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	Peter Gansevoort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Gansevoort (July 17, 1749 - July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War who withstood St.
		Colonel Peter Yates was the primary field commander, but remained as post commander of Fort George when Major Gansevoort led much of the regiment north with Montgomery's forces for the Invasion of Canada.
		Gansevoort and Willett restored the fort and strengthened its defenses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Gansevoort (1146 words)

	From Chapter 6 of Subversive Genealogy
		He was a classmate of Gansevoort's in the Albany Academy, and an apprentice lawyer and copyist in Peter Gansevoort's law office.
		Maria Melville, deploring her nephew Peter Gansevoort's lack of ambition, complained that he was "devoid of emulation, which urges so many on to exertion." Registering the shift from paternal models to maternal love, Maria blamed Mary Ann Gansevoort for her son's failure.
		Peter Gansevoort, who served as chairman of the committee on prisons in the New York state assembly, might have investigated Bartleby's condition.
	www.ku.edu /~zeke/bartleby/rogin.html (4254 words)

	Peter Gansevoort of the 3rd New York
		Gansevoort was engaged to (and eventually married) Catherine "Katy" Van Schaick, sister of the 1st NY's Colonel Goose Van Schaick.
		Gansevoort obtained a lieutenant's commission in a militia company; he desired the prestige of a regular army commission, but was initially turned down.
		Gansevoort served with Montgomery in Canada; he is mentioned in a Willett biography as being present on the Canada campaign--so ill he is brought along on a stretcher.
	www.nyhistory.net /~drums/gansevoort.htm (834 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Gansevoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among the public positions held by General Gansevoort was that of first judge of the county court of Albany county from 1843 to 1847, the duties of which office he discharged with great fidelity and to the entire satisfaction of the legal profession and the public.
		The illness of judge Gansevoort was long and trying; but he retained his mental powers to the last and sank quietly and peacefully to his rest, just as his country had entered on the centennial vear of its independence, in achieving which his father had rendered such important service.
		Colonel Gansevoort was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers and lieutenant-colonel in the regular service, and held at the time of his death the rank of captain of artillery in the regular line of promotion in the United States army.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/gansevoort.html (4923 words)

	Peter Gansevoort -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Gansevoort (July 17, 1749 - July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the (The American army during the American Revolution) Continental Army during the (The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783) American Revolutionary War who withstood (additional info and facts about St. Ledger) St.
		Colonel Peter Yates was the primary field commander, but remained as post commander of Fort George when Major Gansevoort led much of the regiment north with (The state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River) Montgomery's forces for the (additional info and facts about Invasion of Canada) Invasion of Canada.
		Peter led his men during the siege of the Fort at St. Johns, today known by its French name of (additional info and facts about Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec) Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peter_gansevoort.htm (1387 words)

	Fort Stanwix, Rome, NY -- A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip
		When Colonel Peter Gansevoort took command in the spring of 1777, there were rumors of a British invasion from Canada down the Mohawk Valley by a small force under General Barry St. Leger.
		Gansevoort doubled the efforts of his garrison, consisting of less than a thousand New York and Massachusetts infantry, to make the fort defensible.
		Prior to his coming to bolster the defenses of the Mohawk Valley, Peter Gansevoort, the 28-year-old, Albany born commander of Fort Stanwix, had taken part in the 1775 invasion of Canada under General Richard Montgomery and, since March 1776, had been in charge of Fort George, New York.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /nyroute5/ftstanwix (1059 words)

	Dr. Peter Gansevoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was the youngest son of Leendert and Catharina De Wandelaer Gansevoort.
		With traditional family enterprises staked out by his older brothers, young Peter embarked on a more unique career path when he was sent to Boston for medical training.
		Sources: The life of Dr. Peter Gansevoort is CAP biography number 4670.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/g/pegansevoort4670.html (254 words)

	Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, Part 8
		Catharine of Nicholas A. Quakenbush and Annatie Gansevoort.
		Edmund Peter of Peter Edmund Elmendorf and Elizabeth Van Renselaer.
		Maria of Peter Edmund Elmendorf and Elizabeth Vn.
	www.cs.clarku.edu /~djoyce/gen/albany/part8.html (6585 words)

	Peter Douw Beekman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Douw Beekman was born in September 1762.
		In April 1783, he signed a receipt for powder delivered to General Peter Gansevoort from the munitions under the charge of Philip Van Rensselaer.
		Peter Douw Beekman died in February 1835 at the age of seventy three.
	srv06.nysed.gov /albany/bios/b/pedbeekman3926.html (225 words)

