Death of a Notary : Conquest and Change in Colonial New York /

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""He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she introduc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merwick, Donna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ilpendam, Adriaen Janse van.
Ilpendam, Adriaen Janse van, > -1686.
Zelfmoord.
Immigranten.
Nederlanders.
Notarissen.
Notaries.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Notaires > New York (État) > Histoire.
Notaires > New York (État) > Biographies.
Notaries > New York (State) > Biography.
Notaries > New York (State) > History.
New York > Staat
New York (State)
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Epitaph
  • "New Albanij"
  • Patria
  • The Manhatans
  • Beverwijck
  • Beverwijck: The Final Years
  • Albany
  • "Nieuw Albanij in America"
  • The Costs of Conquest
  • Notes and Reflections.

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