Stephen Delancey (born 1748)
Stephen de Lancey (born 1748 in New York City – died 6 December 1798 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire[1][2]) was Chief Justice of the Bahamas and Governor of Tobago.
De Lancey was the son of Major-General Oliver De Lancey, Sr. (1708–1785) and Phila de Lancey, and a great-grandson of Etienne de Lancey, also known as Stephen Delancey (1663–1741).His brother was Oliver deLancey
De Lancey was a lawyer who served as:
- Clerk of the city and county of Albany, New York in 1765
- Lieutenant-colonel of the 1st New Jersey loyal volunteers in 1782
- Member of the Nova Scotia Council in 1786
- Chief Justice of the Bahamas from 1790 to 1797
- Governor of Tobago from 1797 until his death in 1798[3][1][4]
Stephen de Lancey was married to married Cornelia Barclay (the daughter of the Rev. Henry Barclay, Rector of Trinity Church, New York).[3][4]. He had two children, William Howe De Lancey, an officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, and Susan De Lancey, wife of Hudson Lowe.
References
- 1 2 "Marriages and Deaths of Remarkable Persons". The Gentleman's Magazine. Volume 85: p 165. 1799. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ↑ De Lancey, Magdalene (1815). A Week at Waterloo in 1815: Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey (Major B. R. Ward ed.). Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London, England: John Murray. p. 9.
- 1 2 Chichester 1886, p. 305.
- 1 2 Sabine, Lorenzo (2009). Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, Volume 2 (First published, 1864). Applewood Books. p. 371. ISBN 9781429016971.
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