Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

He went with his Regiment to the northern frontier, and occupied Ticobderoga, very much to his disgust ; quarrelled with General Schuyler, who commanded in that Department ; declined to continue in the service, after the term of the enlistment of hie command had expired ; became a Loyalist ; took the Lieutenant-colonelcy of the Corps of the Westchester-county Refugees ; continued to live in Bedford, until about 1810, when he removed to New Haven, where he died, on the eighth of July, 1824, aged eighty-seven years.

An extended notice of him may be seen in Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, ii., 334-336; and, in his Notes to that History (ii., 618-621.) Mr. deLancey has re-produced, in full, an exceedingly interesting autobiographical tract, from the Colonel's own pen.

* Philip Van Cortlandt, eldest son of Pierre Van Cortlandt, was born in the City of New York, in 1749 (?), and was a graduate of King's (now Columbia) College, in the class of 1758 (?). He was a Surveyor and a Country Merchant and Miller ; a Major in the Westchester-county Militia, under Governor Tryon ; and a member of the Provincial Congress by whom he was made Lieutenant-colonel of this Regiment. He continued in the military service, until the close of the War of the Revolution ; after which he was one of the Commissioners of Forfeitures ; represented Westchester-county in the Assembly, 1788-9, 1789-'90; the Southern District, in the Senate, 1791-'4 ; his District, in Congress, 1793- 1809 : and died on the twenty-first of November, 1831. -- (Bolton's History of Westchester-county, original edition, i., 58-60 ; the same, second edition, i., 111-112; etc.)