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Thomas Dongan, (pronounced "Dungan") 2nd Earl of Limerick (1634 – 14 December 1715), was a member of the Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War, and Governor of the Province of New York. He is noted for having called the first representative legislature in New York, and for granting the province's ...
Thomas Dongan, 2. Earl of Limerick (* 1634 in Castletown House, Kildrought, County Kildare, Irland; † 14. Dezember 1715 in London, England) war ein anglo-irischer Adliger und von 1683 bis 1688 englischer Gouverneur der Provinz New York .
Thomas Dongan (c.1590–1663) was an Irish judge of the seventeenth century. His career was dogged by accusations of recusancy and of disloyalty to the English Crown.
The Dongan Charter is the 1686 document incorporating Albany, New York, as a city. Albany's charter was issued by Governor Thomas Dongan of the Province of New York , a few months after Governor Dongan issued a similarly worded, but less detailed charter for the city of New York . [1]
Thomas Dongan, 2nd earl of Limerick was a British colonial governor of New York under Charles II and James II. A Roman Catholic and a member of a royalist family, Dongan was exiled after the English Civil Wars (1642–51) and served in an Irish regiment of the French army. Recalled to England in.
Earls, Walter Dungan, Viscount Dungan, fiel bereits 1690 in der Schlacht am Boyne, so dass Williams Bruder Thomas Dongan, der ehemalige Gouverneur von New York, die Titel erbte. Alle drei Titel erloschen bei dessen kinderlosem Tod 14. Dezember 1715.
Dongan (D'Unguent), Thomas (1634–1715), 2nd earl of Limerick , soldier and first governor of New York, was third son of Sir John Dongan, baronet, of Castletown Kildrought (Celbridge), Co. Kildare, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir William Talbot, baronet, of Carton, and niece of Peter Talbot (qv), archbishop of Dublin, and Richard Talbot (qv
