Caleb Heathcote (1666 - 1721)

Born 6 Mar 1666 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

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Descendants

Died 28 Feb 1721 at age 54 in New York

Biography

Preceded by Jacobus Van Courtlandt

Caleb Heathcote 31st Mayor of New York City 1711-1713

Succeeded by John Johnstone

Caleb HEATHCOTE served as the 31st Mayor of New York City from 1711 to 1713.

Caleb was one of the nine children of Gilbert Heathcote and Ann Dickons. He is connected to the Heathcote baronets through two brothers: his eldest brother was Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet of London; another brother, Samuel, was the father of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet of Hursley.

Caleb married Martha Smith, daughter of Colonel William "Tangier" Smith, Chief Justice of New York. They had six children, four of whom died after their father but before their mother. Daughter Anne married James DeLancey, while daughter Martha married Lewis Johnston of New Jersey.

Sources

• The Delanceys: A Romance of a Great Family. by DA Story. Published Halifax, NS, 1931. Accessed Priauix Library, Guernsey, CI, October 2015.
• Wikipedia: James_De_Lancey: accessed 24 Oct 2015].
• Wikipedia: Caleb_Heathcote: accessed 24 Oct 2015].

See also:

• Dixon Ryan Fox, Caleb Heathcote, Gentleman Colonist (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926)
• Evelyn D. Heathcote, M.A., An Account of Some of the Families Bearing the Name of Heathcote which have Descended out of the County of Derby. (Winchester: Warren and Son, 1899), pp 75ff
• Onderdonk, Henry. Antiquities of the Parish Church, Jamaica (Charles Welling, Jamaica, NY, 1880) Page 22.