Pieter Schuyler ( September 17, 1657 – February 19, 1724 ) was the mayor of Albany, New York and the head the Albany Commissioners for Indian Affairs. September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. ... New York State Capitol Building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million was the most expensive government building of its time. ...
Schuyler was born in Beverwyck in what was at the time New Netherland. His father was Philip Pieterse Schuyler and his mother was Margarita Van Slichtenhorst. Beverwyck was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherlands that was to become Albany, New York when the English took control of the colony in 1664. ... New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland, Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was the territory claimed by the United Provinces (the Netherlands) on the eastern coast of North America in the 17th century. ...
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Pieter Schuyler by Stefan Bielinski, New York State Museum
He was the eldest son of New Netherland pioneer Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Margarita Van Slichtenhorst - daughter of the director of Rensselaerswyck.
Schuyler's trading background and facility with native dialect brought him to the front of frontier diplomacy.
Two brothers of the name of Van Schuyler, Philip and David, were among the earliest settlers of Beverwyck, who came to this country from Holland, and it is from them all of the name in America have proceeded, which for the first century and a half after their arrival was distinctively an Albany name.
Schuyler ask him to consider and ask for something less trifling, and the answer was that for the fourth request he might have a little more tobacco.
Montgomery Schuyler, son of Anthony Dey and Sarah (Ridge) Schuyler, was born at New York City, January 9, 1814, died at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896.
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