CHAPTER   XVI.

AFFAIRS  OF   THE   CITY   PROM   THE   YEAR   1691   TO  THE   CLOSE  OF   THE
CENTURY.

Governor Sloughter having undertaken a journey to
Albany, a few days after the death of Leisler, he concluded
a treaty with the Iroquois Indians, and returned to New
York; but his turbulent administration was destined to a
speedy termination, as he died, suddenly, on the 23d July,
1691. Suspicions were entertained that unfair means had
brought about his end, but a post-mortem examination
confuted these ideas, and his death was reported by the
physicians to have occurred from natural causes. His
remains were interred in Stuyvesant's vault, next to those
of the old Dutch governor.

His successor, for a temporary period, was Major Rich¬
ard Ingoldsby, the second military officer in the garrison,
who remained in office until the 29th of August, 1692,
when he was superseded by Colonel Benjamin Fletcher,
who had been commissioned as governor of the province.

On the 2d of April, 1698, Governor Fletcher was super¬
seded by the arrival of Richard, Earl of Bellamont, who
remained in office until his death, which occurred in this
city on the 5th of March, 1701. He was interred under
the chapel in the fort.