Pieter Van Brugh (1666 – July 1740) was the Mayor ofAlbany, New York from 1699 to 1700 and from 1721 to 1723.^[1]

Pieter Van Brugh was a member of the Dutch aristocracy of Albany. Pieter Van Brugh was the oldest son ofJohannes Pieterse Van Brugh and Catharina Roeloffs (sometimes shown as Trijntje Roeloffs). His father, Johannes Pieterse van Brugh, had made a fortune by migrating from theNetherlands toNew Netherland and exporting furs and other natural resources fromManhattan. Pieter's maternal grandparents were fromNorway.Roeliff Jansen (1602–1637) was born in Marstrandsön, a small island situated inBohuslän province in Norway, today a part ofKungälv Municipality,Västra Götaland County,Sweden.^[2] Anneke Jans (later Anneke Jantz Bogardus) (1605–1663) was born onFlekkerøy,^[3] an island situated outside the town ofKristiansand,Vest-Agder county,Norway.^[4][5]

His sister, Catharina, marriedHendrick van Rensselaer, the son ofRensselaerswyckpatroon,Jeremias van Rensselaer.

After serving time as a militia lieutenant inNew York City, Van Brugh entered the family business and lived with his wife's family in Albany. He became aconstable in 1692 followed by several other public duties in the following years. In 1697, he inherited the Cuyler's home.^{[citation needed]}

In 1699, Van Brugh's prominence led to his appointment as Mayor of Albany which he held until the following year. In September 1700, he was part of an expedition that traveled west into theIroquois country in an attempt to establish a fort among theOnondaga.^[6] In the following decades, he became one of the wealthiest businessmen in Albany and was named mayor for a second time from 1721 to 1723.^{[citation needed]}

In November 1688, Van Brugh married Sara Cuyler. Uncharacteristic for the era, the couple had only one child:

• Catharina Van Brugh (born in 1689), who marriedPhilip Livingston (1686–1749), the second lord ofLivingston Manor.^[7]

By the time he died in 1740, Van Brugh and his wife had twelve grandchildren and had raised several orphaned nieces but had no sons thereby ending the Van Brugh family name in Albany. Van Brugh was one of the last people to be interred beneathAlbany Dutch Reformed Church.^{[citation needed]}

Pieter was the great-granduncle ofAmerican Revolutionary War soldier,Peter Gansevoort.

• History of Albany, New York

Notes

Sources

• Pieter Van Brugh - Biography written by Stefan Bielinski at New York State Museum web site.
• Sara Cuyler Van Brugh - Biography written by Stefan Bielinski at New York State Museum web site.
• Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh and Trijntje Roeloffs - The Genealogy of Walter Gilbert
• Roelof (Roeloffse) JansenScandinavian Immigrants In New York 1630 - 1674 by John O. Evjen

• Bowers, Virginia (1997)Mayors of Albany, 1686-1997 : biographical sketches (Albany, NY: City Club of Albany)
• Zabriskie, George Olin,The Founding Families of New Netherland—The Roelofs and Bogardus Families (de Halve Maen, vol. 48, no. 2, July, 1973, Part IV, p. 9.)

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