John 5 Lansing

Tradition holds that John 5 Lansing was the fifth generation of his family named John. He was born during the second quarter of the eighteenth century and became an Albany resident.

In October 1761, he married twenty-three-year-old widow Catharina Burhans at the Albany Dutch church. By 1783, nine children had been christened in Albany.

In August 1778, he presented an account for supplying bread to the "state prisoners to the Albany Commissioners on Conspiracies..

During the 1760s and in 1779 and 1788, his first ward property was valued on the Albany assessment rolls under the name of "John 5. Lansing."

After thirty-eight years of marriage, John 5 Lansing lost his wife in October 1799.

Sources: The life of John 5 Lansing has not been assigned a CAP biography number due to the existence of a number of same named individuals.. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.