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Coat of Arms of Philip Pieterse Schuyler. The Schuyler family (/ˈskaɪlər/; Dutch pronunciation: ) was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose descendants played a critical role in the formation of the United States (especially New York City and northern New Jersey), in leading government and business in North America and served as leaders in ...
Rapelje Rasters: A Genealogy (Valparaiso, IN, 1994) Shorto, Russell The Island at the Center of the World. The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (New York: Doubleday. 2004) Van Winkle, Donald J. Rapalje of New Netherlands (The Colonial Genealogist, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 152–157. Winter 1972)
Jacques Cortelyou (c. 1625 –1693) was an influential early citizen of New Amsterdam (later New York City) who was Surveyor General of the early Dutch colony. Cortelyou's main accomplishment was the so-called Cortelyou Survey, the first map of New York City, commonly called the Castello Plan after the location in a Tuscan palace where it was rediscovered centuries later.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B or NYGBS) is a non-profit institution located at 36 West 44th Street in New York City. Founded in 1869, it is the second-oldest genealogical society in the United States, and the only statewide genealogical society in New York state.
Russell was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867. In 1869, he was elected District Attorney of St. Lawrence County, and County Judge in 1877. He was New York Attorney General from 1882 to 1883, elected at the New York state election, 1881. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law at New York City.
Ethan Schwartz was 15 when he helped Ramapo College's Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center ID the jawbone of a Marine killed in a 1951 plane crash. Suffern teen hailed as youngest person to help ...
Russell was born in Branford in the Connecticut Colony on September 7, 1772. [1] He was the second son of Federalist New York State Senator and Assemblyman Ebenezer Russell and Elizabeth (née Stork) Russell (a daughter of Capt. Moses Stork). His paternal grandparents were Mary (née Barker) Russell and John Russell. [2]
Russell was born in Salem, New York, the son of David Abel Russell, who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1835 to 1841, and his wife. During his final year in Congress, the senior Russell secured an appointment to the United States Military Academy for his son. The junior Russell graduated near the bottom of his class in 1845.
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