Author: Westchester County (N.Y.). Court of Sessions
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Westchester County (N.Y.). Court of Sessions
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter R. Christoph
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2002-04-01
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780815628200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jacob Leisler has been more an icon in historical writing than a person. That the icon has served very different groups over the centuries only shows that is has had little to do with the real person. In his own century he was both the fanatical and villainous despot and the martyred hero. In later times he was a forerunner of American democracy, and a symbol of colonial rebelliousness. He has also been pilloried in the Catholic press, not without justification, although Catholics were not among those treated most harshly during his administration. To Marxist theoreticians he was a voice for the proletariat; to National Socialist propagandists he was a German martyr. In short, much that has been written about Leisler has had to do with the interests of various groups and causes, many of them unrelated, or only distantly related, to anything happening in Leisler's time. It is only today that articles and books are beginning to appear in which his career is examined dispassionately. Many of the untruths are so ingrained that one must almost begin by saying what is not true before going on to discuss what is true about Leisler. Suffice it to say that, despite a long tradition of popular writing that he was base-born, resentful of being outside the mainstream of colonial life and commerce, and failing in his enterprises, he none of these. For much of our enlightenment we are indebted to the research by David William Voorhees, who has assembled copies of several thousand documents from private institutions and government archives from throughout Europe and North America.
Author: Westchester County Historical Society (White Plains, N.Y.)
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christina K. Schaefer
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 846
ISBN-13: 9780806315768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.
Author: Edgar J. McManus
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2001-05-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780815628941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book traces the origins and development of New York's slave system from its Dutch beginnings in New Netherland to its demise and legal extinction in the late eighteenth century."--Preface.