Credit, Court, and New York City Merchants in the Age of Leisler

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1988: “Domestic Life in New Netherland”
5. Home is More Than a Roof 7
6. The Trades in the Village of Graft 17
7. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1989: “The Age of Leisler”
8. The Pro-Leislerian Farmer 29
9. Credit, Court, and New York City Merchants in the Age of Leisler 37
10. Leisler’s Pre-1689 Biography and Family Background 47
11. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1990: “New Netherland and the Frontier”
12. De Suyt Rivier 57
13. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1991: “The Persistence of the Dutch after 1664”
14. The Dutch Heritage in Nineteenth-Century American Literature 67
15. “Not Hasty to Change Old Habits for New” 75
16. From Mutual Will to Male Prerogative 83
17. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1992: “The Dutch in the Age of Exploration”
18. Along the Spice Trails 91
19. Dutch Primacy in Shipbuilding 99
20. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1993: “Manor Life and Culture in the Hudson Valley”
21. Dutch Foodways in the Hudson River Valley 109
22. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1994: “Family History: Two Branches into New Netherland Research”
23. A Marriage of Genealogy and History I 117
24. A Marriage of Genealogy and History II 123
25. Wringing Information from a Drowned Princess 131
26. Why New Netherland Genealogists and Historians Need Each Other— An Editor’s Perspective 135
27. New Netherlanders and Their European Ancestry 147
28. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1995: “ ‘neighbourlie correspondencye’: Relations between New Netherland and New England”
29. The Hartford Treaty 161
30. An Uneasy Alliance 167
31. Did Boundaries Really Matter in Seventeenth-Century North America? 173
32. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1996: “The Staffs of Life: Bread and Beer”
33. The Failure of West India Company Farming on the Island of Manhattan 181
34. From Herbs to Hops 189
35. Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1997: “The West India Company and the Atlantic World”
36. The WIC and the Reformed Church 197
37. Winds of Change 209
38. A Monopoly Relinquished 217
39. On Common Ground 223
40. New Netherland and the Atlantic World 233
41. Notes 239