Craft Masonry in Westchester and Putnam Counties, New York

He died at his residence in the eighty-second year of his age; and this great and distinguished veteran's remains now lie mouldering
in the private burying-ground of the family, near the old Manor House, overlooking the most picturesque and romantic portion of the
Hudson.
The following General Order was issued by the Society on the 9th of November, 1831:
"The Vice-President, in the discharge of his official duty, announces to the members of the Society that their venerable and
respected friend and companion, General Philip Van Cortlandt, departed this life, at his residence in Westchester County, on
Saturday, the 5th inst , in the eighty-second year of his age. Afflicting as this dispensation of Providence must be to the members of
the Society, with whom the deceased was so long associated, it is to be remembered that he died full of years, and possessed, to
the last, the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens.
"General Van Cortlandt was, at the time of his death, the oldest surviving officer of his rank in the New York Line of the Continental
Army. He was a Major of the Colonial Militia previous to the Revolution; and in the year 1775 he was commissioned to the same
rank in the Revolutionary Army; was appointed Lieutenant Colonel in February, 1776, and Colonel of the 2d New York Regiment in
the month of November of the same year, and at the close of the war he was commissioned as a Brigadier-General. He was in the
Battle of Monmouth Court-house, New Jersey, and in the actions of Stillwater and Bemis' Heights in September and October, 1777,
and had the honor to be present at the surrender of the British armies, commanded by General Burgoyne and Lord Cornwallis.
"General Van Cortlandt's regiment was, upon several occasions, complimented for its discipline and appearance in the orders of the
Commander-in Chief.
"In the year 1793 General Van Cortlandt was elected a member of Congress, and continued a member of that body until about the
year 1809, when he declined public employment, and retired to his farm, near Croton, upon the North River.
"The members of the Society are requested to wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days, in memory of their deceased friend.
MORGAN LEWIS, Vice-President.
"CHARLES GRAHAM, Secretary."
PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, Lieutenant-Governor, his brother, was in 1832 admitted in the succession. He married, first, Catherine
Clinton, but had no issue by her, and, secondly, Ann Stevenson. He died 13 Jun 1848, at the Manor House at Croton Landing.
PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, his nephew, only son of the last, was admitted in 1853. He married Catherine Beck, and died on the
11th of July, 1884, at the Manor House at Croton Landing, having served for many years as one of the Standing Committee.
JAMES STEVENSON VAN CORTLANDT, only surviving son of the last, was admitted in 1885.
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Charles Yoe, an Englishman by birth, who came from Wincanton, Somersetshire, England, to the United States, when he was
eighteen years of age. Soon after his arrival in this country he settled in Westchester County, became closely allied with his adopted
countrymen in their struggle to maintain the form of government which they had established, marched down to New York with the
Westchester County troops to participate in the war of 1812, and aided in throwing up the fortifications on the northern part of
Manhattan Island at that time.
He married Mary Lynch, who belonged to a New York family, antedating the Revolutionary War. Her father, John Lynch, was born
on a farm just south of the old village of White Plains, which has been for a hundred years and more noted locally as the farm on
which the British forces encamped on the eve of the battle of Chatterton's Hill. The old farm was also long famous
for the five large boxwood trees which stood near the homestead, and by reason of its being the home of " Prince " and " Tean," two
colored servants of the Lynch family in the days of slavery in New York, who lived to a great age and enjoyed wide celebrity.
Charles Yoe was a prominent citizen of Westchester County, of comfortable means, and his sons who grew up in the village of Sing
Sing, enjoyed good educational advantages combined with thorough industrial training. He was a trustee of Mt. Pleasant Academy
from the date of its founding up to the time of his death.
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Ibid. page 174.
Samuel Youngs – b. 4 Dec 1760; d. 12 Sep 1839
The Youngs Family.
Joseph Youngs of the historic Youngs House noted as the headquarters on the American lines for so long a period, and until its
destruction on 3 Feb 1790, after which it was known as Youngs' '' Burnt House,'' was a Justice of the Peace, and a Member of the
Committee of Public Safety, as well as a member of Captain Gabriel Requa's Company of Militia, and was a man of consequence
before the Revolution, his family among the foremost on the Manor. He was captured in the raid made by Major Bearmore upon his
house on the 25th of December, 1778, and remained a prisoner until the 25th of September 1779. The Youngs family had social
prominence in the neighborhood. They had come from Great Neck, L. I., after 1760.
Lieutenant Samuel Youngs, the son of Joseph Youngs, Esq., was a very interesting character. During the early part of the war he
was a volunteer in various companies, did service as a guide, and in 1782 was commissioned as Lieutenant in a company attached
to Sheldon's Dragoons. Being much about the headquarters at his father's house he was familiar with army movements in this
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