Oliver Nicolls [SEP] date of death
Oliver Nicolls
General Oliver Nicolls (c.1740 – 1829) was a British Army officer.
Military career.
Nicolls was commissioned into the 1st Regiment of Foot in November 1756. He became Quartermaster-General in the West Indies in 1794, in which capacity he subdued a rebellion in Grenada. He became Commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army on 22 January 1801 retiring from that post in 1808 to become a member of the Board of Inquiry into the Convention of Sintra under which the defeated French were allowed to
restoration of Charles II in 1660.
Charles gave his brother, the Duke of York (later to become King James II), rights to the colony of Nieuw Amsterdam when Richard Nicolls took it from the Dutch in 1667. Many English colonists did not like Nicolls because they thought Oliver Cromwell had been their savior.
Career Governor of New York.
The Duke of York appointed Lovelace the second governor of the New York Colony in 1668 after the departure of Richard Nicolls. While in office he purchased Staten Island from the