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Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck (1606–1690), early settler to New Netherland, and progenitor of the Verplanck line in North America; Catharina Verplanck (1639–1708), daughter of Abraham and wife of David Pieterse Schuyler, a progenitor of the Schuyler family; Daniel C. Verplanck (1762–1834), American politician, son of Samuel Verplanck (1739 ...
Verplanck is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,729. [ 2 ] Both the hamlet and Verplanck's Point derive their name from the activities of the Verplanck family , established in New Amsterdam by Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck ...
Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck (1606–1690), also known as Abraham Isaacse Ver Planck, [a] was an early and prominent settler in New Netherlands. [1] A land developer and speculator, he was the progenitor of an extensive Verplanck family in the United States.
After Gulian Verplanck's death, his estate was eventually divided among his heirs. Gulian Verplanck II, a merchant from New York City, received 2,880 acres, 400 of which were on a slope overlooking the Hudson River. He named his estate Mount Gulian, in honor of his grandfather and had the first house on the site built between 1730 and 1740.
The Hudson River shore of the Rombout Patent in the town of Wappinger, New York. In 1685, King James II of England issued a royal grant for some 85,000 acres (340 km 2) of land to Verplanck and partners Francis Rombouts, and Stephanus Van Cortlandt (both former mayors of New York City) they had purchased from Wappinger Indians on the east bank of the Hudson River in what is today's southern ...
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Verplanck was born in February 1751 and was only nine months old when his father died. [2] He was the youngest of the six children of Gulian Verplanck (1698–1751) and Mary (née Crommelin) Verplanck, who married in 1737. His father had been a fourth generation New Yorker who owned significant property and amassed a considerable fortune.