![]() ![]() This loss significantly affected the family's fortunes as most of Catherine's inheritance had been depleted in building the Pastures. The commander of the British forces, General John Burgoyne made it his personal residence but when the Continental forces retook the estate in October, he burned it to the ground. The defeat also cost Schuyler his Saragota estate which was his second home. Despite having organized a successful campaign against the British in Quebec, General Schuyler was forced to resign his commission June 1777 because of the defeat at Fort Ticonderoga. General Philip Schuyler and his wife Catherine live on a magnificent estate called the Pastures just outside of Albany, New York. ![]() ![]() Alex and Eliza is a novel about the courtship of what would become one of the most famous couples of the late 18th century America, a time when a new nation was being forged out of war and hardship. ![]()
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