The Holland Society of New York – Lecture Series



Exploring a Dutch Colony under English Rule: The Papers of Jacob Leisler
Project



Dr. David William Voorhees will give a presentation on how the Jacob
Leisler Papers Project at New York University is transforming our
understanding of the transition from Dutch New Netherland to English New
York in the period from 1660 to 1700.





Thursday, November 1, 2012 / 6:00 pm

The Holland Society of New York

20 West 44th Street, Suite 509

New York, NY 10036

Wine and Cheese Reception will follow



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Jacob Leisler (1640-1691) was intimately bound to the economic, social, and
political development of New Netherland and New York from his arrival in
New Amsterdam

in July 1660 in the employ of the Dutch West India Company until his
beheading in New York City by the English governor in May 1691. One of New
York’s richest seventeenth-century merchants and the founder of the
Huguenot refugee town of New Rochelle, Leisler catapulted to fame when in
May 1689 he led a rebellion against King James II’s government in New York
on behalf of the Prince of Orange, William III. The following December he
assumed the role of New York governor and implemented a populist government
that called for free elections and organized the first inter-colonial
congress and military action independent of English authority.



The Jacob Leisler Papers Project at New York University contains over 4,000
document photocopies and manuscripts in several languages, as well as
genealogical materials, microfilm, rare books, and visual materials
relating to Jacob Leisler and his immediate family from 1550 to 1800. Dr.
Voorhees with project assistant Stephanie Krom will present an overview of
the collection, its importance as a repository of seventeenth-century New
York and Atlantic World materials, and the considerable insight it provides
into the world and inhabitants of the former Dutch colony of New Netherland
in the post-Conquest period.



Dr. David William Voorhees received a Ph.D. from New York University in
1988 and is

managing editor of The Holland Society’s journal, *de Halve Maen*. His
published works

include two volumes of translations of the Flatbush, Long Island, Reformed
Dutch church records.





This lecture is presented by The Holland Society of New York Library as
part of the 5 Dutch Days celebration.  http://www.hollandsociety.org/
http://5dutchdaysnyc.org/



-- 
Mary Collins
Librarian
Holland Society of New York
20 West 44th St. suite 509
New York, NY 10036