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Jane
Holland Van Schaack
Jane Holland was the daughter of frontier officer Hitchen Holland and his wife Margaret Collins. She probably was born during the 1730s while her father was on duty at Oswego and other places and before Holland settled on a farm south of Albany.
She
married trader-turned-postmaster Henry Van Schaack
at St. Peter's Church in 1760. Their only child born
in 1761 did not survive.
She
inherited a share of her father's estate. Part of
that bequest became their home - a farm located just
south of Albany. After a sometimes stormy decade,
by 1770s they had removed to Van Schaack's birthplace
- the village of Kinderhook.
Henry Van Schaack was a loyalist. He was forced into exile in New England during
the War for Independence. Jane's fate at the time
is unknown!
After
the war, Van Schaack became a resident of Pittsfield,
Massachusetts. About 1808, he re-established himself
in Kinderhook where he and Jane lived out their last
days. Jane Holland Van Schaack died in Kinderhook
about 1815. Henry Van Schaack died in 1823.
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Sources: The life of Jane Holland Van Schaack is CAP biography
number 8496. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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