Help me out: Is it Catharine or Catherine Schuyler do we know? I'm seeing it frequently spelled both ways. Is this another Margarita/Margaret mess?
The Schuyler Mansion spells it both ways in paperwork they gave me (it’s only five pages and yet neither mother nor daughter have a consistent spelling). And there’s no consistency anywhere else.
Catharine Church seems to most consistently have the a, but even founders has her listed as Catherine Church, even though every letter they have that calls her by her name calls her “Catharine.”
But then, the Schuyler Mansion is on Catherine St (right off of Morton Ave and a block from Alexander St).
The New York State Library, which has Catharine (insert a million names) Cochran’s papers, goes with the a. When I was there, I didn’t actually look at any letters where she wrote to see her signature, so I can’t confirm. All the Eliza letters were EH->CC.
Columbia, which only has letters to her, also goes with the a.