crombie at the celebrated siege of Fort Ticonderoga, father of the present Lieutenant Colonel James de Lancey, of Somerset, England, the eldest heir male of the De Lancey family.

The youngest son was Major John Peter de Lancey of Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Richard Floyd, of Floyd's neck. Long Island. This individual ultimately became possessor of the Scarsdale estates,

John Peter de Lancey, by his last will and testament, bearing date 28th of January, 1823, bequeathed his property amongst his surviving children ; namely, William Heathcote, Elizabeth Caroline, Martha Arabella, Anne Charlotte, and Susannah Augusta de Lancey,

Under the Heathcotes and De Lanceys. the Angevines held the farm bearing their name for four generations, whilst the Secor family rented the Hickories.

By a survey and division of Heathcote's lands lying in Scarsdale manor on the 11th of August, A, D, 1774, in the county of Westchester, the property of Caleb Heathcote in his lifetime, and which remain unsold by his descendants since his death, &.c. No, 1, in north division, contained twenty-one lots, and likewise two small lots in the possession of Wilham Barker. Lots Nos. 16 and 17 were controverted lands in this division.

Upon the ivest side of the manor the proprietors appear to have been the Crawfords, Devauxs, Vailes, Gedneys, Angevines, Tompkinses and Townsends, On the east side, the Griffens, Fishers, Vails, Underbills, Gedneys and Crom wells. On the sonth-icest, the Griffens and Barkers.

The surface of this town is undulating and hilly ; soil, sandy and clny loam ; drained, south by the Bronx river, which bounds it on the west. Two small streams called tlie Hutcliinson and Sheldrake, rise in Scarsdale, and flow southerly into the sound. The latter is a tributary of the Mamaroneck river. They are well supplied with all kinds of fresh water fish.