Translation from Van Laer, Register of the Provincial Secretary, Volume III, 1648-1660, doc. 30b, pg. 82 Before me, Cornells van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared...
Pieter Schuyler (1657–1724) was a colonial leader in early New York and the first mayor of Albany after the city was incorporated in 1686. A military officer and diplomat with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) nations, he later served twice as acting governor of the Province of New York.
Most of New Netherland's enslaved people were brought to the colony either through the inter-colonial or transatlantic slave trade. The first enslaved laborers arrived in New Netherland as early as 1625.
Karl C. Schuyler (1877–1933) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who briefly served as a United States Senator from Colorado from December 1932 to March 1933. His short term filled a vacancy caused by the death of Senator Charles W. Waterman.
On February 25, 1644, eleven enslaved men and their wives were granted half-freedom by the Dutch West India Company after petitioning the Council, citing long service and broken promises.
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler (1900–1993) was a United States Army general who served in both World War I and World War II and later played a key role in early NATO military planning. Rising to the rank of four-star general, he served as Chief of Staff at SHAPE headquarters in Paris before retiring from active military service in 1959.
An award-winning booklet that recounts the story of the New Netherland Project
Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) was an American televangelist and pastor who founded the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, and created the global television ministry Hour of Power. Known for his positive-thinking sermons and innovative church leadership, he built one of the most influential megachurch ministries of the twentieth century.
Translation from Van Laer, Council Minutes, Volume IV, 1638-1649, doc. 183, pg. 212-213 The 25th of February We, Willem Kieft, director general, and the council...
James Schuyler (1923–1991) was an American poet associated with the New York School of poets. Known for his reflective and observational style, he received the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection The Morning of the Poem.
