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. Josiah's family line became extinct in August, 1811, while the families of Gilbert, Samuel and Caleb continue to this day, but the latter only in the female line. Gilbert, the eldest, was Lord Mayor of London, Member of Parliament, one of the founders and the first Governor of the Bank of England, knighted by Queen Anne, and created a Baronet in 1732 by George XL His grandson of the same name was raised to the Peerage in 1856, as Baron Aveland, of Aveland, in the County of Lincoln, and his great grandson is the present Lord Great Chamberlain of England. Samuel, the third sou, who made a large fortune at Dantzic, was the ancestor of the Heathcotes, Baronets, of Hursley Park, in the County of Hampshire ; his son William having been created a Baronet in 1733, and his great grandson was the late

' The commission appointing him to this office is in the writer's possession. It is an enormous parchment ilocument dated, 1715.