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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Schaack, Peter 1747-1832 (search)
The committee on conspiracies at Albany summoned him before them (June, 1777), and required him to take the oath of allegiance to the Continental Congress. He refused, and was ordered to Boston within ten days. From that time he was constantly restrained; and when he asked the privilege of taking his wife, who was dying with consumption, to New York, it was refused. She died, and he was banished from his native country in October, 1778, when he went to England, and remained there until the summer of 1785, when he returned home, and was received with open arms by men of all parties. While in England he had associated with the most distinguished men of the realm, who regarded him as one of the brightest Americans among them, for his scholarship, legal attainments, and rare social qualities were remarkable. These made his mansion at Kinderhook the resort of some of the most eminent men of the land, and his society was sought continually. He died in Kinderhook, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1832.