Peter A. Van Bergen

Peter A. Van Bergen (July 11, 1763 — August 30, 1804) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Anthony Van Bergen (b. 1729) and Maria (Salisbury) Van Bergen (b. 1739). The family lived in Coxsackie, Greene County, New York.

He married Hester Houghtaling, and their only son was Anthony A. Van Bergen (1786–1859). They lived in Catskill.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (Middle D.) from 1802 until his death in 1804.

Peter A. Van Bergen's great-great-great-great-granddaughter Marie, Princess of Wied (b. 1973), married Duke Friedrich of Württemberg, the heir apparent to the pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 118 and 146; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• Genealogical and Family History of Western New York by William Richard Cutter (Vol. 2; page 838)

External links

• The Heirs of Europe with ancestry of the Head of the House of Württemberg