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Johannes
G. Van Schaick
Johannes Gerritse Van Schaick was born in October 1748. He was the son of Albany businessman Wessel and Maria Gerritse Van Schaick.
In
August 1775, he married Anna Van Schaick. By 1796,
six of their children had been baptized in the Albany
Dutch church where he was a member who sometimes
supplied wine for church services.
Raised
in his father's Market Street store, his name appears
under his father's property on the assessment roll
in 1779. By that time, he was raising a family and
had served as a firemaster. Aside from contributing
a barrel of flour in 1775, his name appears to be
absent from the rolls of community-based wartime
activities. However, he was reputed to be a financier
of the American army!
In
1782, he was named as a contingent beneficiary in
the will of his father. However, that document also
held him to a debt of almost a thousand pounds and
set up conditions for its repayment. His family continued
to live with his widowed mother as John G. took over
his father's business. His younger brother, Gerrit
W. Van Schaick, lived with them also and later became
a prominent Albany bank officer and property holder.
In 1790, this Albany merchant was the head of the
Market Street household. Within a decade, he relocated
to a home at 5 North Pearl Street while maintaining
the landmark Market Street store.
After
1813, he seems to have left the city. Johannes G.
Van Schaick died on Van Schaick Island in 1828.
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Sources: The life of Johannes G. Van Schaick is CAP biography
number 3963. 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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