page_title: Stephen Delancey
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Stephen Delancey / Family
caption_attribution_description: Fraunces Tavern on Broad Street on a cloudy afternoon in early spring. Bishop crook lamppost
context_page_description: Stephen Delancey was a major figure in the life of colonial New York. His children continued to wield great influence until the American Revolution.
context_section_description: On January 23, 1700, Delancey married Anne van Cortlandt (1676-1724), third child of Gertrude Schuyler (b. 1654) and Stephanus van Cortlandt (1643–1700), the Chief Justice of the Province of New York. They had ten children, only five of whom survived infancy, all of whom married and had issue. They were:
  James DeLancey (1703–1760), who married Anne Heathcote, the daughter of Caleb Heathcote, and who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the Province of New York, in addition to serving as Lt. Gov. of New York.
  Peter DeLancey (1705–1770), who married Elizabeth Colden and became a merchant in what is now the Bronx, and served in the New York Provincial Assembly for many years.
  Susannah DeLancey (1707–1771), who married Admiral Sir Peter Warren (1703–1752), who was an MP for Westminster.
  Oliver DeLancey (1718-1785), who married Phila Franks and who also became a merchant, serving as a Brigadier General in the British Army during the American Revolution
  Anne DeLancey (1723–1784), who married John Watts (1715–1789), a prominent businessman of the day.
  In the summer of 1700, Delancey began construction of a house at 54 Pearl Street in New York City, on land given to his wife by her father as a wedding gift to the young couple. In 1762, the house was sold at auction by Stephen's heirs to Samuel Fraunces, who converted it into the Queen Charlotte Tavern. The house still stands today, and is known as Fraunces Tavern.
  At the time of his death on November 18, 1741, de Lancey left an estate valued in excess of £100,000 British Pounds (approximately $18,000,000 in US dollars today).
caption: Delancey's home at 54 Pearl Street
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