- DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: R. J. Morgan, “CUYLER, ABRAHAM CORNELIUS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cuyler_abraham_cornelius_5E.html
- DCB profile notes:
- Office holder and politician; b. 11 April 1742 in Albany, N.Y., son of Cornelius Cuyler and Catalyntje Schuyler; m. 10 April 1764 Jane Elizabeth (Jannetie) Glen in Schenectady, N.Y., and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 5 Feb. 1810 in Montreal, Lower Canada.
- Born into a prominent New York family of Dutch descent that exercised much influence in the Albany region. At the outbreak of the American revolution Cuyler took an active loyalist stand, and on 4 June 1776 he and some others were arrested.
- Abraham Cuyler is a pathetic figure. Obviously a man of ambition and ability, he lost a good deal in the American revolution and was frustrated by the lack of opportunity for advancement in Cape Breton. He settled late in Lower Canada and thus failed to obtain an important position in that colony’s ruling structure. Though he was responsible for bringing the first sizeable number of settlers to Cape Breton after the fall of Louisbourg in 1758, his influence on the island’s development was largely disruptive.
- United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=9485
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