1. Leisler's Rebellion
... of late seventeenth-century New York's most prominent merchants, land developers, and foremost 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 from 1659, when he was employed as a nineteen-year-old in the Dutch West India Company's Amsterdam office, until his execution ... intercolonial military action independent of British authority. Leisler's administration of New York split the province into two distinct camps that were closely aligned with the Rege...
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