Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1999
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Pp: xvi + 281. Titles: frt. & sp. Illust. w/ b/w prints, portraits & facsimile docs. (listed). Interior leaves are clean and tight.The life of Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam the notary, who lived in Beverwijck (Albany) and committed suicide in 1685. Includes notes and refections, references & index. A clean copy and apparently unread.
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- Title
- Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
- Author
- Merwick, Donna
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Good+
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801436087
- ISBN 13
- 9780801436086
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo
This outstanding contribution to Colonial social history is highly recommended for all undergraduate and graduate history collections.
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"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.
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About the Author
Donna Merwick is Visiting Fellow at the Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. Her most recent book is Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: The Dutch and English Experiences.
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