THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT. I05 



natural life, and that after her decease the one full and equal half or moyety 

 thereof shall devolve, come and be enjoyed by my rightful heirs and the other 

 half to and by the right heirs of my beloved wife aforesaid. Item, I do will, 

 order and determine, and in case it should so happen that my said beloved wife 

 shall dye before my sons come to the age of one and twenty years or before my 

 daughters attaine to that age or be married then it is my desire and appointment 

 that all such of my sons as at the decease of my said wife, shall become to the 

 age of one and twenty years, and all such of my daughters as at her death shall 

 be under that age and unmarried, shall be maintained and educated by my sons 

 till they come to the age of one and twenty years or my daughters until they 

 come to that age or are married, out of the rents, Profitts and ishues of my 

 houses, lands and real Estate, and also out of the same shall be provided for and 

 advanced and equall with my other chilldren which accounting the lott of 

 Ground, the one hundred and fifty Pounds and household stuff before mentioned 

 Intended for each of my children, I do" Estimate to amount unto the Value of 

 £500 New York money, to each child besides the parte and share of my reall 

 Estate herein Before Deposed and Devised. Lastly, I do hereby Constitute, De- 

 clare and appoint my said Beloved Wife my Executrix together with my Brother 

 Jacobus Yan Cortlandt, my Brother Brant Schuyler and my Cousin William 

 Nicholls to be Guardians, Tutors and Overseers over my said children and to see 

 that this my Will relating to them and each of them be duly, fully and truly 

 Executed, performed and accomplished according to the just, true and Genuing 

 Intent and Meaning thereof. In Testimony whereof, I the said Testator have 

 hereunto sett my hand and seale in the presence of the Witnesses whose names 

 are under written the day, month arid year first before mentioned. 



Signed, sealed and declared to be The last Will and Testament of the above 

 named Stephanus Van Cortland in the presence of 



Tho. Wenham, "1 



Kip Van Dam, , -> 



John Abeel, } STEPHANUS VAN COBTLAND. \ l. g. [■ 



BlCHARD STOOKS, *■ ' 



Andrew Teller, Jue.« J 



The above will was proved 7th of Jan. i7oi. & 



The will of Geertruy or Gertrude, his wife, bears date Oct., 17 18, and 

 was proved. Upon the 23d of December, A. D., 1706, Oliver Van Cort- 

 landt, one of the devisees of Stephanus, published his last will- and testa- 

 ment, in which he devised all his right, title and interest, of and into his 

 portion, to his ten surviving brothers and sisters, by which they became 

 seized in fee of Cortlandt's Manor as tenants in common. 



In the year 1730, (November 13th,) the aforesaid children and de- 

 visees drew up articles of agreement for the division of the Manor. Up- 

 on the 29th of May, 1733, a division was made of that part of the Manor 

 situated north of the River Croton. It was not, however, until Novem- 



a Rec. of Wills, Surrogate's Office, N. T., No. 2, 1682-1692, Pp. 78, 79, SO, 81, 82, S3. 

 6 Rec. of Wills, Surrogate's Office, N. Y., No. 2, 1682-1G92, pp. 84. 



