Catharina Verplanck, also known as Callyntje Verplanck, Catalina Verplanck, or Catharina Schuyler (February 1639 – 8 October 1708) was the daughter of Verplanck family progenitor and land developer
Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck
Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck (1606–1690), also known as Abraham Isaacse Ver Planck, was an early and prominent settler in New Netherlands. A land developer and speculator, he was the progenitor of an extensive Verplanck (disambiguation), Verplanck ...
and wife of
David Pieterse Schuyler
David Pieterse Schuyler was a Dutch-born member of the Schuyler family. He was a fur trader, Alderman of Albany, captain, and merchant.
Early life
Schuyler was born in the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, in 1636 as the son of Pieter Tjer ...
who was a progenitor of the
Schuyler family
The Schuyler family (Help:IPA/English, /ˈskaɪlər/; Dutch pronunciation: Help:IPA/Dutch, xœylər was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose descendants played a critical role in the forma ...
.
Early life
Verplanck was born in February 1639 to New Netherland pioneers
Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck
Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck (1606–1690), also known as Abraham Isaacse Ver Planck, was an early and prominent settler in New Netherlands. A land developer and speculator, he was the progenitor of an extensive Verplanck (disambiguation), Verplanck ...
and Maria de la Vigne.
Her father was Dutch-born and her mother was French-born. Her siblings were Abigael Van Lear,
Gulian, Isaac, Susanna, Jacomyntjie, Ariantje, Hillegondt, Isaac. The first Isaac lived and died in 1641, and his younger brother was born 10 years after his death in 1651 and lived to 1729.
Marriage and children
Verplanck was married to newly arrived
David Pieterse Schuyler
David Pieterse Schuyler was a Dutch-born member of the Schuyler family. He was a fur trader, Alderman of Albany, captain, and merchant.
Early life
Schuyler was born in the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, in 1636 as the son of Pieter Tjer ...
in 1657 at the New Amsterdam Dutch Church. They had 8 children between 1659 and 1678. Their children included
Myndert Schuyler, who was Mayor of Albany and
David Davidse Schuyler who was a fur trader as well as a Mayor of Albany.
* Peter Schuyler (1659–1696), a Judge who married Alyda van Slichtenhorst, niece of Margaretta Schuyler (wife of
Philip Pieterse Schuyler
Colonel Philip Pieterse Schuyler or Philip Pieterse (1628 – 9 May 1683) was a Dutch-born landowner in New Netherlands and progenitor of the senior line of the American Schuyler family.
Early life
Philip Pieterse Schuyler was born in Amsterda ...
); they had seven children before his death at the young age of 36.
* Catylyn Schuyler (b. 1659), who married Johannes Abeel; grandmother of Loyalist New York City Mayor
David Mathews
David Mathews ( – July 28, 1800) was an American born British lawyer and politician from New York City. He was a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and was the 43rd and last Colonial Mayor of New York City from 1776 until 1783. As N ...
and the great-grandmother of Seneca Chief
Cornplanter
John Abeel III (–February 18, 1836) known as Gaiänt'wakê (''Gyantwachia'' – "the planter") or Kaiiontwa'kon (''Kaintwakon'' – "By What One Plants") in the Seneca language and thus generally known as Cornplanter, was a Dutch- Seneca ch ...
.
* Geertruyt Schuyler (b. 1661), who grew up in
Albany and married Willem Nicolasz Groesbeck in 1684; they had six children.
*
Abraham Davidse Schuyler (1663–1726), who represented his fathers trading interests in the Indian Country; he married Geertruy ten Broeck, the daughter of
Major Dirck Wesselse ten Broeck who was Mayor of Albany (two of Geertruy's brothers married daughters of
Hendrick van Rensselaer
Hendrick van Rensselaer (October 23, 1667 – July 4, 1740) was director of the Eastern patent of the Rensselaerswyck manor.
The estate was composed of land in Columbia County, New York, and land opposite Albany, New York, on the Hudson River ...
), and had five children. Abraham lived with the
Seneca people for a while, but when his father died, he returned to Albany to take care of the business. In 1709, he and his cousin
Pieter Schuyler
Pieter Schuyler (17 September 1657 – 19 February 1724) was the first mayor of Albany, New York. A long-serving member of the executive council of the Province of New York, he acted as governor of the Province of New York on three occasions ...
(great uncle to Gen.
Phillip John Schuyler) as well as four
Mohawk chiefs went to see
Queen Anne.
* Maria Schuyler (1666–1742), who married Dr. Hendrick van Dyck and had four children.
*
David Davidse Schuyler (1669–1715), who was born at
Schuyler Flatts
Schuyler Flatts is an important prehistoric and historic settlement site overlooking the Hudson River in Colonie, New York. The site includes evidence of prehistoric Native American, early Dutch colonial settlement, and 18th and 19th-century Ame ...
; he married Elsje Rutgers, the great-granddaughter of
Albert Andriessen Bratt, and had six children.
*
Myndert Schuyler (1672–1755), who served the Albany government as a juror, constable, Alderman, and mayor; he married Rachel Cuyler and they had one child named Anna, who married
Johannes de Peyster III
Johannes de Peyster or Johannes de Peyster III (1694 – February 27, 1789) was the Mayor of Albany, New York three times between 1729 and 1742.
Early life
De Peyster was born in 1694. He was the son of Johannes De Peyster Jr. and Anna Bancker ...
.
* Jacob Davidtse Schuyler (1675–1707), who served the community as a constable for the third and as a firemaster and juror. In 1702, his third ward property was taxed at a rate comparable to a moderately successful merchant; he married Catharina Wendell. After her death, he married Susanna Wendell and they had two children before his death in 1707 at the age of 31.
Catharina died in Albany on 8 October 1708.
Descendants
Her second great-granddaughter, Maria Helen Roosevelt was the second great-grandmother of
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Her great-grandson Johannes Abeel was the father of the Seneca war chief
Cornplanter
John Abeel III (–February 18, 1836) known as Gaiänt'wakê (''Gyantwachia'' – "the planter") or Kaiiontwa'kon (''Kaintwakon'' – "By What One Plants") in the Seneca language and thus generally known as Cornplanter, was a Dutch- Seneca ch ...
. Some of her other descendants and relatives married into families such as the
van Rensselear family and the
Roosevelt family
The Roosevelt family is an American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. The progeny ...
.
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See also
* Schuyler family
The Schuyler family (Help:IPA/English, /ˈskaɪlər/; Dutch pronunciation: Help:IPA/Dutch, xœylər was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose descendants played a critical role in the forma ...
References
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1639 births
1708 deaths