(1749-07-17)July 17, 1749 Albany, Province of New York, British America
Died
July 2, 1812(1812-07-02) (aged 62) Albany, State of New York, United States
Resting place
Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York
Spouse
Catherine Van Schaick
(m. 1778)
Relations
Leonard Gansevoort (brother)
Children
6, including Peter
Parent(s)
Harman Gansevoort Magdalena Douw
Military service
Allegiance
United States
Branch/service
Albany County militia Continental Army United States Army
Years of service
1775-1809
Rank
Major general (Militia) Colonel (Continental Army) Brigadier general (US Army)
Commands
2nd New York Regiment 3rd New York Regiment
Battles/wars
Revolutionary War: • Invasion of Quebec • Siege of Fort St. Jean • Seizure of Fort Chambly • Capture of Montreal • Battle of Oriskany • Sullivan Expedition
Peter Gansevoort (July 17, 1749 – July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville.[1]
^Danneil, Karl (1997). "Gansevoort". www.genpetergansevoort.org. Daughters of the American Revolution. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
PeterGansevoort (July 17, 1749 – July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading...
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child. He died in Albany in 1942. PeterGansevoort Ten Eyck (brother to Jacob Lansing) was born in the Gansevoort mansion in Albany, New York on November...
Harmense Gansevoort (ca. 1634–1709) owned a brewery and farms. His brother's son, PeterGansevoort, Herman Gansevoort (1779–1862) built the Gansevoort Mansion...
forces from New York and Massachusetts under the command of Colonel PeterGansevoort. The besieging force was composed of British regulars, Loyalist soldiers...
the Boston Tea Party, and Melville's maternal grandfather, General PeterGansevoort (1749–1812), commanded the defense of Fort Stanwix in New York in 1777...
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toward the fort with messages for the fort's commander Colonel PeterGansevoort. Gansevoort was to signal the receipt of the message with three cannon shots...
Dutch American family in Gansevoort, New York, near Albany. The area was named for his paternal grandfather, PeterGansevoort, a prosperous businessman...
September. From Kanadaseaga, Sullivan sent Colonel PeterGansevoort with 100 men to the Mohawk Valley. Gansevoort was ordered to destroy the Mohawk settlement...
of arms for the state. The following year, the regiment's colonel PeterGansevoort gifted the unit a blue regimental flag bearing the newly adopted arms...
Clark Labouisse (1909–1945) Stephen Carlton Clark Jr. (1911–1992) PeterGansevoort Clark (1915–1915), died in infancy. Alfred Corning Clark II (1916–1961)...
the parents of two children: Mary Sanford (1814–1841), who married PeterGansevoort (1788–1876), also a New York State Senator. Henry Sanford (1816–1832)...
Gansevoort Mansion is a historic home located at Gansevoort in Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1813 and is two-story, five-bay rectangular...
for PeterGansevoort, a Revolutionary War officer. It was located between Gansevoort Street and West 12th Street, near the west end of Gansevoort Street...
(1725–1771) ∞ Susanna Smith (1729–1791) William Smith Livingston (1755–1795) Peter Robert Livingston (1766–1847) ∞ Joanna Livingston (1759–1827) Maturin Livingston...
Metropolitan Museum of Art PeterGansevoort, 1794 Sir Robert Kingsmill, Admiral in Royal Navy during American and French Revolutionary Wars Peter Stuyvesant, New...
Herkimer, and many Dutch, including the commander of Fort Schuyler, PeterGansevoort of the 3rd New York Regiment. Frank S. Nugent reviewed the film for...
the measure in April 1777 of sending a large regiment under Colonel PeterGansevoort to rehabilitate Fort Stanwix in the upper Mohawk valley as a step in...
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