Governor Caldwallader Colden, and Oliver, another brother, held many positions of trust, among which were Receiver-General and member of the Governor's Council. He was also an officer in the French War, rising afterwards, in the Revolution, to the rank in the British service of Brigadier-General- This family, so marked for its political influence, became connected by marriage with the Aliens of Pennsylvania, the Lloyds and Joneses of Long Island, the Waltons, Barclays and Crugers of New York.

In the contest with the mother-country, the De Lanceys unflinchingly adhered to the royal cau.se. Bishop De Lancey, of Western New York, who was a grandson of Governor De Lancey, sustained in his professional career the old reputation of the family for soundness of judgment, fidelity to convictions and trusts, cordiality and })hilanthropy.

The Morris family, of the county, has held its own under the earlier and later r^ghne and otters a race of stalwart citizens of Westchester County as marked mentally as physically. In 1670, Richard Morris, afterward a merchant of New York, purchased a large tract of land in the lower portion of the east side of the county, since called jMorrisania. His property went to his brother Lewis by reason of an agreement made between them, but at the decease of Lewis passed to his nephew of the same name, who afterwards became Chief Justice of New York, as also, in 1733, under circumstances of excitement and selfdefence already narrated, the Representative of Westchester County. The different limbs and branches of this ancestral tree are very numerous. The connections of this family are with the Grahams, the Van Cortlandts, Wilkinses, Ludlows, Randolphs, Ogdens, Lawrences, Rutherfords, Governcurs and foreign families whom it is not necessary to detail. The old mansion is at Morrisania, near Harlem.