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See also:SCHUYLER, 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 (1733–1804) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born at See also:Albany, New See also:York, on the 11th of See also:November 1733. The Schuyler See also:family was established in the New See also:World by Philip Pieterse Schuyler (d. 1683), who migrated from See also: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 of Albany and chairman of the See also:board of See also:Indian commissioners of the See also:province. The family was one of the wealthiest and most influential in the See also:colony and was closely related by See also:marriage to the See also:Van Rensselaers, Van Cortlandts and other representatives of the old Dutch See also:aristocracy. Philip Schuyler served in the Provincial See also:Army during the Seven Years' See also:War, first as See also:captain and later as See also:deputy-See also:commissary with the See also:rank of See also:major, taking See also:part in the battles of See also:Lake See also:George (1755), See also:Oswego See also:River (1756), See also:Ticonderoga (1758) and Fort Frontenac (1758). From 1768 to 1775 he represented Albany in the New York See also:Assembly, and he was closely associated with the See also:Livingston family in theleadership of the Presbyterian or Whig party. He was a delegate to the second See also:Continental See also:Congress in May 1775, and on the 19th of See also:June was chosen one of the four major-generals in the Continental service. Placed in command of the See also:northern See also:department of New York, he established headquarters at Albany, and made preparations for an invasion of See also:Canada. Soon after the expedition started he was prostrated by rheumatic See also:gout, and the actual command devolved upon See also:General See also:Richard See also:Montgomery. Schuyler returned to Ticonderoga and later to Albany, where he spent the See also:winter of 1775–1776 in See also:collecting and forwarding supplies to Canada and in suppressing the See also:Loyalists and their Indian See also:allies in the See also:Mohawk Valley. On the See also:death of Montgomery and the failure to take See also:Quebec the army retreated to See also:Crown Point, and its See also:commander, General John See also:Sullivan, was superseded by General Horatio See also:Gates. Gates claimed See also: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 See also:movement, and, on the 19th of See also:August 1777, he was superseded. A See also:court See also:martial appointed in 1778 acquitted him on every See also:charge. He resigned from the army in See also:April 1779. He was a delegate from New York to the Continental Congress in 1779–1781, and See also:state senator in 1781–1784, 1786–1790 and 1792–1797. In 1788 he joined his son-in-See also:law See also: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 and others in leading the movement for the ratification by New York of the Federal constitution. He served in the See also:United States See also:Senate as a Federalist from 1790 to 1791 and was again elected in 1797, but resigned in See also:January 1798 on See also:account of See also:ill-See also:health. He was also active for many years as Indian See also:commissioner and surveyor-general and helped to See also:settle the New York boundary disputes with See also:Massachusetts and See also:Pennsylvania. He prepared plans' for.the construction of a See also:canal between the See also:Hudson river and Lake See also: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 by way of the Mohawk, See also:Oneida Lake and the See also:Onondaga river. He died in Albany on the 18th of November 1804.
See See also:Bayard Tuckerman, See also:Life of General Philip Schuyler (New York, 1903).
Other prominent members of the family were: Montgomery Schuyler (1814–1896) and his See also:cousin See also:Anthony (1816–1896), See also:Protestant Episcopal clergymen; George See also: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 (1840-1890), who was See also:long in the consular and See also:diplomatic service of the United States, and who translated some of the novels of Tourgeniev and Tolstoi and wrote Peter the See also:Great (1884) and American See also:Diplomacy and the Furtherance of See also:Commerce (1886); and Montgomery (b. 1843), a son of Anthony, and a journalist and writer on See also:architecture.
End of Article: SCHUYLER, PHILIP JOHN (1733–1804)
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