Papers still in existence show that his Tenants were in the habit of coming to him for aid and counsel in their most private affairs, especially in the settlement of family disputes, and he was often called upon to draw their wills- But space will not permit mention of incidents and facts of only personal or local interest, or of details of his general management of the Manor, or his agricultural management of his demesne lands, which included besides those attached to his Manor House the whole of that portion of the East Neck below the old Westchester Path now called De Lancey's Neck.

Colonel Heathcote died very suddenly in the city of New York from a stroke of apoplexy on the 28th of February, 1720-21. In the Philadelphia American Weekly Mercury of March 11, 1721, is a letter from New York, under date of March 6th, which says, " On the 28th day of February last, died the Honorable Caleb Heathcote, Surveyor-General of His Majesty's

2 Penoyer was really this name.

3 Ancient copy in the writer's possession. Kec. Lib. C, West. Co., p. .52.

< Lib. A, 33, West. Co. Kec.

6 The length was north and south, and the breadth east and west.

Reproduced from the Engraving from the Original Painting in possession of the Rt. Rev. W. H. De Lancey, Bishop of Western New York.

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THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

Customs for the Eastern District of North America,* Judge of the Court of Admiralty for the Provinces of New York and New Jersey and Connecticut, one of His Majesty's Council for the Province of New York, and brother of Sir Gilbert Heathcote of London.