488 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



brodt, at Jamaica. Entering Yale College in 1813, Mr. de Lancy grad- 

 uated in 181 7, and at once commenced the study of theology with the 

 celebrated Bishop Hobart, as a private student. He was ordained a 

 deacon by that prelate on the 28th of December, 1819, and a priest 

 on March 6th, 1822. 



Mr. de Lancey married on the 2 2d of November, 1820, Frances, third 

 daughter of Peter Jay Munro, of New York, and of Mamaroneck, the 

 distinguished lawyer, (only child of the Rev. Dr. Harry Munro, the last 

 English Rector of St. Peter's church, Albany, N. Y., by his third wife, 

 Eve Jay, daughter of Peter Jay, the first of that name in Rye, (one of 

 whose younger brothers was Chief Justice John Jay) by his wife Marga- 

 ret, daughter of the Hon. Henry White, of the Council of the Province 

 of New York, and his wife Eve Van Cortlandt, of Yonkers. 



While a divinity student Mr. de Lancey held the first services of the 

 Episcopal Church in Mamaroneck ; and with the aid of his father, John 

 Peter de Lancey and Peter Jay Munro, who were its first wardens, 

 founded the Parish of St. Thomas in that village. 



After serving for short periods as deacon in Trinity church, and in 

 Grace church, New York, he was invited.by the venerable Bishop White 

 of Pensylvania to be his personal assistant in the " Three United 

 Churches " of Christ church, St. Peter's, and St. James in Philadelphia, 

 of which he was also the Rector. Mr. de Lancey accepted this position 

 and removed to Philadelphia, where he continued to reside in the closest 

 and most confidential relations with Bishop White, until the death in 

 1836, of that great "and venerable prelate, the first Bishop of the Ameri- 

 can Church, consecrated by Anglican Bishops. 



During this period, in 1827, in his thirtieth year, Mr. de Lancey was 

 chosen Provost of the University of Pensylvania, that old " College in 

 Philadelphia" founded by Benjamin Franklin; and also received the 

 degree of D.D., from his Alma Mater, Yale College — being the youngest 

 man upon whom, up to that time, she had conferred that honor. He 

 remained in the Provostship five years, having brought the University 

 up to a very flourishing condition, when he resigned to resume his pro- 

 fession and was elected assistant minister of St. Peter's church, Phila- 

 delphia, with the reversion of the Rectorship upon the death of Bishop 

 White. 



That event occurring in 1836, Dr. de Lancey then became Rector of 

 St. Peter's and remained such until 1839, when, upon the division of the 

 State of New York into two Dioceses, he was elected Bishop of that 

 part of the State, west of Utica, and consecrated Bishop of Western New 

 York, at Auburn, May 9th, 1839, and took up his residence at Geneva 



