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Jacob Leisler: Life as a Merchant

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Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion that bears his name, Jacob Leisler was a prominent merchant, land developer, and exponent of Reformed religious fundamentalism and Orangist political ideology.

He was intimately bound to the social, economic, and political development of New Netherland and New York for three decades, from his arrival in 1660 as a soldier for the Dutch West India Company until his execution for treason in 1691.

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Life as a Merchant