Major Anthony Brockholls (or Brockholst)[1] (c. 1656 – August 29, 1723)[2] was an English born Commander-in-Chief (1677–78) and then acting Governor (1681–82) of New York.
[5] Upon Governor Dongan's arrive in 1683, the petition was granted and the first assembly of New York began in October 1683.
[6] 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.
[7] 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,[8] which became Pompton, where he built a large estate.
[12][9] While most of their children died in childhood, they were the parents of:[9] Brockholls left a will on June 15, 1710, witnessed by Nicholas Bayard, Abraham Post, and William Cutler.