Philip Pieterse Schuyler

Career

By 1650, he had emigrated to New Netherland, settling in Beverwyck. Although nominally a carpenter or gunstockmaker, he entered the fur trade, using the profits to buy land, beginning with the house he built in about 1659 on the corner of today's State and Pearl Streets in Albany. He also owned houses on Broadway and Beaver Street, where he resided at different times. He took an active part in Indian affairs.

Personal life On 12 December 1650 he married Margaretta van Slichtenhorst, daughter of Brant Aertsz van Slichtenhorst, the director of Rensselaerwyck, appointed by Johan van Rensselaer. Together, they had ten children: Gysbert Schuyler (b. 2 July 1652 in Beverwyck), and died after 13 March 1664/65 Gertruj Schuyler (b. 4 February 1654), who married Stephanus van Cortlandt (1643–1700), the patroon of Van Cortlandt Manor and a Mayor of New York City from 1677–1678 and again from 1686–1688. Alida Schuyler (b. 28 February 1656), who married Nicholas van Rensselaer. After his death in 1678, she married Robert Livingston the Elder Pieter Schuyler (b. 17 September 1657 – 19 February 1724), the first mayor of Albany Brant Schuyler (b. 18 December 1659) Arent Schuyler (b. 25 June 1662 – 26 November 1730) Sybilla Schuyler (b. 12 November 1664) Philip Schuyler (b. 8 February 1666) Johannes Schuyler (b. 5 April 1668), led an attack on La Prairie, Quebec in 1690 Margritta Schuyler (b. 2 January 1672), married Jacobus Verplanck Schuyler died in Albany, 9 May 1683.

Descendants

Schuyler was the progenitor of multiple generations of prominent New Yorkers as well as major players in American politics and business, including the Livingston family, the Bush family, and the Kean family.