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THE SCHUYLER FAMILY
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THE SCHUYLER FAMILY.-The New Jersey branch of the Schuyler
family, now very numerous in the western and northern 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), N. Y., 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.
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