Peter Anthony Van Bergen (July 11, 1763 – August 30, 1804) was an American politician and large landowner from New York.
1739) and Col. Anthony Van Bergen (1729–1792), who led the 11th Regiment of the Albany County militia in the Revolutionary War.
[2] In April 1802, he was elected to a four-year term to replace Federalist Peter Cantine Jr. as a member of the New York State Senate, for the Middle District (consisted of Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, Columbia, Delaware, Rockland and Greene counties), alongside fellow Democratic-Republicans Jacobus S. Bruyn and James G.
[1] Through his son Anthony,[1] he was a grandfather of ten, including Anthony T. Van Bergen (who moved to Paris, was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and married Julia Pierson with whom he had three children, Charles, Henry and Alice Van Bergen).
[2] Van Bergen's great-granddaughter, Alice Van Bergen (1877-1960), married Count Otto von Grote in 1900;[7] their daughter, Van Bergen's great-great-granddaughter, Countess Antoinette Julia von Grote (1902–1988), was the wife of Prince Dietrich of Wied, a son of William Frederick, Prince of Wied and Princess Pauline of Württemberg (the elder daughter of William II of Württemberg).