Additional collections include the Antonia Kolb The Jacob Leisler Institute produces in partnership Papers, concerning the Leisler family in Europe; the with the Hudson Area Library an annual lecture series Mary Hallenbeck Collection, relating to colonial on the most recent scholarship in colonial New York- Claverack, New York; and The Holland Society of New New Jersey history York Collection, containing all of that organization’s Recent Institute lectures have included: publications. • William Starna, “Natives on the Land: American The Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early Indians in the Mid-Hudson Valley.” New York History is located in Hudson, New York, a small historic city in the bucolic Hudson River Valley. • Peter Rose, “A Taste of The Institute is easily accessible from New York City, Change: Hand-Written Boston, and Albany by road and rail. Cookbooks as Documents of Hudson, with a dynamic contemporary culture, and Social and Family History.” the surrounding countryside provide a wealth of resources relating to the period, such as the Luykas • David William Voorhees, Van Alen House, numerous colonial churches, and “‘How Their Poor Wives Do’: historic sites, including the former Van Rensselaer The Role of Women in Colonial and Livingston manorial landholdings. New York Politics.”

• Ian Stewart, “A Truly American Form: Anglo Dutch Houses, Their Roots, Form, and Legacy”

• Travis Bowman, “Slavery and Dutch-Palatine Farmers: How Did Middle-class Farmers in Colonial New York Interact with Slavery?” Reverend John Miller, Map of New York City, 1695.

Jacob Leisler Institute Jacob Leisler Jan Van Hoesen House, Claverack, New York, 46 Green Street c. 1720. Hudson NY 12534 PO Box 86 Institute The Friends of The Jacob Leisler Institute support the Institute’s mission to collect, preserve, and make Hudson, NY 12534-0086 accessible important documents and other materials 518 567-6490 for the relating to a pivotal period in the development of Email: [email protected] New York and modern America. Study of Early Visit our home page at: The Jacob Leisler Institute is a non-profit, tax- www.jacobleislerinstitute.org New York exempt organization. Membership in the Friends is or Follow us on Facebook. personal, renewable, and tax deductible to the full History extent permitted by law. Business and corporate The Jacob Leisler Institute is open to the memberships are also welcome. public by appointment. The Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early The Institute’s Holdings. In addition to the library New York History is a research center devoted to and material objects, the Institute contains a colonial New York under English rule. From 1664 to number of discrete collections relating to colonial 1773, New York Province’s diverse European New York and New Jersey. Among these collections settlements, American are: Indian, and African populations fused into a The Papers of Jacob Leisler: The Papers of Jacob cosmopolitan colonial Leisler Project began in 1988 under the auspices of territory with ties the New York University Department of History. throughout the The project was endorsed by the National Historical Atlantic World. The Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in Institute is unique in 1989. Today, the Jacob Leisler Papers contain over focusing on this 4,000 records relating to five generations of underexamined 109- Leisler’s immediate family from 1550 to 1770. These year period in include court records and administrative papers American history. from Leisler’s government, as well as family-related correspondence, property deeds and trade Jacob Leisler’s ill-fated transactions, and political writings. In addition, the 1689–1691 collection contains the papers of Leisler’s sons-in- administration of New law Jacob Milborne, Abraham Gouverneur, Robert York is central to Walter, Joachim Staats, Barent Rynders, and understanding the Province’s political, economic, and Thomas Lewis, and of the related Bayard, Schaats, cultural life up to the outbreak of hostilities with Cuyler, Edsall, Stevens, Pasco, Noxon, Mauritz Great Britain in the 1770s. But numerous other (Morris), Vaughton, Wendell, Schuyler, Kennedy, changes transformed the Hudson and Mohawk River extent of New York Province and go well beyond Myer, Provoost, and Richards families. valleys, Long Island, and East Jersey as well: French, the Hudson River Valley. As new documents come German, English, and African immigration enriched to light, the Institute encourages their acquisition The Eric Nooter Collection. In 2000, historian Dr. the culture and society; population expansion through the generosity of interested donors. Eric Nooter donated his papers relating to the created new tensions and mythologies; and the colonial history of Kings County, New York, present- Enlightenment and contrasting religious movements The Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early day New York City borough of Brooklyn, to the remade traditional ideologies. In the end, a new New York History is an independent nonprofit Jacob Leisler Papers. These materials provide a society had arisen by the time of the American organization. Its collections, which continue to wealth of information relating to western Long Revolution that continues to resonate in the twenty- grow, address a wide range of disciplines: history, Island under British rule. first century. The Jacob Leisler Institute is preserving geography, archaeology, ethnohistory, economics, the memory of this dynamic period, so that we may political science, demography, art history, and The Kees-Jan Waterman Collection. In 2019, the more clearly understand our own society today. others. We encourage the public to use these heirs of Kees-Jan Waterman, historian and Institute collections as an educational and archival resource Trustee, donated to the Institute his extensive The Jacob Leisler Institute is a major repository of and students and scholars to prepare papers, collection of materials relating to the European– late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century New lectures, and book-length manuscripts from our American Indian fur trade of the colonial Hudson York and New Jersey materials. The Institute’s library holdings. Through our internship program, and Mohawk Valleys. Included is a library of about contains extensive genealogical records, original students of history learn the skills necessary to 100 books, manuscript translations, research notes, manuscripts, over 4,000 document photocopies preserve and interpret the period’s manuscript and and ephemera. This makes the Leisler Institute an written in Dutch, German, French, English, and Latin, material resources. Through our lecture series, we essential repository of documentary sources on the microfilms, rare books, prints, maps, and introduce the latest scholarly research to the early English period in New York. photographic and digital materials that cover the full public.