THE TOWN OF SCARSDALE. 23 1 



dale, with other possessions, descended to Anne and Martha, then sur- 

 viving sisters and heiresses. Anne Heathcote, the eldest, married the 

 Honorable James De Lancey, lieutenant-Governor of the province of 

 New York; their children were, first, Captain James De Lancey, who 

 greatly distinguished himself as the aide of General Abercombie at the 

 celebrated siege of Fort Ticonderoga, father of the late Lieutenant- 

 Colonel James De Lancey of Bath, Somerset County, England, the 

 eldest heir male of the De Lancey family ; second, Major John Peter De 

 Lancey of Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck, who married Elizabeth, daugh- 

 ter of Colonel Richard Floyd, of Floyd's Neck, Brookhaven, Suffolk 

 County, Long Island. This individual alternately became possessor of 

 the Scarsdale estates. 



John Peter De Lancey by his last will and testament, bearing date 

 28th January, 1823, bequeathed his property amongst his surviving chil- 

 dren, namely — William Heathcote De Lancey, Elizabeth Caroline, 

 Martha Arabella, Ann Charlotte and Sussanah Augusta De Lancey. 



Third, Stephen De Lancey, of North Salem, who died January ist, 

 1795, leaving no issue. 



Under the Heathcotes and De Lanceys the Anjevines held the large 

 farm bearing their name (now owned by Alexander M. Bruen, M. D.,) 

 for four generations. The Anjevin's or Anjevine's were among those of 

 the French Protestant refugees who fled from France about the year 

 1694. They were spoken of in a history of French families as living in 

 the ancient province of Poitou (" a province foremost in its opposition 

 to the religious oppression exercised by the Government, led by the 

 principal families therein. The royal government had more difficulty in 

 opposing the religious uprising here than almost any other part of the 

 kingdom,") in the Marches of Anjevin. In 1708, Zacharie Anjevin, who 

 .was born in France, A.D. 1664, appears as one of the freeholders of the 

 town of New Rochelle. Sometime in September, 17 10, among a list of 

 the inhabitants of the latter place occur the names of Zachariah and 

 Peter Anjevin, brothers, and a sister, Sussanna. Zachariah Anjevin and 

 his wife, Mary, had four children, namely — Zachariah, Daniel, Margaret 

 Mary and Mary, junior. Peter Anjevin, who was born in France, A.D. 

 1666, and Deborah, his wife, had three children — Louis or Lewis, Pierre 

 or Peter and Mary. The eldest, Lewis, born in 1702, settled on the 

 Anjevin farm and lies burried there; Jean, his son, became heir to the 

 estate and left seven sons, viz : David, Peter, John, Louis, Elijah, Wil- 

 liam and Solomon ; and four daughters, the youngest of whom, Mary, 

 married Thomas Truslow, Esq., of New York City and Portchester. 



The Secor family rented the Scarsdale manor farm called the Hie- 



