The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope - #101: Universally Detested [Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury -- the worst governor in New York history]

#101: Universally Detested [Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury -- the worst governor in New York history]

08/19/24 • 45 min

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope

Legend says Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury (1661-1723) was New York's worst governor: a nepo baby failson; a bully and bigot; a corrupt spendthrift; a sex pest with an ear fetish. Was he really all that awful?

And was he actually a transvestite?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/universally-detested/

Key sources for this episode include Patricia Bonomi's The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America; Alan Taylor's Writing Early American History; Charles Worthen Spencer's "The Cornbury Legend"; John Grant Wilson's The Memorial History of the City of New York from Its First Settlement to the Year 1892; and Shelley Ross's Fall from Grace: Sex, Scandal and Corruption in American Politics from 1702 to the Present.

Special thanks to the Initiates who contributed their voice talents to this episode: #2 Robert White, Richard Le Poidevin (of "The Curiosity of...?!"), #7, Dorothy White, Kristen Harkness, and Mary Anne White.

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#102: Rapscallions! Part 1: "Patience is Sour" [Thomas Henry Hines and the Great Northwestern Conspiracy]

Thomas Henry Hines had a cunning plan to free Confederate prisoners-of-war and break the Northwest off of the Union. All he needed were sixty good men, fifty footsoldiers, and friends on the inside. Too bad none of those groups existed.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/patience-is-sour/

(This episode is part one of Rapscallions!, a three-part series about Confederate cloak-and-dagger operations in the final year of the Civil War. Parts two and three will be released on 9/23 and 10/7 respectively.)

Key sources for this episode include Adam Mayers' Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union; David C. Keehn's Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War; Duane Schultz's The Dahglren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War; James D. Horan's Confederate Agent: A Discovery in History; and William A. Tidwell's April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War.

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