General Notes

First Record Book of the 'Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow' Organized in 1697 and now The First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, N. Y
by Rev. David Cole, D.D., Yonkers, N. Y., Published by The Yonkers Historical and Library Association, 1901 FOURTH DIVISION (OR "BOOK").
[Baptisms: 1776- 1791]

77 years old at death.  On his grave stone:
"Hark! from the tomb, A doleful sound;
Mine ears attend the cry;
Ye living men come
view the ground;
Where you must shortly lie!"

In the year 1772, Jacob purchased from Cartain Foltin the improvements on 246 acres of Cortland[t] Mannor, New York, owned by Colonel Delancey. Jacon served as 2nd. Lieut. in the 3rd Regiment Weschester County militia being the Regiment of Colonel Samuel Drake.Jacob joined the British army in 1779 and served till the end of the war. Joined Colonel Delancey and served with him till the end of the war. Source: Loyalist Papers, New York Publiuc Lib. Vol. 2, p. 304. Jacob purchased a part of Philipsburgh Mannor in 1779 as they had been forfited by the attainder of Col. Federick Philipse.

PHILIPSBURGH  MANNOR, granted to Frederick PHILIPSE (1627-1702), merchant
SIZE/LOCATION: 92,000 acres in southern Westchester County along the Hudson River (Landlord and Tenant pp. 68-69; French p. 698 n. 1)
MAP: Landlord and Tenant p. 68; De Lancey, between pp. 160f-161
DATE(S) OF GRANT: 12 June 1693 by Gov. Benjamin Fletcher ("into a Lordship or Manor of Phillipsborrough"); transcript of original grant in De Lancey pp. 160-160f and Land Patent Transcriptions 6:396-415 (Land Patents 6:409-429)
RIGHTS GRANTED: court leet, court baron, advowson
PUBLISHED HISTORY: Landlord and Tenant, passim; Edward Hagaman Hall, Philipse Manor Hall at Yonkers, N.Y. (New York: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 1912) [N.Y. L Y80.2]
LOCATION OF PAPERS: see Landlord and Tenant, pp. 425, 427-428, principally Historic Hudson Valley [Philipsburg Manor, Tarrytown, N.Y.]
PUBLISHED PAPERS: "The Town Book of the Manor of Philipsburgh," Record 59(1928):203-213; F.J. Sypher, "Rent Roll of Col. Frederick Philipse's Estate (Philipse Manor) 1776-1784," 108(1977):74-78; Field Horne, "The Philipsburg Manor Rent Roll of 1760," 110(1979):102-104
GRANTEE AND FAMILY: Edwin R. Purple, Contributions to the History of Ancient Families of New Amsterdam and New York (New York: privately printed, 1881) pp. 119-124 [N.Y.C. G 33]; Hall, above, pp. 37-44; William J. Hoffman, "Philipse Family Record," Record 72(1941):53-54; Field Horne, "The Friesland Ancestry of Frederick Philipse," 109 (1978):201-204; Henry B. Hoff, "Identity of Eva (Philipse) Van Cortlandt," 124 (1993):153-155; C.R. Schrick, "The Philipse Jewel: A Legend Is Born," de Halve Maen 67 (1994):30-36 [N.Y. G 125.4]
TENANTS/RESIDENTS: Grenville C. Mackenzie, "The Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh, Westchester County, N.Y.," 4 vols., typescript, n.d., at NYG&B [MS., LOCALITY SHELF 2 (T1.1)] (families listed in Newsletter 5 [1994]:20)

CORTLANDT MANNOR, granted to Stephanus VAN CORTLANDT (1643-1700), Mayor of New York City, Secretary of the Province of New York, Chief Justice of the Province of New York
SIZE/LOCATION: 86,000 acres in the northern part of Westchester County (French p. 698 n. 1)
MAPS: ***Landlord and Tenant pp. 71, 183; De Lancey, between pp.140-141 ***
DATE(S) OF GRANT: 17 June 1697 by Gov. Benjamin Fletcher ("henceforth be called the Lordship and Mannour of Cortlandt"); transcript of original grant in De Lancey pp. 116-118 and Land Patents Transcriptions 7:145-149 (Land Patents 7:165-170)
RIGHTS GRANTED: court leet, court baron, advowson, and an assembly seat (to be effective twenty years after the grant; see Landlord and Tenant pp. 70, 116)
PUBLISHED HISTORY: Sung Bok Kim, "The Manor of Cortlandt and Its Tenants, 1697-1783," Ph.D. diss., Michigan State Univ., 1966 [microfilm 62.2]; De Lancey pp. 115-141
LOCATION OF PAPERS: see Landlord and Tenant pp. 424-426
PUBLISHED PAPERS: see Landlord and Tenant pp. 421-424; Kim, "Manor of Cortlandt," above; Jacob Judd, ed. Van Cortlandt Family Papers [1748-1848], 4 vols. (Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1976-81) [G V 2796]
GRANTEE AND FAMILY: L. Effingham de Forest, The Van Cortlandt Family (New York: Historical Publication Society, 1930) [G V 2797]; William J. Hoffman, "An Armory of American Families of Dutch Descent: Van Cortlandt," Record 66 (1935):269-280
TENANTS/RESIDENTS:
COMMENTS: Stephanus Van Cortlandt owned many properties, one of which has been erroneously referred to as a manor; see Miss Sarah D. Gardiner, The Sagtikos Manor 1697 (New York: The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, Publication 26, 1935) [N.Y. G 51]. The grant of Sagtikos on the south shore of Long Island by Gov. Benjamin Fletcher makes no mention of manors or manorial rights, but merely uses the standard language of freehold ownership: "in free and common soccage as of our Manor of East Greenwich in our County of Kent."