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Richard Ingoldesby (or Ingoldsby; died 1 March 1719) was a
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army
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and
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of both
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and
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. He became the
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for the two colonies from May 1709 to April 1710.


Life

Ingoldesby served the
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during the
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as a field officer. He played a role in the Irish campaign by besieging the Jacobite stronghold at
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. Ingoldesby, in September 1690, became a captain of a company being sent to New York to restore the royal crown following
Leisler's Rebellion Leisler's Rebellion was an uprising in late-17th century colonial New York in which German American merchant and militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of the southern portion of the colony and ruled it from 1689 to 1691. The uprising too ...
. Ingoldesby did this by removing
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from his assumed position as lieutenant governor of New York, and forced Leisler to surrender New York City. Following a brief skirmish in March 1691, Leisler was tried and convicted for both murder and treason, and was hanged that May on orders from Governor
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. This provoked some distaste by the pro-Leislerian followers. The New York Council proceeded to select Ingoldesby as the commander-in-chief of the colony until a successor for Sloughter, who died not long after the Leisler trial, could be appointed. Ingoldesby then held the position of governor from the summer of 1961 until August 1692, when
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was commissioned. Ingoldesby entered into a formal treaty of alliance and friendship with the Iroquois on 6 June 1692, in the midst of a conflict known as
King William's War King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand Allian ...
. Fletcher was dispatched to a company in
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, but low payment and supplies prompted him to return to England in 1696 for seven years (instead of his one-year
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). Through political intrigue, he attempted to get promoted, and was acquainted with
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, one of several
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proprietors. Ingoldesby was backed by Dockwra to become the first royal governor of New Jersey, but Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury became governor instead and Ingoldesby became the lieutenant. Cornbury refused to grant any power to Ingoldesby at all during his period of governorship. Instead, Ingoldesby became part of the
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. Following the death of John Lovelace on 6 May 1709, he became the acting governor of both New Jersey and New York. However, due to the efforts of the proprietors that he opposed, Ingoldesby's governorship became an object of suspicion. In part of the "Glorious Enterprise", a joint invasion of Canada by American and British forces, Ingoldesby urged the Assembly to raise New Jersey's quota of 200 men, a move which was unpopular with the Assembly's Quaker minority. However, he later twisted his role and tried to remove the
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from holding office positions by defeating the bill, whereupon he ordered that all Quakers were excluded from all public offices. Ultimately, he was persuaded to raise and equip the men, but since the British failed to provide any support, the mission was unsuccessful. Realizing that he would never become the appointed governor of New Jersey, Ingoldesby instead tried to divert much of the money that was to go to Lovelace to himself. His commission for governorship was revoked by October 1709, but the news only reached him in April 1710. He died in New York on 1 March 1719.


See also

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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 Netherlands, Dutch and Sweden, Swedish Settler, colonists in the early seventeenth century. In 1664, at the onset of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, England, English force ...
*
List of colonial governors of New York The territory which would later become the state of New York (state), New York was settled by European colonization of the Americas, European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony (parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut a ...


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Biography of Richard Ingoldesby
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. URL accessed on 27 September 2012. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingoldesby, Richard Year of birth unknown Place of birth unknown 1719 deaths Colonial governors of New Jersey Lieutenant governors of New Jersey Members of the New Jersey Provincial Council Governors of the Province of New York British Army officers English emigrants