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crests ; and though not registered in the English College of Anns, they 

 appear as so modified in most English heraldic works, and have since 

 been so borne in America, notably on the official seal of his son James 

 de Lancey, as Lt. Governor and Captain-General of New York. They 

 are thus blazoned: — Arms; Azure, a tilting lance proper, point upward 

 with a pennon argent bearing a cross gules fringed and floating to the 

 right, debruised of a fess, or Crest ; A sinister arm in armor embowed, 

 the hand grasping a tilting lance, pennon floating, both proper. Motto ; 

 Certum voto pete finem. 



The name of this family, anciently spelled " Land," and later "Lancy,'' 

 in France, was anglicised by Etienne de Lancy on being denizenized a 

 British subject in 1686, after which time he always wrote his name Ste- 

 phen de Lancey — thus inserting an "e' : in the final sylable. The "de" 

 is the ordinary French prefix, denoting nobility. 



The Seigneur Jacques (James) de Lancy, above-named, second son 

 of Charles de Lancy, 5th Vicomte de Laval et de Nouvion, was the an- 

 cestor of the Huguenot branch, the only existing one, of this family. 

 His son the Seigneur Jacques de Lancy of Caen, married Marguerite 

 Bertrand, daughter of Pierre Bertrand of Caen, by his first wife, the 

 Demoiselle Firel, and had two children, a son Etienne (or Stephen) de 

 Lancey, born at Caen, October 24th, 1663, and a daughter, the wife of 

 John Barbaric" On the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Stephen de 

 Lancey was one of those who, stripped of their titles and estates, fled 

 from persecution — leaving his aged-mother, then a widow, in conceal- 

 ment at Caen, he escaped to Holland, where, remaining a short time, 

 he proceeded to England, and taking out letters of denization as an 

 English subject at London, on the 20th of March, 1686, he sailed for 

 New York, where he arrived on the 7th of June following. Here with 300 

 pounds sterling, the proceeds of the sale of some family jewels, the parting 

 gift of his mother, he embarked in mercantile pursuits. By industry and 

 strict application to business, he became a successful merchant and 

 amassed a large fortune. He was a highly esteemed and influential 

 man, and held, through all his life, honorable appointments in the coun- 

 cils of the city, as well as in the Representative Assembly of .the Prov- 

 ince. He was elected Alderman of the west ward of the city, five years 

 after his arrival, in 1691. He was representative from the city and 

 county of New York, in the Provincial Assembly, from 1702 to 17 15, 

 with the exception of 1709; and in 1725, on the decease of Mr. Pro- 



a MSS., " Bertrand " Genealogy :— Joan Barbarie and his family came to New York in 1668, 

 in wtiich year (on 5th January,) he ana his sons Peter, and John Peter, were denizened as 

 English subjects in London, lie was subsequently a merchant in New York, in partnership 

 with his brother-in-law, Stephen de Lancy, and a member of the council of the Province. 



