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    Earl of Limerick is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, associated first with the Dongan family, then with the Pery family...
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  • William Dongan, 1st Earl of Limerick (1630 – 1698) was an Irish Jacobite soldier and peer. Dongan was the second son of Sir John Dongan, 2nd Baronet and...
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  • Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kildare constituencies)
    children, including Sir Walter Dongan, 3rd Baronet, William Dongan, 1st Earl of Limerick, and Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick Bridget Margaret (died 1662)...
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  • Walter Dungan, Viscount Dungan (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kildare constituencies)
    and politician. Dungan was the only son of William Dongan, 1st Earl of Limerick and Euphemia Maria, daughter of Sir Richard Chamber. He was born in Jerez...
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    Lucas Dillon, 6th Viscount Dillon (category Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland)
    of William, Viscount Dongan, and Earl of Limerick;" Cokayne 1916, p. 359, line 2. "He m. 1stly Ursula, da. of William (Dungan), 1st Earl of Limerick [I...
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  • William "Tangier" Smith (category Members of the New York Executive Council)
    three of his children sailed from Cork in Ireland to New York at the urging of Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, who had been Lieutenant-Governor of Tangier...
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  • England consisted exclusively of earls and barons. It remains a matter of debate whether early Anglo-Norman counts/earls held their title by tenure (as...
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    of the General Assembly. The New York General Assembly was first convened on October 14, 1683, during the governorship of Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick...
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    Estate in 1709 from Thomas Dongan, the restored Earl of Limerick and later Governor of New York, he complained that "all the Earl's tenants were beggars"...
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    William Conolly (category Speakers of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801))
    was bought in 1709 from Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick. By his death he owned 148,487 acres that yielded a gross income of £14,926 p.a. The Conolly...
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    Fort Amsterdam (category Forts of New Netherland)
    1682, James, Lord Proprietor of the Province of New York, appointed Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, an Irishman and staunch Catholic, who had arrived...
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  • 1634 in Ireland (category Years of the 17th century in Ireland)
    July – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, soldier and politician (d. 1680) Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, member of Irish Parliament, Royalist...
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    Clane (category Townlands of County Kildare)
    nearby Clongowes Wood College). Willam Dongan, 1st Earl of Limerick (ca. 1626–1698), was a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War...
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    Wilhelmus Beekman (category People of New Sweden)
    1683 was acting mayor. Col. Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, was appointed Governor of the Duke of York's Province of New York in 1683. With instructions...
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  • Dominican" — The Earl and Countess of Dunraven, Memorials of Adare, 1865, pp.35-6 "Adare Hospitallers" — White's List, M. Lenihan, Limerick, its History and...
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    invasion of Konkan, the area on the southwestern Indian coast under the control of the Maratha Empire. August 25 – The Earl of Limerick, Irishman Thomas Dongan...
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    would later become the state of New York was settled by European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony (parts of present-day New York, New Jersey...
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  • John Pell (landowner) (category History of the Bronx)
    1687 by Governor Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick as "The Lordship and Manor of Pelham." In 1689, Pell sold 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of what eventually...
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    1675, after George Douglas was made Earl of Dumbarton. The 1678 Treaties of Nijmegen required the repatriation of all Scots and English units from France;...
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    List of newspapers in New York in the 18th century: Poughkeepsie National Register of Historic Places listings in Poughkeepsie, New York Thomas Dongan, 2nd...
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    Antoine Hamilton (category French people of Scottish descent)
    Piers (2004a). "Dongan, Thomas, second earl of Limerick (1634–1715)". In Matthew, Colin; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre (category Governors of New France)
    with the French. La Barre tried unsuccessfully to get Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, governor of New York, to stop supporting the Iroquois and selling...
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  • Irish military diaspora (category Military history of the American Civil War)
    Brady. And earlier Thomas Dongan. Irish involvement only heightened with the American revolution and later in the mid-1800s when most of the Irish immigrants...
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    Van Watervliet family (category American people of Dutch descent)
    granted. Eventually Myndert secured a warrant from Governor Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, to provide all the arms and armor for Fort Orange, and joined...
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    college. In 1686 Governor of New York Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick unsuccessfully petitioned James II of England for a grant of the Duke's, known as...
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  • James Graham (speaker) (category Speakers of the New York General Assembly)
    of the Province of New York to succeed Thomas Rudyard. In 1687, he was appointed to the Governor's Council under Governor Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick...
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    George Hamilton, Comte d'Hamilton (category People of the War of Devolution)
    Piers (2004a). "Dongan, Thomas, second earl of Limerick (1634–1715)". In Matthew, Colin; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    English Tangier (category Soldiers of the Tangier Garrison)
    of the departing soldiers were to be rewarded with large land grants in the newly acquired Province of New York. Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick,...
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    invasion of Konkan, the area on the southwestern Indian coast under the control of the Maratha Empire. August 25 – The Earl of Limerick, Irishman Thomas Dongan...
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    Dillon (d.1751) and other family members Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin Bevil Higgons, historian Antoinette-Cecile...
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