Everything about Francis Lovelace totally explained
Francis Lovelace (
1621-
1675) was the third son of Sir William Lovelace (1584-1627) and his wife Anne Barne of Lovelace Place, Bethersden and Woolrich, Kent. He was the younger brother of
Richard Lovelace, the Cavalier poet. The Bethersden Lovelace lineage was founded in 1367 by John Lovelace, six generations before Francis, and has been confused over the years with the Hurley Lovelaces who were raised to the House of Lords.
The five Lovelace brothers supported
Charles II in his fight to be restored to the throne. When
Cromwell was defeated, 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.
The Duke of York appointed Lovelace the second governor of the
New York colony in
1668 after the departure of
Richard Nicolls. His administration was terminated by the temporary re-capture of the colony by the
Dutch in
1673.
During a brief period in
1673, Dutch Admiral
Cornelis Evertsen the youngest captured New York and re-established
Nieuw Amsterdam. From
1673 to
1674, Dutch naval Captain
Anthony Colve was military governor-general pro-term until the
British recaptured the colony.
Lovelace was meeting with the Governor of Massachusetts when the Dutch re-established
Nieuw Amsterdam. He was planning the first postal system from New York to Boston. The Duke of York blamed Lovelace for the loss of his colony, confiscated his plantation on Staten Island, and shut him up in the Tower of London, where he contracted dropsy and died in penury two years later
1675.
The third new Governor of New York after Francis Lovelace was
John Lovelace, 4th Lord Lovelace of
Hurley - no kin to Francis of the Bethersden Lovelaces. Early geneologists confused Francis with an identically named son of Richard, 1st Lord Lovelace of Hurley, due to a pamphlet issued at the time of his appointment mistakenly asserting that he was the brother of the said Richard. The confusion has also spread to more modern historians.
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