Shuysters and Skinners (1845)--name "Shuyster"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Google turns up a few dozen "shuyster"s,  as both surname and common noun.

JL

"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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It's as bona fide as anything else you'd find in Newsbank's "Early
American Newspapers", I suppose.
"All I know is what I read in the papers . . . ."

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> FWIW, I never came across the surname "Shuyster." Is this bona fide?
>
> Gerald Cohen
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> Original message from Bill Mullins, June 6, 2005:
> > The Pittsfield Sun.; Date: 1858-07-08; Vol: LVIII; Iss: 3016;
> > Page: [1];
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> > "Jacob Shuyster, alias Tom Ham, a notorious burglar, who
> some years since stole jewels, &c., from the Patent Office at
> Washington, was arrested at Bridgeport, Ct., on Monday, by
> officers from Philadelphia on a charge of making counterfeit coin."
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