Philip Schuyler

• Philip Schuyler | non fictional |
• Additional names: | Philip John Schuyler |

• Birth (date, place, notes): | 10 November 1733, Albany New York |

• Father: | Johannes Schuyler |

• Mother: | Cornelia Van Cortlandt |

• Siblings: | Gertrude, Johannes(died 21yrs), Stephanus (died young), Catherine (died young), Stephanus (2nd, also died young), Philip (died young), Cortlandt, Stephanus (3rd, died young), Elizabeth (died young), Oliver (died young) |

• Other relatives: | Aunt Margarita Schuyler |

• Marriage(s): | Catherine Van Rensselaer |

• Children: | 11 Children (6 girls, 5 boys - 8 lived to adulthood), Angelica 1756, Elizabeth 1757, Margarita 1758, Cornelia 1761, John Bradstreet 1763, John Bradstreet 1765, Philip Jeremiah 1768, Rensselaer 1773, Cornelia 1776, Cortlandt 1778, Catharine 1781 |

• Grandchildren: | see Genealogy:Schuyler Livingston |

• Appearance: | insert data |

• Ethnicity/Nationality: | European American |

• Occupation: | Many things: Captain of militia 1755, Assistant Aldermann 1756, Quartermasters dept 1750's, elected to New York General Assembly 1768, Major General 1775 - 1779, returned to Congress, New York State Senate 1780,

• Notes:

  Died 18 November 1804? at home in Albany

Crucial developments

Schuyler plays a major role in Into the Wilderness; it is at his home in Saratoga that Elizabeth Middleton and Nathaniel Bonner are married after they elope. He is prominent in the story of Nathaniel's young manhood. <br /><br />The Schuylers also appear in Dawn on a Distant Shore, and the Schuyler mansion in Albany is relevant to the storyline.

References

1. Wikipedia entry
2. Biographical Directory of the US Congress
3. Short biography
4. The Schuyler mansion
5. Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs - Schuyler

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