Colonel Philip Pieterse Schuyler

1628 - 1684  (56 years)

• Name	Philip Pieterse Schuyler
  Prefix	Colonel
  Born	1628	Amsterdam, Holland
  Gender	Male
  Residence	East side of Broadway at the "Great Bridge"
  	Address:
  Died	9 Mar 1684	Albany, Albany, New York, British America
  Buried	11 Mar 1684	Albany, Albany, New York, British America
  Person ID	I1205	My Family Tree | Raynor-Armstrong
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2014

  
  

  Family	Margarita Van Schlichtenhorst,   b. Abt 1628, Netherlands ,   d. 1710, Rensselaerswyck, New York Colony, British America  (Age ~ 82 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 - 1628 - Amsterdam, Holland Residence - Address: - - East side of Broadway at the "Great Bridge" Died - 9 Mar 1684 - Albany, Albany, New York, British America Buried - 11 Mar 1684 - Albany, Albany, New York, British America  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Col. Philip Pieterse Schuyler, the better known of the two brothers of this name who first settled in New Netherland, is usually recognized as the ancestor of all the Schuylers of Albany and vicinity. Like his brother David, he had a numerous family, who became connected by marriage with some of the most respectable families of the Province. He was a trader and farmer and resided on a bouwery, at the Flats below the present village of West Troy; died March 9 1683 or 4 and was buried on the 11th in the church. His wife, Margareta Van Slichtenhorst, daughter of Brant Aertse Van Sl, he m. Dec. 12(22), 1650. (lists children) Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient ...  By Jonathan Pearson, page 98 http://books.google.com/books?id=EK2mIhswSAIC&pg=PA98&dq=philip+n+schuyler+lawyer+ohio&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-7lgUr7UG6LiyAGqjYDIBg&ved=0CEsQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=philip%20n%20schuyler%20lawyer%20ohio&f=false The Schuyler Family - the New Jersey branch of the Schuyler family, now very numerous in the western and nothern parts of Bergen County, are descended from Philip Pietersen Van Schuyler, born in 1628 at Amsterdam, Holland, who with his brother David, emigrated to America in 1650 and settled first at Fort Orange (Albany), NY on December 12, 1650. Following his arrival at Albany he married Margaretta Van Schlectenhorst, of Nieuwkirk, Holland, her father being then manager of the Colonie of Van Rensselaer. He was a magistrate at Albany in 1656, 1657, and 1661. In 1662 he received permission to plant a village on the Esopus River. He died March 9 1684. His children were six, one of whom was Arent Schuyler, born June 25, 1682, who married and came to New York while yet a young man. In 1793 he went to Pequannock (then in Bergen County) and with Anthony Brockholst purchased 4,000 acres for mining purposes. He also bought large tracts of land in Orange County, N.Y., but in 1710 he purchased land of Edward Kingsland on New Barbadoes Neck, where he resided and where he opened a copper mine. He became a wealthy man. His issue were eight children, several of whom became famous Jersey men, and their issue scattered over Bergen and Hudson Counties. Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey http://books.google.com/books?id=EdoMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA179&dq=genealogical+and+family+history+of+southern+new+york+arent+schuyler&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KFqeUqnqLKbqiQLEvYCwBQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=philip%20schuyler&f=false What's in a name? Family produces famed colonist by Richard Townsend, Columnist (Monday November 23, 2009) Adonijah Schuyler descended from Philip Pieterse Schuyler, who emigrated from Amsterdam, Holland, shortly before December 12, 1650. In 1656, he was the manager of the trading post at Fort Orange (Albany). He served as captain of Fort Schenectady and as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. He was one of the most important colonists in New Netherlands. Philip Pieterse Schuyler, the first of the Schuylers in New Netherlands, and Pieter Quackenbosch, the first of that family in New Netherlands, were both in Fort Orange (Albany) between 1650 and 1660. Five generations later, these two families unite with the marriage of Reynier Quackenbush to Helen Schuyler. - See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/community/history/more_history_news/71248087.html#sthash.TlOXqiPe.dpuf Philip Pieterse by Stefan Bielinski Philipse Pieterse Schuyler was the first outstanding member of early Albany's most important New Netherland-era family. He was born in Holland in 1628, the oldest child of German-born Amsterdam baker Pieter Diercks and Geertruy Philips van Schuyler. By 1650, he had emigrated to New Netherland with his younger brother, David Pieterse. In December 1650, twenty-two-year-old Philip Pieterse was in Rensselaerswyck where he married Margarita Van Slichtenhorst - daughter of the director of the colony. That union admitted a newly arrived carpenter to the upper echelon of New Netherland society. It also produced a large family of twelve American-born children between 1652 and 1672. Eight of those offspring went on to establish the Schuyler family in Albany and beyond. Taking the surname of their mother's family, the Schuylers' success followed the rapid rise of its founder. Settling in Beverwyck, Philip Pieterse was among its earliest householders when lots were first apportioned during the 1650s. Although nominally a carpenter or gunstockmaker, like many of his most successful neighbors, he entered the fur trade. By 1660, he stood with the principal traders of the community. He used those profits to begin a favored family practice of acquiring additional real estate. Those holdings began with the house he built on the corner of today's State and Pearl Streets. It remained a family fixture for most of the next hundred years. By 1672, he also had acquired land along the Hudson north of the Van Rensselaer manor house. That farm became a family summer home known as "the Flats". In addition, Philip Pieterse owned houses and lots in New Amsterdam/New York, several hundred acres east of the Hudson and below Rensselaerswyck, and lots in Wiltwyck and at the Halfmoon as well. His marital connection to the New Netherland leadership set the stage for his appointment to the Beverwyck court. After the English take-over, he was appointed a magistrate of the Albany court - predecessor of the Albany Corporation. Although he retired from the court in 1671, he was considered among Albany's foremost inhabitants for the rest of his life. Sometimes referred to as "Captain Schuyler," he held military commissions under the Duke of York and also was appointed "commissary" at Albany in 1666. He was the first of many Schuylers to represent Albany in meetings with the Iroquois. Born in Holland, Dutch-speaking Philip Pieterse was the first of several generations of independent but reasonable Albany leaders to be favored by the English and British with official appointments, access to land, and contracts. On May 1, 1683, Philipse Pieterse Schuyler filed a joint will with his wife, Margarita. The document noted the ages of their eight living children. He died eight days later and was buried beneath the Albany Dutch Church. His widow continued to live in the family homes on State Street and at the Flats until her death in 1711. Dead before his time, Philip Pieterse did not see sons Pieter and Johannes serve as mayors of Albany. But from his Albany house came dozens of others who made the Schuyler family early Albany's foremost and one of the major families of colonial New York as well. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/s/phpischuyler.html Will of Philip Schuyler and Margarita Van Slichtenhorst - 1683 [joint will] In Dutch. SCHUYLER, Philipp, of Albany, late Magistrate, and wife Margarita van Slichtenhorst. The survivor, children Arent, 22 years old, Philipp, 17 yrs., Johannes, 15 yrs., Margriet, 11 yrs., Geertruy, wife of Stephanus van Cortlandt, Alida, wife of Robert Livingston, Peter, and Brant. Real and personal property. No executors named, letters testamentary granted to the widow. Witnesses Cornelis van Dyck and Dirck Wessells. http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/wills/willphpischuyler.html