VAN CORTLANDT, Jacobus

   General Notes:

Eve De Vries PHILIPSE (Wife)-Birth: 6 Jul 1658
Death: Before 1739
(Father: Peter Rudolphus DE VRIES
Mother: Margariet HARDENBROECK
Note: She was possibly the daughter of Peter de Vries and Margariet
Hardenbroeck and the adopted daughter of Frederick Philipse)

Marriage: 31 MAY 1691 in NYC
Children:
Frederick VAN CORTLANDT-Birth: 1698 in NYC

Mary VAN CORTLANDT-Birth: 1705
Death: 1777

Margaret VAN CORTLANDT-

Anne VAN CORTLANDT-

Note: They were given lands by Philipse and he purchased additional land, some of which is today's Van Cortland Park (12,000 acres) in the Bronx, NYC, which include the Van Cortland Mansion, built by his son. It was bought by the City of NY in 1899 and is open to the public. It was here, during the American Revolution, that the papers of the NYC government were hidden. He dammed Tibbet's Brook for a mill pond, and built a sawmill and a grist mill. Bought 2 acres of salt meadow on Harlem side of Spuyten
Duyvel, from Jacques Tourneur, Sep 28, 1705 which remained in
the family 168 years. He was a Mayor of NYC, 1677 and a
prominent merchant in NYC. He continued his father's trading and
shipping ventures and was active in the provisioning trade with
the West Indies and other mainland colonies. Most of his trade
was with Jamaica, Curacao, and Barbados, but also included
Surinam, Madiera, Amsterdam and London.