Complex sentence: Pieter Schuyler was born in 1657 in Beverwyck, New Netherland the son of Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Margarita Van Slichtenhorst.
Split into simpler sentences: Pieter Schuyler was born in Beverwyck in what was at the time New Netherland. His father was Philip Pieterse Schuyler and his mother was Margarita Van Slichtenhorst.