Pieter Schuyler, Jr. was born in January 1698. He was the son of Albany leader Pieter Schuyler and his second wife, Maria Van Rensselaer Schuyler. He was the twin brother of Jeremiah Schuyler.

He married young Catharina Groesbeck in November 1722. By 1743, ten of their eleven children had been baptized at the Albany Dutch church.

These Schuylers set up a residence in the third ward. Pieter served as a firemaster and then was elected assistant alderman in 1736 and '37. He also owned land along Foxes Creek.

However, Pieter Schuyler, Jr. was involved in the fur trade out into the Indian country. In 1721, he was identified as the captain of a company of traders commissioned by the governor to trade at Oswego. At another time, he built a trading post and passed a year at another location near Lake Ontario. In 1737, he was commissioned as "commissary at Oswego" during the trading season.

Like his brothers, he owned a farm north of Albany on family property generally known as the Flats.

In 1748, was named to share a portion of the estate of his brother, Phillipus. His son was the "Pieter Schuyler, Jr." who was buried at "the Flats" in September 1753. At this point, we believe he was the "Peter Schuyler" whose name was included on a list of Albany freeholders in 1763.

We seek information on his later life and passing.

Sources: The life of Pieter Schuyler, Jr. is CAP biography number 1736. This profile is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. A portrait of him from a private collection has been reproduced in Christoph's Schuyler Genealogy, facing page 53. We seek an exhibitable copy of that likeness!