	Untitled Document
		Wesselius Gansefortius, otherwise known in his own day as Wessel Gansevoort and also as John Wessel Gansevoort, was born at Groningen, Holland, in the year 1419, in a house standing in the Heerestraat, near the Caroliweg, and which can be recognized to this day in the front stone.
		Catherine Gansevoort Lansing, for the gift which marks the place of old Fort Stanwix--"w fort which never surrendered," and the fort from which the first American flag was unfurled in the face of the enemy.
		The "General Peter Gansevoort Statute," in bronze, stands in the circle in the East park, Rome, New York, facing the west.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_21.htm (4240 words)

	Peter Gansevoort
		Peter pursued processing (chiefly brewing and lumbering) and shipping operations while Leonard practiced law and moved toward public service.
		Previously holding a local militia commission, in May 1775 Peter Gansevoort was commissioned a major in the New York regiment of the Continental army.
		In charge of the "Gansevoort Block" on Market Street, his economic focus was on grinding, lumbering, and sawing at the Snook or Snock Kill Falls in new Saratoga County.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/g/pegans.html (339 words)

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		Peter's oldest daughter, Maria, had married Gen. Herkimer as a second marriage for the General.
		Peter S. Deygart (Dygert), chairman of the Tryon County Committee of Safety, was one of the most active in enriching himself at the expense of the Mohawks, making numerous trips to the Indian village with his wagons to carry away his plunder.
		Peter Deygart (Dygert), writing on behalf of the German Flats Committee of Safety after the Battle of Oriskany, spoke of the " 150 who stood the Field and forced the Enemy to retreat.
	www.homestead.com /dygert/files/The_Battle_of_Oriskany__E._N._Clark.txt (2923 words)

	Gen. Peter Gansevoort Chapter NSDAR
		Biography - A short biography of General Peter Gansevoort.
		Peter Gansevoort was an officer of the Albany County Militia and a Brigadier-General in the Continental Army.
		Peter’s marriage to Catherine (Caty) Van Schaick, daughter of Wessel and Maria (Gerritse) Van Schaick, took place on January 12, 1778, in the Van Schaick Mansion, our newly purchased chapter house.
	www.genpetergansevoort.org (202 words)

	GANSEVOORT, Leonard (1751-1810) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leonard Gansevoort writes regarding developments in the state legislature and bewails the slow pace of activity, but indicates that progress toward the selection of New York’s delegates to the Continental Congress is progressing.
		Leonard Gansevoort writes concerning the recent selection of a candidate for the New York State Assembly from the Town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York.
		Leonard Gansevoort complains that the “mode which they have adopted of choosing the candidates by ballot is novel and cannot be submitted to as it is an abandonment of the principle which ought to govern.”
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=G000040 (461 words)

	Peter Gansevoort
		Having only 80 men, he retired five miles, and attempted, by writing to the leaders, to induce them to lay down their arms, but his request was in vain, and the so-called rebels remained undisturbed.
		--His brother, Leonard Gansevoort, born in Albany in 1751; died there in 1810, was a delegate to the Continental congress from New York during 1787-'8.
		--Peter's grandson, Guert Gansevoort, naval officer, born in Gansevoort, Saratoga County, New York, 7 June, 1812; died in Schenectady, New York, 15 July, 18(18, was the son of Leonard H. Gansevoort.
	www.famousamericans.net /petergansevoort (818 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Ten Eyck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By inheritance, she possesses a great many pieces of highly artistic old furniture and a quantity of colonial silver of beautiful design and workmanship, which are the envy of all the connoisseurs who behold it.
		Ten Eyck married, in Albany, April 15, 1903, Bertha Floretta Dederick, born in Albany, July 31, 1875, daughter of Peter Kells Dederick, of Albany, inventor and wholesale manufacturer of agricultural implements, and at one time was said to have received the third greatest number of patents issued in the United States to any one person.
		She was born in Claverack, December 24, 1843, daughter of John Lewis Michael, born in Claverack, December 12, 1815, died in Claverack in autumn of 1872, and Elizabeth Miller, born May 5, 1818, at Humphreyville, died in Claverack, October 9, 1906, who were married in Claverack, April 22, 1834.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/teneyck-1.html (2134 words)

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		By a twist of literary fate, Gansevoort's grandson, the novelist Herman Melville, spent the years from 1866 to 1885 working as a Customs inspector for the Department of Docks in a long-since vanished building on the wharf at the foot of the street named for his grandfather.
		The Gansevoort Market officially opened in 1884 on the enormous paved open-air block between Gansevoort and Little West 12th streets, on the site of the former Fort Gansevoort, and of the future Gansevoort Meat Center.
		Gansevoort and Washington, and its handsome portrait bust of a stern bull), turn left, and walk south one block to Horatio Street.
	www.gvshp.org /walktour/walktour.htm (4329 words)

