Book/Printed Material Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804,
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Image 1 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804,- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
- Date: 1903
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Image 6 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804,- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 7 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804,- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 9 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, Life of General Philip Schuyler 1733-1804 By BAYARD TUCKERMAN New York DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1903- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 10 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, Copyright, 1903, by Dodd, Mead and Company First edition published September, 1903 c~, THE LIBRARY OF COMbKcSS. Two Copies Recaivee OCT 16 190? Cop rig;-it Entry cuss Ot wo, Mo 1 oca-…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 11 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, i^ iL PREFACE THIS memoir is based on General Schuyler s papers and letter books, on the Gates papers belonging to the New York His- torical Society, on the archives of the…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 12 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804,- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 13 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The Province of New York The Hudson River Manors The Schuyler Family I CHAPTER II. Youth of Philip Schuyler The French and Indian War... 32 CHAPTER III.…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 14 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER VII. PAGE British Defeats at Bennington and in the Mohawk Valley Bright Prospects of the American Army Schuyler Superseded by Gates Saratoga Last Services During the War 209…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 15 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, ILLUSTRATIONS General Philip Schuyler Frontispiece Schuyler House at Albany 68 Map of the Northern Department 170- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 16 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804,- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 17 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, Life of General Philip Schuyler Chapter I. The Province of New York. The Hudson River Manors. The Schuyler Family. FROM the days when Philip Schuyler led his company of provincials in the…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 18 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER off the paralyzing reliance on the protection of the mother country; they were inspired to determine rea- sonably and to assert courageously their rights as free men…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 19 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, COLONIAL NEW YORK as the language of the province, forcing the domines to adopt it in their churches, Dutch and French were heard on every side. The same variety prevailed in religion.…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 20 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER mechanics, the shifting crowd of laborers and sailors to the negro slaves. As emigrants arrived, there was no lack of opportunity for employment, and the in- dustrious…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 21 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, COLONIAL NEW YORK perseverance and ingenuity. Two great causes of division existed, provocative of much debate and tending to prepare the minds of men for the greater questions of public policy soon…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 22 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER While the busy streets, fine houses and social amuse- ments of New York made it seem a great capital to the country dweller, and a very seat…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 23 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, COLONIAL ALBANY trade. For success, he needed all his hardihood and endurance. It was his perilous task to paddle a canoe, laden with hatchets, blankets, gunpowder, and rum, through the watery highways…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 24 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER vous of scarlet-coated regiments, of boat-builders and militia. At times, the regular inhabitants seemed lost in the crowd, and the influx of rough men caused such disorders…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 25 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, THE HUDSON RIVER FAMILIES of Versailles and of London, where ministers of state bent over the map of America, the Hudson River, how to use, to gain or to defend it, was…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 26 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER pany, which had planted the colony called New Netherland, realized its inability as a purely trading company to settle its territory with agricultural colonists whose presence would…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 27 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, THE HUDSON RIVER FAMILIES ward twenty-four miles along the banks of the Hud- son, and on either side of that river twenty-four miles east and west. It contained about seven hundred thousand…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 28 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER Schlectenhorst, a man who needed all his rude courage to maintain the rights of the patroon against the assaults of Peter Stuyvesant, who, as director general of…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 29 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, THE HUDSON RIVER FAMILIES Rensselaerwyck for seventeen years and died there. He married the daughter of Oloff Stevense Van Cort- landt, and one of his daughters married Peter Schuy- ler. Until 1695,…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 30 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER labor of man. Slowly tenants were induced to settle at a nominal rent, who would fell the trees, plant wheat among the stumps and raise human dwellings…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 31 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, THE HUDSON RIVER FAMILIES He soon left his messmates in the fort and entered the civil service of the company, where his education and industry caused his promotion to be keeper of…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 32 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER character, ready to serve his country as well as him- self. He accumulated a considerable property of his own independently of that left him by his father.…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 33 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, THE HUDSON RIVER FAMILIES has always been inhabited by descendants of the founder of the manor, and its hospitality was ever the dependence of travellers journeying up and down the river. From…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 34 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER he brought httle or nothing, but a great store of ambition and industry. His great-grandfather, his grandfather and his father were ministers of the church of Scotland.…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 35 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, THE SCHUYLER FAMILY Robert R., the chancellor of New York; and Edward, the author of the Louisiana Code. During the earlier years of the province of New York, before the issues involved…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 36 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER Dutchman could sleep securely in Albany, were benefits due chiefly, before 1745, to members of the Schuyler family. In the wars and the diplomacy of the frontier,…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 37 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, THE SCHUYLER FAMILY almost nightly. Thus Schuyler and his sons acquired a familiarity with their character and a facIHty In dealing with them which proved of great value to the province. A…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 38 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER Philip Pieterse Schuyler died in 1683, and was buried from the old Dutch church where his arms were emblazoned on one of the windows. Although one of…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 39 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, THE SCHUYLER FAMILY ability of Sir William Johnson. In the provincial records we often see the figure of this sturdy and tactful Dutchman, sometimes alone, sometimes accom- panied by his brother-in-law, Livingston,…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
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Image 40 of Life of General Philip Schuyler, 1733-1804, LIFE OF GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER could lead his savage allies on the warpath as well as hold their allegiance by persuasion. The annals of the time reveal him enduring the hardships of…- Contributor: Tuckerman, Bayard
- Date: 1903