Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Jacob Van der Bilt

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 394 
  • Father:
  • Jacob Van der Bilt 
  • Mother:
  • Neeltje Denyse   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jan 1722/1723 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 3 Feb 1722/1723 
  • Christening Location:
  • Reformed Dutch Church, Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York 
  • Death Date:
  • 20 Oct 1768 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Moravian Church Graveyard, New Dorp, Staten Island, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Sprague
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Oct 1746 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Eleanor Vanderbilt (Ahnentafel No:197 )

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Sources for Jacob Van der Bilt

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 23.
  • ² New York World (New York, New York), 13 SEP 1899, pp. 1-2, Obituary for descendant Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • ³ Bergen, Teunis G., Register, in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y., from Its . . ., New York: S. W. Green's Son, Printer, Electrotyper and Binder (1881), 320.

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