The following letter addressed by him, 1591, to hitfriend Alexander Allaire, is still preserved among the public records at New Rochelle.

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SIoNS. Allaire :

Monsieur Notri* Amy 3Ions. Boithciler, avant de partir nie <loonem ordre qu'en ras (juSl viii-sc a iiiourir il Kiit fair duiiuation de ses tern*»» k sa filleule votre fillc, Sy vous iwuvoz faire qnelque IJenefice tlw dit« terres. Soit a Couper dcs arbres ou a faire des foiiis sur les prairieE vous le (wiires a rexcltisioii de qui quese lioit, Jc siiiit.

Muds, votre tre buiuble scrvittur,

Etienne de Lancev, Ccu est la vuretable coppie de I'original. *

He was a vestryman of Trinity church. New York at the time of his death, in 1741. He married January 23d, 1700, Anne Van Cortlaiidt, daughter of Stephanus Van Cortlandt (whose family was then one of the most opulent and extensive in the Province). Stephen de Lancey at his death iii 1741 left issue surviving, James, Peter, Stephen, John, Oliver, Susan and Anne. Of these sons Stephen and John died bachelors. Susan married Admiral Sir Peter Warren, and Anne the Hon. John Watts of New Y'ork. The eldest son, James de Lancey, a man of great talent, was born in the City of New York, 27th November, 1703, and received his education at the University of Cambridge, England. He was a fellow commoner of Corpus Christi College (where he was styled the " handsome American") and studied law in the Temple In 1725, he returned to New York, and on the decease of John Barbaric, his uncle by marriage, was appointed by George II. to succeed him in the Provincial Council. He took his seat at the board, January 29, 1729, and held it to April 9, 1733, when he was appointed Chief