1. Pieter Schuyler was born in 1657 in Beverwyck, New Netherland.
10 Facts About Pieter Schuyler
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Pieter 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.
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The many Schuyler children established the family name and homes, including the Schuyler Mansion in Albany.
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Pieter Schuyler later attained the rank of Major, and then Colonel.
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From 1692, Pieter Schuyler was a member of the executive council, which was the unelected upper house of New York's colonial legislature.
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Pieter Schuyler was the first man from Albany to be appointed to the council.
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Under the terms of Lovelace's commission as governor, the executive council's most senior member was next in the line of succession, and Pieter Schuyler thus served as acting governor until Ingoldesby's return a few days later.
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Ingoldesby was again absent later in the month, with Pieter Schuyler taking over as governor for another period of less than a week.
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Burnet removed Pieter Schuyler from the executive council in 1721, along with another Councillor, Adolphus Philipse, who like Pieter Schuyler, was a New Netherlander.
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Pieter 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.