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Anna
Williams Van Vechten Shipboy
Anna Williams was born about 1740. She probably was the granddaughter of Albany innkeeper Thomas Williams.
She
married army officer and Albany native John Van Vechten
at the Albany Dutch church in January 1762. Their
only child was baptized that October. The marriage
ended when Van Vechten met an untimely death within
the next year. She inherited his entire estate.
In
1765, the young widow married newcomer Thomas Shipboy.
This marriage produced several children who grew
up in a substantial merchant's home on State Street.
Anna
Williams Van Vechten Shipboy died after 1790 but
before Thomas Shipboy died in 1797. Their daughter,
Rosina, married Sebastian Visscher.
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Notes: The life of Anna Williams Van Vechten Shipboy is CAP biography number 1120.
This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources. Because she was
of British ancestry, available church records do
not yet support establishment of her birth or exact
parentage.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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