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I entered the room. Nobody but his youngest daughter, a child, was present at 

 the time, so little did the family apprehend the least danger. Never did these 

 eyes behold such a spectacle, or did my spirits feel such an impression. The 

 idea affects me whenever I think of it ; to loose such a companion, such a coun- 

 sellor, such a friend." 



James de Lancey married as above stated, Anne, eldest daughter and 

 co-heiress of the Hon. Caleb Heathcote, Lord of the Manor of Scars- 

 dale. By her, he had four sons ; first, James ; second, Stephen ; third, 

 Heathcote ; fourth, John Peter ; and four daughters ; first, Mary, wife 

 of William Walton, who died in 1767; second, Susannah, born iSth 

 November, 1737, died a spinster in 1815 ; third, Anne, born 1746, and 

 died in 1847, who married Thomas Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court 

 of New York, author of the history of New York during the Revolu- 

 tionary War; and Martha who died a spinster, aged 19, in 1769. 



James De Lancey, the eldest son of the Lieutenant-Governor, born 

 in 1732, was the head of the political party, called by his name, from 

 his father's death to the Revolution and its leader in the Assembly of 

 the Province. He married, August 17th, 1771, Margaret Allen of Phila- 

 delphia, daughter of William Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, whose 

 sister was the wife of Governor John Penn of that Province. The late 

 Mrs. Harry Walter Livingston (born Mary Allen) who died in 1855, 

 was a niece of these two sisters. James de Lancey had two sons, Charles 

 in early life a British naval officer, and James, Lieut-Colonel of the 

 First Dragoon Guards; both died bachelors, the former May 6th, 1840, 

 and the latter May 26th, 1857 ; and three daughters, Margaret, married 

 July 17th 1794, Sir Jukes Granville Clifton Jukes, Bart, and died June 

 nth, 1804 without leaving children; Anna and Susan who both died 

 spinsters, the first, August 10th, 1851, and the last April 7th, 1866. 



Stephen the second son of Lieutenant-Governor de Lancey was the 

 proprietor of what is now the town of North Salem in this county, which 

 came to his father as part of his share in the Manor of Cortlandt, which 

 town Stephen de Lancey settled. He built a large double dwelling, 

 which he subsequently gave to the town for an Academy which is still in 

 existence.* He married Hannah Sackett, daughter of Rev. Joseph Sackett 

 of Crom Pond and died without issue May 6th, 1795. Heathcote, the 

 third son of the Lieutenant-Governor, died young before his father. 



John Peter de Lancey, the fourth son of Lt. Governor de Lancey, 

 was born in the city of New York, July 15th 1753, and died at Mama- 

 roneck, January 30th, 1828. He was educated at Harrow School in 

 England, and at the military school at Greenwich. In 1771, he entered 



a See Town of North Salem. 



