Here he lived during the remainder of his life, which terminated on the '28th of February, 1720-1, in his fifty-sixth year. The house stood till some six or seven years before the American Revolution, occupied, however, only by tenants after the death of his widow in 173G. Later it was accidentally destroyed by tire. The present double frame building standing on a portion of the old site was built in 1792 by the late John Peter de Laucey, a grandson of Colonel Heathcote, who had succeeded to the property.

Colonel Heathcote married Martha, daughter of the distinguished William Smith ("Tangier" Smith), of Saint George's Manor, Loug Island, who was chief justice and president of the council of the

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province. They had six children, two sons and four daughters, but both the sons and two of the daughters died in early life. Thus Caleb Heathcote left no descendants in the male line. One of his daughters, Anne, married James de Lancey, afterward royal chief justice and governor of New York, the progenitor of the present de Lanceys of Westchester County. The other surviving daughter, Martha, became the wife of Lewis Johnston, of Perth Amboy, N. J. The descendants of this branch have never been identified with our county. Mrs. de Lancey and Mrs. Johnston inherited from their father the whole of the manor prope r t y in equal shares. V a r ions parcels were gradually disposed of by the two heirs, and in 1775 a general partition sale was held, under which both the de Lancey and Johnston interests were divided up among numerous purchasers. Scarsdale Manor, as it existed before the partition, comprehended the presof Mamaroneck and Scarsdale, with a small part of Harrison.ent Towns The reader will remember that Heathcote, in addition to buying the Kichbell estate and some adjacent Indian lands, called the Pox Meadows (the latter being secured in order to extend the limits of his proposed manor southward to the Eastchester boundary), procured from Governor Fletcher a license to purchase vacant and unappropriated land in Westchester County, and extinguish the title of the natives.