THE

LIFE

OF

ETER VAN SCHAACK, LL. D.,
121839

EMBRACING SELECTIONS FROM HIS

CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER WRITINGS,

DURING THE

American Revolution,

AND

HIS EXILE IN ENGLAND.

BY HIS SON

HENRY C. VAN SCHAACK.

Superanda fortuna ferendo.

NEW-YORK :

. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY.

MDCCCXLII.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by

HENRY C. VAN SCHAACK,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New-York.

University Press,

JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER, 114 Nassau-street, NEW-YORK.