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Philip John Schuyler (1733 – 1804), a Major General in the Continental army, was born in Albany, New York in 1733. His family had roots going back to the Dutch New Amsterdam settlement, where Philip Pieterse Schuyler (d. 1683) emigrated in 1650 from Amsterdam. His son, Peter (1657 – 1724), was the first mayor of Albany and chairman of the board of Indian commissioners of New York colony ...
SCHUYLER, PHILIP JOHN (1733-1804), American soldier, was born at Albany, New York, on the 11th of November 1733. The Schuyler family was established in the New World by Philip Pieterse Schuyler (d. 1683), who migrated from Amsterdam in 1650, and whose son, Peter (1657-1724), was the first mayor of Albany and chairman of the board of Indian ...
26. Feb. 2024 · Philip Schuyler descended from a prominent Dutch family with roots back to the earliest day of New Netherlands, later New York. Like many members of the New York airstocracy, the Schuyler family, including Phillip, built a vast fortune based upon land ownership and the enslavement of Africans. Throughout his years living in Albany and in developing his property in Saratoga, Phillip Schuyler ...
20. Juli 2017 · I enjoyed the “positive” article about Philip Schuyler and plan to forward it to the group of teenagers developing a view regarding the removal of the Schuyler Statue. Regarding PS being a slaveowner I have no argument but I also don’t think he should shoulder the burden of all slavery in Albany. In 1790 there were 3920 slaves in Albany ...
Library of Congress. Philip J. Schuyler (1733-1804) was a soldier, businessman, and politician from a prominent Dutch family in the Albany, New York area. Schuyler began his military service in the French and Indian War. In 1768, he became a member of the provincial assembly, and he advocated for the constitutional rights of the colonies.
5. Mai 2022 · Schuyler adored his son-in-law, and Hamilton, who was a poor West Indian orphan when he first arrived in the American colonies, benefited from the Schuylers’ warm embrace. Philip Schuyler’s letters to Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton about yellow fever date roughly from 1797 to 1803. During this period, Alexander had left his post as ...
22. März 2023 · The statue’s controversy began four years prior, when the Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site published on its website that through “census records, receipts and Schuyler letters, we can piece together that between 8 and 13 people were enslaved under Philip Schuyler at the Albany estate over the years.” An additional population at Philip’s Saratoga estate brought the total to at least 30.
