Stephen de Lancey, Governor of Tobago

Stephen was Governor of Tobago from 1797 to 1799.

family

see: parent, Oliver DeLancy

De Lancey was the son of Major-General Oliver De Lancey, Sr. (1708–1785) and Phila Franks, 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 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.