Papers, 1663-1932.

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Papers, 1663-1932.

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Papers include bills, deeds, receipts, commissions, letters, agreements, mortgages, accounts, maps and land surveys, leases, inventories, military records, memoranda, slave documents, wills and estate papers, legal papers, lists, bonds, genealogy, and memorabilia. Persons represented include Philip Van Cortlandt, his son Pierre Van Cortlandt, and Pierre's sons Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. Correspondence, which includes many letters from Pierre (b.1721) to his sons Philip and Pierre Jr., 1777-1803, and a series from Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. to his farm manager William Miller, concerning household goods, land transactions, land rents, mills, ferries, the Revolutionary War, business affairs, finances, family news, political news, the War of 1812, personal estates, water rights at Croton, and farm management. Other items include journal, receipt book, and account book of Pierre Van Cortlandt (b.1721); school records, 1795-1798, and assessment rolls, 1808-1811, for the Town of Cortlandt; account books of Gertruyd Beekman (Mrs. Henry Beekman) with entries on her Cortlandt relatives, 1723-1766; receipts, accounts, returns, reports, and orders from the Revolutionary War and New York militia affairs, 1775-1825; and family correspondence and papers of the related Van Wyck family, 1825-1861.

ca. 8 cubic ft.

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Van Cortlandt (Family)

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Members of the Van Cortlandt family were major Westchester County landowners and New York politicians from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and Revolutionary War soldiers. ...

Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814

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First lieut. governor of New York. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "At Beekmans Mills," to his son, Pierre "In Congress", 1812 Jun. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574080 President of the N.Y. Colony Council of Safety. From the description of Letter, 1777 October 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122573616 Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. (1762-1848) was a soldier and politician from Westchester County, New York. He was a U.S. Congressma...

Van Cortlandt, Philip, 1749-1831

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Revolutionary officer and N.Y. legislator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Tunkanock Creek," to General Edward Hand, 1779 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574076 ...

New York (State). Militia

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Levies were special regiments recruited under provisions of the legislature which entitled recruits to plots of unappropriated land. From the description of Levy certificates issued record book. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122617529 ...

Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1762-1848

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Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. (1762-1848) was a soldier and politician from Westchester County, New York. He was a U.S. Congressman from 1811-1812 and a brigadier general in the Westchester militia during the War of 1812. His first wife, Catharine Clinton Taylor, was the daughter of George Clinton, governor of New York from 1777 to 1795 and 1801 to 1804, and vice-president under Jefferson and Madison, 1804-1812. Van Cortlandt was the son of Pierre Van Corlandt (1721-1814) wh...

Miller, William D. (William Dennis), 1953-

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Beekman, Gertruyd, 1688-1777.

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Van Cortlandt, Philip, 1683-1748.

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