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Mrs. Anthony Van Schaick (Anna Cuyler) by Henrietta Johnston c. 1725 New York State Museum Albany, NY | Johnston, Henrietta | Anna Cuyler (1685-1743) married Anthony Van Schaick, Jr. (1682-1759) in 1712. Allied with several prominent early Hudson Valley families, the Van Schaicks were part of an emerging Albany middle class, and part of a Dutch cultural tradition that accorded liberal business and property rights to women. Anthony Van Schaick was a brewer. Prosperous and... |
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