The Chancellor's Court

Monday, March 15, 2021

The Sugar Maple Bubble: The Attempt to End Slavery with Maple Sugar

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  Sugar Maple Tree                A cer Sacharinum, The sugar maple tree. Every year, about this time, thousands of Sugar Maples are tappe...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Henry Brockholst Livingston: Soldier, Lawyer, Duelist, Judge

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Henry Brockholst Livingston   Henry Brockholst Livingston or Brockholst Livingston as he preferred to be called was born on November 25, 175...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Pointy End Toward the Bad Guy: Chancellor Livingston's Sword

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The Chancellor's colichemarde from the collection of the New-York Historical Society C hancellor Robert R. Livingston was nothing if not...
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In 1777 Robert R. Livingston, John Jay and Gouverneur Morris wrote the New York State Constitution. Perhaps the most important position in that document was the Chancellor who sat on the Council of Revision and in his court was charged with deciding, not what was legal, but what was right. A blog dedicated mainly to the 18th and early 19th century history of the Hudson River Valley with a little bit of what ever catches my interest that day thrown in. Twitter @chancellorbob
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