NORTHERN NEW YORK
Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people and the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation.
New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co. 1910.



TEN BROECK



Transcribed by Coralynn Brown
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This old Dutch name is distinguised in the annals of the early settlement of the colony of New Amsterdam, later New York, in the revolutionary rolls of the state, and also in the arts of peace. It was borne by those of high blood in Europe, and has always been a guaranty of good breeding and fine citizenship.

(I) Wessels Ten Broeck, immigrant ancestor, is supposed to have come from Holland to this country with Peter Minuit in 1626. Little is known of him further. No record appears in this country of his marriage or children.

(II) Dirck Wesselse, son of Wessels Ten Broeck, was born Dec. 18, 1638, probably in what is now New York City, and died Sept. 18, 1717. He married, in 1663, Chrystina, born May 19, 1644, died Nov. 24, 1729, daughter of Cornelius Massen and Catalyntje (Martensen) Van Buren.

(III) Johannes, son of Dirck W. and Chrystina (Van Buren) Broeck, was born in 1683, and married (first) June 18, 1709, Elizabeth, daughter of Johannes and Elizabeth (Staats) Wendell. he married (second) Dec. 29, 1714, Catryna, daughter of Hendryck and Catharine (Van Vragh) Van Rensselaer, baptized Jan. 1, 1692.

(IV) Cornelius, son of Johannes and Catryna (Van Rensselaer) Ten Broeck, was born May 14, 1727, and died June 26, 1766. He married Maria, daughter of Peter and Agnes Constance (de Bruyn) Bodyn, born Dec. 8, 1731, and resided in Claverack, N.Y.

(V) Major John C., son of Cornelius and Maria (Bodyn) Ten Broeck, was born March 15, 1755, in Claverack, and died Aug. 10, 1835, in Watervliet, N.Y. When hostilities began between the American colonies and the mother country, he enlisted as a soldier of the Continental line, and was commissioned Nov. 21, 1776, as first lieutenant of the sixth company, first regiment, which was composed of the flower of the state and commanded by his kinsman, Colonel Goosen Van Schaick. He distinguished himself as a brave soldier throughout the war, was promoted to captain June 29, 1781, and water later brevetted major. He participated in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine, Monmouth and shared in the privations at Valley Forge. His only wound was received at the battle of Yorktown, where he was struck in the shoulder by a shell. In preparation for the campaign of 1777 the First New York Regiment marched to Mohawk Valley, in answer to the summons of Colonel Marinus Willett, but family tradition says that John C. Ten Broeck was in Fort Stanwix with Colonel Peter Gansevoort; and it is supposed that he was detailed to attend Colonel Gansevoort when the invasion from Canada was impending.
When peace returned Majo Ten Broeck retired to the vicinity of his native home, and late in life made his home at Watervleit.
He married, Dec. 30, 1784, his cousin, Antje, born May 9, 1754, died May 7, 1838, daughter of Hendrick and Annetje (Van Schaick) Ten Broeck.

(VI) Maria Bodyn, daughter of John C. and Antje (Ten Broeck) Ten Broeck, was born Sept. 10, 1785, at Claverack, and became the wife of Joseph Ketchum. (see Weed, VIII).

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