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has a son Perry. 4. William Russell, of whom further.
William Russell, son of Sellick and Mary Van Amberg ( Yates) Warren, was born in Mentor, Ohio, about 1843, died May 31, 1907. He was educated in the town of his birth, and for many years resided in Mulvane, Kansas, where he owned a private bank. He mar- ried, in 1869, Jane Elizabeth Smith, born 1850, died 1890, daughter of James and Hulda ( Waddell) Smith. Children : 1. Rich- ard, born February 18, 1872, married Laura Yarnell ; children: Richard and Russell. 2. John Tweddle, born December 26, 1875, mar- ried Agnes Crawford, and has a son Russell. 3. Jane Elizabeth, married Horace Cottrell. 4. Helen, born January 11, 1883, married Jud- son Watts, and has children Judson and Perry.
(The Tefft Line).
(I) John Tefft, the immigrant ancestor, set- tled in Portsmouth, King's Town, Rhode Island, where he became a freeman in 1655. In 1648 William Tefft, of Boston, died, and in his will gave to the eldest child of his brother Tefft "least steer Calf." William may have been a brother of John. John Tefft is next mentioned in 1662, November 22, when he and his wife Mary sold seven acres of land to Robert Shink, of Newport. May, 1671, his name is recorded as an inhabitant of Pettaquamscott. His will was dated No- vember 30, 1674, and mentioned his son-in- law, Samuel Wilson ; wife Mary ; sons Samuel and Joshua, and daughter Tabitha. On Janu- ary 26, 1676, his death is mentioned in a let- ter from Captain James Oliver (written at the house of Richard Smith in Narragansett). Captain Oliver says first, that Joshua Tefft had married a Wamponag squaw, then that he had shot twenty times at the English in the Narragansett fight, and was captured and executed at Providence, and declares that he was "a sad wretch, he never heard a sermon but once these fourteen years. His father, going to recall him, lost his head and lies un- buried (1676)." On November 19 the widow signed in satisfaction of her thirds, her sig- nature being witnessed by Tabitha Gardiner. She died in 1679. Children: Daughter, mar- ried Samuel Wilson ; Samuel, born 1644, men- tioned below; Joshua, died January 18, 1676, executed by the English ; Tabitha, born 1653, died 1722.
(II) Samuel, son of John Tefft, was born in 1644, and died in 1725. He married Eliza- beth, daughter of Joseph and Esther (Bal- lard) Jencks. She was born in 1652, and died 1740. In 1677 he was admitted a freeman (Providence). On May 12, 1679, he was fined
twenty shillings for not attending jury, but March 12, 1680, his fine was remitted by the assembly, as he had had no warning by the general sergeant. September 6, 1687, he was an inhabitant of King's Town, and was taxed there. On June 28, 1709, he and twenty-six others bought the tract of land called Swamp- town, part of the vacant lands of Narragan- sett. On March 20, 1721, he called his age about seventy-seven years, and October 29, 1722, his wife Elizabeth called her age seventy years, though other evidence makes her not quite so old. His will, dated March 16, 1725, proved December 20, 1725, mentions his wife Elizabeth, sons John, Samuel and Joseph, daughters Elizabeth Carpenter, Esther Mum- ford, Mary Newton, Susanna Crandall and Mercy Tefft ; also children of Sarah Witter, deceased. The inventory was 1,010 pounds, 3 shillings, 8 pence. His wife's will was dated July 4, 1733, and proved May 12, 1740. Chil- dren: John, mentioned below; Samuel, died 1760; Peter, died 1725 : Sarah, married Eben- ezer Witter: Elizabeth. died 1750: Esther, died 1726; Mary, married Newton ; Tabitha, unmarried; Mercy, unmarried ; Su- sanna, married Peter Crandall.
(III) John (2), son of Samuel Tefft, died in 1762. He married Joanna, daughter of Jonathan and Mehitable (Holbrook ) Sprague. He lived in South Kings Town, Rhode Island. On June 28, 1709, he was among those en- gaged in Shannock purchase. His will, dated January 5, 1754, codicil December 22, 1757, proved January 21, 1768, mentions his wife Joanna, sons John, Joseph, Samuel, James and Nathan, daughters Mary Barber, Mercy Rogers, Mehitable Rogers, Tabitha Tefft and Sarah Brown, and six grandchildren. The codicil mentioned the decease of his wife in 1757, and gave the 600 pounds formerly left to her, to the five daughters. The inventory was 6,148 pounds, 16 shillings, 5 pence. Chil- dren : John, born December 4, 1699: Joanna, 1701 ; Joseph, January 8, 1710; Samuel, mar- ried October 7, 1827; James, born April 21, 1715; Nathan, March 14. 1717, mentioned be- low; Mary, married, January II, 1729, Ben- jamin Barber: Mercy, married Rev. James Rogers; Mehitable, married Captain John Rogers; Tabitha, married James ;
Sarah, married, March I, 1744, Hezekiah Brown, (second) Cottrell; Elizabeth, married Skellie.
