Anthony Brockholls

In 1677, he received a special commission as Commander-in-Chief and when Sir Edmund Andros fled the Province of New York, he became the acting Governor of New York due to his seniority on the New York Executive Council. During Leisler's Rebellion in New York, Brockholls was denounced as "a rank Papist," and had a price set on his head by the then acting-Governor of that Colony, Jacob Leisler.{{cite book|last1=Kimball|first1=Hoke P.|last2=Henson|first2=Bruce|title=Governor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783: An Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Survey|date=2017|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786470518|page=400|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYuSDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA400|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}}

In June 1681, while acting as Governor of New York, Brockholst presided over a special court that appointed Captain John Youngs (son of John Youngs), High sheriff of Yorkshire to give a petition to the Duke of York for the privilege of setting up a general assembly in the Province of New York.{{cite book|last1=Wood|first1=Silas|title=A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island: With Their Political Condition, to the End of the American Revolution|date=1828|publisher=A. Spooner|page=[https://archive.org/details/asketchfirstset00woodgoog/page/n103 99]|url=https://archive.org/details/asketchfirstset00woodgoog|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}} Upon Governor Dongan's arrive in 1683, the petition was granted and the first assembly of New York began in October 1683.{{cite book|last1=Thompson|first1=Benjamin Franklin|title=History of Long Island: Containing an Account of the Discovery and Settlement; with Other Important and Interesting Matters to the Present Time|date=1839|publisher=E. French|page=[https://archive.org/details/historylongisla00thomgoog/page/n130 124]|url=https://archive.org/details/historylongisla00thomgoog|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}}

In March 1689, during the wars with the Abenaki Indians on the English fort at Pemaquid, Fort Charles, then the easternmost outpost of colonial Massachusetts (present-day Bristol, Maine), he commanded thirty-six men at the Siege of Pemaquid.{{cite book|last1=Sylvester|first1=Herbert Milton|title=Indian Wars of New England: The land of the Abenake. The French occupation. King Philip's war. St. Castin's war|date=1910|publisher=W.B. Clarke Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/indianwarsofnewe01sylv/page/n525 395]|url=https://archive.org/details/indianwarsofnewe01sylv|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}}

In June 1695, Colonel Anthony Brockholls and Captain Arent Schuyler were among several men from New York who purchased a tract of land, five thousand five hundred acres, which became Pompton, where he built a large estate.

Anthony Brockholls's parents are unknown, but he is said to have been a member of the Catholic family of Brockholes of Claughton, Lancashire, England.('Northward', Anthony Hewitson, 1900, quoted on http://www.lancshalls.co.uk/Wyre/claughtonhall.htm Monograph Series, by United States Catholic Historical Society. 1973. Page 68.

On May 2, 1681, Brockholls was married to Susannah Maria Schrick (or Schrect or Shrik) in Albany. She was the daughter of Paulus Schrick.{{cite web|title=Susannah French Livingston|url=https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/01/susannah-french-livingston.html|website=womenhistoryblog.com|publisher=History of American Women|accessdate=16 November 2017|date=30 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713102657/http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/01/susannah-french-livingston.html|archive-date=13 July 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|last1=Hoffman|first1=Samuel Verplanck|title=Collections of The New-York Historical Society for the Year 1902 {{!}} Publication Fund Series|date=1903|publisher=Printed for the Society|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6CAXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA91|page=91|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}} While most of their children died in childhood, they were the parents of:

• Henry Brockholst (1684–1766), who married Maria Verplanck.{{cite book|last1=Nelson|first1=William|title=History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men|date=1882|publisher=Everts & Peck|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historybergenan00nelsgoog/page/n1041 553]-554|url=https://archive.org/details/historybergenan00nelsgoog|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}}
• Anthony Brockholst (1687–1688), who died young.
• Anthony Brockholst (1688–1694), who also died young.
• Judith Brockholst (b. 1690), who married Dirck Van Vechten (1699–1781).{{cite book|last1=Chambers|first1=Theodore Frelinghuysen|title=The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies|date=1895|publisher=Dover Printing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/earlygermansofne00cham/page/549 549]|url=https://archive.org/details/earlygermansofne00cham|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}}
• Jannetje Brockholst (b. 1692), who died young.
• Susannah Brockholst (1696–1730), who married Philip French III (1697–1782), the son of Philip French II, the 27th Mayor of New York City, and Annetje (née Philipse) French (herself the daughter of Frederick Philipse){{cite book|author1=Richard Henry Greene|author2=Henry Reed Stiles|author3=George Austin Morrison|title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJYyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA188|year=1878|publisher=New York Genealogical and Biographical Society|pages=188–}}
• Johanna Brockholst (1700–1765), who married Frederick Philipse II (1698-1751), the 2nd Lord of Philipsburg Manor.
• Mary Brockholst (b. 1707), who married Adrian Verplanck.

Brockholls left a will on June 15, 1710, witnessed by Nicholas Bayard, Abraham Post, and William Cutler. He died on August 29, 1723 in Bergen County, New Jersey.{{cite book|last1=Nelson|first1=William|title=History of the Old Dutch Church at Totowa, Paterson, New Jersey, 1755-1827: Baptismal Register, 1756-1808|date=1892|publisher=Press Print. and Publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofolddutc00nels_0/page/24 24]|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofolddutc00nels_0|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}}

His granddaughter through his daughter Susannah, was Susanna French, who married William Livingston,{{cite book |last1=Livingston |first1=Edwin Brockholst |title=The Livingstons of Livingston Manor: Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second; and Also Including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants |date=1910 |publisher=The Knickerbocker Press |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/livingstonslivi00unkngoog|accessdate=November 16, 2017 |language=en}} "War-Governor" during the American Revolution, and was the mother of Henry Brockholst Livingston, who was associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1806 to 1823.{{cite book| title= Biographical Sketch of William Colfax, Captain of Washington's Body Guard | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ETYuAAAAYAAJ | year= 1876 | author= William Nelson }}{{cite book|last1=Tobin|first1=Cathy|title=Wayne Township|date=2001|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738509471|page=11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyPX5r6okqAC&pg=PA11|accessdate=16 November 2017|language=en}}

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