De Lancey married Miss Anne Heathcote, the eldest of the two daughters of Hon. Caleb Heathcote a Councillor of the Province, and Receiver General of his Majesty's Customs in North America.2 Already through his professional exertions, and the liberality of his father, in very easy circumstances, this marriage made Mr. De Lancey a wealthy man*, for Miss Heathcote inherited upon her father's death one half of his Jarge estate, real and personal ; the latter

1 Smith's Hist. N. Y. i. 245.

2 This gentleman was a son of Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of Chester in England, and was a merchant and a man of wealth in that country. The cause of his emigration was very different from that which brought most Englishmen to America. He was engaged to a very beautiful lady, to whom he introduced his ' eldest brother, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, (afterwards M. P. for London, and Lord Mayor of that city in 1711, at the very time his brother was Mayor of New York, and one of the chief founders and the first governor of the Bank of England), a circumstance most unfortunate for him, for the lady soon found she preferred the elder brother, and broke her engagement with the younger, who at once left England and came to» New York, where he arrived in 1692. He bought large tracts of land in Westchester, from Indians and others, which he had erected into a manor called the Manor of Scarsdale. He became a leading man in the colony, was judge of Westchester and Colonel of its militia all his life, first Mayor of the borough of Westchester, a Councillor of the Province, Mayor of New York for three years, for a time Commander of the colony's forces and from 1715 to his death, in 1721, Receiver General of the customs for all North Ametica.