and writing of New York Constitution, 286–88, 334, 419
Yates, Anna de Ridder (Antje), 63–64, 94–95, 96, 168, 192, 236, 285, 333, 357, 434
death of, 474
grave of, 475
pregnancies of, 100, 114, 151
Yates, Catalina, 61
Yates, Christoffel, 60–61
Yates, Peter, 193
Yates, Robert:
Constitutional Convention left by, 437
elected to council, 193
on New York Convention, 255
powerful national government opposed by, 436
put on Constitutional Convention, 433
yaws, 65
yellow fever, 50, 65, 472–73
York, Pa., 315
Yorktown, Battle of, 390–91, 411, 423
French and American preparation for, 390
Yorktown, Va., 384–85, 389–90
Youths Behaviour, or Decency in Conversations Amongst Men, 33
Zenger, John Peter, 115
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Russell Shorto was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He is the author of five previous books, including Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City and the national bestseller The Island at the Center of the World. His books have been translated into fourteen languages. He is the recipient of the New York City Book Award, the Washington Irving Prize, the City of Amsterdam’s Frans Banninck Cocq Medal and the Dutch equivalent of a knighthood. He is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, a Fellow of the New York Academy of History and Senior Scholar at the New Netherland Institute. From 2008 to 2013 he was director of the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam. He has three children and three stepchildren, and lives in Cumberland, Maryland.
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