Oliver De Lancey (British Army General)
Oliver De Lancey may refer to: * Oliver De Lancey (American loyalist) (1718–1785), merchant, New York Loyalist politician and Major-general during the American War of Independence * Oliver De Lancey (British Army officer, died 1822) (c. 1749–1822), British Army officer who took part in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars * Oliver De Lancey (British Army and Spanish Legion officer) Oliver De Lancey (1803–1837) was a British Army officer who volunteered for the British Auxiliary Legion and died fighting in Spain during the First Carlist War, in the battle of Oriamendi. Biography Oliver De Lancey was the only son of General ...

Oliver De Lancey (American Loyalist)
Major-General Oliver De Lancey (September 17, 1718 – October 27, 1785) was a merchant and Loyalist politician and soldier during the American Revolutionary War. His surname is also sometimes written as de Lancey or Delancey. Career The son of Etienne Delancey and Anne Van Cortland, De Lancey was born on September 17, 1718, in New York City, Province of New York. The De Lancey family was of Huguenot descent.History of Huguenot emigration to America, 1885, Charles Washington Baird From 1754 to 1757, De Lancey served as a New York alderman for the Out Ward and was a member of the New York assembly from New York County from 1756 to 1761. During the French and Indian War, he was selected by the New York Assembly, with the support of his brother James, then acting Governor, to provide provisions for New York provincial units. During the war, De Lancey commanded the New York Provincial Militia, 1755–1763, and commanded a provincial detachment in the Ticonderoga campaign of 1758 ...
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Oliver De Lancey (British Army Officer, Died 1822)
General Oliver De Lancey ( – 3 September 1822), also known as Oliver De Lancey Jr., was a British Army officer of French Huguenot and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, from two prominent families in colonial era New York state. His surname is sometimes written as de Lancey or DeLancey. Early life Oliver De Lancey Jr was the son of Major General Oliver De Lancey (1718–1785) and Phila Franks, the eldest daughter of an early New York Jewish family. His brother was Stephen DeLancey, Chief Justice of the Bahamas and Governor of Tobago. He was the nephew of James De Lancey, a celebrated New York lawyer who was chief-justice of that colony from 1733 to 1760 and lieutenant-governor from 1753 to 1760. The De Lanceys had been established in the British Province of New York by his grandfather, a wealthy Huguenot of Caen in Normandy who emigrated to America on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and bought large estates; the family ranked among the wealthiest and most powerful citizens o ...
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