THE TOWN OF MAMARONECK. 49 1 



James the younger lay upon the western part of de Lancey's Neck. The 

 eastern part of that Neck, the Heathcote Hill tract, and sedge lots, 

 with the other lands of John Peter de Lancey in Mamaroneck passed 

 to the late Bishop de Lancey, a who devised the same to his four survi- 

 ving children, Edward Floyd, John Peter, William Heathcote, Jr., and 

 Margaret, wife of Thomas F. Rochester, M. D. The Heathcote Hill 

 estate was devised to them equally, and subsequently by purchase of 

 the shares of his brothers and sister became the sole property of Edward 

 Floyd de Lancey, the present proprietor. Thomas James de Lancey, 

 the younger sold his part of de Lancey's Neck in his lifetime, and it is 

 now held by many owners — among whom are James M. Constable, John 

 Greacen, Leonard Jacob, Mrs. Eldridge and others. The eastern part, 

 except a small portion in the rear sold to Mrs. E. V. Rushmore, is still 

 held by the children of Bishop de Lancey, the extreme south-eastern 

 part being the country seat of Edward F. de Lancey. 



Martha Heathcote, the second surviving daughter of Col. Caleb Heath- 

 cote, married Lewis Johnson of Perth Amboy. & In the year 177 1, the 

 above Martha, conveyed all her right and title to her husband. 



There is a deed recorded in the town books, between Anne de Lan- 

 cey daughter of Col. Caleb Heathcote, widow of the Hon. James de 

 Lancey, deceased, and Lewis Johnston of Perth Amboy, physician of 

 the one part, and William Sutton of Mamaroneck, on the other part. 



Signed, Anne de Lancey, 



TOHN TOHNSTON, ) i a t LEWIS JOHNSTON. 



J J _ ' y by Anne de Lancey. 



Heathcote Johnston, j J 



In the presence of John Johnston and Susannah de Lancey. 



John Johnston, the eldest son and heir at law of Lewis Johnston and 

 Martha Heathcote, died in 1782, leaving issue by his wife Margaret Bar- 

 barie, five sons and two daughters. Heathcote the third son, was the 

 father of Susannah Snowhill Ward, wife of the Rev. John M. Ward, the 

 late Rector of the Parish of St. Thomas. 



In the town clerk's office is a small manuscript volume entitled : 

 "This is the book of records for Mamaroneck." 



a In the Spring of 1847, when Bishop de Lancey was in New York, a package was handed 

 to the servant at the door, on opening which the Bishop found an anonymous letter directed 

 to him. The writer stated that beiug in England thirty or forty years ago, he found some 

 papers relating to the de Lancey family among some waste paper in the house where he was 

 staying ; that he had preserved them, and seeing by the newspapers that the Bishop was in 

 the city, he now enclosed them to him. These the Bishop found to be : first, the commission 

 of James de Lancey as Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony; second his commission as Chief 

 Justice of the Colony ; third, the freedom of the City of New York voted to l;.;m oy the Cor- 

 poration of the city in 1730; fourth, a map of lands owned by them on New York Island, 

 prepared by the Bishop's grand-father, and a few letters. 



6 The father of Lewis, was John Johnston, M.D., of Edinburgh, who married Euphemia 

 Scot, on the 18th, April, 16S6. John Johnston died at Perth Amboy, 6th Sept., 1732, astat 73. 

 The brother of Lewis, Andrew Johnston, married Catharine VanCortlandt. 



