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of New York unto us, our heirs and successors, or to such office or officers as 

 shall from time to time be impowered to receive ye same, five pounds current 

 money of New York, upon the Nativity of our Lord, in lieu and stead of all ser- 

 vices, dues, duties or demands whatsoever. Iu testimony whereof we have caus- 

 ed the great seal of our province of New York to be hereunto affixed. 



Witness John Nanfan, Esq., our Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chief 

 of our Province of New York and territories depending thereon in America. 

 Given at Fort William Henry in our city of New York, this twenty-first day ot 

 March, in the fourteenth year of our reign. Anno Domini 1701. a 



JOHN NANFAN. 



The Heathcote family, according to Lyson, " were originally of Heath- 

 cote in the parish of Hartington, County of Derby, England. The first 

 mention we find of them is in the tenth reign of Edward IV, (1470- 

 147 1,) when they were engaged in mercantile pursuits at Chesterfield^ 

 in the same county. George Heathcote, who is said to have descended 

 of an ancient and worthy family of that name in Derbyshire, possessed 

 of a large estate, c was of Brampton near Chesterfield in that county, and 



Hundred of Scarsdale. He married Beatrice , and died in 1596, 



leaving issue George Heathcote of Lodes, and of " the Lodge," also near 

 Chesterfield. " He was very intimate with Gilbert 'Talbot, Earl of 

 Shrewsbury, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, one of the 

 chief noblemen in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. By means of this ac- 

 quaintance he was drawn into great engagements for the aforesaid Earl 

 which did diminish his estate. The Earl stood god-father to his son, and 

 gave him the name of Gilbert. d He died in 1601, leaving, by his wife, 

 Agnes, who died in 1609, first — George Heathcote, ancestor of the 

 Heathcotes of Culthrope Hall, Brampton, whose line became extinct in 

 1825 ; second, the before mentioned Gilbert Heathcote of Chesterfield. 

 This individual "had large interests in the lead mines by which, together 

 with other sources, he received an income of ^5,000 per annum clear 

 of all expenses ; but venturing too deeply in other projects, he was forced 

 to dispose of the greater part of his estate." 6 He died in 1636, leaving 

 — by his wife, Elizabeth Owtum — only one son, Gilbert Heathcote, Esq., 

 of Chesterfield, who was bora May 22d, 1625. " He was left with but 

 a small estate, in consequence of the losses sustained by his grandfather 

 and father." On the breaking out of the civil wars, during the reign of 



a Book of Patents, Albany Rec, No. vii., 226. 



b Lyson's Mag. Brit. Derbyshire. 



c Extract from a MSS. Book of Sir William Heathcote. 



d Extract from a MSS. Book of Sir William Heathcote. 



e Extract from Samuel Heathcote's MSS. ; account of his family in possession of Sir Wm. 

 Heathcotej Bart of Hursley. 

 / Ditto. 



