Death of a Notary : : Conquest and Change in Colonial New York / / Donna Merwick.
"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 fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she in...
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Merwick, Donna, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Death of a Notary : Conquest and Change in Colonial New York / Donna Merwick. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2002 1 online resource (304 p.) : 33 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Epitaph -- 1. "New Albanij" -- 2. Patria -- 3. The Manhatans -- 4. Beverwijck -- 5. Beverwijck: The Final Years -- 6. Albany -- 7. "Nieuw Albanij in America" -- 8. The Costs of Conquest -- Notes and Reflections -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "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 fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she introduces us to Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam and the long-forgotten world he inhabited in Holland's North American colony. Her powerful narrative will make readers care for this quiet and studious man, an "ordinary" settler for whom the clash of empires brought tragedy.Like so many of his fellow countrymen, Janse left his Dutch homeland as a young adult to try his luck in New Netherland. After spending a few years on Manhattan Island, he moved on to the fur trading settlement today known as Albany. Merwick traces his journey to a new continent and re-creates the satisfying existence this respected burgher enjoyed with his wife in the bustling town. As a notary Janse was, in the author's words, "surrounded by stories, those he listened to and recorded, the hundreds he archived in a chest or trunk." His familiar life was turned upside down by the British conquest of the colony. Merwick recounts the changes brought about by the new rulers and imagines the despair Janse must have felt when English, a language he had never learned, replaced his native tongue in official transactions. In any military adventure, truth is alleged to be the first casualty. Merwick offers a poignant reminder that the first casualties are in fact people. As much a musing on what history obscures as what it reveals, her book is a superior work by a master practitioner of her craft. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Notaries New York (State) Biography. Notaries New York (State) History. New York History. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). bisacsh 17th century american history . 17th century history . 17th-century Albany. Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam. American historians. Colonial social history. Dutch in the New World. Dutch-English influence in New York. american colonial period . american colonies. american history studies . beverwijck. biography of colonists. biography of new yorker. colonial new york . colonial notaries . colonial period history . daily life in the new colony. dutch americans . dutch colony . graduate history collections. graduate history. historians . historical notaries . history . history of albany new york . history of new york . manhatans . new ablanij. new england history . new york state history . nieuw albanij in america. notaries as archivists. notaries history . Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501728815 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501728815 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501728815/original |
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