(IV) Judge Nathan Tefft, son of John (2) Tefft, was born in South Kings Town, Rhode Island, March 14, 1717. He moved from Rhode Island to Albany in 1766, and from there to Washington county, New York, trav- eling on horseback. He passed through track-
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le-s forests, being guided by marks cut on the trees, passing through Petersburg Valley as far as Cambridge, and from there across to Washington county. His son Stanton, a sur- veyor, accompanied him and laid out the tract of land now embracing the Rogers', Colla- mer's. Richardson's, Parker's, Babcock's, and Tefft's farms. One year later Nathan brought his family to Galesville, New York, and built there a sawmill, the first one on the Batten Kill. In 1763 and 1764 he was justice of the court of common pleas for Kings county. Hc was lieutenant of the Third Company militia, Colonel Pendleton's regiment, in 1750 and 1753 : he was captain in 1753 and 1754. Judge Nathan Tefft married (first) September 16. 1742, Isabel Stanton, born August 13, 1716, died 1777. lle married (second) E. Dareis ( Dorcas) Sheldon, who survived him but a short time. He died April 3, 1782 or 1789. Chil .ren: Stanton, born July 9, 1744, died 1811. married Mehitable Rogers ; Isabel, born March 14, 1745-46, married Caleb Tefft ; Mer- cy, born December 14, 1749, married James Rogers: Nathan, born August 28, 1752; died September 18, 1828; John, born March 3, 1756: Mary, born May 2, 1758, married Na- than Cottrell (see Cottrell) ; Sarah, born Au- gust 14, 1762, married Asa Crandall.
MacDONALD Three generations of Al- exander MacDonalds have resided in Glengarry çoun- ty, Canada. The family is of Scotch ancestry. (I) Alexander MacDonald was a farmer of Glengarry county, Canada. He married Mar- jorie Kennedy, and had issue.
(II) Alexander (2), son of Alexander (I) and Marjorie (Kennedy) MacDonald, was born in Glengarry county, Canada, 1840, died 1872. He was first lieutenant in the Ninety- seventh New York Volunteers during civil war. and after he was in lumber business at Bay City, Michigan. He married Caroline Alexander, born 1844, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Clark) Alexander. Children : William Alexander : Wallace Roderick Joseph, ·died in infancy.
(III) William Alexander, son of Alex- ander (2) and Caroline (Alexander) Mac- Donald, was born in the town of Floyd, Oneida county, New York, February 25, 1868. He came to Gloversville in 1873. He graduated from the Gloversville high school in 1886, and the following year entered Union College, whence he was graduated, class of 1891, with the degree of A. B. Later the degree of A. M. was awarded him. He was admitted to the bar September 14, 1893, and in that year established law offices in Glovers-
ville, where he continues in the general prac- tice of his profession. He is a member of the state, county and city bar associations, and has served as corporation counsel of the city of Gloversville from 1902 to 1909. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Glov- ersville Free Library. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a trustee. He is a Free Mason, affiliated with Glovers- ville Lodge, No. 429, Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; Jolmstown Chapter, No. 78, Royal Arch Masons ; Holy Cross Commandery, No. 51, Knights Templar. He married. September 4, 1894, Minnie E. Baird, born October, 1868, daughter of Stephen and Ann ( McAllister) Baird. Children: Marjorie Baird, born April II, 1904: Marion Alexander, October 30, 1908.
This branch of the Miller fam-
MILLER ily of Albany traces through four generations direct to the
Fatherland. The name was anglicized in the first generation and has always since been spelled Miller, although the German family, who are numerous in Hanau, are Muellers and Muhlers.
(I) Christian Miller. founder of this branch, came to New York City when a lad of twelve years. He was born in Ilanau, Ger- many, and died in Albany, New York. He settled in New York City on coming to this country, and served an apprenticeship with William Smith, a grocer, who so thoroughly taught him the business that in a few years he was capable of conducting a store of his own. He located in Albany, where he conducted a general store on the same plot of ground now occupied by John Keeler's State Street Res- taurant. This property which he purchased remained in the family until a few years ago, passing out of their control in 1906. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, and a man of good standing in the city. He married.
