Cadwallader Colden was a physician, natural scientist, a lieutenant governor and acting Governor for the Province of New York.
portrait by John Wollaston
Cadwallader Colden by Matthew Pratt
Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey by Matthew Pratt, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1772
The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783.
The Van Bergen farm near Albany, New York in 1733