Through his father, he was the 2x great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland.

[5] His maternal aunt, Joanna Livingston, was married to Pierre Van Cortlandt, the first Lieutenant Governor of the New York.

Her grandfather was Loyalist merchant Robert Gilbert Livingston and her sister, Helen Sarah Reade, married James Hooker.

[13] Through his daughter Catherine, he was a grandfather of Nicholas William Stuyvesant Catlin (1829–1897), who worked in marine insurance for fifty years and "was well known as a scholarly man of wide reading and many acquirements, but save an occasional appearance at the many clubs and societies with which he was connected, he lived in retirement, satisfied with the companions of his leisure—his books.

"[19] Through his daughter Helen, he was a grandfather of Henry Dudley (1837–1900), "a gentleman of wealth and leisure, who employed the opportunities thus given him for doing good in charitable work with an unstinted hand."