The will of Antonie Lispenard, of New Rochelle, bears date July 5th, 1696, in which he bequeaths to his wife Abigail and his children -- Anthony, Margaret and Abigail -- all his estate situated upon what is now known as Davenport's Neck, New Rochelle. His son, Anthony Lispenard, on the 3d of November, 1705, married Elizabeth, daughter of Leonard de Klyn, of New York. He died in the latter part of the year 1758, at an advanced age, leaving issue five children, viz : Leonard, David, Magdalina, Abigail, Mary, and three grand-children -- daughters of his deceased son Anthony, by his wife Sarah Barclay. The will of Anthony Lispenard is dated Aug. 16th, 1755, and is proved Jan 3d, 1 759.^ Leonard, the eldest son of Anthony, removed from New Rochelle to the city of New York prior to the death of his father. He was assistant-alderman of the North Ward from 1750 to 1755, and alderman of the same from 1756 to 1762. He married Elsie Rutgers, the daughter of Anthony Rutgers, of the Kalck Hook." He became a very prominent citizen of New York, and for a period of fifty years filled the highest offices of honor and trust. In 1765 he was a delegate to the first Congress of the American Colonies, held in New York on the 7th of October of that year, and represented the Colony of New York with Robert R. Livingston, Philip Livingston, John Cruger and William Bayard. From 1759 to 1768 he was a representative in the Colonial General Assembly of New York. He was also a member of the Provincial Convention which met in New York on the 20th of April, 1775; and on the 23d of May, 1775, was a deputy to the first Provincial Congress of New York. During this period he was one of the active sons