10 Facts About Peter Schuyler

Pieter Peter Schuyler was born in 1657 in Beverwyck, New Netherland.

Peter Schuyler was one of 10 children born to Philip Pieterse Schuyler, a Dutch- born landowner who was the progenitor of the American Schuyler family, and Margarita Van Slichtenhorst.

Peter Schuyler's siblings were Gysbert Schuyler, Gertruj Schuyler, who married Stephanus van Cortlandt, Alida Schuyler, who first married Nicholas van Rensselaer and then second, Robert Livingston the Elder, Brant Schuyler, who married Cornelia Van Cortlandt, Arent Schuyler, who married Jannetje Teller and later Swantje Van Duyckhuysen, Sybilla Schuyler, Philip Schuyler, Johannes Schuyler, and Margritta Schuyler, who married Jacobus Verplanck.

Many Peter Schuyler children established the family name and homes, including the Peter Schuyler Mansion in Albany.

From 1692, Peter Schuyler was a member of the executive council, which was the unelected upper house of New York's colonial legislature.

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Peter Schuyler was the first man from Albany to be appointed to the council.

Under the terms of Lovelace's commission as governor, the executive council's most senior member was next in the line of succession, and Peter Schuyler thus served as acting governor until Ingoldesby's return a few days later.

Ingoldesby was again absent later in the month, with Peter Schuyler taking over as governor for another period of less than a week.

Burnet removed Peter Schuyler from the executive council in 1721, along with another Councillor, Adolphus Philipse, who like Peter Schuyler, was a New Netherlander.

Peter Schuyler's great-nephew was Continental General Philip Schuyler whose cousin Hester Schuyler married General William Colfax, the grandparents of Congressman and Vice President Schuyler Colfax, who married a niece of Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade and who was related to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.