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XV. MEMOIR

Hox. JAMES Dz LANCEY, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR PROVINCE OF NEW YORK.

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MEMOIR

OF THE HONOURABLE JAMES DE LANCEY

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK:

This distinguished man was the oldest son of Etienne or Stephen De Lancey a French Huguenot gentleman of the City of Caen in Normandy, who, driven from France by the persecution of 1681, fled with numbers of his countrymen to the new world. - He belonged to an ancient family in Picardy, and on being obliged to fly from France, on account of the religious persecution which disgraced those days, he went first to Rotterdam in Holland, and after remaining in that hospitable land for two or three years crossed over to England. There on the 11 of March 1686, be took out letters patent of denization under the great sea], and shortly afterwards sailed for New York, where he arrived on the seventh of the following June '. ;

On the 234 of January 1700 he married Anne second daughter of the Hon. Stephanus Van Cortlandt, an opulent and highly respectable citizen of New York, of which marriage was issue James De Lancey, the subject of this sketch, who was born in New York city in 1702, and was the eldest of seven children ; five sons and two daughters. His eldest sister, Susannah, became the wife of Capt. afterwards Vice Admiral Sir Peter Warren KB. Anne, the youngest, married the Hon. John Watts of New York Of his brothers, two, Stephen and John, died unmarried in early manhood ; the other two, Peter and Oliver, became men of note