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Biography. Who Was Jacob Leisler? Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion bears his name, Jacob Leisler was a prominent merchant, land developer, and exponent of Reformed religious fundamentalism and Orangist political ideology. He was intimately bound to the social, economic, and political development of New Netherland and New York ...
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Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History. An independent, not-for-profit study and research center devoted to collecting, preserving, and disseminating information relating to colonial New York under British rule. An independent, not-for-profit study and research center, in Hudson, New York, devoted to collecting ...
12. Mai 2024 · Jacob Leisler (born 1640, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died May 16, 1691, New York, N.Y. [U.S.]) was a provincial militia captain who seized the reins of British colonial government in New York ( Leisler’s Rebellion) and exercised effective control over the area for more than 18 months in 1689–91. Emigrating to New Netherland (New York) at ...
Leisler’s Rebellion, uprising in New York in 1689–91 led by Jacob Leisler, then one of the English province’s wealthiest merchants.The revolt, which took advantage of the instability that followed England’s Glorious Revolution (1688–89), was largely a product of dissatisfaction with a small aristocratic ruling elite and the consolidated scheme of government of the short-lived ...
Prior to the inception of the Leisler Papers Project, the history of New York under British rule was a seriously neglected topic. Although Jacob Leisler’s ill-fated 1689–1691 administration of New York is central to understanding the province’s pre-Revolutionary political, economic, and cultural life, numerous other changes also transformed the Hudson River and Mohawk valleys, Long ...
Jakob Leisler entstammte einer reformierten Pfarrerfamilie, die sich in seiner Generation mit seinen Brüdern dem Seidenhandel und dem Bankgeschäft zuwandte. Er war vermutlich zunächst als Abenteurer, dann als Soldat der Westindischen Kompanie der Niederlande in der Neuen Welt unterwegs. 1664 wurde er Handelsmann und bald Großkaufmann in Neu-Amsterdam. Durch seine wirtschatlichen Erfolge im ...
