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Jacob Leisler
Leisler, Jacob
Leisler, Jacob (1640–91) US rebel, who migrated from Germany to New Amsterdam in 1660. Leisler and other merchants resented English control of the colony from 1664. As a militia officer in the
GLORIOUS REVOLUTION in New York, he led the humbler residents against both
JAMES II and the aristocratic patroons (lords of the manor) and assumed the governorship in 1689. When Governor Slaughter arrived from England in 1691 Leisler resisted and was captured; he was tried for treason and hanged. His execution precipitated factional conflict for a generation.
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SEMINAR TO FOCUS ON THE GOVERNOR WHO WAS HANGED.(Living Today)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/21/1989; 624 words
; ...be held Saturday, Sept. 23. Jacob Leisler took over the provincial government...will bring together new work on Leisler's rebellion, which has been...University and editor of the "Papers of Jacob Leisler," will open the seminar with...
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NEW NETHERLAND STYLE TRANSLATION OF EARLY DUTCH RECORDS PROMPTS AUTHENTIC MEAL GATH ERING.(Living)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/1/1990; 700+ words
; ...University and is editor of the Jacob Leisler papers, won the Hendricks Manuscript...translation of early Dutch records. Leisler, a New York City merchant, briefly...replaced James II. Arrested in 1691, Leisler later was hanged. Leisler has often...
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Duncan, Jason K.: Citizen or Papist?: The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...standing anti-Catholicism exemplified by the 1691 execution for treason of the militant Protestant Jacob Leisler. Although New York considered Leisler's attempt to extend the Glorious Revolution to the colonies a treasonable act, three days before...
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Did you know?
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 12/1/2004; 570 words
; ...proved itself able to enforce laws within the states. Leisler's Rebellion (1689-1691) was organized in New York City by German merchant Jacob Leisler, who took control of southern New York. It was religiously...
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Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...oligarchic leadership. In spite of the legacies left by the Keithian schism among Pennsylvania Quakers and the violence of Jacob Leisler's rebellion in New York, that liberalism early took shape in both colonies. With England's Glorious Revolution...
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The other ghosts of Ground Zero
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...during this time Africans began being forced north, which continued into the 20th century. The Dutch commander Jacob Leisler ran out the British governor in 1689 and led antiCatholic rioting. The British later hanged him near City Hall Park...
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The Significance of the Printed World in Early America: Colonists' Thoughts on the Role of the Press
Magazine article from: Journalism History; 10/1/1999; ; 684 words
; ...in most standard journalism histories: James Franklin and John Peter Zenger Williams includes the less-celebrated Jacob Leisler's Rebellion of the 1690s, a dispute fueled by fervent pamphlets and ending with ban on the gallows. Part of the...
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German spy transcripts cause more worries for Kohl; A battle is brewing over whether to make the newly revealed transcripts public, and use them in an inquiry.(World)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 4/7/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...former CDU treasurer, Walther Leisler Kiep, says Kohl asked him...Letter of the law Joachim Jacob, the federal government's...such questions," says Mr. Jacob. Since the parliamentary inquiry...legal situation is clear." Jacob adds that the information in...
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Secrets of The Stasi.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 4/17/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...another juncture, Luthje is chatting with his boss, Walther Leisler Kiep, then the treasurer of the CDU. Kiep brings up a conversation...to the disadvantage of the Stasi's victims," said Joachim Jacob, Germany's commissioner of privacy protection. "They should...
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Leisler, Jacob (1640-1691)
Book article from: American Eras
Jacob Leisler (1640-1691) Merchant and militia officer Source Conventional Explanations. Jacob Leisler was a German merchant and militia soldier...s actions: religion. Background. Jacob Leisler’s family, on both his mother...
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Jacob Leisler Trial: 1691
Book article from: Great American Trials
Jacob Leisler Trial: 1691 Defendants: Jacob Leisler, Jacob Milborne, eight other men Crimes Charged: The treasonable act of holding the king's fort by force against the royal governor, such action resulting in several deaths Chief Defense...
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Jacob Leisler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jacob Leisler Jacob Leisler (1640-1691), colonial political leader, became de facto governor of the New York colony after leading a revolt against British officials and colonial aristocrats. Jacob Leisler, son of a Calvinist clergyman...
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Leisler, Jacob
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Leisler, Jacob (1640–91), German...were dispatched, whose conflict with Leisler almost brought about a civil war. After...He figures in the historical plays, Jacob Leisler (1848) by Cornelius Mathews, and Old...
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Leisler’s Rebellion
Book article from: American Eras
...rebellious New Yorkers named a Dutch merchant, Jacob Leisler, to take charge of the province. He established...DRAWN AND QUARTERED The order of execution for Jacob Leisler and Jacob Milborne called for them to be drawn and quartered...
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