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

c^?^"^?,' '" *",' ol'l associates HI ilu.s sLcrtou of tUe country, and wai the means of UkiSt fT''.^,^''"- l'^"'^';-' .^'-^"[J-V to t^.ke an active part in lUe contest. This was particu aV y "e ca.sc WUR sai.uiel Ki[.,Esq.,of alainil.v,wluch, from the first setUement l.v ke iiutc i ^..1 p<«scssfU a irrant ,.l land at Kip's IJuy, aiidlu otlier parts of N'ew York" islan.I AR. a/ers of this faiuily were iiamel as offlc.rs iu„ler the Crowu\n the mval ch:u-ter, prantrd when the Bniisn first took possession of the col.)u.v in l«tU, and in that jfiven thirty ve rs 1 ter llay: ing been aUvays associated with the j-overnment, and fr,.m their landed inter-'st. wieldin" aa 1 itlu"QC- m Its atlairs, they were naturally predisposed to espouse the roval cause. In addition to this Mr. kip s estate was neanhat of Col. de Lane y. and a close iutiniarv had alwars ?; n 'ih ^-^'^■'•'•■'» ^l^'""- J''- ^--'^ th-r.^fore, easily m.tr.oed i., accept a captain s'c mm " ion n v^f ,'^^' government, and embark ail his interests in this cimtest He ram' Icon lan ^fro n*^! s i- ;irrV''!'l*'i!-lf?''; ^^'"n^",,:"''-'' ^^'-i"'^' J'^""''l 'he British anny wi-h the colonel, aeriv.j aiK d. nriLr rartisun o,ncer.