Governor of the province, which office he filled until Nov. 1765, with the exception of about fifteen months that General Monckton was at the head of afiFairs. The government again devolved on him in 1769, but he was superseded the following year by Lord Dunmore. He was called, for the fourth and last time, in 1774 to the Executive Chair which he occupied until the 25th June 1775, but at this period his rule was not much more than nominal. One of his closing duties was to announce, that "Congress had appointed George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Army." He now retired to his country house at Spring-hill, near Flushing L. I., after encountering with the greatest firmness all the odium attendani on the mad efforts of the British Ministry to tax through the Stamp and Tea acts, the people of the Colonies without their consent, and died on the 21 September 1776, in the 88th year of his age, having survived his wife, 14 j'ears. Like all men in high station his administration has been rigidly canvassed bj- his contemporaries. The bitterness of the political strifes of those days having now passed away, posterity will not fail to accord justice to the character and memory of a man to whom this Country is most deeply indebted for much of its science and for very many of its most important institutions, and of whom the State of New-York may well be proud. " For the groat variety and extent of his learning, his unwearied research, his talents and the public sphere which he filled, Cadwallader Colden may justly be placed ir a high rank among the distinguished men of his time," and v,-hen it