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ried Anne, eldest daughter of Col. Caleb Heathcote, and left James, 

 n, John Peter, Maria. Anne and Susan. James, the first of these, 

 was educated at Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, England, in which 

 college his father had been educated before him. On quitting college, 

 he entered the army, rising to the rank of captain. In the unfortunate 

 lign against Ticonderoga, he was an aid of Abercrombie's. When 

 ther died, or shortly after, Captain de Lancey sold out, inheriting 

 the principal estates of his family. He married Margaret, a daughter 

 of Chief Justice Allen of Pennsylvania, whose other daughter, Anne, 

 married John Penn, grandson of William Penn, the founder of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Early in the Revolution, Capt. James de Lancey went to England. 

 Eventually he established himself at Bath. This gentleman, (and not 

 his cousin, Lt. Col. James, as Mr. Sabine supposes), " at the close of 

 the war, and at the formation of the loyalist agency for prosecuting 

 claims for compensation, was appointed agent for New York, and be- 

 came vice-president of the board. His own losses were large and diffi- 

 cult of adjustment, and occupied the attention of the commissioners for 

 some days. Excepting Sir William Pepperell,'* Captain James de Lan- 

 cey appears to have been the most active member of the agency." b 

 Five of the children of Capt. James de Lancey and Margaret, grew up, 

 viz : two sons and three daughters. Charles, the eldest son, was in the 

 British navy, and died a bachelor. James, late Lt. Col. ist Dragoon 

 Guards, is living, also a bachelor. Two of the daughters, Anne and 

 Susan, are single, and still living ; While Margaret married the present 

 Sir Juckes Granville Clifton, Bart., and died early, childless." 



The second son of Stephen de Lancey, the Huguenot, was Brigadier 

 General Oliver de Lancey. Sabine, in his sketches of American Loyalists, 

 states that, "at the period of the French war, Oliver de Lancey occupied 

 a commanding position," and perhaps he did not overrate his personal 

 influence when he said, that if in the expedition against Crown Point, 

 he "should accept the command of the New York regiment, he could, 

 in ten days, raise the whole quota of troops allotted to that colony." 

 This standing he maintained after his brother's death, and until the 

 Revolution. " He opposed the dismemberment of the empire, and put 

 his life and property at stake to prevent it. In 1776, he was appointed 

 a brigadier-general in the royal service. Skinner, of New Jersey, Brown, 

 a former Governor of Bahamas, Arnold, the apostate, and Cunningham, 

 of South Carolina, were of the same grade ; but their commissions were 



a Ibid. - 



h Sabine's Sketches of American Loyalists. 



