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Archibald Kennedy, the son of Alexander Kennedy of Craigoch, was a descendant of a younger line of the Cassillis peerage of Scotland. He was born in the year 1685 in Craigoch, Ayrshire, Scotland.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W021336 Dedication to Henry Pelham signed: Arch. Kennedy. For further discussion see: Wroth, Lawrence C. An American bookshelf 1775, 1934, p. 118-124. New-York: Printed and sold by James Parker, at the new-printing-office, in Beaver-Street, 1750. 4,36p.; 8°
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Archibald Kennedy, the son of Alexander Kennedy of Craigoch, was a descendant of a younger line of the Cassillis peerage of Scotland. He was born in the year 1685 in Craigoch, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Kennedy emigrated as a young man to New York, where he was granted the freedom of the city on July 25, 1710. Of his first dozen years in America little is known; he may have been an officer of the regular troops stationed in the province. He was appointed collector of customs and receiver-general of the province August 8, 1722, and was sworn of the Council, April 13, 1727. In this official capacity, maintained for half a century, he appears to have been punctilious and diligent, cannily refraining from excess of initiative, and consistently "regular" in his political attitudes.
Like other colonial officials he participated in land speculations. He bought Bedlow's Island in New York harbor for one hundred pounds in 1746 and in 1758 sold it to New York City for one thousand pounds, the island being required for quarantine purposes. Another transaction was his purchase of the premises at numbers one and three Broadway, upon the former of which he erected in 1760 the "spacious and famous mansion" which became a landmark among the city's residences.
Kennedy had an active mind and he exploited the opportunities afforded by his position for observation of the workings of British economic policy. This is evidenced by three pamphlets from his pen, Observations on the Importance of the Northern Colonies under Proper Regulations (1750), The Importance of Gaining and Preserving the Friendship of the Indians to the British Interest Considered (1752), and Serious Considerations on the Present State of the Affairs of the Northern Colonies (1754). It is clear that he was in full sympathy with the mercantilist aims of the policy of the empire but dissented from the methods employed to give them effect. He foresaw the possibility of trouble for the empire unless changes were made, maintaining that the Americans could not be kept dependent by keeping them poor. And he quotes with approval a "Mr. Trenchard" who had remarked: "nor will any Country continue their Subjection to another, only because their Great Grand Mothers were acquainted!" . The pamphlet on Indian policy was the result of his prolonged experience as a member of the New York Council and was addressed both to the imperial authorities and to the American provincial assemblies. In 1761 he asked to be relieved from service on the Council because of the infirmities of age, and he died within two years of his retirement from that body.
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In December 1736 Kennedy married Mary (Walter) Schuyler, widow of Arent Schuyler of New Jersey, thereby making an alliance of great advantage both for wealth and for family connection with the local aristocracy. This was apparently his second marriage. His son and heir, Captain Archibald Kennedy, who succeeded as eleventh Earl of Cassillis in 1792, was the offspring of an earlier marriage