor of Chief Justice John Jay). Frederick built in 171S the line Yan Cortlandt mansion, which, together with the then existing residue of the estate, was purchased by the City of Xew York in 1889, the land being converted into a public park (Yan Cortlandt Park) and the mansion placed in the custody of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York, and by them utilized for the purposes of a historical museum.