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Catharina
Van Brugh Van Rensselaer
Catharina Van Brugh was born in New York in 1665. She was the daughter of merchant Johannes Pieterse and Catharina Roeloffs Van Brugh.
In
March 1689, she married Hendrick Van Rensselaer in
the New York City Dutch church where their first
child was baptized a few days after the wedding.
Before long, the couple moved to Albany where Hendrick's
family owned a great estate and where Catharina's
brother, Pieter Van Brugh, would be appointed mayor
of Albany in 1699. Her remaining ten children were
baptized in the Albany Dutch church where both parents
were active members.
Catharina
raised her large family in Albany and at their country
seat called Crailo. Seven of her sons and daughters
married and raised families in the region - bringing
a steady stream of visitors to this Van Rensselaer
home for many years.
"Katie" Van Rensselaer died at Greenbush in December 1730. An early Albany matriarch, she lived for more than sixty-five years and was buried from the Albany Dutch church.
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Notes: The
life of Catharina Van Brugh Van Rensselaer is CAP
biography number 8627. This profile is derived
chiefly from family and community-based resources.
The basic genealogical source for the family is "The
Van Brugh Family," by
John Ross Delafield as printed in NYGBR vol 66 (1935).
The Van Brugh name passed from Albany rolls with
the death of Pieter Van Brugh in 1740. However, the
marriage of her Van Rensselaer children rooted the
family in early New York society.
By
1724, Catharina had witnessed (or sponsored) more
than twenty baptisms at the Albany Dutch church.
She was probably a pewholder - but we have found
no pewholding records for her lifetime.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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