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The Jacob Leisler Papers Project was established in 1988 under the auspices of the Department of History of New York University to collect, transcribe and translate, and prepare for publication the public and private papers of Jacob Leisler. The project received the endorsement of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and the federal government in 1989. In 1998 Project director Dr. David William Voorhees signed as agreement with Fales Library for the Leisler Papers to become a permanent collection at New York University. A two-volume selection of documents is to be published by University of Pennsylvania Press.