Excepting Sir William Pepperell," Captain James de Lancey appears to have been the most active member of the agency." ^ Five of the children of Capt. James de Lancey and Margaret, grew up, viz : two sons and three daughters. Charles, the eldest son, was in the British na\y, and died a bachelor. James, late Lt. Col. ist Dragoon Guards, is li\'ing, also a bachelor. Two of the daughters, Anne and Susan, are single, and still living ; While ISIargaret married the present Sir Juckes Granville CHfton, Bart., and died early, childless."

The second son of Stephen de Lancey, the Huguenot, was Brigadier General Oliver de Lancey. Sabine, in his sketches of American Loyalists, states that, "at the period of the French war, Oliver de Lancey occupied a commanding position," and perhaps he did not overrate his personal influence when he said, that if in the expedition against Crown Point, he " should accept the command of the New York regiment, he could, in ten days, raise the whole quota of troops allotted to that colony." This standing he maintained after his brother's death, and until the Revolution. '• He opposed the dismemberment of the emnire, and put his life and property at stake to prevent it. In 1776, he was appointed a Ijrigadier-general in the royal service. Skinner, of New Jersey, Brown, a former Governor of Bahamas, Arnold, the apostate, and Cunningham, of South Carolina, were of the same grade ; but their commissions were

b S-ibiiK-'i Skctchoi of American Loyalists.