The present double frame dwelling standing on a portion of the old site, of which a cut is given, was built in 1792 by the late John Peter de Lancey, a grandson of Colonel Heathcote who had succeeded to the property, on his return to America with his family, having been a captain in the British Regular Army in which he had been placed in 1771, on leaving Harrow School, after a short period at the Military School of Greenwich. Mr. de Lancey lived in this house till his death in 1828. In it were born all his children except the two elder ones, and amongst

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6 .\nd still in the possession of the writer who is his great, great, grandson.

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them his son William Heathcote, the late Bishop of j Western New York, and Susan Augusta, the wife of the late James Fenimore Cooper, who were also married in it on the 1st of January 1811.

But to return, Colonel Heathcote had succeeded, with the rest of the property, to the Richhell proprietary rights in the two mile bounds of Maniaroueck i and he subseijuently to his Manor-Grant purchased I in addition a twelfth undivided part of the whole ' tract. This tract had been set apart by John Richbell in his life time about the year 1670 for what he called " allotments or house lots," comparatively small pieces fronting on the Westchester Path or old road to Boston eight in number running northwardly. One he reserved for his own house lot, and he and his wife seem to have sold only two or three others, the first was a gift by deed to one John Basset in 1669, which was Xo. four, next to his own lot No. 5.