Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick was an Irish military officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New York from 1683 to 1688. He called the first representative legislature in
Portrait of Dongan from Castleton Manor, Staten Island
Statue of Thomas Dongan in Dongan Park adjacent to Dongan Place, Poughkeepsie, NY, dedicated June 1930 by NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Line drawing of Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick
Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet, was an Irish lawyer and politician. He sat as MP for County Kildare in the Parliament of 1613–1615 and was in 1628 one of the negotiators of the Graces. However, he is
Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick
…Ireland, the seventh and youngest son of Sir John Dongan, 2nd Baronet. He was a member of the Irish Parliament, and his wife Mary Talbot, daughter of Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet, and Alison Netterville. Dongan's maternal uncles were Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin (1673–1679), and Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, who…
Tyrconnell, his 8th son