Van Cortlandt Family

The Van Cortlandt family was an influential political dynasty from the seventeenth-century Dutch origins of New York through its period as an English colony, then after it became a state, and into the nineteenth century. Notable family members include:

  • Jacobus Van Cortlandt
  • Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr.
  • Stephanus Van Cortlandt
  • Philip Van Cortlandt
  • Pierre Van Cortlandt

Famous quotes containing the words van and/or family:

    “Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.”
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)