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Photocopied entry for Richard Nicholls from Dictionary of National Biography, a summary of which is: - fourth son of Francis Nicholls and Margaret, daughter of Sir George Bruce of Cannock [Staffordshire]; - commanded a troop of Royalist horse during the English Civil War, Richard going into exile and serving under Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne.; became Groom of the Bedchamber to Duke of York [James II] on the Restoration; received a degree of doctor of common law in 1663; - Charles II gave all land claimed by the Dutch in North America to his brother and Nicholls was chief commissioner of an enuiry to regulate the colony, along with Sir Robert Carr, George Cartwright and Samuel Maverick; - he sailed for America in Jun 1664 and Peter Stuyvesant surrendered the colony of New Amsterdam, soon renamed New York, to him on 27 Aug 1664; Nicholls organised the colony as an English province, Carr subdued outlying territory on the Delaware river and Cartwright and Maverick regulated the New England colonies; - he returned to England in 1667 and was killed at the battle of Solebay against the Dutch in 1672, being buried at Ampthill

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From: 1624 To: 1900

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Nicholls, Richard,
Nicholls, Francis,
Nicholls, Margaret,
Bruce, George,
Bruce, Margaret,
Turenne, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de,
Charles II,
James II,
Carr, Robert,
Cartwright, George,
Maverick, Samuel,
Stuyvesant, Peter

English Civil Wars, deaths, Dutch, naval actions, actions up to 1815, groom of the bedchamber, royal household, burial, New York City, New York State, AMPTHILL