Nicholas William Stuyvesant

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Nicholas William Stuyvesant
Bornc. 1769–1770
New York City, Province of New York, British America
DiedMarch 11, 1833(1833-03-11) (aged 63–64)
New York City, U.S.
Spouse(s)
Catherine Livingston Reade
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(m. 1795)​
Children9
Parent(s)Peter Stuyvesant
Margaret Livingston
RelativesSee Stuyvesant family
Nicholas Fish (brother-in-law)
Hamilton Fish (nephew)
Pierre Van Cortlandt (uncle)
Dirck Ten Broeck (brother-in-law)

Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769 – March 11, 1833)[1] was a New York landowner and merchant who was a great-great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Amsterdam.

Early life[]

Portrait of his father, Peter Stuyvesant, by Gilbert Stuart

Stuyvesant was born in New York City in 1769 and named after his uncle, Nicholas William Stuyvesant.[2] He was the eldest son of Petrus "Peter" Stuyvesant (1727–1805) and Margaret (née Livingston) Stuyvesant (1738–1818). His siblings included Judith Stuyvesant, who married Benjamin Winthrop (grandparents of U.S. Representative John Winthrop Chanler); Cornelia Stuyvesant, who married Speaker of the New York State Assembly Dirck Ten Broeck, and Elizabeth Stuyvesant, who married Adjutant General of New York Nicholas Fish, and Peter Gerard Stuyvesant.[3][4]

Nicholas was descended from many of New York's most prominent families and characters. Through his father, he was the 2x great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland. His paternal grandparents were Peter Gerard Stuyvesant and Judith (née Bayard) Stuyvesant of the Bayard family.[3] Through his mother Margaret, he was descended from the Livingston and Beekman families, as she was the daughter of Gilbert Livingston and Cornelia (née Beekman) Livingston, granddaughter of Robert Livingston the Elder, the first Lord of Livingston Manor, and great-granddaughter of Wilhelmus Beekman (who arrived in New Amsterdam aboard the same ship as Peter Stuyvesant).[5] His maternal aunt, Joanna Livingston, was married to Pierre Van Cortlandt, the first Lieutenant Governor of the New York.[6][7]

Career[]

He was educated in Scotland, inherited his uncle's "the Bowery House".[8][9][10] In 1795, he built a Federal-style house that today is the oldest house in Greenwich Village at 44 Stuyvesant Street.[11]

Personal life[]

On January 31, 1795, Stuyvesant was married to Catherine Livingston Reade (1777–1863), a daughter of John Reade and Catherine (née Livingston) Reade. Her grandfather was Loyalist merchant Robert Gilbert Livingston and her sister, Helen Sarah Reade, married James Hooker.[12] Together, they were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, including:[13]

  • Peter Stuyvesant (1796–1860), who married Julia Rebecca Martin (1805–1883).[13]
  • John Reade Stuyvesant (1798–1853), who married Catharine Ackerly (1808–1837), a daughter of Dr. C.O. Ackerly. After her death, he married Mary Austin Yates (1811–1889).[13]
  • Catherine Ann Stuyvesant (1801–1872), who married John Mortimer Catlin (1801–1881), a son of Lynde Catlin.[14]
  • Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1805–1871), who married Catherine Augusta Chesebrough (1807–1876), an aunt of Robert Chesebrough.[15]
  • Gerard Stuyvesant (1806–1859), who married Susan Rivington Van Horne (1812–1889) in 1836.[16]
  • Margaret Livingston Stuyvesant (1806–1845), who married Robert Van Rensselaer (1805–1840), eldest son of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and Sybil Adeline (née Kane) Van Rensselaer and nephew of Jacob R. Van Rensselaer.[17]
  • Robert Reade Stuyvesant, who married Margaret Augusta Mildeberger. After his death, she married Walton Hazard Peckham.[18]
  • Helen Cornelia Stuyvesant (1808–1890), who married Henry Dudley (1799–1837). After his death, she married Francis Olmsted. After his death, she married Dr. William Starbuck Mayo.[13]
  • Joseph Reade Stuyvesant (1809–1873), who married Jane Ann Browning in 1840.[13]

Stuyvesant died in the Stuyvesant family mansion on March 11, 1833.[13]

Descendants[]

Through his daughter Catherine, he was a grandfather of Nicholas William Stuyvesant Catlin (1829–1897), who worked in marine insurance for fifty years who was "was well known as a scholarly man of wide reading and many acquirements, but save an occasional appearance at the many clubs and societies with which he was connected, he lived in retirement, satisfied with the companions of his leisure—his books."[19]

Through his daughter Helen, he was a grandfather of Henry Dudley (1837–1900), "a gentleman of wealth and leisure, who employed the opportunities thus given him for doing good in charitable work with an unstinted hand." He married Anna Mott Fellows.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ "Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769-1833)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1722-1780)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  3. ^ a b The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: History, Customs, Record of Events, Constitution, Certain Genealogies, and Other Matters of Interest. V. 1-. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. 1905. p. 32. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  4. ^ Virshup, Amy (4 May 1987). "The East Village: Rebels and Immigrants in the Land of the Stuyvesants". New York. New York Media, LLC: 54. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  5. ^ Rutherfurd, Livingston (1894). Family Records and Events: Compiled Principally from the Original Manuscripts in the Rutherfurd Collection. De Vinne Press. p. 252. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  6. ^ Judd, Jacob (1977). Van Cortlandt Family Papers Vol II. Tarrytown: Sleepy Hollow Restorations. pp. xxxviii, liv. ISBN 0-912882-29-8.
  7. ^ Van Cortlandt, Pierre (1721-1814) at The Political Graveyard
  8. ^ Miller, Tom (9 April 2018). "Daytonian in Manhattan: The Lost Nicholas Wm. Stuyvesant Mansion - St. Mark's Place". daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com. Daytonian in Manhattan. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Guide to the Stuyvesant-Rutherfurd Papers 1647-1917 (bulk 1840-1917) | Series III: Peter (Petrus) Stuyvesant". dlib.nyu.edu. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  10. ^ Scoville, Joseph Alfred (1864). The Old Merchants of New York City. Carleton. pp. 318–319. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  11. ^ Berman, Andrew (September 13, 2018). "The oldest house in the Village? It's not what you think". 6sqft. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  12. ^ "John Reade family papers | Manuscript and Archival Collection Finding Aids". library.udel.edu. University of Delaware. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  13. ^ a b c d e f Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 1011–1015. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  14. ^ "John Mortimer Catlin". npg.si.edu. Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  15. ^ Hughes, Thomas Patrick; Munsell, Frank (1895). American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A. D. 1776 | Vol. X. United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers. p. 178. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  16. ^ "Gerard Stuyvesant (1805-1859)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  17. ^ Aitken, William Benford (1912). Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke. Knickerbocker Press. p. 13. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  18. ^ Robinson, Caroline Elizabeth (1896). The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, 1635-1894: Being a Genealogy and History of the Descendants of Thomas Hazard ... p. 164. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  19. ^ "Century Archives – N. W. STUYVESANT CATLIN". centuryarchives.org. The Century Association Archives Foundation. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  20. ^ "Century Archives – HENRY DUDLEY". centuryarchives.org. The Century Association Archives Foundation. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
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