In 1678. hf, made a voyage to Europe when, with several other New-Yorkers, he was taken prisoner by the Turks, to whom he paid a ransom of 2,050 pieces of eight a 5s. each for his freedom. His fellow sufferers' liberty was purchased by a public subscription, taken up throughout the Colony. He was appointed, in 1683, by Gov. Dongan, one of the Commissioners of a Court of Admiralty, and in 1689 purchased for the Huguenots the tract called New Rochelle, in Westchester Co. His subsequent history, as well as that of his times, will best be learned from the following pages.

Jacob Leisler married Elsje Lookermans, widow of Corns. P. Vanderveon, by whom he had two children, Jacob and Mary. The latter married Miiborne, who was executed with Leisler, after whose death she became the wife of Abraham Gouverneur. It is a singular and melancholy fact, and one from which ■we may learn wisdom, that in the heat of those days, Leisler's conn.exions were his bitterest enemies. Bayard and Van Cortland, who were of the Council that urged his execution, were his Wife's nephews.

Among the orig. MSS. in this Department, are the public accounts of the greater part of his administration -- from July 1689 to Jany. 1691. The receipts for that period were £4,373- 17-6|. The disbursements, mostly caused by the war against the French, £4,894-10-9:1. We have also the Bills of Costs of the Crown Lawyers for prosecuting him and his associates for Treason. But want of space excludes these papers from this Volume. Ed