(II) William C., son of Christian Miller, was born in Albany, New York, where his life was passed. He died in Albany. He married (first) a Van Schaick.
(III) Ernest John, son of William C. Mil- ler, was born in Albany, New York, and died in that city in 1896. He was educated at Al- bany Boys' Academy and graduated from Rut- gers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He chose law, and fitted for that profession at the Albany Law School. He practiced in Albany for several years, then abandoned his profession for the sake of engaging in manu- facturing as vice-president and treasurer of the Albany Card and Paper Company. He
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was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church and a Republican in politics. He married Jes- sie, daughter of Dr. Peter MacNaughton, of Albany, for over half a century a leading citi- zen and physician of that city. Children: I. William C., of New York City, now connected with the Edison Electric Company as engi- neer to the controller; he married Virginia Temple. 2. Jane Guest, died August 4, 1888. 3. Ernest Livingston, a retail coal dealer of Albany, married Edith, daughter of Edward Easton, Sr. 4. MacNaughton, of further mention.
(IV) MacNaughton Miller, youngest son of Ernest John and Jessie ( MacNaughton) Miller, was born in Albany, New York, April 19, 1873. He was educated at the Albany Academy, and began his business career as a messenger in the Commercial Bank of Al- bany, rising through successive promotions to the position of individual bookkeeper. In 1902 he became assistant cashier of the Park Bank, holding that position until the Park be- came merged with the Union Trust Company. He was elected assistant treasurer of the lat- ter institution, advanced to the position of sec- retary, and is now ( 1911) secretary and treas- urer. He is a deacon of the Dutch Reformed Church, and a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Albany Academy Alumni Association, and the Fort Orange and Rac- quet clubs of Albany. For seven years Mr. Miller served in the Third Signal Corps, New York National Guard, ranking as first ser- geant. He married, June 20, 1899, Caroline Baxter Cobb. of Grand Rapids, Michigan, daughter of Rev. Sanford H. Cobb, a minis- ter of the Dutch Reformed Church. Child, Ernest John Miller (2), born July 21, 1906.
CUYLER The family name of Cuyler is believed to have been derived from the German word "Kei- ler"-a wild boar of the forest-and would therefore signify a powerful man. "Keiler" is also spelled "Keuler," and both of these words have exactly the same sound as the Dutch "Cuyler." Had the name been adop- ted in what is understood as modern times, then it would correspond to the form "Kui- ler" or "Kuilder," meaning a man who fishes with a "kuil," which is a bag-shaped fishnet, and the family name would accordingly sig- nify one who was a fisherman when the name was originally applied. The Dutch word "Kuyl" signifies a pit or hole, and it is not so consistent to state that "Kuyler" meant one who digs a hole, or is a delver, or to follow the analogy by employing other synonymous terms.
The Cuyler arms, modified and by some considered more attractive than the earliest form known, both in design and coloring, and which has been in common use in America for probably a century or more, is described as follows: Shield: Per pale, embattled gules and azure, an arrow in bend, or, barbed and flighted, argent, point upwards. Crest: On a mural crown proper, a battleaxe erect, sur- mounted by two arrows in saltire, or. flighted argent, points downwards. Motto: (Dutch) Ik vertrouw op God, niet op pijlen; (Latin) Deo non sagittis fido; (English) I trust in God, not in arrows. When printing the mot- to in capital letters in Dutch, the word "pij- len" would be spelled "pylen," with the two small marks above the letter "y," a form not always accessible in printing books, conse- quently the equivalent "i j" is employed. At tention is here called to the fact that "God" is the Dutch word for "Gott" in the German, and the motto is in Dutch.
The impression in the wax, made when Annatje Schepmoes, widow of Hendrick Cuy- ler, the progenitor, sealed her will, about the year 1700, shows the single arrow in the field. pointing upwards, with the initial letter of his Christian name, "H," in the lower left cor- ner, and the letter "C" in the upper right corner. This is the property of Mrs. De Lancey Nicoll, of New York City.
That the Cuyler family held eminent posi- tion in Holland long before the year 1600 has been demonstrated by the thorough research made among the archives in that country through the persistence of Mrs. Maud Churchill Nicoll to seek out the family's early history, and the interesting fact has been es- tablished by her that this family probably antedates any other in Holland in the use of a surname, which goes to show the advance- ment of the family at an early period.
