Background
Christoph, Peter Richard was born on April 25, 1938 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Hajo and Matilda Bertha (Haage) Christoph.
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This volume makes available critical documents from a period of time when the Dutch played a major role in building the New World. The documents cover a number of topics, including religious issues, the General Assembly and its legal system, the council and courts, and Indian and French relations.
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(Excerpt from the Introduction: Jacob Leisler has been mor...)
Excerpt from the Introduction: Jacob Leisler has been more an icon in historical writing than a person. That the icon has served very different groups over the centuries only shows that is has had little to do with the real person. In his own century he was both the fanatical and villainous despot and the martyred hero. In later times he was a forerunner of American democracy, and a symbol of colonial rebelliousness. He has also been pilloried in the Catholic press, not without justification, although Catholics were not among those treated most harshly during his administration. To Marxist theoreticians he was a voice for the proletariat; to National Socialist propagandists he was a German martyr. In short, much that has been written about Leisler has had to do with the interests of various groups and causes, many of them unrelated, or only distantly related, to anything happening in Leisler's time. It is only today that articles and books are beginning to appear in which his career is examined dispassionately. Many of the untruths are so ingrained that one must almost begin by saying what is not true before going on to discuss what is true about Leisler. Suffice it to say that, despite a long tradition of popular writing that he was base-born, resentful of being outside the mainstream of colonial life and commerce, and failing in his enterprises, he none of these. For much of our enlightenment we are indebted to the research by David William Voorhees, who has assembled copies of several thousand documents from private institutions and government archives from throughout Europe and North America.
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Christoph, Peter Richard was born on April 25, 1938 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Hajo and Matilda Bertha (Haage) Christoph.
Bachelor, Hartwick College, New York City, 1960. Master of Arts, State University of New York, 1964. Master of Library Science, State University of New York, 1968.
Assistant library cataloging New York State Library., Albany, 1967—1968, senior library manuscripts and history, 1968—1972, associate library, 1972—1991. Editor New York History Manuscripts, since 1974, senior editor Selkirk, 1991. Director New Netherland Project, Albany, New York, 1974—1984, New York History Manuscripts, Selkirk, New York, since 1988.
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President Town of Bethlehem History Association, Cedar Hill, New York, 1980—1982, trustee, 1989—1992. Member Bethlehem Rural Cemetery Association, Selkirk, 1995—2000. Archivist First Lutheran Church, Albany, 1983—2003, lay preacher, 1985—1999.
Representative Board of the Lutheran Archives Center, Philadelphia, 1988—2003. Member committee on minutes and protocol Upstate New York Synod, Syracuse, 1988—2003. Member, congressional council First Lutheran Church, Albany, 1986—1989, 2000—2003.
Archivist Upstate New York Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in American, Syracuse, 1993—2003. Member Friends of Schuyler Mansion, Albany, 1988—1996. Fellow: Holland Society of New York.
Member: Lutheran History Conference, Tombstone Territory Rendezvous, Friends of New Netherland, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
Married Florence Anna Weaver, June 6, 1959. Children: Daniel William, Richard Peter, AnnaLise Hall.