To Alexander Hamilton from Philip Schuyler, 9 September 1801
From Philip Schuyler
Albany Wednesday Sept: 9th 1801
My Dear Sir
Mrs. Schuyler Catherine1 & myself arrived here on Sunday, in good health, Mrs. Church2 and her Children we left at My Son Rensselaers.3 They will be here today, and were all well.
A frenchman at Quebec trod on my lame leg and bruised it greatly. It has been exceedingly painful but is now healing and the wound appears so favorable that It will probably be healed in a week or two.
On the 29th of this month a Circuit court for the County of Columbia is to be held at Claverack, tryals in Ejectment on the part of our family are then to come on.4 Mr Van Vechten5 and Mr Van Schaick6 are of council for us, as on the Issue of these tryals a great proportion of Mrs. Schuylers property will depend, and which If recovered will be very considerable Indeed, I most earnestly Intreat you, to Attend the tryals If possible, and wish you to be there a day or two before the Sitting of the Court. I shall be there.
In what state of Advance is your building?7
We all unite in love to you to my Eliza And the Children. I am my Dear Sir
Ever most Affectionately yours
Ph: Schuyler
Honl Gen Hamilton
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. Catherine Schuyler was Schuyler’s youngest child.
2. Angelica Schuyler Church, Schuyler’s oldest child and the wife of John B. Church.
3. Rensselaer Schuyler was born in 1773, was married to Elizabeth Ten Broeck, and lived in Eastown, Washington County, New York.
4. For information concerning the actions brought by the heirs of John Van Rensselaer against occupants of Claverack, Van Rensselaer’s estate, see the discussion of the Claverack lands in forthcoming , III. Van Rensselaer’s daughter Catherine was Philip Schuyler’s wife.
5. Abraham Van Vechten.
6. Peter Van Schaack, a former Tory, was a lawyer in Kinderhook, New York.
7. Schuyler is referring to H’s house in upper Manhattan, called the Grange. See the introductory note to Schuyler to H, July 17, 1800.