Philip Arentse Schuyler

Other Events:

• Baptism: 11 Sep 1687, Albany, Albany, New York, British America

Notes:

Film 102851 Early Settlements Pompton Plains page 51

The Family of Philip Schuyler Son of Arent.

When Arent Schuyler removed from Pompton to New Barbadoes his son Philip remained on the farm at Pompton and is the immediate forefather of the branches of the family that settled in this vicinity. He was born at Albany and baptized there Sep 11, 1687 and died at Pompton about 1760. He and his children must have had a large __________ estate. He married about 1712 Hesther Kingsland, daughter of Isaac Kingsland of New Barbadoes who was a member of the Council under several of the deputy Governors of New Jersey. They had 12 children.

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Philip Schuyler, a son of Arent, we are to presume, had patriotic impulses towards self-government long before the tea was thrown overboard at Boston or Patrick Henry made his famous speech, for we are told that Philip was expelled from the New Jersey Assembly in colonial days for drinking a health "to the damnation of the government and justices of the peace." He was subsequently restored to his seat.

History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey, Volume 2, p 1245

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Philip married Hester Kingsland 8 Oct 1727, Second River Dutch Reformed Church, Belleville, New Jersey, British America . Hester (daughter of Isaac Kingsland and Elizabeth) died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. Johanna Schuyler was born 2 Sep 1713, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.
2. Arent Schuyler was born 23 Feb 1715, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Isaac Schuyler was born 26 Apr 1716, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died 1716 OR 17, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America .
4. Philip Schuyler was born 23 Dec 1717, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.
5. Isaac Schuyler was born 8 Sep 1719, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.
6. Elizabeth Schuyler was born 22 Feb 1721, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.
7. Peter Schuyler was born 7 Jun 1723, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died 17 Oct 1808, Pompton Lakes, Passaic, New Jersey, USA.
8. Hester Schuyler was born 12 Apr 1725, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.
9. Maria Schuyler was born 11 Sep 1727, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.
10. Jenneke Schuyler was born 26 Oct 1728, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.
11. Johannis Schuyler was born 4 Jun 1730, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died 1730 OR 1731, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America .
12. Casparus Schuyler was born 16 Dec 1735, New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen, New Jersey, British America ; died Yes, date unknown.

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

Notes:

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 Jannetie (Johanna/Joanna) Teller 26 Nov 1684, Albany, Albany, New York, British America . Jannetie (daughter of William Teller) died 22 Jun 1700, New York. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Jannetje Teller Schuyler

by

Stefan Bielinski



Jannetje Teller probably was born before 1664. She was the daughter of New Netherland pioneers Willem Teller and Margaret Donchesen Teller.

In November 1684, she married Arent Schuyler at the Albany Dutch church. By 1700, six children had been christened in Albany and New York. In March 1685, they filed a joint will. Jannetje was named heir and executor of their estate.

These Schuylers initially made their home in Albany's second ward. But by the mid-1690s, they had re-located to New York.

Jannetje Teller Schuyler probably died shortly after the birth of her last child in 1700. Arent Schuyler re-married at the end of 1702.

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/t/janteller6613.html#sources

Other Events:

• Residence: East side of Broadway at the "Great Bridge"; Address:

Notes:

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


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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

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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.

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Philip married Margarita Van Schlichtenhorst. Margarita (daughter of Brandt Arent Van Schlichtenhorst) was born Abt 1628, Netherlands; died 1710, Rensselaerswyck, New York Colony, British America . [Group Sheet]

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.

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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

Notes:

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.

Notes:

Some Colonial Mansions and those who lived in them. page 470

The other brother, whose name we will anglicize to Philip
Peter, was born in 1628, married Margaretta, the daughter
of Herr Brandt Arent Van Schlectenhorst, manager of the
Patroonship of Rensselaerswyck, who was from Nieuwkirk
in Gelderland.