Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, at the Celebration of Its Seventy-Second Anniversary: Tuesday, December 19, 1876
It is fitting that a descendant of Col. Abraham de Peyster - who, as Senior and Presiding Member of the King's Council, administered pro. Fem. The affairs of this Province, in 1700 - should remind us of these illustrious contemporaries and subjects of the Great Hollander who secured in England the liberty of the press and of religion, and who established there honest finance and ministerial responsibility.
Abraham de Peyster, as Alderman, Mayor of New York City, Colonel com manding the Militia, Horse and Foot, of the City and County of New York, Judge of the Supreme Court, and Treasurer of the Provinces of New York and New Jersey, was eminent as a defender of popular freedom in the Colonies. He was virtually the Finance Minister on whom a succession of the Royal Governors relied, and he deserves to be ranked among the ablest public men of the reign of the Third William of England.
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