Catharina Schuyler

Catharina Wendell Schuyler

by

Stefan Bielinski

Catharina Wendell probabaly was born during the late 1670s. She was the daughter of Johannes and his second wife, Elsie Staats Wendell. Her father was a rising merchant and Albany leader who died in 1692 before Catharina reached adulthood. Her mother re-married in 1695 and survived for several more decades.

In 1696, she became a member of the Albany Dutch church. In May 1700, she married twenty-five-year-old Jacobus Schuyler.

The marriage, however, was short-lived as she was buried by her church in April 1701. Catharina Wendell Schuyler had lived less than thirty years. Her husband re-married in 1704 but died himself in 1707.

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notes

the people of colonial Albany Sources: The life of Catharina Wendell Schuyler is CAP biography number 2767. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.