The Van Cortlandt manor : anonymous address read by the late MrsJames Marsland Lawton, president-general of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, at the sixth annual meeting of the New York branch held in the city of New York, January 26, 1918 . VAN CORTLANDT ARMSArms: Argent; four mngs of a mndmill conjoined in saltire sable; gules between five stars placed crosswise of the : A star : Virtus sibi munus. r— ^-^ ^-v ;• j-^:: yyes^jT^ 311,. ?-/ i,:: ^ If ? 4 g imI VAN CORTLANDT MANOR The great Manor of Cortlandt, as granted to its first Lord,Stephanus Van Cort
The Van Cortlandt manor : anonymous address read by the late MrsJames Marsland Lawton, president-general of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, at the sixth annual meeting of the New York branch held in the city of New York, January 26, 1918 . VAN CORTLANDT ARMSArms: Argent; four mngs of a mndmill conjoined in saltire sable; gules between five stars placed crosswise of the : A star : Virtus sibi munus. r— ^-^ ^-v ;• j-^:: yyes^jT^ 311,. ?-/ i,:: ^ If ? 4 g imI VAN CORTLANDT MANOR The great Manor of Cortlandt, as granted to its first Lord,Stephanus Van Cortlandt. extended for ten miles along theHudson River, from the southerly shore of the Croton Riverto the line dividing Westchester and Putnam Counties, andtwenty miles east to the Connecticut boundary line. This largetract of beautiful country included the present townships ofCortlandt, North Salem, Somers and Yorktown, with a part ofthe town of Lewisboro. Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first Lord of the Manor of Cort-landt, was the son of Olaf Stevense Van Cortlandt, a soldier inthe ser\ice of the West Indian Company, who left his home atWyk by Durnstede in Holland, a village not far from Utrecht,and came to this country in 1638 with Wm. Kieft, Divancortlandtmano00balt
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