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John Romeyn Brodhead was an American historian and scholar. During his service in the diplomatic corps he transcribed many rare documents related to the colonial history of New York.
Background
John Romeyn Brodhead was a descendant of Jan Jansen Bleecker who came in 1658 to New Netherland to help build up the Dutch power in America, and of Capt. Daniel Brodhead who came six years later, with the English expedition to help destroy it. The son of the Rev. Dr. Jacob and Elizabeth (Bleecker) Brodhead, he was born on Jan. 2, 1814 in Philadelphia and lived there until 1826, when his father was called to a pastorate in his old home, New York.
Education
John Brodhead was educated at Albany Academy and Rutgers College, graduating with honors from the latter institution at seventeen.
Career
John Brodhead then read law in the office of Hugh Maxwell and was admitted to the bar in 1835, only to abandon it after two years to accompany his invalid father to a country home at Saugerties, New York. Two years later he went to serve under his relative, Harmanus Bleecker, as attache to the legation at The Hague. Here he developed a strong interest in the Dutch contribution to the early history of New York, if indeed he did not have this interest when he accepted the position, for he might well have known of the action of the New York legislature (May 2, 1839), authorizing the appointment of an agent to procure from the archives of Europe materials to fill the gaps in the state archives. In any case, after a year at the legation, he resigned and sought the new post, to which Governor Seward appointed him in 1841.
Brodhead spent the next four years in the archives of Holland, France, and England, and in spite of meager appropriations, which necessitated the most rigorous economies, he returned with eighty volumes of manuscript copies of documents. This precious documents were edited by E. B. O'Callaghan and B. Fernow and published by the State, as Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Albany, 1856-86. Brodhead's report was published in 1845.
After three more enjoyable and stimulating years in the diplomatic service (1846 - 49), as secretary of legation in London under Bancroft, Brodhead settled down to write his History of the State of New York. The first volume (1609 - 64) was published in 1853. In the same year, he was appointed naval officer of the port of New York, which was one reason why his second volume (1664 - 91) did not appear until 1871. A third volume (1691 - 1789) was begun but never completed.
He died on May 6, 1873, and was buried in Trinity Cemetery.
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Politics
In his politicial affiliation Brodhead was a Democrat.
Views
If his descent from both conqueror and conquered did not assure an unpartisan spirit as completely as he thought it would do, his too favorable treatment of the Dutch burghers may have been caused by a reaction, more intense than he realized, against the ludicrous impression given of them in Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York.
Membership
Brodhead was a member of the New York Historical Society and the St. Nicolas Society.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"The ship in which he came back, " wrote Bancroft, "was more richly freighted with new materials for American history than any that ever crossed the Atlantic".
"He was somewhat above average height, graceful in form and attractive in manner. His countenance was mobile and expressive. His general disposition, combined with his position and character, won for him troops of friends, and his stores of incident and anecdote, as well as his general culture, made him welcome wherever he was known".
Connections
In 1856 Brodhead married Eugenia Bloodgood and bought a home in New York.