Martha Bennewe Radcliff Oliver

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Martha Bennewe was born in the summer of 1707. She was the daughter of Pierre and Hendrickie Van Schoonhoven Bennewe.

In February 1725, she married Albany native William Radcliff at the Albany Dutch church. Two months later, the first of four children was christened at the Albany church where she joined her husband as a baptism sponsor. Radcliff died following a head injury in February 1734. That October, she married Richard Oliver. By 1742, four more children had been christened in Albany. Perhaps it was her second husband's first marriage.

In 1756, Oliver's "dramshop" residence was described on a census of Albany householders taken by the British army. Over the next years, Richard and Martha witnessed baptisms at St. Peter's Anglican church.

Martha Bennewe Radcliff Oliver had passed on by September 1763 when Oliver remarried at the Dutch church in Schenectady.


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the people of colonial Albany Sources: The life of Martha Bennewe Radcliff Oliver is CAP biography number 7317. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.




first posted 6/20/15; revised 10/30/15