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In reality, Schuyler was much more prominent than a bit part: the patriarch of a wealthy Albany family — a patroon, as Dutch-era landowners were known — he served as a New York lawmaker, a United States senator, and a major general in the war with the British, and was a close friend of George Washington.

Mr. Fitterman, the former executive chef at Patroon, will shift to Greek fare as the new executive chef at Nerai in Midtown Manhattan.

It’s lunchtime in New York on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Taylor is settled into a roomy booth in a corner of Aretsky’s Patroon, a clubby restaurant on the city’s East Side.

They would be meeting for dinner in a private room at the Midtown restaurant Patroon to iron out the details of a new five-year contract extension for the N.F.L. commissioner, Roger Goodell.

Patroon: Noun, a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.