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Maria
Vanderpoel Van Schaick
Maria Vanderpoel was the daughter of Teunis Cornelise and Catrina Jans Croon Vanderpoel - early residents of Beverwyck.
By
1680, she had married Albany merchant Anthony Van
Schaick. Eight of their children were baptized in
the Albany Dutch church between 1682 and 1702. She
was a member and baptism sponsor there and her husband
was a church officer.
In
1694, she was named co-executor of her mother's estate
which left her a share of a house in Holland. She
raised her family in an Albany house on State Street
and also on the Van Schaick family farm on the upper
Hudson. In 1712, she purchased a small piece of land
for thirty shillings in the second ward with Johanna
Van Stryden.
When
Anthony Van Schaick filed a will in January 1737,
it named Maria as sole beneficiary and co-executor
of his considerable estate - although its did impose
several conditions on her inheritance. Probably born
during the 1650s, Maria Vanderpoel Van Schaick died
sometime after!
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Sources: The life of Maria Vanderpoel Van Schaick is CAP biography
number 6263. 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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