Peter Schuyler (New Jersey soldier)

Peter Schuyler
Born
Pieter Schuyler

1707
New Barbadoes Neck, New Jersey
DiedMarch 7, 1762(1762-03-07) (aged 54–55)
Near Newark, New Jersey
NationalityDutch
Spouses
  • Hester Walter
  • Mary Walter
Children1
Parent(s)Arent Schuyler
Swantje Van Duyckhuysen
RelativesSee Schuyler family

Pieter "Peter" Schuyler (1707 – March 7, 1762),[1] a member of the Schuyler family,[2] was a wealthy Dutch farmer from New Barbadoes Neck, now western Hudson County, New Jersey. He was a colonel during King George's War and was captured and exchanged as a prisoner during the French and Indian Wars.

  1. ^ "Peter Schuyler". npg.si.edu. Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schuyler, Philip John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 391. The family was one of the wealthiest and most influential in the colony