Peter van Schaack

American lawyer Date Of Birth : 1747-03-01T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1832-09-17T00:00:00Z

Peter Van Schaack (March 1747 – 17 September 1832) was an American lawyer, born in Kinderhook, New York. He studied law at King’s College (later Columbia University); was a successful and well-respected colonial lawyer; collected, revised, and digested the laws of the Colony of New York from 1691 to 1773; and operated one of the first law schools in the United States.

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