1. Leisler's Rebellion
... Leisler was born into a prominent European Calvinist family that included Dr. Jacob Leisler, his grandfather and chief counselor to the Counts of Oettingen, Reverend Jacob Victorian Leisler, his father and pastor of the Frankfurt-am-Main French Reformed congregation, and the noted Huguenot theologian Simon Goulart. Leisler's brothers, Johann Adam and Frantz, were Swiss bankers who financed such Protestant states ... , Charles Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, and Charles Mordaunt, earl of Monmouth, as well as with the New England Divines Cotton and Increase Mather. In the New World, Leisler ca...
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