In 1821 Chief Justice John Jay said to his nephew William Heathcote
DeLancey: "Let me tell you, William: the *true* history of the American
Revolution can *never* be written." Jay declined to give his reasons,
saying, "You must be content to know that the fact is as I have said, and
that a great many people in those days were not at all what they seemed nor
what they are generally believed to have been." -- Edward Floyd
DeLancey's introduction to Thomas Jones' "History of New York
During the Revolutionary War", 1879
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