The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, Vol. II (1881 revised ed.)
It appears from the foilowinar, that ther^ wa"? an ancl'Mil buryirig-crouml in tho vicinity of ])e Laiic-y'.^ mills, near the Dniii.v, approachoJ t>y a nairow lano K;acliiit; from th'- hiirhway to Westchester roail :-- " Julin Feiri-i, of the borough town of \Vestc!i(-ti'r, in his \A-.t will, d itotl 9th of .ttay, ITls, directs: 'as als > li'e land lvir;tr betwixt the hit.'hi\-ay that Ifa'ls to Thouiai liedden's mills and the wav that Icails Ironl BronrH s to Heury Hank's, with a lifty poiiiid privilfpe of cnmimmau'e, anil ajso al! that mr laud lit Bronck's, coiitamintr twenty-four acres, be it more or less. Hut, be it provided always, thnt there sh ill be a rm-] siiu.ire, free for all friends and friendlv people'to biirv their dead in the plac- where they formerly buried, without any let, hiu'arauce or moleitalioa what.sneyer."-- Surrogate's oillce, N. Y., foUo viil, p. oai.
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tioi Anne, eldest daughter of Col. Caleb Heathcote, and left James, Sicplicii, John Peter/* Maria. Anne and Susan. James, the first of these, was educated at Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, England, in which co'.It'U^? h'i father had been educated before him. On quitting college, he entered the army, rising to the rank of captain. In the unfortunate c.impaign against Ticonderoga, he was an aid of Abercrombie's. \\'hen Ijis father died, or shortly after, Captain de Lancey sold out, inheriting the principal estates of his family. He married Margaret, a daughter of Chief Justice Allen of Pennsylvania, whose other daughter, Anne, mairied John Penn, grandson of WiUiam Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.