Nicholas William Stuyvesant

He was educated in Scotland, inherited his uncle's "the Bowery House".^[8][9][10] In 1795, he built a Federal-style house that today is the oldest house in Greenwich Village at 44 Stuyvesant Street.^[11]

On January 31, 1795, Stuyvesant was married to Catherine Livingston Reade (1777–1863), a daughter of John Reade and Catherine (née Livingston) Reade. Her grandfather was Loyalist merchant Robert Gilbert Livingston and her sister, Helen Sarah Reade, married James Hooker.^[12] Together, they were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, including:^[13]

• Peter Stuyvesant (1796–1860), who married Julia Rebecca Martin (1805–1883).^[13]
• John Reade Stuyvesant (1798–1853), who married Catharine Ackerly (1808–1837), a daughter of Dr. C.O. Ackerly. After her death, he married Mary Austin Yates (1811–1889).^[13]
• Catherine Ann Stuyvesant (1801–1872), who married John Mortimer Catlin (1801–1881), a son of Lynde Catlin.^[14]
• Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1805–1871), who married Catherine Augusta Chesebrough (1807–1876), an aunt of Robert Chesebrough.^[15]
• Gerard Stuyvesant (1806–1859), who married Susan Rivington Van Horne (1812–1889) in 1836.^[16]
• Margaret Livingston Stuyvesant (1806–1845), who married Robert Van Rensselaer (1805–1840), eldest son of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and Sybil Adeline (née Kane) Van Rensselaer and nephew of Jacob R. Van Rensselaer.^[17]
• Robert Reade Stuyvesant, who married Margaret Augusta Mildeberger. After his death, she married Walton Hazard Peckham.^[18]
• Helen Cornelia Stuyvesant (1808–1890), who married Henry Dudley (1799–1837). After his death, she married Francis Olmsted. After his death, she married Dr. William Starbuck Mayo.^[13]
• Joseph Reade Stuyvesant (1809–1873), who married Jane Ann Browning in 1840.^[13]

Stuyvesant died in the Stuyvesant family mansion on March 11, 1833.^[13]

Through his daughter Catherine, he was a grandfather of Nicholas William Stuyvesant Catlin (1829–1897), who worked in marine insurance for fifty years and "was well known as a scholarly man of wide reading and many acquirements, but save an occasional appearance at the many clubs and societies with which he was connected, he lived in retirement, satisfied with the companions of his leisure—his books."^[19]

Through his daughter Helen, he was a grandfather of Henry Dudley (1837–1900), "a gentleman of wealth and leisure, who employed the opportunities thus given him for doing good in charitable work with an unstinted hand." He married Anna Mott Fellows.^[20]