Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler Cochran
(1781-1857)
BIRTH
February 20, 1781
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Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler
DEATH
1857
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Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler
(1734-1803)
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Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler Cochran (1781–1857) was the youngest daughter of General Philip Schuyler and Catherine Van Rensselaer. In 1803 she married Samuel Bayard Malcom, a lawyer and former secretary to John Adams. They settled in Utica, New York, and raised sons William and Alexander. After Malcom’s death in 1814, she married her first cousin James Cochran. Her letters and family documents survive in the New York Public Library’s Schuyler-Malcom papers.
EARLY LIFE
Catherine Van Rensselaer Cochran was born on Feb 20, 1781. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Catherine Van Rensselaer Cochran is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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Catherine Van Rensselaer Cochran died in 1857. Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler Cochran was the youngest daughter of General Philip Schuyler and Catherine Van Rensselaer. In 1803 she married Samuel Bayard Malcom, a lawyer and former secretary to John Adams. They settled in Utica, New York, and raised sons William and Alexander. After Malcom’s death in 1814, she married her first cousin James Cochran. Her letters and family documents survive in the New York Public Library’s Schuyler-Malcom papers. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Albany Rural Cemetery
3 Cemetery Ave, Albany, NY 12204
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