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Title: A volume commemorating the creation of the second city of the world : by the consolidation of the communities adjacent to New York harbor under the new charter of the City of New York
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC
Subjects: Lawyers Accountants Physicians
Publisher: New York : Republic Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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waste of Dutch legal acumen. He therefore expended his remain-ing resources for an estate at the Dutch settlement at Midwout, Long Island,and with commendable energy and versatility the unsuccessful notary tookto farming. Many a lawyer since then has done the same thing. In factthere appears to have been a good bit of human nature about Dirck VanSchelluyn, late of The Hague. In 1655 Van Schelluyn was appointed bailiff,and resided for a time in the Stadthuys. In 1660 he removed to Kensse-laerwyck, of which Colony or manor he was appointed secretary. There aresurely few figures in the shadowy and far-away Dutch era of Manhattan sopicturesque and interesting as the first lawyer of New Amsterdam. Thechange from Dutch control to English brought a complete change of pro-cedure, and before many decades there appears to have grown up a group ofso-called lawyers, men who were highly respected in attainment, though itis likely that like Van Schelluyn they did not follow the law exclusively, but
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Famous Lawyers of the Last Century. 205 by reason oi superior ability, shrewdness, and command of language, werefitted to act as pleaders. This was the situation during the early Englishperiod, for the records of the Assize and Mayors court mention ten or twelvenames of attorneys. The years that followed were ones of increase and pros-perity for the legal profession. By 1775 the Bar of New York numberednearly 100. It appears to have led the profession in all the other Coloniesin influence, standing, and attainment. Indeed, so powerful had become thepolitical influence of the lawyers of New York that it was made the subjectof a special letter by Lieutenant-Governor Golden to Lord Halifax. At thatperiod the lawyers of New York were socially as well as politically the mostinfluential class. It was fortunate for the success of the Kevolution thatthese men were ardent patriots. Not only did many of them unhesitatinglyjeopardize their extensive estates by espousing the rebel cause, but they

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