Listed as fifth issue of Cornelius Jansen and Metje, “6. Laurens Cornelissen, baptized August 20, 1681, …. He was father of the main branch of the Harlem family of this name. Served as constable in 1708–9, and succeeded to the homestead on Harlem lane, which, at his death (1726) fell in the division to his widow.”
“Laurens Cornelissen Kortright (6), from whom sprang the main branch of the family at Harlem, was born here August 20, 1681. On December 9, 1704, his mother leased him for four years the farm ‘lying on the flats about New Harlem,’ and also ‘the lot on the Maize Land,’ or Jochem Pieters' Hills. Laurens served as constable in 1708–9. He succeeded to the homestead on Harlem Lane (since Nutter's), which at his death, in 1726, fell in the division to his widow, Grietie, together with the upper Tourneur lot, and Nos. 19, 20 (the last got in 1720), on Van Keulen's Hook, No. 1, 2d Division; half of 17, 3d Division, and 3½ acres of No. 6, 3d Division, bought 1726 from John Lewis. In 1740 she bought from Nicholas Kortright the Sickels lot on Montanye's Flat, and in 1747, from Simon Johnson, the parcels below Montanye's Flat, and being part of No. 8, 1st Division, and mostly within the late Valentine Nutter farm. These lands (except Nos. 19, 20, Van Keulen's Hook, sold, 1730, to Derick Benson) descended to her surviving sons Aaron and Lawrence Kortright. Lawrence took the homestead and No. 1, 2d Division; the upper Tourneur lot was sold to Peter Bussing, and the adjoining Sickels lot, February 9, 1755, to Benjamin Benson, the deed also covering the next lot, which Benson had inherited from his father, bounded by Vandewater's gore in the rear.”
