Abraham Cornelius Cuyler (April 11, 1742 – February 5, 1810) was a businessman and the last mayor of colonial Albany, New York, the third generation in a row to serve in that office.
Cornelius was an alderman and an active member of the Indian Affairs Commission and also served as Mayor of Albany from 1742 until 1746.
[4] Abraham's paternal grandparents were Albany Mayor Johannes Cuyler (1661–1747) and Elsie Ten Broeck.
[2] Cuyler decided to form a settlement Cape Breton Island for some 3,000 loyalists then in Quebec in 1766[citation needed].
Together with David Mathews, a former mayor of New York City and attorney general of Cape Breton and a distant cousin through the Schuyler family, he came into conflict with Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, lieutenant governor of Cape Breton over shortage of supplies on the island.