A daughter and only child, Mary Ann Delanoy, married Isaac Nelson of Somers and Sing Sing, and so became the mother of Hon. Henry C. Nelson of that place and of David D. Nelson formerly of Sing Sing and now of New York, who has four sons and two daughters by a marriage with Sarah C. News of Cortlandt. Two of the sons are graduates of the College of the City of New York, one of whom, Dean Nelson, is a member of the Society of the .Sons of Revolution of New York. After the Revolution Capt. Dean was at one time Under Sheriff, was Keeper of the Jail, and Superintendent of the Poor of the County of Westchester.

It is said that when the British retreated from burning the church at Pound Ridge on July 2d, 1779, Capt. Gilbert Dean's wife, who was a sister of Col. Samuel Drake, armed with her husband's gun, attacked and made prisoner a Refugee (Tory) soldier, who lagged behind, as related by Mrs. Patty Holmes of that place, in Nov., 1844.

A silver snuff box that bears unmistakable evidence of having once been the property of Capt. Gilbert Dean is a prized keepsake in the possession of Mr. Daniel Delanoy Nelson, given him by his grandmother. Capt. Dean died about 1820, and is buried in the old Dutch Churchyard. Another added to the long list of Revolutionary war-starred Patriots whose remains were laid to rest there.

The Dutch Church records show that Thos. Dean, Sr., was married to Maritje Jurcks, Sept. 15, 1750, and Couzen's map of the old Philipsburg Manor shows that his farm was on the Bedford Road near New Castle, where he had a farm of 134 acres, while his son John Dean lived just east of Buttermilk Hill, on what had been the Thos.