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Above image: "The residence
of Jacob Leisler on 'the Strand'," Valentine's
Manual
(1869) Jacob Leisler Papers Project collection.
The Jacob Leisler Papers Project at NYU
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The Jacob Leisler Papers Project at NYU
The
Jacob Leisler Papers Project contains over 4,000 document photocopies,
original
manuscripts, family
genealogical materials, microfilms, rare books, prints,
maps, and other visual materials written
in
Dutch, German, French, English, and Latin relating to New York merchant
and
rebel governor Jacob Leisler (1640-1691) and six generations of the
Leisler family from 1550 to 1800. While the project's collection
concentrates on Jacob Leisler and his role in the Atlantic World from
1660-1691, with special emphasis on his 1689-1691 administration of New
York, the collection is rapidly expanding to become a major repository
of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century New York and Atlantic
World materials. These include court records, political writings, and
administrative papers from Leisler's 1689-1691 New York government, as
well as correspondence and trade documnts. In addition, the collection
hosts pamphlets, books, biographies, plays, and assorted visual
materials created during the past three centuries about Jacob Leisler,
the 1689 New York rebellion, and Leisler's immediate family.
The
Jacob
Leisler Papers Project
also contains the correspondence of Leisler's grandfather Dr. Jacob
Leisler (1569-1618), chief councilor to the Counts of Oettingen
and civil prosecutor for Prince Christian of Anhalt; of Leisler's
father, the Reverend Jacob Victorian Leisler (1606-1653),
Frankfurt-am-Main
French Reformed
minister; of
Leisler's brothers Johann Heinrich Leisler (1642-1694), colonel of
French King Louis XIV's German infantry, and Frantz Leisler (1644-1712)
and Johann Adam Leisler (1651-1704), Basel bankers and manufacturers,
and of Leisler's brother-in-law Abraham Seiss, cameral secretary to
Prussian King Frederick III. In addition, the project holds papers of
Leisler's sons-in-law Abraham Gouverneur, Robert Walter, Joachim
Staats, Barent Rynders, Jacob Milborne,
and Thomas Lewis, and materials pertaining to the related Bayard,
Bogardus, Van Brugh, Van Cortlandt, Cuyler, Kierstede, Loockermans,
Milborne, Provoost, Richards, Schaats, Schuyler, Vaughton, and Wendell
families.
The
Jacob
Leisler Papers Project is
creating a unified archival collection of Leisler family materials to
be made available to scholars, students, and the interested public.
Selected documents from the collection are being prepared for
publication.