In this country it was not long before the family was recognized in a distinctive manner. beyond all disputation, for the appointments of the chief officials in the colony were made by the English Crown, and the choice in- variably fell to the man of eminence. Next after the position of governor, which office was filled by the English government send- ing an Englishman of prominence across the. water to represent the king or queen, as the case might be, the selection of a mayor was the highest rank, and he was a man residing in the colony, hence the colonist could receive no greater recognition. New York and Al- bany were the principal cities in the colony.
The Cuyler family was the peer of all oth- ers, as the following facts will show, aside from what creditable estimates many histor-
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ians have written respecting it, and it is here set forth that from the time Albany became a city. July 22, 1686, to the time of the revo- lution, some one of the Cuyler name and direct line was either mayor of Albany or closely related to one who was, such as a wife, brother or son. It is interesting to the gen- eral historian as an illustration of the inter- marriage of leading families in founding a city.
Johannes Cuyler, son of Hendrick Cuyler, the progenitor, was appointed ( 14th) mayor of Albany by Gov. William Burnet, and offi- ciated from October 14. 1725, until November 7, 1726. .
Cornelis Cuyler, son of Mayor Johannes Cuyler and Elsje Ten Broeck, was appointed (20th) mayor by Lieut .- Gov. George Clarke, and officiated from October 14, 1742, until September 28, 1746.
Colonel Abraham Cornelis Cuyler, son of Mayor Cornelis Cuyler and Catalyntje Schuy- ler, was appointed (26th) mayor by Lieut .- Gov. Cadwallader Colden, and officiated from September 10, 1770, until April 16, 1778.
Mayor Johannes Cuyler married ( 1684) Elsje, daughter of (4th) Mayor Dirck Wes- selse Ten Broeck.
Mayor Cornelis Cuyler married (1726) Catalyntje, daughter of (10th) Mayor Jo- hannes Schuyler.
Abraham Cuyler, second child of Hendrick Cuyler, the progenitor, married (1689) Cath- erine, daughter of (7th) Mayor Jan Jansen Bleecker.
Sara Cuyler, third child of Hendrick Cuy- ler, the progenitor, married (6th) Mayor Pie- ter Van Brugh, in 1688.
Rachel Cuyler, fifth child of Hendrick Cuyler, the progenitor, married (13th) Mayor Myndert Schuyler, in 1693.
Maria Cuyler, sixth child of Hendrick Cuy- ler, the progenitor, married ( Ist) Mayor John Cruger, of New York City, in 1703, and John, son of Maria Cuyler and Mayor John Cruger, was mayor of New York, 1756-65.
Sara Cuyler, daughter of Mayor Johannes Cuyler, married ( 17th) Mayor Johannes Han- sen, in 1723.
Sara Cuyler's husband, Mayor Johannes Hansen, had sister Debora, who was mother of (29th) Mayor Johannes Jacobse Beeck- man, having married Jacob Beeckman.
Anna Cuyler, daughter of Mayor Johannes Cuyler, married (1712) the nephew of ( Ist) Mayor Pieter Schuyler, Anthony Van Schaick.
Sara Cuyler, daughter of Mayor Johannes Cuyler, married ( 1723) Johannes, son of (5th) Mayor Hendrick Hansen.
Elsje Cuyler, daughter of Mayor Johannes Cuyler, married (1724) Hendrick Roseboom, first cousin of the wife of ( 24th) Mayor Sy- brant Gosen Van Schaick, Alida Roseboom.
Abraham Cuyler's wife, Caatje (or Cath- erine) Bleecker, was a sister of (8th ) Mayor Johannes Bleecker, Jr., and also of ( 15th) Mayor Rutger Bleecker, both being sons of (7th ) Mayor Jan Jansen Bleecker.
Abraham Cuyler's son, Johannes Abraham Cuyler, married ( 1727) Catharina Wendell, whose aunt, Maria Wendell, was wife of (23rd) Mayor Robert Sanders.
Abraham Cuyler's daughter, Catharina, married (22nd) Mayor Jacob Coenraedt Ten Eyck, in 1736.
Abraham Cuyler's daughter, Margarita, married (2Ist) Mayor Dirck Ten Broeck, in 1714.
Margarita Cuyler's daughter, Christina Ten Broeck, married ( 1740) Philip Living- ston, signer of the declaration.
Margarita Cuyler's granddaughter, Cather- ine Livingston, married (32nd) Mayor Philip: Stephen Van Rensselaer, in 1787.
