Dongan
THOMAS, Earl of Limerick; born in Castleton, Ireland, in 1634. After serving in the British and French armies and attaining the rank of colonel, DONIZETTI he was appointed lieutenant-governor of Tangiers by Charles II. and colonial governor of New York by the Duke of York in 1682. He gave the city of New York its first charter in 1686 and being accused of ignoring his pacific instructions regarding the French and Indians, and of inciting the Five Nations to war, resigned his commission in 1688, returned to England in 1691, and inherited the earldom of Limerick in 1698. He died in London, Dec. 14, 1715.