 On March 29, 1769, Ann Schuyler married a lawyer from New Rochelle, John James Bleecker (1745–95).The couple moved to Poughkeepsie shortly after their marriage.John gave up the practice of law and took up agriculture in 1771, when they moved to his pastoral country estate in Tomhannock, north of Albany, in the Schaghticoke region which was settled by Dutch families.