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Volkie
Vandenbergh Van Schoonhoven
Volkie Vandenbergh was born in 1726. She was the daughter of Albany residents Gysbert and Catalina Vandenburgh.
She
married Albany skipper and sometime carpenter Dirck
Bradt Van Schoonhoven in 1747. These Van Schoonhovens
set up their home along the river road near Albany's
northern border. Over the next twenty years, their
ten children were baptized in the Albany Dutch Church
where she was a long-time member.
Volkie
Vandenbergh Van Schoonhoven was still alive in 1796.
Her husband died in 1795.
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Notes: The life of Volkie Vandenbergh Van Schoonhoven is
CAP biography number 5856. 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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