See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

PHILIP See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• PHILIP JOHN SCHUYLER (1733–1804)

SCHUYLER (1733–1804)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American soldier, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ALBANY
• ALBANY, DUKES OF
• ALBANY, LOUISE MAXIMILIENNE CAROLINE, COUNTESS OF (1752-1824)

Albany, New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, on the 11th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1733 . The See also:

• SCHUYLER, PHILIP JOHN (1733–1804)

Schuyler See also:

• FAMILY

family was established in the New See also:

• WORLD

World by See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip Pieterse Schuyler (d . 1683), who migrated from See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam in 165o, and whose son, See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter (1657–1724), was the first See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor of Albany and chairman of the See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board of See also:

• INDIAN

Indian commissioners of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province . The family was one of the wealthiest and most influential in the See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony and was closely related by See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage to the See also:

• VAN

Van Rensselaers, Van Cortlandts and other representatives of the old Dutch See also:

• ARISTOCRACY (Gr. apuvror, best; «paria, government)

aristocracy . Philip Schuyler served in the Provincial See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

Army during the Seven Years' See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, first as See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain and later as See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy-See also:

• COMMISSARY (from Med. Lat. commissaries, one to whom a charge or trust is committed)

commissary with the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major, taking See also:

• PART

part in the battles of See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George (1755), See also:

• OSWEGO

Oswego See also:

• RIVER

River (1756), See also:

• TICONDEROGA

Ticonderoga (1758) and Fort Frontenac (1758) . From 1768 to 1775 he represented Albany in the New York See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly, and he was closely associated with the See also:

• LIVINGSTON, EDWARD (1764–1836)
• LIVINGSTON, ROBERT R
• LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM (1723-1790)

Livingston family in theleadership of the Presbyterian or Whig party . He was a delegate to the second See also:

• CONTINENTAL

Continental See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress in May 1775, and on the 19th of See also:

• JUNE

June was chosen one of the four major-generals in the Continental service . Placed in command of the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of New York, he established headquarters at Albany, and made preparations for an invasion of See also:

• CANADA

Canada . Soon after the expedition started he was prostrated by rheumatic See also:

• GOUT

gout, and the actual command devolved upon See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• MONTGOMERY
• MONTGOMERY ( Tre' Faldwyn)
• MONTGOMERY, GABRIEL, SEIGNEUR DE LORGES, COMTE DE (c. 1530-1574)
• MONTGOMERY, JAMES (1771-1854)
• MONTGOMERY, ROBERT (1807-1855)

Montgomery . Schuyler returned to Ticonderoga and later to Albany, where he spent the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter of 1775–1776 in See also:

• COLLECTING

collecting and forwarding supplies to Canada and in suppressing the See also:

• LOYALISTS

Loyalists and their Indian See also:

• ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

allies in the See also:

• MOHAWK

Mohawk Valley . On the See also:

• DEATH

death of Montgomery and the failure to take See also:

• QUEBEC

Quebec the army retreated to See also:

• CROWN

Crown Point, and its See also:

• COMMANDER

commander, General See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• SULLIVAN, JOHN (1740–1795)
• SULLIVAN, SIR ARTHUR SEYMOUR (1842—1900)
• SULLIVAN, THOMAS BARRY (1824-1891)

Sullivan, was superseded by General Horatio See also:

• GATES, HORATIO (1728-1806)

Gates . Gates claimed See also:

• PRECEDENCE (from Lat. praecedere, to go before, precede)

precedence over Schuyler and, on failing to secure recognition, intrigued to bring about Schuyler's dismissal .

The controversy was taken into Congress . The necessary withdrawal of the army from Crown Point in 1776 and the evacuation of Ticonderoga in 1777 were magnified by Schuyler's enemies into a See also:

• RETROGRADE (from the Lat. retro, backwards, gradiri, to go)

retrograde See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement, and, on the 19th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1777, he was superseded . A See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court See also:

• MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS)

martial appointed in 1778 acquitted him on every See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge . He resigned from the army in See also:

• APRIL

April 1779 . He was a delegate from New York to the Continental Congress in 1779–1781, and See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state senator in 1781–1784, 1786–1790 and 1792–1797 . In 1788 he joined his son-in-See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• HAMILTON
• HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
• HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
• HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
• HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
• HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
• HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
• HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
• HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
• HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
• HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
• HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
• HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
• HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)

Hamilton, John See also:

• JAY (Fr. geai)
• JAY, JOHN (1745-1829)
• JAY, WILLIAM (1769-1853)

Jay and others in leading the movement for the ratification by New York of the Federal constitution . He served in the See also:

• UNITED

United States See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate as a Federalist from 1790 to 1791 and was again elected in 1797, but resigned in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1798 on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of See also:

• ILL

ill-See also:

• HEALTH

health . He was also active for many years as Indian See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner and surveyor-general and helped to See also:

• SETTLE
• SETTLE, ELKANAH (1648–1724)

settle the New York boundary disputes with See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts and See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania . He prepared plans' for.the construction of a See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

canal between the See also:

• HUDSON
• HUDSON, GEORGE (180o-1871)
• HUDSON, HENRY
• HUDSON, JOHN (1662–1719)

Hudson river and Lake See also:

• CHAMPLAIN
• CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE (1567-1635)

Champlain before 1776, and, in 1792–1796, carried to a successful conclusion a more pretentious See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme for connecting the Hudson with Lake See also:

• ONTARIO
• ONTARIO, LAKE

Ontario by way of the Mohawk, See also:

• ONEIDA
• ONEIDA (a corruption of their proper name Oneyotka-ono, " people of the stone," in allusion to the Oneida stone, a granite boulder near their former village, which was held sacred by them)

Oneida Lake and the See also:

• ONONDAGA

Onondaga river . He died in Albany on the 18th of November 1804 . See See also:

• BAYARD, PIERRE TERRAIL, SEIGNEUR DE (1473–1524)
• BAYARD, THOMAS FRANCIS (1828-1898)

Bayard Tuckerman, See also:

• LIFE

Life of General Philip Schuyler (New York, 1903) . Other prominent members of the family were: Montgomery Schuyler (1814–1896) and his See also:

• COUSIN (Fr. cousin, Ital. cugino, Late Lat. cosinus, perhaps a popular and familiar abbreviation of consobrinus, which has the same sense in classical Latin)
• COUSIN, JEAN (1500-1590)
• COUSIN, VICTOR (1792–1867)

cousin See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

Anthony (1816–1896), See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant Episcopal clergymen; George See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington (1810–1888), treasurer of New York State in 1863–1865 and of Cornell University in 1868–1874 and author of Colonial New York: Philip Schuyler and his Family (2 vols., 1885); his son See also:

• EUGENE

Eugene (1840-1890), who was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long in the consular and See also:

• DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic service of the United States, and who translated some of the novels of Tourgeniev and Tolstoi and wrote Peter the See also:

• GREAT

Great (1884) and American See also:

• DIPLOMACY (Fr. diplomatic)

Diplomacy and the Furtherance of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

Commerce (1886); and Montgomery (b .

1843), a son of Anthony, and a journalist and writer on See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture .