Pieter Schuyler

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Pieter Schuyler was born in August 1696. He was the son of Pieter D. and Alida Van Slichtenhorst Schuyler. His parents were prominent Albany personages. His father died a few months prior to Pieter's birth and his mother carried on for a number of years as head of her Albany household. His subsequent story is complicated by the existence of a number of similarly named contemporaries born to the most important of early Albany families.

In December 1724, he married a woman identified as Hendrickie Hun at the Albany Dutch church. However, that union does not seem to show children being christened there.

At that point (mid-1720s), his verifiable life vanishes from our community-based research plan. Typically, he would have moved beyond the Albany orbit. Available family-based resources nor other works have not shed more light on his story.

In June 1749, a Pieter Schuyler is said to have married the widow Bregie Pels Goelet at the Dutch church on Manhattan. That union also seems to have been childless. "Breghchie Schuyler" filed a will in Albany in 1767 which was probated in Albany County in 1789.

Past diminishing returns, we move on for now from the life of one of a number of Albany natives known as "Pieter Schuyler."

biography in-progress - 2017


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the people of colonial Albany Sources: The life of Pieter Schuyler is CAP biography number 1735. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.




first posted 5/30/18