Dirck Ten Broeck

Dirck Ten Broeck (November 3, 1765 – January 30, 1833)<ref name="Greene1912"/> was an American lawyer and politician. The first name is sometimes given as Derick.

Early life

He was the only son of Abraham Ten Broeck (1734–1810) and Elizabeth (née Van Rensselaer) Ten Broeck (1734–1813).<ref name="albanyinstitute">Template:Cite web</ref> His twin sister died before her second birthday.<ref name="DTB1765nysm">Template:Cite web</ref> His father served as Mayor of Albany from 1779 to 1783, and again from 1796 to 1798. His younger sister, Elizabeth Ten Broeck (1772–1848), was married Rensselaer Schuyler (1773–1847), a son of Philip Schuyler and Catherine Van Rensselaer, making her a sister-in-law to Angelica Schuyler Church, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Peggy Schuyler Van Rensselaer, and U.S. Representative Philip Jeremiah Schuyler.<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>

His maternal grandfather was Stephen Van Rensselaer I (the 7th Patroon and 4th Lord of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck) and his uncle was Stephen Van Rensselaer II.<ref name="EVRTBnysm">Template:Cite web</ref> His mother and uncle were great-grandchildren of the first native-born Mayor of New York City, Stephanus Van Cortlandt.<ref name="Reynolds1911"></ref> His paternal grandfather was Dirck Ten Broeck (1686–1751), who also served as Mayor of Albany from 1746 to 1748. His father's sister, his aunt Christina Ten Broeck (1718–1801) was married to Continental Congressman and signor of the Declaration of Independence Philip Livingston (1716–1778).<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>

Career

Ten Broeck was a Lieutenant colonel in the 1st Regiment of the City of Albany.<ref name="Greene1912"/>

He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1791. He served on the Albany City Council in 1793.<ref name="Runk1897"/>

He was a Federalist member representing Albany in the New York State Assembly from 1796 to 1802, and was Speaker of the Assembly from 1798 to 1800 when John Jay was Governor of New York.<ref name="Runk1897"/>

Personal life

On September 6, 1785,<ref name="Cupid">Template:Cite web</ref> at the age of twenty, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant (d. 1825) at the New York City Dutch Church.<ref name="CSTBnysm">Template:Cite web</ref> She was a daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant (1727–1805) and Margaret (née Livingston) Stuyvesant (1738–1818) and a sister of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant.<ref name="Aitken1912"></ref> Her father was a great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherlands.<ref name="StNick1905"/> For their wedding, he gave Cornelia a bracelet made by John Ramage featuring a watercolor painting of cupid.<ref name="Cupid"/> Together, they had twelve children who were baptized in Albany and several more babies that were stillborn.<ref name="DTB1765nysm"/> Their baptized children were:<ref name="Runk1897"></ref>

• Abraham Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1788–1810), who died unmarried.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Margaret Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1790–1873), who married Rev. Robert Gibson (1792–1829),<ref name="StNick1905"/> son of Robert Gibson of Charleston, S.C., on June 11, 1818.<ref name="Runk1897"/> Gibson founded the Edgehill School in Princeton.<ref name="RPBObit1890"/>
• Petrus Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1792–1849), a priest who married Lucretia Loring Cutter (1792–1861), daughter of Mayor Levi Cutter.<ref name="Batchelder1876">{{cite book|last1=Batchelder|first1=Calvin Redington|title=A History of the Eastern Diocese|date=1876|publisher=Claremont
• Stephen Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1793–1793), who died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Dirck Ten Broeck (1794–1794), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Elizabeth Maria Ten Broeck (1795–1795), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Cornelia Ten Broeck (1798–1798), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck (1800–1800), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Stephan Philip Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1802–1866), a physician who married Mary Nielson, daughter of William Nielson.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Nicholas William Ten Broeck (1805–1805), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Elizabeth Ten Broeck (1810–1810), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
• Elizabeth Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1813–1813), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>

Ten Broeck died in North Castle in Westchester County, on January 30, 1833.<ref name="StNick1905">{{cite book|last1=Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York|title=Genealogical Record|date=1905|publisher=The Society

Descendants

• Through his daughter Margaret, he was the grandfather of Dr. Robert Phillips Gibson (1819–1890), who married Susan Moser (1822–1902) in 1845. They were the parents of many children, including Susan Meta Gibson, an artist, [John William, Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 and Henry Pierson Gibson (1856–1921), who was buried at the Ten Broeck vault in St. Mark's Churchyard.

• Through his son Petrus, he was the grandfather of Cornelia Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1820–1892) who married George Edwin Bartol Jackson (1829–1891), a lawyer from Portland, Maine.

• Dirck Ten Broeck is a cousin [?] of Jacob Ten Broeck, 1800–1883 painted, as well as his twin sons, by Ammi Phillips ca. 1835-40.

References

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Sources

• John Stilwell Jenkins: History of Political Parties in the State of New-York (Alden & Markham, Auburn NY, 1846, Jenkins writes "Derick Ten Broeck" and erroneously "Derick Ten Eyck")
• Speaker election result January 1798 at Project "A New Nation Votes", Tufts University Digital Library
• Speaker election result August 1798 at Project "A New Nation Votes", Tufts University Digital Library
• Speaker election result November 1800 at Project "A New Nation Votes", Tufts University Digital Library