sentences:  De Lancey's ancestors were Huguenots who had emigrated from Caen, France to America following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.His grandmother Phila Franks De Lancey was an Ashkenazi Jew.Born in New York City, De Lancey was the only son of Stephen De Lancey (1748–1798), who was clerk of the city and county of Albany in 1765, lieutenant-colonel of the 1st New Jersey loyal volunteers in 1782, afterwards chief justice of the Bahamas, and in 1796 governor of Tobago; and who married Cornelia, daughter of the Rev.