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Maria
Van Santvoord Wendell
Maria Van Santvoord probably was born about 1720 on Staten Island. She was the daughter of Dominie Cornelius Van Santvoord and his wife, Staten Island native Anna Staats. Her father moved their family to Schenectady where he had accepted a call to the ministry in 1740.
In
July 1741, she married attorney Johannes E. Wendell
at her father's church. They had five children -
the last of whom was baptized in Albany in 1751 and
lived until 1837.
These
Wendells were living in Albany September 1751 when
Johannes died at age thirty-eight leaving a wife
and a young family. The widow Maria Van Santvoord
Wendell was named on the census of Albany householders
taken in 1756.
She
died sometime afterwards.
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Sources: The life of Maria Van Santvoord Wendell is CAP biography
number 6726. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources. We seek defining
information on her passing.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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