Casparus Schuyler[1]

Male 1735 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Casparus Schuyler 
    Born 16 Dec 1735  New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I1247  My Family Tree | Raynor-Armstrong
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2014 

    Father Philip Arentse Schuyler,   c. 1687,   d. 1764  (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Mother Hester Kingsland,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 8 Oct 1727  Second River Dutch Reformed Church, Belleville, New Jersey, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F332  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Christina Ryerson,   b. 8 Oct 1738,   d. Between Jun 1785 and Nov 1785  (Age 46 years) 
    Children 
     1. Peter Schuyler,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Hester Schuyler,   b. Abt 1757, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, British America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Oct 1839, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years)
    Family ID F343  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Married and had one daughter, Hester who married General William Colfax of Pompton.


      History of the City of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, page 308

      I I . Christinetje, bap. Oct. 8, 1738; m. Casparus
      Schuyler (b. Dec. 16, 1735, son of Philip Schuyler and
      Hester Kingsland), and lived in a small frame house on the
      northeast side of the Paterson and Hamburgh turnpike
      road, near the corner of what is known as Wanaque avenue,
      in the present Borough of Pompton Lakes. Pier father, by
      his will, d a t e d June 25, 1785, devised to her "the Lott of
      Land I purchased from Abraham Garritse containing two
      hundred acres lying and being on Hardins plains for and
      dureing her Natural life and after her decease if She
      Should leave a Child or Children then I give devise and
      bequeath the equal half part or moiety of said tract of
      Land to be taken off the North side thereof, to such Child
      or Children after they a t t a in the age of twenty one and to
      their heirs and assigns for ever." In a codicil, dated Nov.
      2, 1785,2 he recites t h a t his daughter Christinetie is dead,
      and devises said moiety to his granddaughter, Esther Colfax,
      in fee. Issue: Hester (Esther), m. Capt. William Col-
      1 l b . , 257-9.
      2 This will was witnessed by James Christie, Cornelius Hennion and
      William Drummond. The codicil was witnessed by Arent Schuyler,
      Clemens McMikin and Adonijah Schuyler. Proved June 4, ijgo.—E. J .
      Wilts, Liber No. 31, f. 531.

  • Sources 
    1. [S21] Early Settlements Pompton Plains.

    2. [S20] New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 159.