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    Johnston Livingston de Peyster (June 14, 1846 – May 27, 1903) was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later a member of the New...
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  • De Peyster (also spelled DePuyster and dePeyster) is a surname of Dutch origin. It is also a town, De Peyster, New York. Abraham de Peyster (1657–1728)...
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    John Watts de Peyster, Sr. (March 9, 1821 – May 4, 1907) was an American author on the art of war, philanthropist, and the Adjutant General of New York...
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    De Peyster was born in New Amsterdam on July 8, 1657, to Johannes de Peyster Sr. (c. 1600–c. 1685) and Cornelia (née Lubberts) de Peyster. The de Peysters...
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  • Johannes de Peyster or Johannes de Peyster II (September 21, 1666 – September 25, 1711) was the 23rd Mayor of New York City between 1698 and 1699. Johannes...
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    de Peyster II (November 11, 1796, in New York City – August 17, 1882, in Tivoli, New York) was a New York City lawyer and prominent member of the De Peyster...
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  • Watts De Peyster Jr. (December 2, 1841 – April 12, 1873) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and a member of the famous de Peyster family...
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  • Johannes de Peyster Sr. (born in Haarlem, Holland, about 1600; died in New Amsterdam (now New York City) about 1685) was a Dutch merchant who immigrated...
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    Rachel's death in 1790, Peale married Elizabeth de Peyster (1765–1804), a descendant of Johannes de Peyster, the next year. With his second wife, he had...
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    DePeyster (1707–1785) Arent Schuyler DePeyster (1736–1822), British military officer Philipse "Philip" Schuyler (1666–1724) m. (1) 1687: Elizabeth De...
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    Arent Schuyler DePeyster (27 June 1736 – 26 November 1822) was an American-born military officer best known for his term as commandant of the British...
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    Henry Rutgers (category De Peyster family)
    (née DePeyster) Rutgers. His maternal grandparents were Johannes de Peyster, the 23rd Mayor of New York City, and Anna (née Bancker) de Peyster, the sister...
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  • Edward De Peyster Livingston (March 6, 1861 – January 19, 1932) was an American lawyer and society leader during the Gilded Age. Livingston was born in...
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    Johannes de Peyster or Johannes de Peyster III (1694 – February 27, 1789) was the Mayor of Albany, New York three times between 1729 and 1742. De Peyster was...
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  • Abraham de Peyster (August 26, 1696 – September 17, 1767), was a Dutch-American who served as the treasurer of the Province of New York. De Peyster was born...
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    de Peyster (February 5, 1839 – May 10, 1905) was an American soldier, lawyer, and member of New York Society during the Gilded Age. Frederic James de...
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  • British rule. Margaret Van Cortlandt, who married Abraham de Peyster, a son of mayor Abraham de Peyster. Van Cortlandt died in 1739 in Bergen, New Jersey. Through...
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    Franklin Peale (category De Peyster family)
    painter Charles Willson Peale and his second wife, the former Elizabeth de Peyster. As well as pursuing his art, Charles Peale ran the Philadelphia Museum...
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    (1714–1786), who married Catharine de Peyster (1724–1804), a granddaughter of the Mayor of New York City Abraham de Peyster. Philip Livingston (1716–1778)...
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  • Captain Alfred Brooks Fry, USNR – Marine engineer. Brevet Colonel Johnston de Peyster – Union Army officer. Commander Guy Castle, USN – Medal of Honor...
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  • Colonel Benjamin W. Crowninshield – Aide de camp to General Philip Sheridan. Brevet Colonel Johnston de Peyster – First re-raised U.S. flag over Richmond...
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    Titian Peale (category De Peyster family)
    youngest son of the polymath Charles Willson Peale and his wife Elizabeth de Peyster, Peale was named after his dead half-brother, also named Titian Ramsay...
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    headquarters in the home of Jefferson Davis. His aide, Lieutenant Johnston de Peyster, is credited with raising the first U.S. flag over the city after...
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    Pierre Van Cortlandt (category De Peyster family)
    City from 1677 to 1678 and 1686 to 1688), and Catherine de Peyster (daughter of Abraham de Peyster (1657–1728), Mayor of New York City from 1691 to 1694...
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  • with Gov. DeWitt Clinton in building the Erie Canal. He married Cornelia De Peyster (1774–1849), the daughter of Pierre Guillaume De Peyster (1745–1807)...
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  • Gerard Bancker (category De Peyster family)
    Gerard Bancker Sr. and Maria de Peyster, who had married in New York City in 1731. He was the grandson of Johannes de Peyster (1666–1719), the 23rd Mayor...
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  • Watts de Peyster Jr. (1841–1873), Union Army officer Johnston de Peyster (1846–1903), New York State Assembly member Pierre Guillaume de Peyster (b. 1707)...
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    and he was buried at the church graveyard in Springdale, Ohio. Johnston de Peyster, who raised the first Union flag in the Confederate capital. Wilson...
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    family, van Rensselaer family, Schuyler family, Livingston family, the de Peyster family, the Gage family, the Jay family (including John Jay, the Founding...
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    Margaret Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1819–1897) ⚭ (1) 1837 (div. 1851): John de Peyster Douw (1812–1901); ⚭ (2) Wilmot Johnson (1820–1899) Cornelia Paterson Van...
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