VAN CORTLANDT, Catherine
- Born: 25 Oct 1652
- Died: 1729
General Notes:
1) John DERVALL (Husband)-Death: 18 Feb 1688/1689 Marriage: 3 NOV 1675
2) Frederick PHILIPSE (Husband)-Birth: 8 Mar 1627 in Bolswaert, East Friesland Death: 6 Nov 1703
Marriage: 30 NOV 1692 in NYC
(Fred also married: Margariet HARDENBROECK (Wife) Marriage: DEC 1662 Children: Philip PHILIPSE-Birth: 1676 in NYC Death: 1697 in NYC
Adolphus PHILPSE-Birth: 1678 Death: 1748 )
No Children of Catherine.
Note: Widower of Margariet Hardenbroeck. IMMIGRANT, architect and carpenter for the DWIC. He became First Lord of Philipsburgh Manor, erected in 1693. He d. 1703. She was instrumental in getting him to build the "Old Dutch of Sleepy Hollow", then called the Manor Church. He had a manor house across the Albany Post Road from the church, in N Tarrytown. His lower manor house was in Yonkers on the shores of the Saw Mill River, which got it's name from the mills he built there. Both manor houses still stand and are open to the public. He was richest man in the Americas at the time he died.
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