Given under my hand and seal at armes, at Fort William Henry, New York, the 12lh day of September, 1G93, in the fifth year of his majesty's reign, by his excellency's command.

Eenj. Fletcher.

Ill 1715 Colonel Heathcote received the appointment of surveyor general of the province.

Among tlie archives of the Wyllys family in Boston, Massachusetts, there is still preserved a Latin order from the king to Col. Heaihcote, dated London, August 4th, 1719.

The manor house of Scarsdale has been already described in our account of Mamaroneck.

(,^oIonel Heathcote married Martha, daughter of the Honorable William Smith, governor of Tangier. Mrs. Heathcote bore her husband six children ; namely, Gilbert, William, Anne, Mary, Martha, and Elizabeth. On the 29ih of February, 1719, Col. Caleb Heathcote executed his last will and testament in the following manner :

" Imprimis. To his wife Martha he devolved the sole keep-

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ing and management of his children during minority, &lc., and from the moneys in England due to her the sum of £100 to be paid to her annually. Itein. To his eldest son Gilbert he devises his dioelliug house at Mamaronexk, together with the neck of land called Mamaroneck east neck, and all mills, &c., and rights of streams within the limits of Mamaroneck township, known. by the name of the Two Miles Bounds, and also all my lands lying on the east side of Mamaroneck river; and the lands I bought from Anne Richbell, within the county of Westchester aforesaid, running eighteen miles in length into the woods, 1 hereby give and bequeath unto my said son Gilbert Heathcote, one thousand acres, to be laid out by my wife, &c.