We had spent, very agreeably, the day before on Staten Island ; after ten at night he left my house perfectly well, in the morning he was as usual, but about nine a servant was dispatched to tell me his master was very ill; I mounted instantly and hurried to his house, in Bowery Lane, but on the way was alarmed by a call 'that all was over, and too true I found it; he sat reclined in his chair, one leg drawn in, the other extended, his arms over the elbows, so naturally, that had I not been apprized of it, f certainly should have spoken as I entered the room. No body but his youngest daughter, a child, was present at the time, so little did the family apprehend the least danger. Never did these eyes behold such .a spectacle, or did my spirits feel such an impression. The idea affects me whenever I think-of it; to lose such a companion, such a counsellor, such a friend."

Lieut. Governor De Lancey left three sons and three daughters. James, the eldest, educated at Eton and Cambridge University, was a prominent member of the Assembly for many years prior, and up to the Revolution. He went to England on a visit in the spring of 1775, and, the war commencing, did not return. His son, Lieut. Col. James De Lancey, of the First Dragoon Guards, is the only male member of his family now

1 The original, in Mr. Watt's handwriting, was found among the papers of his daughter, Mrs. Leake, and is now in the possession of her niece, Mrs. Henry Laight of New York, Mr. Watts' grand daughter.