Margarita Van Schlichtenhorst

Abt 1628 - 1710  (~ 82 years)

• Name	Margarita Van Schlichtenhorst
  Born	Abt 1628	Netherlands
  Gender	Female
  Died	1710	Rensselaerswyck, New York Colony, British America
  Person ID	I1206	My Family Tree | Raynor-Armstrong
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2014

  
  

  Father	Brandt Arent Van Schlichtenhorst,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F410	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Colonel Philip Pieterse Schuyler,   b. 1628, Amsterdam, Holland ,   d. 9 Mar 1684, Albany, Albany, New York, British America  (Age 56 years)
  Married	Early Settlements Pompton Plains, page 46, FLH; film 1028561 The first name in this country was Philip Pietersen Schuyler. He came from Amsterdam, Holland in the year 1650 and settled at Albany. December the 22of that year he was married to Margaritta Van Slechtonhorst, then aged 22 years, daughter of Brant Arent Van Slechtonhorst- director of the colony of Rensselaerwyck who came from Nykirk/Nieiokerk in Gudderland [Gelderland?] to America in 1648.
  Children	+ 1. Captain Arent Schuyler,   b. 25 Jun 1662, Albany ,   d. 26 Nov 1730, Belleville, Bergen, New Jersey, British America  (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F329	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - Abt 1628 - Netherlands Died - 1710 - Rensselaerswyck, New York Colony, British America  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Some Colonial Mansions and those who lived in them. page 407-408 " Margaret Van Schlectenhorst was two-and-twenty years of age when she married young Schuyler, and ten children were the fruitful results of this union." She lived sixty years after her nuptials, and survived her husband more than a quarter of a century. She possessed great energy of character and independence of spirit, like her father, and after her husband's death her wealth and position enabled her to exercise a controlling influence in public affairs at Albany. In 1689 she advanced funds to pay troops at Albany, and it is asserted that toward the close of that year she made a personal assault upon Milbourne, the son-in-law of Jacob Leisler (the usurper, as he was called, of political power at New York) when he came to Albany to assume command of the fort, then under charge of her second son, Peter, the first Mayor of that city and commander of the militia in the northern department of the Province of New York. Margarita Van Slichtenhorst by Stefan Bielinski Margarita Van Slichtenhorst was born at Nykerk in the Netherlands in 1628 - the daughter of Brant Van Slichtenhorst and Aeltje Van Wenkum. She came to New Netherland with her parents in 1647 and came of age in Rensselaerswyck where her father served as director of the colony. In December 1650, she married Philip Pieterse Schuyler - an immigrant carpenter who, following the marriage, became one of the leading traders of Beverwyck/Albany. The marriage produced twelve children between 1652 and 1672. Eight of those offspring went on to establish the Schuyler family in Albany and beyond. By the 1660s, these Schuylers were established in a new house on upper State Street. Before his death in 1683, Philip Pieterse had stretched the Schuyler family holdings by acquiring property around Albany and beyond. A widow at age 55, by virtue of their joint will filed in 1683, Margarita Schuyler assumed control of her husband's extensive estate. From her Albany house and at the farm known as "the Flats," Margarita continued her husband's business and sat as the matriarch of early Albany's foremost family. Her children included Pieter Schuyler - first mayor of the city; Alida, the wife of Robert Livingston; and future mayor - Johannes Schuyler. Her other offspring established themselves in favored locations throughout the region. Margarita Van Slichenhorst Schuyler lived until 1711. For much of that time, she was one of colonial Albany's most prominent residents. This active widow participated in business, landholding, and was an active member of theDutch Church. Surrounded by family and supported by a number of slaves, this able women's life was full and advantaged. Her will, filed in 1707, identified her as a "sometime...Albany merchant" and mentioned the real and personal estate she had acquired since the death of her husband. This seventy-nine-year-old widow had the presence of mind to circumvent English inheritance laws when she divided the Schuyler estate equally among her eight surviving children and their heirs. She died at age eighty-two on January 11, 1711. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/vs/mvslicht.html Will of Margaret Schuyler - c. 1707 In the name of God, Amen. I, Margaret Schuyler, widow of Phillip Schuyler, sometime of Albany, merchant, being of sound mind, and considering that there having been some unhappy differences among my children; the youngest of them being apprehensive that by the strict rules of the common law, the will made by my said husband and myself on May 1st, 1683, might not be authentick enough to make such equal division among our eight children. But that Peter Schuyler, eldest son of my deceased husband, Peter Schuyler [probabaly meant Philip P.], might be entitled to all of the real estate. Yet, not thinking that my son, Peter Schuyler, would himself endeavor to take any such advantage, he being present at the making of said will. I give to each of our 8 children an equal part of all real and personal estate. And I being further willing to dispose of the real and personal estate, which, by of my husband. And my son Peter, at my request, being agreed with the seven other children, by deed, dated August 16, 1707, by which all further differences among them are prevented, I do give to my eight children, Gertruy, Alida, Peter, Arent, Phillip, Johanes, and Margaret, and to the three children of my son Brant Schuyler, namely: Phillip, Oliver, and Johanes, all my estate, real and personal. Provided always, that my son Phillip shall have the farm called the Flatts, with the utensils, he paying therefor, the sum of 600, to the rest. And they are all to pay an equal part of 9 bushels of good merchantable wheat yearly, to the Patroon or Lord of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck. Mentions "Cornelia Schuyler, widow of my son Brant Schuyler." I make my sons, Peter and Johanes, and my son in law, Robert Livingston, husband of my daughter Allida, executors. Signed and sealed in Albany in my dwelling house. Witnesses, Iona Rumney, Anthony Caster, John Dunbar. Proved in Albany, June 27, 1711, before William Van Rensselaer, Esq., and of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/wills/willmgtvslicht.html