Knickerbockers Who Asserted and Insisted [ 131 ] the expression of New Yorkers' concerns and resentments in Leisler's Rebellion, 1689-91. But unlike the provincial cooperation evident in 1664 and 1674, division according to sectional, class, and status interests characterized the Dutch response to a politically fluid situation. Tracing the variety of Dutch responses to Leisler's Rebellion illustrates the decline of a widespread, defensive sense of Dutch unity by the 1680s. The temporary interlude in legitimized political authority added new tensions to the ones that had been brewing in a decade of depression accompanied by sectional and economic unrest. When Bostonians greeted news of the Glorious Revolution by jailing Edmund Andros, governor-general of the Dominion of New England, the legitimacy of Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson's New York government became problematic.89 Fear of a Catholic plot with the French to plunder New York, combined with Nicholson's refusal to proclaim the accession of William and Mary, further weakened the position of Nicholson and his three council members, Frederick Philipse, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, and Nicholas Bayard. Merchants began to refuse to pay customs. Early in May residents of Suffolk County, and then those of Queens and Westchester, overthrew their magistrates and threatened to march on New York City and Albany. Soldiers from Long Island and New York City marched to demand their wages.40 On May 30 Nicholson chided a Dutch lieutenant for stationing an English soldier on sentry duty without permission. The incident ended with Nicholson shouting threats to "sett the town in fyre" Rumors and hysteria spread in New York City, aggravating the near chaos already prevalent. Nicholson's subsequent revocation of the commission of Captain Abraham De Peyster, the lieutenant's commanding officer, provoked rebellion. On May 31 rebel soldiers led by De Peyster and others seized the fort, promising to protect protestant New York from its "Papist" rulers until William and Mary sent their own officials to New York. 89 James II, who had become king in 1685, incorporated New York into the Dominion of New England three years later. 40 Leder, Robert Livingston, 59-60; Beverly McAnear, "Politics in Provincial New York, 1689-1761" (Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 1935). 89-98; Reich, Leisler's Rebellion, 55-58; Declaration of Freeholders of Suffolk County, May 10, 1689, N.Y. Col. Docs., Ill, 577; Nicholson and Council to Board of Trade, May 15, 1689, ibid., 574-76. The most revealing account of Leisler's Rebellion is Stephen Van Cortlandt to Andros, July 9,1689, ibid., 590-97.