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Leisler, the above grantee (who only survived this conveyance about 

 •eighteen months) was authorized by the Committee of Public Safety (a 

 body appointed by the people) on the 16th of August, 1689, "to use the 

 power and authority of commander-in-chief, until order should come 

 from their majesties," King William and Queen Mary; "and further, to 

 do all such acts as are requisite for the good of the province, taking coun- 

 sel with the militia and civil authority as occasion shall require." 



For assuming the government on this occasion Leisler was afterwards 

 tried on a charge of high treason and executed on the 17th of May, 

 1 69 1. " But everything proves that Leisler was condemned unlawfully and 

 executed unjustly," but afterwards the act of attainder was reversed; this 

 was done at the instance of young Leisler and the French Huguenots. 



It has been the policy (continues Dunlap) of men of all ages to pre- 

 serve the memory of the founders of the nation they claimed as their 

 own. It serves to perpetuate nations. Rome, the eternal, bears the 

 name of its reputed founder. The founder of the Democracy of New 

 York was Jacob Leisler, and New York is now an empire founded on 

 Democracy. The line that says, " an honest man is the noblest work 

 of God," has been received as a truism. And Jacob Leisler was truly 

 an honest man, who — though a martyr to the cause of liberty, and sacri- 

 ficed by injustice, aristocracy and party malignity— ought to be considered 

 as one in whom New York should take pride. In the possession of E. 

 N. Bibby, Esq., of New York, is a gold piece, of the time of James IL, 

 said to have been in the possession of the unfortunate Leisler, the night 

 preceding his execution. Around the edge of which is an inscription 

 ■cut with his penknife. 



The descendants of this illustrious man were once quite numerous 

 in this county, as may be best described in the following table : 



Descendants of Leislee, eesident in Westchester County. 

 Hon. Jacob Leisler Elsje Thymens. 



Jacob Leisler, da 1. Jacob Milbourne, execut- 



| ed with, his father-in-law. 

 I 2. Abraham Gouverneur. 



da— Hon. Samuel Gonverneur— Experience Sarah— Hon. Lewis Morris 

 I David I Johnston. j of Morrisania. 



I Ogden. 



II II 

 Abraham— Sarah Ludlow. Rebecca— Thomas Bibby. Hon. Gouverneur-Anne Isabella— Rev. I. 

 Ogden. I I Morris. I Cary I Wilkina 

 [ I I Ran dolph. ) D.D. 



Catharine— Abij ah E.N. Bibby, M.D. Gouverner Morris, Martin— Sarah 



I Hammond. Yonkers. Morrisania. WilMns ] Nutter. 



*Ogden Hammond, tGouverneur Wilbins, 



* Deceased. Castlehill Neck, 



i Deceased. Westchester. 



