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{{short description|American colonial merchant}}
'''Gulian Verplanck''' (1637–1684) (also known as Gulyne, Galyna and Geleyn<ref name=bible>[http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/Verplanck/VerplanckBible/VerplanckBible.htm ''The Verplanck-Crommelin Family Bible'', Miff Crommelin]</ref>) was a colonial American fur trader and merchant in New York.
==Early life==
He was the eldest son of [[Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck]], was a merchant, fur trader, and purchaser of a 1/3rd interest in what became the sprawling [[Rombout Patent]] in the southeast of the then [[Province of New York]].  His younger sister, [[Catharina Verplanck]], was the wife of [[David Pieterse Schuyler]], the Dutch born fur trader who became an Alderman of Albany.<ref name="Bulloch1919"/>
==Career==
[[File:ChelseaWater.jpg|thumb|The [[Hudson River]] shore of the [[Rombout Patent]] in the town of [[Wappinger, New York]]]]
In 1685, King [[James II of England]] issued a royal grant for some {{convert|85000|acre|km2}} of land to Verplanck and partners [[Francis Rombouts]], and [[Stephanus Van Cortlandt]] (both former [[mayor of New York City|mayors of New York City]]) they had purchased from [[Wappinger]] Indians on the east bank of the [[Hudson River]] in what is today's southern [[Dutchess County]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fishkillridgecommunityheritage.org/vest_pocket_tour.htm |title=Vest Pocket Tours of the Hudson Valley |publisher=Fishkillridgecommunityheritage.org |date= |accessdate=2012-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309061250/http://www.fishkillridgecommunityheritage.org/vest_pocket_tour.htm |archive-date=2012-03-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Personal life==
Verplanck was married to Hendrikja Wessels (also known as "Henrica").<ref name=bible/> Together, they were the parents of:<ref name="Genealogical1968">{{cite book |last1=York (State) |first1=New |title=New York Marriages Previous to 1784 |date=1968 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=978-0-8063-0259-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxaFZzGqEmAC |access-date=11 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* Samuel Verplanck (1669–1698), who married Ariaantie "Harriet" Bayard,<ref name=bible/> a daughter of Rev. Balthazar [[Bayard family|Bayard]].<ref name="Bulloch1919">{{cite book|last1=Bulloch|first1=Joseph Gaston Baillie|title=A History and Genealogy of the Families of Bayard, Houstoun of Georgia: And the Descent of the Bolton Family from Assheton, Byron and Hulton of Hulton Park, by Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch ...|date=1919|publisher=J. H. Dony, Printer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQc7AAAAMAAJ&q=Eliza+Rodgers+Bayard&pg=PA6|access-date=16 March 2017|language=en}}</ref>
* Jacobus Verplanck (1671–1699), who married his first cousin, Margarita Schuyler, the youngest daughter of [[Philip Pieterse Schuyler]].<ref name="StNick1905">{{cite book |last1=York |first1=Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New |title=Genealogical Record |date=1905 |publisher=The [[Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York]] |page=178 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJMwAQAAMAAJ |access-date=11 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* Abraham Verplanck (b. 1674)
* Anna Verplanck (b. 1680), who married merchant Andries "Andrew" Teller, a son of Andries Teller and Sophia ({{nee}} Van Cortlandt) Teller.<ref name="Greene1878">{{cite book |last1=Greene |first1=Richard Henry |last2=Stiles |first2=Henry Reed |last3=Dwight |first3=Melatiah Everett |last4=Morrison |first4=George Austin |last5=Mott |first5=Hopper Striker |last6=Totten |first6=John Reynolds |last7=Pitman |first7=Harold Minot |last8=Ditmas |first8=Charles Andrew |last9=Forest |first9=Louis Effingham De |last10=Mann |first10=Conklin |last11=Maynard |first11=Arthur S. |title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record |date=1878 |publisher=[[New York Genealogical and Biographical Society]] |page=155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJYyAQAAMAAJ |access-date=11 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
Verplanck died in 1684.  After his death, his widow Henrica married Jacobus Kip, grandson of [[Hendrick Hendricksen Kip]], and the family's share of the patent passed down through that line.<ref name="Genealogies1915">{{cite book |title=Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2 |date=1915 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |page=744 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wekpAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744 |access-date=11 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
===Descendants===
Through his son Jacobus, he was a grandfather of [[Philip Verplanck]] (1695–1771), who married Gertrude Van Cortlandt, a granddaughter of [[Stephanus Van Cortlandt]].<ref name="PVnysm">{{cite web |title=Philip Verplanck |url=https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/vp/phvplanck.html |website=exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov |publisher=[[New York State Museum]] |access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Philipse Patent]]
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[[Category:17th-century American merchants]]
[[Category:17th-century American landowners]]
[[Category:American fur traders]]
[[Category:Merchants from colonial New York]]