Peter Van Brugh Livingston was a Patriot during the American Revolution who was a wealthy merchant and who served as the 1st New York State Treasurer from 1776 to 1778.
Abraham Yates Jr. was an American lawyer, civil servant, and pamphleteer from Albany, New York.
Henry Glen was a merchant, military officer and politician who served as a Federalist in the United States House of Representatives during the years immediately following the adoption of the United States Constitution.
Ambrose Spencer was an American lawyer and politician.
Chester William Chapin was an American businessman, president of the Boston and Albany Railroad from 1868 to 1878, and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. He was a multimillionaire at his death in 1883, and controlled one of New England’s most important rail lines.
Albert Gallup was a U.S. Representative from New York, serving on term from 1837 to 1839.
Benjamin Knower was an American merchant, banker and politician.
Blackleach Burritt was a preacher during the American Revolutionary War. During the war, he was incarcerated in a sugar house prison.
Hon. George William Clinton was a New York lawyer, politician, judge, author, and amateur naturalist. He served as mayor of Buffalo, New York from 1842 to 1843.
Marcius D. Raymond was an American newspaper publisher and editor, writer, genealogist, and historian.
Friend Humphrey was an American merchant, Whig state Senator from New York, and Mayor of Albany from 1849 to 1850.
Samuel Holden Parsons Hall was an American merchant and politician from New York.
George T. Pierce was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Johannes Pieterse van Brugh (1624–1697) was one of the early settlers of New Netherland and is the progenitor of the Van Brugh family in the United States. He was prominently connected with the Dutch West India Company as a fur and timber trader in both Rensselaerswyck and New Amsterdam.
Francis Bloodgood was an American lawyer who was mayor of Albany, New York, in 1831 and 1833.
Captain Frans Jansen Bloetgoet was a Netherlander who immigrated to Flushing, Queens, He is the ancestor of the American Bloodgood family.
Solomon Southwick was an American newspaper publisher and political figure who was a principal organizer of the Anti-Masonic Party.
Edward Howell, Gent. (1584–1655), born in Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, was an English Puritan who settled at Lynn, Massachusetts in 1635. He was known for the founding of Southampton, New York with Edward Howell, Edmond Farrington, Edmund Needham, Abraham Pierson the Elder, Thomas Sayre, Josiah Stanborough, George Welbe, Henry Walton, Job Sayre, and Thomas Halsey in 1639/40.
Frost Horton was an American manufacturer and politician from New York.
Isaac Rand Jackson was an American diplomat and collector.