Margarita Cuyler's son, Dirck Ten Broeck, married (25th) Mayor Volckert P. Douw's daughter, Anna, in 1761.
Margarita Cuyler's grandson was (28th) Mayor Abraham Ten Broeck.
Anna Cuyler, daughter of Rachel Cuyler and Mayor Myndert Schuyler, married ( 16th) Mayor Johannes De Peyster, in 1715.
A critical inspection of the above list shows that thirty of the earliest thirty-two mayors of Albany were of close Cuyler blood or else married into the family.
James Riker, in his "History of Harlem." says, in speaking of Mayor Johannes Cuyler, eldest son of the progenitor: "From him and his brothers come the respectable family of Cuyler, allied from an carly day to many oth- ers noted in the annals of New York."
(I) Hendrick Cuyler was progenitor of the entire family of that name in this country. His father was Isobrant Cuyler, whose wife bore the Christian name of Evertien, or Ev- ertje.
He was born at Hasselt, a city in the prov- ince of Overyssel, Ilolland, a few miles north. of Zolle, and he was baptized there August II. 1637 .* He died in New York, N. Y., in. 1690.
Hendrick Cuyler settled in Beverwyck in 1664, when the place was changing from the Dutch rule, known as Dorpe Beverwyck, to that of the English, when it became known for the first time (September 24, 1664) as Albany. He was a tailor, and was successful * From the papers of Maud Churchill Nicoll.
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in accumulating considerable property. He bought a lot on the hill, on the east side of North Pearl street, near State street, and owned a lot in 1680 on the south side of State, west of Pearl street, "near ye Fort," which was located in the center of the former broad thoroughfare at its intersection with Lodge street. After his death this lot and house passed into the possession of his son- in-law, Mayor Pieter Van Brugh.
In 1675 he made his brother Reynier, then residing in Holland, "cnoopemaecker tot Am- sterdam" (button-maker residing at Amster- dam), his attorney, in order to receive cer- tain property from Pieter Nicolaas Gouver- neur. He had a house built for him at Al- bany in 1680, evidently the one on the lot last described. It was erected from timber cut and prepared in New York City. Jan Nagel, Jan Dyckman, Arent Hermens Bussing, Adolph Meyer and Jan Delamater were kept busy in that year hewing timber to fill a contract made January 2, 1680, with Nico- laas de Meyer, as his agent, for whom they were to furnish timber, including "beams, posts, rafters, plates, sleepers, door-posts and casings, according to the plan thereof," to be delivered in the ensuing May, part at the waterside and part in New York City at the Burgher's Path, for which they were to re- ceive "1,300 guilders, with a half-ancker of rum, to-wit: one-third in silver money or sewant, one-third in good winter wheat, and one-third in goods at such price as he (De Meyer) sells the same at his store for cur- rent sewant."
He eventually returned to New York to live, where he and his wife united with the Dutch church by letter, November 29, 1688, two years before his death. He married, at New Amsterdam ( New York City), Annatje Schepmoes, born in that city and died there, daughter of Jan Jansen Schepmoes and Sara Pieterse. Children : Johannes, Abraham, Sara, Delia, Rachel, Maria, Eva, Hendrick.
(II) Johannes Cuyler, first child of Hen- drick Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes, was born in Holland in 1661, and died at Albany, New York, July 20, 1740, where he was bur- ied in the Dutch church.
Ile was one of the most prominent traders of the place, and acquired wealth ; was admit- ted a freeman of New York City in 1696, where he resided for a time; attended the Dutch Reformed Church of Albany, where- of he was a deacon in 1695 and 1700, and in later years was elder. He was Commissioner of Indian Affairs for a number of years, be- ginning with 1706, and was also alderman. 'Gov. William Burnet appointed him four-
teenth mayor of Albany, and he officiated from October 14, 1725, to November 7, 1726. His residence was on the east side of North Pearl, the second house south of Steuben street, with his extensive lot extending through the block to Yaugh (now James) street.
His son, Cornelis Cuyler, became the twen- tieth mayor of Albany by appointment of Lieut .- Gov. George Clarke, serving from Oc- tober 14, 1742, to September 28, 1746, and, in turn, the son of Mayor Cornelis Cuyler, Colonel Abraham Cornelis Cuyler, became the twenty-sixth mayor of Albany by appoint- ment of Lieut .- Gov. Cadwallader Colden, serv- ing from September 10, 1770, to April 16, 1778. His daughter Sara married (Apr. 25, 1723) Johannes Hansen, seventeenth mayor, by appointment of President Rip Van Dam, and reappointed by Gov. James De Lancey, with terms from October 14, 1731, to October 22, 1732, and from 1754 to 1756. In this manner, it might be put, that Johannes Cuy- ler, his son, grandson and his daughter, occu- pied the municipal "White House" through- out fourteen years.
