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Anthony or Anthonij Colve ( fl. 1667-1695) was a
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naval captain and the
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during a brief restoration of Dutch rule in
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(roughly present-day New York and
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).


Career

Colve was likely involved in the recapture of Suriname from the British by a
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led by
Abraham Crijnssen Abraham Crijnssen (died 1 February 1669) was a Dutch naval commander, notable for capturing the English colony in Suriname in 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, resulting in the establishment of a long-term colony under Dutch control. The ...
in March 1667. Upon his return in 1668, he was an officer cadet (''vaandrig'') in until 1670, when he became a captain at
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. In 1672, he moved with his troops to
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.J.M.G. Leune, "Bijzonderheden over betrokkenen bij het fort St. Anna.", 5th appendix to "Het fort Sint Anna in de polder van Namen", March 2016. Colve was commissioned when the Netherlands retook New York City during the
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after nine years of British rule. He began his administration on September 19, 1673, and it ended on February 9, 1674, when English rule was restored under the terms of the Treaty of Westminster. New York was renamed
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under his administration. Upon his return to the Dutch Republic he was a sergeant-major under Caspar de Mauregnault in 1679 and lieutenant-colonel under Jacques-Louis Comte de Noyelles in 1683. He was last reported as a ''commandeur'' of Veere in 1695.


Personal life

Colve married Margarethe "Griton" de Quade. Two daughters and a son are known of this marriage. His son Jacob Lambert Colve (died 1723) was mayor of Veere and a member of the States of Zeeland from 1717 to 1722.


See also

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New Netherland New Netherland ( nl, Nieuw Nederland; la, Novum Belgium or ) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva P ...
*
Director of New Netherland This is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (''Nieuw-Nederland'' in Dutch) in North America. Only the last, Peter Stuyvesant, held the title of Director General. As t ...
*
List of colonial governors of New York The territory which 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, Connecticut and Delaware) under the command of the Dutch West India C ...
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List of colonial governors of New Jersey The territory which would later become the state of New Jersey was settled by Dutch and Swedish colonists in the early seventeenth century. In 1664, at the onset of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, English forces under Richard Nicolls ousted the Du ...


References

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