Philip and Catherine Schuyler had eight children who survived ... Peggy married a distant cousin, Stephen Van Rensselaer III, 19; it was likely an elopement. (In fact, Eliza was the only Schuyler ...

Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler, his wife Catharine Van Rensselaer, and their eight children. The Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton” depicts the three eldest of the Schuyler ...

was the eldest daughter of Continental Army General Philip Schuyler and his wife, Catharine Van Rensselaer Schuyler. As the firstborn child of a wealthy and landed Dutch family that had lived in ...