Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants . 164. Van Cortlandt House ^^^-^HE property on which the house stands belonged€ J in the seventeenth century to the Hon. Fred-^^^ erick Phihpse and was sold by him in the year1(399 to his son-in-law, Jacobus Van Cortlandt, who hadmarried his daughter Eva. The house was built in 1748bj Frederick Van Cortlandt, only son of Jacobus, whomarried Frances Jay, daughter of Augustus Jay, theHuguenot. His will, dated October 2, 1749, states: Whereas I am now finishing a large stone dwellinghouse on the plantation in A\h
Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants . 164. Van Cortlandt House ^^^-^HE property on which the house stands belonged€ J in the seventeenth century to the Hon. Fred-^^^ erick Phihpse and was sold by him in the year1(399 to his son-in-law, Jacobus Van Cortlandt, who hadmarried his daughter Eva. The house was built in 1748bj Frederick Van Cortlandt, only son of Jacobus, whomarried Frances Jay, daughter of Augustus Jay, theHuguenot. His will, dated October 2, 1749, states: Whereas I am now finishing a large stone dwellinghouse on the plantation in A\hich I now live, which withthe same plantation will, by virtue of my deceased fa-thers will, devolve, after my decease, upon my eldestson, James, etc.* During the Revolutionary AVar the neighborhoodwas constantly the scene of conflicts. Wasliington vis-ited the house in 1781, and on the hill to the northdisposed part of his army, which liglited cam]) fires whilelie was quietly withdrawing the rest of his troops tojoin Lafayette before Yorktown. There was a bloodyengagement near the hou
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