James Schuyler

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Transcript Summary of Will
John Schuyler of Barbadoes Neck
Updated. Probated June 15, 1807
Mentions: wife Latitia, slave William, granddaughters Mary Miller and Letitia Caroline Schuyler, daughters of son Arent
Executors: Latitia, son Arent and William Davis
Witnesses: John Wiley, Stephen Kingsland, David Kingsland

John married Mary Hunter 16 Feb 1769. Mary was born 31 May/Mar 1748; died 1810. [Group Sheet]

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Film 1028561 Early Settlements Pompton Plains page 50

Adonijah. All we can say respecting him is that he was lefty by his Father a large house with tracts and pieces of land at Elizabethtown Point and with John and Peter a right in the proceeds of the mine.

Adonijah Schuyler (1717-1762) received two tracts of land from his father in Elizabethtown Point, New Jersey. John Schuyler (1708-1773) inherited the homestead and the very valuable copper mines situated at New Barbados Neck. He was a colonel of the local militia and horse regiment in Bergen County, and in 1735-1746, served as a member of the New Jersey Council. He died on January 12, 1773. Peter Schuyler (1710-1762) inherited a tract of land on the Rahway River near Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He was a commander of the New Jersey contingent in the French and Indian Wars. Peter Schuyler had one child, Catherine, who married Archibald Kennedy.

http://www.jerseyhistory.org/findingaid.php?aid=0651

Adonijah married Gertrude Van Rensselaer.. Gertrude died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
By his father's will he received two tracts of land at Elizabethtown Point. Will dated 20 May 1761; proved 28 May 1762.

http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=143774715

Other Events:

• Misc: 1696 OR 7; Purchased land known as Pompton Plains, Morris Coounty, New Jersey and settled there win company with his brother-in-law, Major Anthony Brokholst.
• Residence: 1694, New York
• Misc: 28 Feb 1694, New York; Joined the Dutch Church.
• Residence: Apr 1710, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America

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Arent Schuyler

by

Stefan Bielinski



Arent Schuyler was born in June 1662. He was a middle child in the very large family of New Netherland pioneers Philip Pieterse and Margarita Van Slichtenhorst Schuyler. His prominent and wealthy father died just before Arent reached his twenty-first birthday.

Arent Schuyler married three times. In November 1684, he wed Jannetje Teller (daughter of Willlem Teller) at the Albany Dutch church. By 1700, six children were christened in Albany and New York. But the marriage ended with Jannetie's death following the birth of her last child. In December 1702, he married Swantje Van Duyckhuysen of New Jersey. She died after bearing five children. In 1724, he was in his sixties when he wed Maria Walters. He appears to have fathered twelve children within the first two marriages.

In March 1685, he filed a joint will with his then new wife, Jannetie Teller. It stated that children were expected and mentioned real and personal property. The survivor would become executor.

At that time, he was known in Albany as an Indian trader. In 1687, he was elected alderman for the third ward. In 1689, he was listed among the householders living in the second ward in Albany. He is said to have participated in military actions against the French in Canada during the 1690s.

By 1695, he had removed to New York City, was known as a merchant, and became a freeman of the city.

About 1707, he was named by his widowed mother to share equally in his parents' estate.

Following the death of his first wife, he re-married and moved to Pompton Plains, New Jersey. He maintained his house on Broadway in New York. In 1710, he acquired a large farm at New Barbadoes Neck, New Jersey. His family became wealthy when they started to mine the copper deposits on their land.

Arent Schuyler died at home in New Barbadoes in November 1730. The father of eleven and the patriarch of the New Jersey branch of the Schuyler family, he had lived almost sixty-eight years.

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/s/arschuyler97.html

Biographical Note:

These papers originate from the Arent Schuyler line of the Schuyler family. Arent Schuyler was born in Rensselaerswyck (Albany), New York on June 25, 1662 and died in Belleville, New Jersey on November 26, 1730. Although he was a merchant by trade, Schuyler participated in the military actions against the French and American Indians in Canada in the 1690s. He moved from New York to Pompton Plains, New Jersey, where he lived until 1710 when he bought a large farm in New Barbadoes Neck, New Jersey. His land had a significant deposit of copper, and the family became wealthy as they started to mine the metal. Arent Schuyler married three times: to Jenneke Teller, to Swantje Van Duyckhuysen, and to Maria Walter(s), the daughter of Robert Walter(s) and Catharine Leisler. He had eleven children, among them were Adonijah, John, and Peter.

http://www.jerseyhistory.org/findingaid.php?aid=0651

Birth:
http://books.google.com/books?id=3NQ4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR7&dq=history+of+essex+and+hudson+counties+new+jersey,+volume+11&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2SuiUtb9AYbXoATUgIGQBQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20essex%20and%20hudson%20counties%20new%20jersey%2C%20volume%2011&f=false (page 1277)

Misc:
They located themselves, according to Mr. Schenck's statement, near to each other, on the east side of the river, just below the steel-works; Brockholst on the spot where Major William Colfax now resides (1871) and Schuyler, as near as can be ascertained, on the site of the residence of Dr. William Colfax. They were thus, in all probability, the pioneers in the settlement of this region, and the first to open up what was then a wilderness, "unless the tradition that Joost Beam settled at Wynockie as early as 1660 is true." How long he remained here is not known.

Died:
His will is dated December 17, 1724, with codicil October 30, 1730; proven February 27, 1730(1?)

Arent married Swantie Dyckhuyse\Van Duykhuisen 12 Dec 1702. Swantie died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]