Catherine Van Cortland

Jacobus Van Cortlandt was a merchant and Mayor of New York from 1710 to 1711 and again from 1719 to 1720. He was born in 1658.

Van Cortlandt purchased a parcel of land in what is now Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, New York. Jacobus' son Frederick Van Cortlandt built the Van Cortlandt House. He died in 1739.

Jacobus' grandson was John Jay, a Founding Father and first Chief Justice of the United States. Another grandson, Augustus Van Cortlandt, was a City Clerk.

During these years of upheaval, the Van Cortlandts scattered. Joanna and some of the children migrated from Croton to Peekskill to Rhinebeck, and then to Amenia, in the mid-Hudson Valley. Pierre was elected New York's first lieutenant governor in 1777. Son Philip served as an officer in the army. He fought at the battle of Saratoga, endured winter a Valley Forge, and took part in the siege of Yorktown, the battle that concluded the war.

Daughter CATHERINE VAN CORTLANDT Van Wyck spent the early part of the war in New Jersey awaiting the birth of her first child and then joined her family in New York. Pierre, Jr., attended Queen's College, now Rutgers University. Except for Stephen, whose untimely death from a "malignant sore throat" took place in 1775 when he was only fifteen, all of the Van Cortlandts managed to survive the war.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanus_Van_Cortlandt#Family
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Philipse#Family