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Engelite
Vandenbergh Visscher
Engeltie Vandenbergh was born in 1730 , the daughter of Rensselaerswyck farmer Matthias and Catharina Van Deusen Vandenbergh. Her father died in 1745 leaving the widow to raise their large family.
In
1751, middle daughter Engeltie married Albany brewer/businessman
Bastian T. Visscher. They set up housekeeping near
his father's home on Pearl Street where their seven
children were born between 1751 and 1771. By the
outbreak of the War for Independence, these Visschers
were spending more time at their country home located
in a part of Rensselaerswyck that was beginning to
be known as Watervliet.
Engeltie
Vandenbergh Visscher died in November 1789 in her
sixtieth year. She was buried from the Albany Dutch
Church where she had been a pewholder for many years.
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Notes: The
life of Engeltie Vandenbergh Visscher is CAP biography
number 5777. This profile is derived chiefly from
community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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