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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
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Bannister and by Mr. William Pagan, but neither of these writers has contributed much to our knowledge of Patersons earlier years. In discussing this matter, it is necessary first of all to notice an alleged discovery made by Mr. Bannister, which, if the facts stated therein be reliable, effectually disposes of any notion that William Paterson, the financier and projector of the Scotch colony of Darien, could have been the person of that name in New York in 1668-69. This is a statement respecting his own age, claimed by Bannister to exist in the will of William Paterson, — a statement not only of an extraordinary nature in itself, but one which, though of the utmost importance to their respective writings, is treated with such amazing carelessness, by both Bannister and Pagan, as to deprive their remarks upon the subject of any substantial value. Life and Trials of William Paterson, by S. Bannister, 1858-59. The Birthplace and Parentage of William Paterson. By W. Pagan. Edinburgh, 1865.
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William Paterson. From a wash-drawing in the British Museum. WILLIAM PATERS ON THE FINANCIER 207 After fixing, according to his belief, the place of Patersons birth to a farm called Skipmyre in the parish of Tinwall, in the southern portion of Dumfries shire, in Scotland (of which parish, however, no ancient baptismal records exist), Bannister remarks (page 35): The time of his birth can be settled exactly from his will, in which he states himself to be, at its date, the 1st day of July, 1718, sixty-three years and three months old, which refers his birth to March or April, 1655. On page 425 of his work, Bannister gives in full (or in what purports to be so) the will of William Paterson, in which there is not the least allusion to his age; nor is this explained or corrected in a subsequent edition of Bannisters work. To make matters worse, Pagan, in his sketch of Patersons life, says (page 6) that the will, as quoted by Mr. Bannister, from the record in Doctors Commons, London, runs as fol-low

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