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Catharina
Vandenbergh Waldron
Catharina Vandenbergh was born about 1678. She was the daughter of Cornelis G. and his second wife, Cornelia Vanderpoel Vandenbergh. Her parents lived in New York City and in Rensselaerssyck.
Reaching
womanhood in the upper Hudson, in September 1698,
she married New Yorker Pieter Waldron. Finding opportunity
in the upriver economy, the young couple settled
in Albany about 1700. Her ten children were born
1699-1723 - the last nine being baptized in the Albany
Dutch church. The couple resided on the north side
of Albany where Pieter was building a business career
before an untimely death in 1725.
Now
the matriarch of a new Albany family, widow "Tryntie" Waldron watched over her growing offspring until her death in March 1753. She was buried from the Albany Dutch church.
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Notes: The
life of Catharina Vandenbergh Waldron is CAP biography
number 5740. 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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