Phebe Vanderbilt

Phebe Hand was born in Rahway, New Jersey, the daughter of a prosperous sea captain. Captain Samuel Hand, and a Miss Lum. Phebe was moderately well educated for the time and was of "good blood". When she and Cornelius Vanderbilt first met, she was living as a mother's helper in the home of a clergyman at Port Richmond, Staten Island. They were married on February 5, 1787.

Phebe has been given much credit for her husband's, as well as her son's, success. Strong of character and body, she was energetic, reliant, efficient, pious, and greatly loved by her family, especially by her son, Corneel.

• See Hand and Vanderbilt A Sketch of Grandmother Vanderbilt's Early Life Written by her granddaughter, Anna, H.V. Root - written some time between 1885 and 1893

Family

Phebe Hand Vanderbilt. Birth: Apr. 15, 1767 Essex County New Jersey, USA Death: Jun. 22, 1854 Staten Island Richmond County New York, USA..Burial: Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp Richmond County New York, USA

• parents: Capt. Samuel Hand & Phebe Lum

Married

1. Cornelius Vanderbilt (1764 - 1832). 9 children.

Links

• http://www.sprague-database.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I9...

Sources 

1. [S1796] Publication: Staten Island Annals, J. J. Clute, (New York; Press of Chas. Vogt; 1877.), page 430..
2. [S200] N.E.H.G.S. NEXUS, Volume XIII, No. 1, page 23..
3. [S10] Spragg Line: NY, PA & IN, Wilken, Dale, (Marion, IA: Privately published by Dale Wilken, February 14, 1993), #3-2-1.

Samuel Hand in entry for Phebe Hand, "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"

Name Samuel Hand Sex Male Daughter Phebe Hand

Other information in the record of Phebe Hand from New Jersey Births and Christenings

Name Phebe Hand Gender Female Christening Date 25 October 1767 Christening Place Presbyterian

Church, Westfield, Union,New Jersey Father's Name Samuel Hand* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 11 2019, 22:48:23 UTC