Philip Pieterse Schuyler^{[1, 2, 3]}

1628 - 1683

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• Birth	8 Feb 1628	Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  Christened	8 Feb 1628	Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1650	Rensselaerwyck, Albany , New York
  	Carpenter in 1650.~~Fur Trader by 1660.~~Appointed "Commissary" in 1666.~~Appointed to the Beverwyck Court bef 1671.
  Arrival	Aug 1650	New York, New York   [1]
  Died	9 Mar 1683	Beverwyck, Albany, New York
  Buried	11 Mar 1683	First Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, Albany , New York
  Person ID	I5960	myrootsplace
  Last Modified	11 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Pieter "Peter" Schuyler,   b. Oct 1603, Emmen, Drenthe Province, Netherlands ,   d. 29 Jul 1656, Netherlands
  Mother	Gertruyt Phillipse Van Schuylder,   b. Abt 1603, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands ,   d. Abt 9 Sep 1651, Netherlands
  Married	Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  Family ID	F2533	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Margaretta Van Slichtenhorst,   b. 1628, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands ,   d. 22 Jan 1711, Rensselaerwyck, Albany , New York
  Married	12 Dec 1650	Rensselaerwyck, Albany , New York
  Children	1. Gysbert Schuyler,   b. 2 Jul 1652, Albany, Albany, New York > 2. Geertsee [Gertrury] Schuyler,   b. 4 Feb 1654, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 1719 > 3. Alida Schuyler,   b. 28 Feb 1656, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 27 May 1729, Livingston Manor, Albany , New York > 4. Pieter Philipse Schuyler,   b. 17 Sep 1657, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 20 Feb 1724, Rensselaerwyck, Albany , New York > 5. Brandt Philipse Schuyler,   b. 18 Dec 1659, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 15 Aug 1702, New York > 6. Arent Francis Schuyler,   b. 25 Jun 1662, Rensselaerwyck, Albany , New York ,   d. 26 Nov 1730, Belleville, Essex, New Jersey   7. Sybilla Schuyler,   b. 12 Nov 1664, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 9 Dec 1664, Albany, Albany, New York > 8. Philip Schuyler,   b. 8 Feb 1666, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 24 May 1724 > 9. Johannes Schuyler, Sr.,   b. 5 Apr 1668, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 25 Jul 1747, New York > 10. Margaret Schuyler,   b. 2 Jan 1672, Albany, Albany, New York ,   d. 15 May 1748
  Family ID	F2537	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  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. 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 meteoric 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 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 beyond 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 Halfmoon as well. His marital connection to the New Netherland power structure 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 one of Albany's leaders 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 under 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. BEVERWYCK is the popular and mythical name given to the community of fur traders that first emerged along the river to the north of Fort Orange during the 1640s. The name came into official use in 1652 when the Dutch West India Company established a judicial jurisdiction for the land north of the trading post/fort. That act began a legacy of home rule for Albany that was primarily responsible for its development into a pre-urban center. Immediately following, the first houselots were parcelled out. By the end of the decade, a log palisade had enclosed the settlement. Anchored by an increasingly broad range of issues that were considered by the Beverwyck court, by 1660 that community had achieved a commercial, production, and services identity that would make it increasingly different from surrounding Rensselaerswyck - basically a plantation of small farms and budding processing operations. Although the Indian fur trade was at the heart of the community economy, a diversity of functions characterized the settlement from its earliest days. During the 1650s, Beverwyck couples began to raise large families that would give the growing settlement its cultural character for much of the next century. By 1660, the fur trade had become so competitive that groups of traders were petitioning the court regarding conflicting visions of the fur trading process. In 1664, New Netherland fell to the English and Beverwyck was renamed "Albany." The Beverwyck court was continued as the court of Albany, Rensselaerswyck, and Schenectady. In 1673, New York was retaken by the Dutch and Albany was called "Willemstadt." The English regained jurisdiction in 1674 and the community has been called Albany ever since!




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