Mayor Johannes Cuyler married, Albany, November 2, 1684, Elsje Ten Broeck, born at Albany, died there June 29, 1752, and buried in the Dutch Church, July 2nd. She was the second child and eldest daughter of Mayor Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck (born, Holland, Dec. 18, 1638; died, Clermont, Co- lumbia county, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1717), who married (Albany, 1663) Christina Van Buren (born May 19, 1644; died Nov. 24, 1729). Johannes Cuyler and Elsje Ten Broeck had issue : 1. Anna, born at Albany, November 26, 1685, died there ; buried in Dutch Church, March 9, 1743; married, Albany, May 24, 1712, Anthony Van Schaick. 2. Christina, baptized, Albany, September 25, 1687; died young. 3. Christina, born at Albany ; baptized December 4, 1689; buried, Albany, November 20, 1755. 4. Hendrick, born at Albany ; bap- tized January 10, 1692. 5. Sara, born at Al- bany ; baptized October 22, 1693 ; married, Al- bany, April 25, 1723, Mayor Johannes Han- sen. 6. Elsje, born at Albany ; baptized Au- gust 25, 1695; married, Albany, October 25, 1724, Hendrick Roseboom. 7. Cornelis, bap- tized at New York, N. Y., February 14, 1697; died at Albany, March 14, 1765; mar- ried, Albany, December 8, 1726. Catalyntje Schuyler. 8. Johannes, born at Albany, Feb- ruary 12, 1600: baptized February 21 ; mar- ried Catharina Glen. 9. Maria, born at New York; baptized there, November 25, 1702; married, Albany, October II, 1733, Cornelis Ten Broeck. 10. Elizabeth, born at Albany ;
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baptized May 13, 1705; married, Albany, De- cember 29, 1732, Jacob Sanderse Glen. II. Rachel, born at Albany; baptized there, Sep- tember 21, 1707; died young. 12. Rachel, born at Albany ; baptized there, November 27, 1700.
( II ) Abraham Cuyler, second child of Hen- drick Cuyler and Annatje Schepmoes, died at Albany, New York, and was buried there in the Dutch Church, July 14, 1747. Through shrewdness as a trader he acquired much valuable property. both at Albany and else- where. Ile married, Albany, November 17, 1689, Caatje (or Catherine) Bleecker. She dicd at Albany, April 8. 1734. Her father was Mayor Jan Jansen Bleecker, born in Holland. 1641 ; came from Meppel, province of Overyssel, Holland, 1658, to Rensselaers- wyck ; appointed seventh mayor of Albany by Earl of Bellomont, officiating 1700-1701 ; died at Albany, November 21, 1732; buried in Dutch Church there, November 25; mar- ried (Albany, January 2, 1667) Margariet (daughter of Rutger Jacobsen Van Schoen- derwoert), born 1647, died 1733. Abraham Cuyler and Caatje Bleecker had issue : I. Hendrick, born at New York, N. Y., De- cember 22, 1690; married, Albany, New York, December 1, 1722, Margarita Van Deusen. Born in Albany : 2. Margarita, Oc- tober 26, 1692; died there, May 24, 1783: married, Albany, November 26, 1714, Mayor Dirck Ten Broeck. 3. Anna, baptized April 14, 1695; died November, 1709, unmarried. 4. Johannes Abraham, June 21, 1698; died October 24, 1746; buried October 27; mar- ried. Albany, October 28, 1727, Catharina Wendell (see forward). 5. Sara, baptized April 28. 1700 ; died young. 6. Maria, March 30, 1703; died February 16, 1722. 7. Sara, baptized October 6, 1706; died in Albany, buried there, August 28, 1746; married, Al- bany, July 6, 1729, Johannes Janse Beeckman. 8. Catharina, baptized February 18, 1710; married, Albany, August 1, 1736, Judge Jacob Coenraedt Ten Eyck, mayor of Albany. 9. Abraham, December 27, 1713: married, Al- bany, May 5, 1744, Jannetje Beeckman. 10. Nicolaas, June 27, 1716; married, Albany, May II, 1745, Maria Schuyler.
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