He died in the manor house on the 1st of May, 1S14, being aged more than ninetythree years. He lies buried in the cemetery of the Van Cortlandts. The following is the inscription on his tomb: " Mark the perfect man and behold the upright ; for the end of that man is peace." In memory of the Honorable Pierre Van Cortlandt, late Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York, and President of the Convention that formed the Constitution thereof during the Revolutionary war with (heat Britain. He departed this life on the first day of May, 1814, in the ninety-fourth year of his age. lie was a patriot of the first order, zealous to the last for the Liberties of his Country. A man of exemplary Virtues ; kind as a neighbor, fond and indulgent as a Parent-- An honest man, ever the friend id" the Poor. Respected and beloved, the simplicity of his private life was that of an ancient Patriarch. He died a bright witness of that perfect Love which casts out the fear of Death, putting his trust in the Living God, and witli full assurance of Salvation in the redeeming love of Jesus Christ, retaining his recollection to the last and calling upon his Saviour to take him to himself.

The " Yonkers branch " of the Van Cortlandts, founded by the New York merchant, Jacobus Van Cortlandt (a younger son of Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt), who married Eva, stepdaughter of the first Frederick Philipse, was throughout the colonial era a nourishing race. Jacobus purchased from his father-in-law, Philipse, in 1G99, fifty acres, to which he later added several hundred acres more. He promptly began to improve his estate. About 1700 he dammed Tippet's Brook, thus creating the present Van Cortlandt Lake; and probably not long afterward he erected below the dam the Van Cortlandt mill, which until as recent a date as 1889 (when it came into the possession of the City of Xew York) continued to grind corn for the neighboring farmers.