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College and the training school at Greneva, N. Y. In 

 the grounds of the latter there is a fine chapel which was 

 erected in his honour shortly after his death in 1865. 



Peter De Lancey, second son of ^tienne, was born in other sons 

 New York in 1705. He was a man of great wealth and 

 influence, and from 1750 to 1768 he was a member of the 

 provincial assembly. His daughter Alice married Ealph 

 Izard, the South Carolina Senator, and his daughter 

 Susan married Colonel Thomas Barclay. Of his three 

 sons two became loyalists ; the youngest, James, being a 

 thorn in the side of Westchester County patriots. At the 

 head of his troop of light horse he made frequent raids 

 through the countryside, and his alertness and courage 

 made his name one to conjure with throughout the length, 

 and breadth of the "neutral grounds." Etienne's third 

 son, Oliver, was an able soldier. He gained his first ex- 

 periences during the French and Indian War, taking 

 part in the Niagara campaign and commanding the New 

 York troops at the capture of Ticonderoga. During the 

 Revolution he raised three regiments of loyalists at his 

 own expense, known as "De Lancey' s Battalions," and 

 was given command of Long Island. 



Oliver's two sons both joined the British service. 

 Stephen served through the Revolution as a colonel in 

 the English army, and after the war was made governor 

 of Tobago, a small island of the West Indies; while 

 Oliver had attained the rank of general when he died in 

 1822. 



II 



The De Forest Family 



The members of the large and well-known De Forest jesse 

 family of America trace their descent to the Jesse de i^I°^^^^ 

 Forest who in 1622 propounded his scheme of colonization 

 to the Virginia Company. Jesse de Forest came from an 

 old family of Avesnes, but was forced for conscience' sake 

 to take refuge in Holland. His name first appears on 



