Sound Shore

The friends of the Mamaroneck Library will present a talk by Mark and Joanna Heathcote about their illustrious ancestor Caleb Heathcote at The Mamaroneck Library at 5 p.m. on Sat, Oct. 22.

Here’s the description: “Come for wine and conversation and travel back in time to 17th- and 18th-century Westchester. Jilted by his fiancée for an older brother, Caleb arrived in New York in 1692 at age 26. Within a year of his arrival he was named a member of the Governor’s Council, which ran the colony. His special responsibility was the County of Westchester. He made large purchases of land, which included modern day Scarsdale, Mamaroneck and Harrison. He built a substantial manor house, Heathcote Hill, overlooking Long Island Sound just a few blocks from the Mamaroneck Library. Caleb was Lord of the Manor of Scarsdale as well as the Mayor of both the Borough of Westchester and New York City in 1711. His elder brother was Lord Mayor of London in the same year. He died in 1721 one of the richest men in America and was buried at Trinity Church in New York. His great grandaughter Susan De Lancey, who married James Fenimore Cooper in Mamoroneck, inherited Heathcote Hill and raised her family there. Pictures of their marriage, the house and Caleb being sworn in as Mayor of New York hang in the Library. Find out with Joanna and her brother, Mark, what life was like in Westchester and New York in Caleb’s and Fenimore Cooper’s time. ”