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Frederic De Peyster

(De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882)

Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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red to the law; was appointed Mas-ter in Chancery in 1820, and continued in office for seventeenyears; was president of the New York Historical Society; waspresident of the New York Society Library; was president ofthe St. Nicholas Club; was president of the St. NicholasSociety; and was said, in a public print, to have been anactive officer of more societies than any other New-Yorker whoever lived. Just as the first Johannes de Peyster came out to NewAmsterdam to explore before settling, so Robert Watt of RoseHill, near Edinburgh, Scotland, came to New York to lookabout him, and then went back to Edinburgh, and emigratedto America for good toward the close of the seventeenth cen-tury, settling in New York city. He likewise soon attained thehighest official positions, as he enjoyed the highest social rela-tions. He was the brother-in-law of Sir Walter Riddle, Baronet,a creation of King David I of Scotland (1124-53); was theson of John Watt of Rose Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland; writer to i
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JOHN WATTS DE PEYSTER 95 the Signet and Lord of Sessions (according to Burkes Peerageand Baronetage, 1850-54); and was grandson of Adam Watt ofRose Hill, Commissary to Kirkcudbright. Robert Watt, or Watts (for he added the letter s to his name),was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1680, and died in New Yorkcity in 1750. In 1706 he married Mary, daughter of WilliamNicoll, originally Nicolls, of Islip, Long Island, and of his wifeAnne, daughter of Jeremiah van Rensselaer and Maria vanCortlandt. Their son, the Hon. John Watts, great-grandfatherof General de Peyster, was one of the founders, incorporators,and trustees of the New York Society Library in 1753; was^elected to the New York Assembly; was commissioner in thematter of the New York and New Hampshire boundary dispute;was a leading founder of the New York Merchants Exchange in1752; was a member of the colonial committee of correspon-dence ; was long a member of the Kings Council; was attorney-general under Governor Monckton in 1762-

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Frederic de Peyster II (November 11, 1796, in New York City – August 17, 1882, in Tivoli, New York) was a New York City lawyer and prominent member of the De Peyster family. (From Wikipedia)

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In memoriam. Frederic de Peyster, LL.D. ... (C. H. Ludwig, printer, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
In memoriam. Frederic de Peyster, LL. D. (C.H. Ludwig, printer, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Frederic De Peyster:

De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: Address on the Culture Demanded by the Age (New York: Printed by J. F. Trow, 1869)
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De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: A Biographical Sketch of Robert R. Livingston (New York: Pub. for the New York Historical Society, 1876)
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De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, at the celebration of its 72d anniversary, Dec. 19, 1876. [On the Representative Men of the English Revolution.] (New York, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: An address delivered before the New-York Historical Society : at the celebration of its seventy-second anniversary, Tuesday, December 19, 1876 (Pub. for the Society, 1876), also by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, at the celebration of its sixty-ninth anniversary, Tuesday, January 6, 1874. (Pub. for the Society, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: An address delivered before the New York historical society, at the celebration of its sixty-ninth anniversary, Tuesday, January 6, 1874 (Pub. for the Society, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: An address delivered before the New-York historical society, on its sixtieth anniversary (Pub. for the Society, 1865), also by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: An address delivered before the New-York Historical Society, on its sixtieth anniversary, Tuesday, November 22, 1864 (Published for the Society, 1865), also by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: Address on the culture demanded by the age. (Printed by J. F. Trow, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: A biographical sketch of Robert R. Livingston. Read before the N. Y. Historical Society, October 3, 1876 (Pub. for the Society, 1876), also by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: A biographical sketch of Robert R. Livingston : read before the N.Y. Historical Society, October 3, 1876 (Published for the Society, 1876), also by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress), YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: The life and administration of Richard, earl of Bellomont, governor of the provinces of New York (The Society, 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: The life and administration of Richard, earl of Bellomont, governor of the provinces of New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from 1697 to 1701 : an address delivered before the New York Historical Society, at the celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary, Tuesday, November 18th, 1879 (The Society, 1879), also by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: The life and administration of Richard, earl of Bellomont, governor of the provinces of New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, from 1697 to 1701 : An address delivered before the New York historical society, at the celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary ... November 18th, 1879 (The Society, 1879), also by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: Memoir of Rip Van Dam (Press of Edmund Jones & Co., 1865), also by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882: The moral and intellectual influence of libraries upon social progress. An address delivered before the New York Historical Society ... November 21, 1865. (The Society, 1866), also by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

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