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The Van Cortlandt family were major New York landowners, politicians, and merchants from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The Van Cortlandt account books contain twelve volumes of accounts, ledgers, day books, and letter books compiling the business dealing of the family in the 18th and 19th centuries. The books offer insight into the family's mercantile dealings including the sugar and transatlantic slave trades. less