An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society On Its Sixtieth Ann
An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society On Its Sixtieth Ann
Frederic De Peyster
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With Freedom's foil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner floating o'er us ! " ' A few months after the termination of the perfe- cution of John Peter Zenger, and his restoration to his bufinefs and his family, the Colony was ftartled by the death of Governor Cosby, and by the rival claims of Rip Van Dam and George Clarke to the right of fuccelTion in the Government — the narra- tive of which has neceffarily arrefted the attention of ftudents of the Early Political Hiftory of New York. I hope ...I may be excufed for prefenting, at this time and place, the following brief fketch of the life and chara6ter of Mr. Van Dam, the venerable and influential leader of the popular party within the Colony ; as the Paper heretofore read by me before the Society on the fubjed: was defigned as introduc- ' " The American Flag, " by Drake (the clofing verfe by Halleck). Hijiory of New York. 39 tory to, rather than as a menioir of, this diftinguifhed man, and of the times of which I am now fpeaking. A member of a widely-known and influential fam- ily at Albany, where he was born, ^ probably while that city was yet a dependency of the Dutch, Rip Van Dam appears to have fought his fortune in the city of New York at an early age.
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