By this government he was attainted of treason, and his large property confiscated." "At the evacuation in 17S3, he went to England, and died at Beverly, Yorkshire, in 17S5, aged sixty-eight. His body is interred in the choir of the Minster, while a monument standing near the transept records his services." '"His son, Oliver de Lancey, Jr., was educated in Europe; put early in the 17th Light Dragoons; was a captain at the' commencement of the Revolution ; became Major in 1773, a Lieutenant Colonel Oct. ist, 1781, and succeeded Andre as Adjutant-General of the British army in America. On his return to Europe, he was made Deputy Adjutant-General of England; as a ]\Iajor-GeneraI, he got the Colonelcy of the 17th Light Dragoons; was subsequently made Barrack [Master General of the British empire; rose through the grade of Lieutenant-General to that of General, and died some six or eight and twenty years since, nearly at the head of the English Army list. This branch of the family is now extinct in the male line ; its last man having been killed at Waterloo, in the person cf Sir WiUiani Heathcole de Lancey, the Quarter-master-General of Wellington's army."

Peter de Lancey, youngest son of the Huguenot, to whom his father devised the mills, was a man of wealth and of considerable influence in the colony. His wife was Alice, daughter of Cadwalladcr Golden, lieu^ tenant governor of the Province of New York, in 1761. His children were John, father of Mrs. Yates, ReUct of Governor Yates, and Lt. Col. James de Lancey, a distinguished miUtary ofhcer. "James^was for a