In testimony whereof we have caused the great seal of our province of New York to be hereunto affixed. Witness John Nanfan, P^squire, our Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chief of our Province of New York and territories depending thereon in America. Given at Fort William Henry in our city of New York, this twenty-first day of March, in the fourteenth year of our reign. Anno Domini, 170L»

John Nanfan.

Col. Caleb Heathcote, first lord of the manor of Scarsdale, was the son of Gilbert Heathcote, Esq., of Chesterfield, (Scarsdale) Derbyshire, Eiic^land, a representative of the ancient family of the Heihecotes of that place.

Autograph and Seal of Col. Caleb Heathcote.

Book of Pat. Alb. Rcc. No. vii, ,926.

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Concerning this individual, Dunlap the historian thus speaks : ''1 will pause to give some notice of the Caleb Heathcote who became at this time one of the governour's or his majesty's council. He was judge, and a colonel of militia. The name of George Heatlicote, appears among the inhabitants of New York, in 1676, and his property is rated at £2036, which placed him as one of the rich of the time. George died unmarried, and his property devolved to Caleb. Tradition says, that the lather of Caleb was a man of fortune, and mayor of Chester, in England ; but Caleb had two brothers born before him, who, probably, one or both, inherited the father's estate ; both procured titles, and founded fiimilies well known in England. The oldest brother was Sir Gilbert Heathcote, the founder and first president of the Bank of England, and Lord Mayor of London. Caleb, the youngest, had formed a matrimonial engagement with a lady of great beauty, but unfortunately took his elder brother, Gilbert, to see his intended wife.