Pieter P. Schuyler

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Pieter P. Schuyler was born in February 1723. He was the first son born to the marriage of Pieter Schuyler, Jr. and Catharina Groesbeck Schuyler. He grew up in a large family in a prominent trader's home in the third ward and at the family farm located on the Flats north of Albany.

About 1745, he married Geertruy Schuyler - his cousin and the sister of the future General Philip Schuyler. By 1749, three children had been christened at the Dutch churches in Albany and New York. A son and a daughter would live to raise their own families.

These Schuylers probably set up their home at Schuyler Flats as this Pieter seems to have maintained a low profile during his short adult life.

Pieter P. Schuyler died in September 1753 and was buried at the Flats. He had lived but thirty years. His widow re-married in 1760 and survived until 1813.


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the people of colonial Albany Sources: The life of Pieter P. Schuyler is CAP biography number 1737. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.




first posted: 8/30/07