[2] Cornelius and his family founded and laid out the street grid for Van Vorst Township, which was incorporated in 1841 and was dissolved when it was annexed by Jersey City in 1851.

[3] From 1854 to 1874, the kitchen step of the Van Vorst Mansion was known to be the slab of marble that was originally the base of the statue of King George III that was toppled by the Sons of Liberty at Bowling Green in New York.

After the statue had been torn down in 1776, the slab made its way across the Hudson River and was reused in Paulus Hook as the gravestone of a Major John Smith of the Royal Highlands Regiment, the Black Watch in 1783.

Dr. William Barrow, a New York City physician, bought the mansion after marrying Van Vorst's sister Eliza.

In 1897, St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church bought the mansion for use as a parish house and replaced the rifle range with a two-lane bowling alley.