Lot
C18
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Property Was Used in 1660 For:
Date Start
1656-03-00
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Description
C 18 and 18A = "1 large new and 1 small decayed old house" It appears that #18 was the new house and 18A the old house. Stokes.
Schulyer, who owned this property lived in Albany.
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Col. Philip Pietersen Schuyler, ancestor of the distinguished Schuyler family of Albany and vicinity, bought the residue of Cornells Volckersen's grant in March, 1656. There was at that time "one large new and one small decayed old house" upon the lot. — Liber Deeds, A: 38-9. Both are faithfully shown on the Plan. The old house had been Volckersen's: the new one was built shortly before April, 1655, by Jan Peeck. — Recitals in Liber Deeds, A: 18. He had married Maria de Treux, Volckersen's widow, February 20, 1650. — Marriages in Ref. Dutch Ch., 15. When the Heere Dwars Straet was cut through to the Highway by the survey of 1657, the new house was left upon the corner.
Schuyler's interests were all at Albany, where he had married, on December 22d, 1650, Margareta, daughter of Brant Aertsen van Slichtenhorst, first director of the colony of Rensselaerswyck. His children were all born there, and there he died, March 9, 1684. — Pearson's First Settlers of Albany.
There is no evidence that he lived in this house. The Exchange Court Building now covers the site of Nos. 14 to 18.
Schuyler's interests were all at Albany, where he had married, on December 22d, 1650, Margareta, daughter of Brant Aertsen van Slichtenhorst, first director of the colony of Rensselaerswyck. His children were all born there, and there he died, March 9, 1684. — Pearson's First Settlers of Albany.
There is no evidence that he lived in this house. The Exchange Court Building now covers the site of Nos. 14 to 18.