Gilbert, John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Josiah, William Caleb, George, and Thomas ; of which Elizabeth and Thomas died in their infancy; but he had the particular blessing to see all the rest Merchants adventurers, either in England or in foreign parts. This was erected by his sons, as well to testify their gratitude, as to perpetuate the Memory of the best of fathers. Here also lieth interred the body of Ann, his said wife, who departed this life the 29th of November, 1705 in the 76th year of her age.

The family was an ancient one, the first of whom there is authoritative mention having been a Master of the Mint under Richard II. The Arms were Argent, three Pomeis, each charged with a cross or. And for Crest, on a wreath of the colours, a mural coronet azure surmounted with a Pomeis charged with a cross or, between two wings displayed, ermine. Motto : Habere et Dispertiri.'

Colonel Heatlicote singularly enough was Mayor of the City of New York in 1711 to 1714 at the same time that his elder brother Gilbert was Lord Mayor of London. He was one of the strongest and most active Churchmen of his day. To him was the Church of England in New York and in Westchester County indebted for its foundation and growth more than to any other one man. He formed an organization of a few churchmen in the City of New York termed the Managers of the Church of England in New York, of which he was the chairman.