The Pinckney residence, which stood a little to the south-west of Mr. Lyons was quite a stately affair ; and appears to have been a favorite resort for officers of the Royal army, when stationed in its vicinity during the Revolutionary War. In front of this mansion the young and handsome Henry Pinckney was shot before the eyes of his family, (by a party of Continental soldiers) whilst endeavoring to effect his escape on horseback, April 2, 1786.

a The first ancestor of this family was Sir Richard I.awrens in UM, who was knighted by Richard I. at the siege of Acre in 1191. This individual bore for his coat of arms "Argent a cross raguly gules," which is still carried by his American descendants"-- after this the family became eminent in Eugland. In Faulkner's History of Chelsea, Ac., he says, " The Lawrences wi re allied to all that was great and illustrious ; cousins lo tho ambitious Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, to the Earl of Warwick, to Lord Guilford Dudley, who expiated on the scalTohl the short lived royalty of l.adv Jane tirey ; to the brilliant -Leicester, who set two qneens at variance, and to Sir Philip Sidney who refused a throne. "-- Riker's Annals of Newtown, p. 281.

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PEDIGREE OF PINCKNEY, OF EASTCHESTER.

Arms : -- Or, four fusils in fesse gules. Crest : -- Out of a ducal coronet or, a griffon's head ppr.

Philip Pinckney, one of the tirst patentees of Eastchester, 1G64_ (1. at Fairfield, 1649 f