Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Pieter Rutgers

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 402 
  • Father:
  • Anthony Rutgers 
  • Mother:
  • Hendrickje Van de Water   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 4 May 1701 
  • Christening Location:
  • Reformed Dutch Church, New York, New York 
  • Death Date:
  • from 27 Jul 1745 to 23 Dec 1745 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Helena Hooglandt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Dec 1722 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Reformed Dutch Church, New York, New York 
  • Child:

  Catherina Rutgers (Ahnentafel No:201 )

  • Notes: 

  • Pieter Rutgers's given name is also seen as Petrus.

• Sources for Pieter Rutgers

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 23.
  • ² Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell and Rev. John Cornell, The Duyckinck and Allied Families: Being a Record of the Descendants of Evert Duyckinck Who Settled in . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright, Publisher (1908), 3, 6.
  • ³ Kissam, Edward, The Kissam Family in America from 1644 to 1825, New York: Dempsey and Carroll's Art Press (1892), 20.

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