Note 9 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
The following is an extract from the Parish Register of St John's Church, Portsmouth, N.H.
"1798. Record of Deaths.
Decbr. 6th His Excellency, Stephen De Lancy, Governour of Tobago, who died, the night after his arrival in the harbour of this town, of a decline which had been upon him for six months, aged 50 years."
Mr De Lancey was buried in the Wentworth tomb, in St John's Churchyard, where many of the Wentworth Governors of New Hampshire and their families are buried.—Ed.