The Jacob Leisler Papers ProjectThe Papers of Jacob Leisler, a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) project, is collecting, transcribing, and translating the entire extant public and private correspondence of ill-fated New York merchant Jacob Leisler (1640-1691) for publication in microfilm and annotated book editions. Best known for the 1689 uprising which bears his name, Jacob Leisler played a prominent role in the economic and social development of seventeenth-century New York and the early modern Atlantic community. Early National historians considered his political actions the forerunner of the American Revolution and referred to Leisler as the "Father of American Democracy." Housed in the Department of History at New York University since 1988, the Leisler Papers collection contains over 3,000 documents in Dutch, French, German, and Latin, as well as in English, which provide a wealth of information on the Atlantic World in the early modern era. The Leisler Papers Project is under the direction of Dr. David William Voorhees and employs graduate and other student assistants to aid in all aspects of making this valuable collection available to scholars and the public.
The Leisler papers has its own website. It can be found at: http://www.nyu.edu/leisler/. Dr. Voorhees can be reached via email at david.voorhees@nyu.edu.
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