Editor: David William Voorhees, New York University Advisory Board: Firth Haring Fabend, Jaap Jacobs, Willem Klooster, Antonia Kolb, Karen O. Kupperman

The overall objective of the Leisler Papers Project is to gather definitively the surviving sources on Leisler, widely dispersed on both sides of the Atlantic, and to make these documents from a formative period in American history accessible. An effective manner in which to accomplish this end is through the publication of the papers of Jacob Leisler in a comprehensive edition by microphotography and in a multi-volume selective annotated book edition. The Leisler Papers Project is working in the transcription and translation of these valuable materials for a two-volume print edition to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

The editors of the Papers of Jacob Leisler proceed from the thesis that one can understand Jacob Leisler and his times only when he emerges as a typical representative of an Atlantic history and culture, whose description transcends the artificial constraints of "national" or "ethnic" boundaries. The overall objective is to make accessible a representative sample of documents that illustrate the concept of an Atlantic History and place Jacob Leisler firmly at the center of such a recovery. The editors aim to reconstruct in these volumes for a broad public the Atlantic networks and their peculiar configurations surrounding "Leisler's Rebellion."