Title Death of a notary : conquest and change in colonial New York / Donna Merwick

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) : illustrations Contents Epitaph -- "New Albanij" -- Patria -- The Manhatans -- Beverwijck -- Beverwijck: The Final Years -- Albany -- "Nieuw Albanij in America" -- The Costs of Conquest -- Notes and Reflections Summary ""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 introduces us to Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam and the long-forgotten world he inhabited in Holland's North American colony." "Like so many of his fellow countrymen, Janse left his Dutch homeland as a young adult to try his luck in New Netherland. 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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-272) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record commitment to retain 20151208 pda OTUTLD Subject Ilpendam, Adriaen Janse van, -1686. SUBJECT Ilpendam, Adriaen Janse van, -1686 Ilpendam, Adriaen Janse van, -1686 fast Ilpendam, Adriaen Janse van. swd Subject Notaries -- New York (State) -- Biography Notaries -- New York (State) -- History Notaries -- New York (State) -- Biography HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) Notaries Notarissen. Nederlanders. Immigranten. Zelfmoord. New York (State) New York Staat Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501728815 1501728814

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