Abraham C. Cuyler, was the last of the mayors by Royal Commission. A son of Cornelius Cuyler and Catharina Schuyler, he was born April 1, 1742. He married Jannetse Glen, april 10, 1764, and had five children.

He held the military rank of Colonel. He was lukewarm from the first toward the patriot cause, and finally becoming an avowed Loyalist, he went to Canada, and died in Yorkville, February 5, 1810.