Pierre Fauconnier and His Descendants

Pierre Fauconnier and His Descendants

Author: Abraham Ernest Helffenstein

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13:

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Pierre Fauconnier II (d.1746) was a grandson of Pierre Fauconnier and Judith Normand, and a son of Jean Fauconnier and Madeleine De la Touche, French Huguenots who had immigrated to London, England. Pierre II married Madelaine Pasquereau in 1680, and immigrated during or before 1702 to New York City, subsequently moving to Hacksensack, New Jersey. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere. Some des- cendants immigrated after the Revolutionary War to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. Includes much ancestry and genealogical data in France to the early 1500s.


The Lord Cornbury Scandal

The Lord Cornbury Scandal

Author: Patricia U. Bonomi

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 080783906X

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For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figure, whose alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects by parading through the streets of New York City dressed as a woman. Now, Patricia Bonomi offers a challenging reassessment of Cornbury. She explores his life and experiences to illuminate such topics as imperial political culture; gossip, Grub Street, and the climate of slander; early modern sexual culture; and constitutional perceptions in an era of reform. In a tour de force of scholarly detective work, Bonomi also reappraises the most "conclusive" piece of evidence used to indict Cornbury--a celebrated portrait, said to represent the governor in female dress, that hangs today in the New-York Historical Society. Stripping away the many layers of "the Cornbury myth," this innovative work brings to life a fascinating man and reveals the conflicting emotions and loyalties that shaped the politics of the First British Empire. "A tour de force of historical detection.--Tim Hilchey, New York Times Book Review "Bonomi's book is more than an exoneration of Cornbury. It is a case study of what she aptly calls the politics of reputation." --Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books "A fascinating, authoritative glimpse into the seamy underside of imperial politics in the late Stuart era.--Timothy D. Hall, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "An intriguing detective story that....casts light upon the operation of political power in the past and the nature of history writing in the present.--Alan Taylor, New Republic For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figure whose alleged transgressions ranged from looting the colonial treasury to public cross dressing in New York City. Stripping away the many layers of "the Cornbury myth," Patricia Bonomi offers a challenging reassessment of this fascinating figure and of the rough and tumble political culture of the First British Empire--with its muckraking press, salacious gossip, and conflicting imperial loyalties. -->


War on the Middleline: The Founding of a Community In the Kayaderosseras Patent In the Midst of the American Revolution

War on the Middleline: The Founding of a Community In the Kayaderosseras Patent In the Midst of the American Revolution

Author: James E. Richmond

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-08-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 148345391X

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In 1768 the sixty-year struggle to open the lands of the Kayaderosseras Patent north of Albany for settlement was finally resolved. The long conflict with France was over, and disputes over ownership rights with the local Mohawk Indians had been settled. This is the story of the families that left their homesteads in Connecticut and moved to Middleline Road in Ball's Town, in the Patent. There they began their new life on the frontier, soon to be interrupted by the American Revolution. As Yankees, most of these pioneers supported the rebel cause. In 1780 the war came to them, as a contingent of 200 British soldiers, Loyalists, and Mohawk Indians descended on Ball's Town, pillaging and burning their newly-built cabins. In the wake of the raid twenty-five men were carried off to Canada, where many remained imprisoned until the end of the War two years later. "War on the Middleline" is the story of these families, their heritage, and the hardships they endured during the founding of our nation.


The Jarring Interests

The Jarring Interests

Author: Philip J. Schwarz

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780873953771

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Examines the process by which most of New York's modern boundaries were created.


Huguenot Genealogies

Huguenot Genealogies

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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 0806351195

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The volume at hand--a reprint of Volume II of the printed records of Cambridge--is a transcription of the records of Cambridge town meetings and meetings of selectmen from the town's beginnings until 1703.