Caleb Heathcote was a Mayor

Mayor

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 of New York

New York City

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 (1711–1713). His estate in Westchester County, New York

Westchester County, New York

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 is the site the present-day town of Scarsdale

Scarsdale, New York

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 and was granted on March 21, 1701 or 1702 by Lieutenant Governor of New York

Lieutenant Governor of New York

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 John Nanfan

John Nanfan

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. A neighborhood and an elementary school in present-day Scarsdale are named after Heathcote. A bronze statue of Heathcote stands atop the Surrogate's Court (former Hall of Records) on 31 Chambers Street in Manhattan.

Family

Caleb was one of the nine children of Gilbert Heathcote Jr. and Ann Dickons. He is connected to the Heathcote Baronets

Heathcote Baronets

There have been two Baronetcies created for people with the surname Heathcote, both in the Baronetage of Great Britain and both created in 1733. The holders of the first creation were later elevated to the peerage as Baron Aveland and Earl of Ancaster, which titles are now extinct...

 through two brothers: his eldest brother was Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet Heathcote of London

London

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; another brother, Samuel, was the father of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet

Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet

Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet was a British merchant and politician.Heathcote was a successful merchant who purchased the Hursley estate in 1718. Between the years of 1721 and 1724 William built a red brick, Queen Anne style mansion now known as Hursley House on the site of a hunting lodge...

 Heathcote of Hursley

Hursley

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.

Caleb married Martha Smith, daughter of Colonel

Colonel

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 William (Tangier) Smith, Chief Justice

Chief Justice

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 of New York

New York

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. They had six children, four of which died young. Daughter Anne married James DeLancey

James DeLancey

James DeLancey served as chief justice, lieutenant governor, and acting colonial governor of the Province of New York.DeLancey was born in New York City on November 27, 1703, the first son of Etienne DeLancey and Anne-daughter of Stephanus Van Cortlandt...

, while daughter Martha married Lewis Johnston of New Jersey.

See also

• Heathcote (surname)
  Heathcote (surname)
  Heathcote is a surname rooted in English topography which literally means "Heath Cottage". The location in Derbyshire was first recorded in the famous Domesday Book of 1086 as "Hedcote", and as "Hethcote" in 1244. The location in Warwickshire appears is written "Hethcot" in the 1196 Feet of Fines...
  
  

• Fox, Dixon Ryan, Caleb Heathcote, Gentleman Colonist, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.

External links

• Stirnet: 'Heathcote01' (Caleb is near the bottom of the page)