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Rachel
Cuyler Schuyler
Rachel Cuyler was born in New York in 1674. She was the daughter of New Netherland pioneers Hendrick Cuyler and his wife Anna Schempoes.
Rachel
married Albany native Myndert D. Schuyler in 1693.
By that time, her family had re-located to Albany.
Their only child was baptized in 1697 at the Albany
Dutch church where both parents were members and
frequent baptism sponsors.
As
the wife of a prominent Albany personage, Rachel
Schuyler presided over their State Street home -
particularly during the times when her husband was
in New York or attending to his numerous holdings.
By
the 1730s, Rachel had become ill and was "bedridden" for many years. Nevertheless, in 1739, she was named co-executor and a principal beneficiary of her husband's estate. However, she died in 1747 at age seventy-three. She was buried from the Albany Dutch church.
Notes: The
life of Rachel Cuyler Schuyler is CAP biography
number 605. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources. A family bible
record of her death states she was "bedridden 9 years." The
principal published resource on her family is still
Maud C. Nicoll, The Earliest Cuylers in Holland and
America (New York, 1912), p. 18.
By
the late 1670s, her parents already had removed to
Albany where they established the Cuyler family in
the upper Hudson region.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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