James was prominent politically after his father's death until the devolution, and then became a Tory; he married a daughter of Chief Justice William Allen, of Pennsylvania; two of his sons were officers in the British military and naval service. Stephen received from his father as a gift what is now the Town of North Salem in this county (which came to the elder de Lancey as his share in the Manor of Cortlandt). It was under his land sales that that toAvn was settled. He built a large double dwelling, later converted into the North Salem Academy, where many distinguished men (including Governor Daniel D. Tompkins and Chancellor Kent) have been educated. John Peter was the ancestor of the Mamaroneck de Lanceys. He received a military education in England, and fought on the British side in the Revolution, but after the war retired from the army and returned to America, taking up his residence on the Ueathcote estates on Scarsdale Manor, which he inherited from his mother, and where he built the dwelling still known as Heathcote Hill. He married Elizabeth Floyd, daughter of Colonel Richard Floyd, of Long Island, and among his children were Bishop William Heathcote de Lancey, of AYestern New York, and Susan Augusta de Lancey, who married James Fenimore Cooper. A young brother of Governor de Lancey, Peter, was politically prominent in Westchester County, and left a numerous family, several of whom became noted or made advantageous marital alliances. He lived at West Farms and was known as " Peter of the Mills." He represented the borough Town of Westchester in the assembly from 1750 to 1708. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Governor Cadwallader Colden. Among his children were John, who sat in the assembly for Westchester Borough from 1708 to 1775, and Avas high sheriff of the county in 1709-70; James, high sheriff from 1770 to 1777, the famous colonel of the Westchester Light Horse (British), who after the Revolution lived and died a refugee in Nova Scotia; and Oliver, of West Farms, a lieutenant in the British navy, who resigned his com-