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.
"He was a gentleman of rare qualities, excellent temper, and virtuous life and conversation, and his loss lamented by all that knew him, which on the day of his death, went about doing good in procuring a charitable subscription in which he made great progress." He was buried in his " family burialplace" in Trinity church yard, where his widow and three of his children who died young are also buried. His grave was in the church yard, almost beneath the southwest window of the second Trinity Church.'' His widow Martha survived him till August 18th, 1736, when she died, and was buried in the same place the evening of the next day.' She was the daughter of Colonel William Smith, of St. George's Manor, Long Island, Chief Justice and President of the Council of New York. He had previously been Governor of Tangiers, in Africa, while it was an appanage of the British crown, where his daughter, Martha Heathcote, was born on the 11th of September, 1681.
Colonel Caleb Heathcote was the sixth son of Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, by his wife, Anne Chase Dickens. He was born in his Father's house in that city, still standing, in 1665. He was the sixth of seven sons who lived to maturity -- Gilbert, John, Samuel, Josiah, William, Caleb and George. Of these, who all became successful merchants in England and foreign countries, three -- John, William and George -- died unmarried, the latter at sea in 1678, in his thirtieth year.