11 Facts About Thomas Dongan

Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, was a member of the Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War, and Governor of the Province of New York.

Thomas Dongan is noted for having called the first representative legislature in New York, and for granting the province's Charter of Liberties.

Thomas Dongan was born in 1634 into an old Gaelic Norman family in Castletown Kildrought, County Kildare, in the Kingdom of Ireland, the seventh and youngest son of Sir John Dongan, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Irish Parliament, and his wife Mary Talbot, daughter of Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet, and Alison Netterville.

Thomas Dongan's family gave their name to the Dongan Dragoons, a premier military regiment.

Thomas Dongan stayed in France after the Restoration and achieved the rank of colonel in 1674.

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Thomas Dongan served as part of the Tangier Garrison which defended the settlement.

Thomas Dongan's excellency is a person of knowledge refinement and modesty.

Thomas Dongan soon incurred the ill will of William Penn who was negotiating with the Iroquois for the purchase of the upper Susquehanna Valley.

Thomas Dongan went to Albany, and declared that the sale would be "prejudicial to His Highness's interests".

Thomas Dongan established the boundary lines of the province by settling disputes with Connecticut on the East, with the French Governor of Canada on the North, and with Pennsylvania on the South, thus marking out the present limits of New York State.

Thomas Dongan was to execute land grants establishing several towns throughout New York State including the eastern Long Island communities of East Hampton and Southampton.