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

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in the colony. The former resided at the borough of West Chester which he represented for years in the Assembly ; Oliver, the youngest of the brothers, was most of his life Commander of the forces of the colony, was also a member of the Assembly and of the Council, Receiver-General of New York, and the senior Loyalist Brigadier-General in commission in the war of the Revolution.

After having attended the best schools the Colony then afforded, James De Lancey was sent to England to prosecute his studies, and entered as a Fellow-Commoner of Corpus Christi college in the University of Cambridge, on the second of October, 1721.' The Master of Corpus at that time was Dr. Samuel Bradford, afterwards bishop of Carlisle, and next of Rochester. And the gentleman whom young De Lancey chose as his Tutor, was the learned Dr. Thomas Herring, who became successively Bishop of Bangor, Archbishop of York, and Archbishop of Canterbury.