Person:Arent Schuyler (6)

Research notes

• served on a committee for providing fuel and other comforts for the houses occupied by Indians when on their trading expeditions to Albany ²
• on the committee to raise funds to erect fortifications ²
• participated energetically in the proceedings of the Albany convention in opposition to the pretensions of Jacob Leisler ²
• first man of the English or Dutch to lead a hostile party from this province into Canada ²
• On June 6, 1693, Arent Schuyler and Anthony Brockholst purchased of the Indians 4,000 acres of land at Pequannock. ²
• On November 11, 1695, they purchased the title of the East Jersey Proprietors to the same tract for one hundred pounds.²
• On May 20, 1697, he received from Governor Fletcher a patent for land in the Minisink country, called by the Indians Sankhekeneck, alias Maghawaem; also a parcel of meadow called Waimsagskmeck, on the Minisink river, containing one thousand acres. ²
• removed from New York to Pompton Plains, New Jersey, about 1702, where he remained until 1710, when he removed to a large farm which he had purchased from Edmund Kingsland, on New Barbadoes Neck, on the east side of the Passaic river, the deed dated April 20, 1710; amount, 330 pounds. ²
• A negro slave belonging to him accidentally found a copper deposit while he was plowing. He had turned up a peculiarly, greenish and very heavy sort of stone. He took it to his master and it was sent to England to be analyzed. The reply was that it contained 80 per cent. of copper, and this opened a means for Arent Schuyler to obtain wealth. Desiring to reward the slave, he told him that he might make three requests, to which the fellow replied; first, that he might remain with his master so long as he lived; second, that he might have all the tobacco he could smoke; third, that he might be given a dressing-gown, with big, brass buttons, like his master's. Schuyler told him to consider and ask for something less trifling, and the answer was that for the fourth request he might have "a little more tobacco." ²

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Arent Schuyler, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
   last accessed Mar 2017.

   Arent Philipse Schuyler (June 25, 1662 – November 26, 1730) was a member of the influential Schuyler family (among the first settlers to New Netherland), during his lifetime he was a surveyor, Native American trader, miner, merchant, and land speculator. ...

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Reynolds, Cuyler. Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs: a record of achievements of the people of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys in New York state included within the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub., c1911)
   1:28-41.

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3. ↑ SCHUYLER FAMILY, in Fish, Stuyvesant. Ancestors of Hamilton Fish and Julia Ursin Niemcewicz Kean, his wife. (New York, N.Y.: The Evening post job printing office, inc., 1929)
   161-162.

   6. Arent Van Schuyler, born June 25, 1662. He died about 1730. Married 1., Janneke Teleur. 2, Swantie Van Duyckhuysen. 3, Maria Walter.