Verplanck colvin biography of abraham

Colvin was born in Albany in 1847, was tutored at home, later attended Al bany Academy, then studied law, then developed a taste for the sciences.

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The Verplanck (or Ver Plancken or Planck) Family is an old Dutch family. You can read about them on their website, but here’s a small blurb:

Mount Gulian is the Hudson Valley colonial homestead of the Verplanck family (also Planck or Ver Plancken). Between 1633 and 1638, a Dutch entrepreneur named Abraham Isaac Verplanck arrived in New Netherlands Colony (now New York & New Jersey) from Holland. He originally came to purchase land for a farming settlement and trading post. The trading post would enable him to trade Dutch goods with the local Native Americans in exchange for beaver and other furs, Indian tobacco, and trade goods that were rare in europe. New Amsterdam was a thriving port and frontier town, filled with Dutch settlers, Indians and traders from all over europe. Africans, both freemen and slaves, as well as French Huguenots seeking escape from religious persecution in Europe, and Jews fleeing the Inquisition in South amerika came to a relatively toleran
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The Verplanck Family
Mount Gulian is the Hudson Valley colonial homestead of the Verplanck family (aka Planck or VerPlancken). Research from 2020 into Dutch passenger lists pinpoints Jacob Albertsen Planck, from en sorts ost, Holland, arriving in New Amsterdam on the ship Eendracht (Unity) in 1634, likely along with Abraham Isaac Verplanck, the patriarch of the original American branches of Verplancks.
Dutch entrepreneur and merchant Abraham Isaac Verplanck arrived in New Netherlands Colony (now New York & New Jersey) from Holland. It is believed that he originally came to purchase land for a trading brev and farming settlement. The trading post would enable him to trade Dutch goods with the local Native Americans in exchange for valuable beaver and other furs, Indian tobacco, and trade goods that were rare in Europe. New Amsterdam was a thriving port and frontier town, filled with Dutch settlers, Native Americans and merchants and colonists from all over Europe. Africans, both freeme

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[This information is from Vol. I, pp. 457-462 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45. Some of the formatting of the original, especially in lists of descendants, may have been altered slightly for ease of reading.]
Hon. Verplanck Colvin, superintendent of the New York State Land Survey, was born in Albany, New York, January 4, 1847. His father was the Senator, Hon. Andrew James Colvin, who was born at Coeymans, Albany county, New York, April 30, 1808, and died at Albany, July 8, 1889. Senator Colvin married, in Trinity Church, Newark, New Jersey, September 2, 1845, Margaret Crane Alling, born at Newark, New Jersey, Ma