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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Cortlandt , Oliver Stevense 1600 -1684 (search)
Van Cortlandt, Oliver Stevense 1600-1684
Military officer; born in Wijk, Holland, in 1600; received a fair education; arrived in New Netherland as an officer of the West India Company March 28, 1638; was made customs officer in 1639; had charge of the public stores of the company in 1643-48; then became a merchant and brewer.
He was made colonel of the burgher guard in 1649; was appointed mayor (burgomaster) of New Amsterdam in 1654; and held that office almost without interruption till 1664, when New Amsterdam was surrendered to the British.
He was then appointed by Governor Stuyvesant one of the commissioners to arrange a settlement with the British.
In 1663 he took a prominent part in settling the Connecticut boundary dispute, and in 1664 in settling the claims of Capt. John Scott to Long Island, and also held trusts under the English governors Nicholls, Lovelace, and Dongan.
He died in New York, April 4, 1684.
His son, Jacob, born in New York City, July 7, 1658, was a m
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 8 : appointment at Harvard and second visit to Europe (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)