. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. gent of Indian affairs under his father, and, from 1722, solesecretary. He was at the taking of Port Poyal in 1710 ; a cohjuel ofmilitia, a menilier of the Assembly, ami, for many years, one (if the gov-ernors council. He lived in a style of courtly magnificence. He was the eldest of five sons ami four daughters. Two of the sousand two of the daughters died unmarried ; but he, with his two brothers,Roljert and Gilbert, survived to a good old age. Kobert, the second son,received from his father thirteen thousand acres of the ma
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. gent of Indian affairs under his father, and, from 1722, solesecretary. He was at the taking of Port Poyal in 1710 ; a cohjuel ofmilitia, a menilier of the Assembly, ami, for many years, one (if the gov-ernors council. He lived in a style of courtly magnificence. He was the eldest of five sons ami four daughters. Two of the sousand two of the daughters died unmarried ; but he, with his two brothers,Roljert and Gilbert, survived to a good old age. Kobert, the second son,received from his father thirteen thousand acres of the main estate, as aspecial reward fur having discovered and frustrated an Indian ph)t. Thisformed the li)wcr manor of Clermont. A large stone house was budtupon it, which, towards the close of his life, he gave to his sou JudgeItolieit li. Li\iugston, tlie father of CliauccUor Livingston. Gilbert re-ceived a large estate near Saratoga, and married (ornelia Beekmau. Hewas the ancestor of a large liunily, among whom was Eev. John E. Liv-iuiistou, the celebrated di\ Livingston Manor-House in 1876. [Robert, eldest son of Philip, and third lord of the manor, divided the estate (in 17S4) equally betweenhis four sons. subsequently conveyed his portion of the manor to his brother Henry, whobuilt the present structure.] CATHOLICISM IX XEW YORK. CHAPTER XVIII. 1686 - OF THE MEASURES OP JAMES II. New York. — Absurd Alarms. — Peusecution in France. — TheAssembly abolished in New^ork. —Sir Edmund Andros in Boston. —Connecti-cut AND UEU TWO WoOERS. — CONNECTICUT LOSES HER CHARTER. — ThE PosT-RoUTE. — Governor Dongan a —Albany in Danger. —The ENcbisn, French,AND Iroquois. — Consolidation of the Colonies. —New York swallowed by NewEngland. — Sir Edmund Andros. — The Exiled — ExtraordinaryActs of James II.—The Seven —Birtii-of the Prince of Wales.—Mary, Princess of Orange.—The Characte
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