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the regular army as Ensign, and served up to the rank of captain in the 

 1 8th, or Royal Irish Regiment of Foot. He was, also, for a time by 

 special permission, Major of the Pennsylvania Loyalists, commanded 

 by Col. William Allen. 



He received the Heathcote estates of his mother, in the Manor of 

 Scarsdale; and having retired from a military life, in 1789 returned to 

 America and resided at Mamaroneck. He built a new house, still 

 standing on Heathcote Hill, the site of his grandfather Heathcote's 

 great brick manor-house, which was accidentally burnt several years 

 prior to the Revolution. . He married 28th September, 1785, Elizabeth 

 Floyd, daughter of Col. Richard Floyd of Mastic, Suffolk County, the 

 head of that old Long Island family, and had three sons and five 

 daughters. The sons were, 1. Thomas James, a lawyer, who died in 1822, 

 at the early age of 32, leaving by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas 

 Ellison, an only child, a son, also named Thomas James, who married 

 Frances Augusta Bibby, and died in 1859, without having had issue. 

 2. Edward Floyd, born 18th June, 1795 and died a bachelor, 19th Oc- 

 tober 1820. 3. William Heathcote, born 8th October, 1797, at Ma- 

 maroneck, and died at Geneva^ New York, April 5, 1865, the late 

 Bishop of Western New York. 



The daughters were five in number. 1. Anne Charlotte, born 17th 

 September, 1786, married 10th December, 1827; John Loudon McAdam, 

 the celebrated originator of McAdamized roads, a and died at Hoddes- 

 don, in England, 29th May, 1852, without issue. 2. Susan Augusta, 

 wife of James Fenimore Cooper, the eminent American Author, born 

 28th January, 1 792, married 1st January, i8n, & and died 20th of January, 

 1852. 3. Maria Frances, born August 3d, 1793; died 17th of January, 

 1806. 4. Elizabeth Caroline, born 4th March, 1801, and died, single, 

 25th February, i860. 5. Martha Arabella, born 10th January, 1803, 

 who is still living unmarried. 



William Heathcote de Lancey, the first Bishop of Western New York, 

 was born at Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck, October 8th, 1797. 



After attending school at Mamaroneck, and then at New Rochelle, 

 where his teacher was, Mr. Waite, father of the present Chief Justice 

 Waite of the Supreme Court of the United States, he was sent to the 

 academy of the Rev. Mr. Hart, at Hempstead, L. I., and on the death 

 of that gentleman, was transferred at the suggestion of his father's 

 personal friend, the Hon. Rufus King, to that of the Rev. Dr. Eigen- 



a She was his second wife. His first wife was Glorianna Nicoll of Suffolk County, Long 

 Island ; a first cousin of Mrs. John Peter de Lancey, the mother of his second wife. 

 6 This marriage was solemnized in the house of Mr. de Lancey, at Heathcote Hiil. 