	Melville (washingtonpost.com)
		On his mother's side, the benefactor was Maria's father, Peter Gansevoort, a towering man (six foot three in an age when six-footers were rare) famous for having commanded the defense of Fort Stanwix, an outpost guarding the trade route from the Great Lakes, during the British siege of 1777.
		Upon his death in 1812, seven years before his grandson Herman was born, Peter Gansevoort's assets were passed on to his son Peter Junior, along with the obligation to look after his sister Maria and her unborn children.
		Daughter of a respected family with roots in the quasi-feudal aristocracy of the Hudson Valley, Maria Gansevoort had grown up speaking Dutch with her parents, who provided her with the years of music and dancing lessons essential to a young lady of breeding who was expected to make herself gracious and decorative.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/melville.htm (1851 words)

	Herman Melville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819 as the third child to Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melville, and received his early education in that city.
		Another was General Peter Gansevoort who was acquainted with James Fenimore Cooper and defended Fort Stanwix in 1777.
		His father had described the young Melville as being somewhat slow as a child and Melville was also weakened by the scarlet fever, permanently affecting his eyesight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herman_Melville (1238 words)

	00 : INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892.
		Whitman and Van Velsor, Melville and Gansevoort, were the several combinations which produced these men; and it is easy to trace in the life and character of each author the qualities derived from his joint ancestry.
		The Gansevoorts, it should be said, were at that time and subsequently residents of Albany, N.Y. Herman Melville was born in New York on August 1,1819, and received his early education in that city.
		Shortly after this his older brother, Gansevoort Melville, sailed for England as secretary of legation to Ambassador McLane, and the manuscript was intrusted to Gansevoort for submission to John Murray.
	www.literatureproject.com /typee/Typee_00.htm (4977 words)

	AllRefer.com - Peter Gansevoort (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Gansevoort[gans´voort] Pronunciation Key, 1749–1812, soldier in the American Revolution, b.
		Albany, N.Y. He served in the Quebec campaign and in 1777 was in command of Fort Schuyler (former Fort Stanwix).
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Peter Gansevoort
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/E-Gansevoo.html (199 words)

	Southern New York
		The illness of Judge Gansevoort was long and trying; but he retained his mental powers to the last and sank quietly and peacefully to his rest, just as his country had entered on the centennial year of its independence, in achieving which his father had rendered such important service.
		At another time, through a well-conceived and successfully executed plan, Colonel Gansevoort was rewarded for his patience and energy by the capture of Mosby's artillery, which crippled him and ina measure defeated his further raids on the troops stationed in that vicinity.
		Colonel Gansevoort was brevitted brigadier-general of volunteers and lieutenant-colonel of the regular service, and held at the time of his death the rank of captain of artillery in the regular line of promotion in the United States Army.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_22.htm (3929 words)

	The expedition against Fort Schuyler
		IN the spring of 1777, Colonel Peter Gansevoort was appointed to the command of Fort Schuyler, and held that post in the summer of that year, when Burgoyne was making his victorious march towards Albany by way of Lake Champlain..
		Herkimer had informed Gansevoort, by the messenger, that he intended, on hearing the signals, to cut his way to the fort through the circumvallating camp of the enemy, and requested him to make a sortie at the same time.
		Gansevoort's stout and hopeful heart would not yield admission to such an idea, and he informed the garrison that he had resolved, in case succor should not appear before their supplies were exhausted, to sally out at night and cut his way through the enemy's camp.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_II/fortschuy_gi.html (3297 words)

	Case Study
		The Gansevoort Market area is an architecturally rich, mixed-use, mercantile district consisting of industrial, commercial and residential buildings historically linked to the city's working waterfront.
		The rough boundaries of the district are West Sixteenth Street to the north, Hudson Street to the east, Gansevoort and Horatio streets to the south, and the Hudson River to the west (see Figure 1).
		It was named for Peter Gansevoort, a Revolutionary War hero, whose name was given to a nearby street, formerly Old Kill Road, in 1837.
	www.gvshp.org /ganscase2.htm (3414 words)

	Ambush At Oriskany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Colonel Peter Gansevoort’s 3rd New York Regiment reoccupied it in 1777, the fort had fallen into disrepair.
		The twenty-eight year old Gansevoort was a native of Albany and had won his colonelcy from Major General Richard Montgomery in the Quebec campaign of 1775.
		Gansevoort’s garrison of 500 was reinforced by 200 men under Lieutenant Colonel Mellon of Colonel Wesson's 9
	earlyamerica.com /cgi-bin/search/search.pl?q=loyalists&showurl=http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2000_fall/oriskanynew.html (4165 words)

	Catharina Van Schaick Gansevoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After a courtship that included the exchange of letters during the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, Caty was almost twenty-six when she married American army officer Peter Gansevoort at the Albany Dutch church in January 1778.
		After the war, Peter Gansevoort established himself as a leading businessman from his headquarters at the family seat on Market Street.
		These Gansevoorts were well-known residents of 58 Market Street across from the Market House for the next thirty years.
	srv06.nysed.gov /albany/bios/vs/cavschaick3942.html (244 words)

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