Jacob Cuyler (silversmith)

Jacob J. Cuyler (September 1741 – June 5, 1804) was an American silversmith, active circa 1765-1790 in Albany, New York.

[3] His paternal grandparents were Albany mayor Johannes Cuyler (1661–1740) and Elsje Ten Broeck (d. 1752), herself the daughter of Albany mayor Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck (1638–1717).

Cuyler was also a member of the Sons of Liberty, and in 1767 served as the first lieutenant in the Albany militia company.

During the Revolutionary War period, he was a member of the Albany Committee of Correspondence, and served as a delegate from Albany to the New York Provincial Congress in 1776,[7][8] and later in the Continental Commissary General's office.

[1] On March 5, 1764, Cuyler married Lydia Van Vechten (1743–1808), the daughter of Dirck and Elizabeth (née Ten Broeck) Van Vechten,[9] in Albany.