Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck (October 16, 1773 – January 12, 1845) was a

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from

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and a slaveholder.

Biography

Hasbrouck was born in Guilford (now Libertyville in

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. He was privately tutored and moved to

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in 1795, engaging in mercantile pursuits. He was one of the incorporators of the

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and was appointed a first lieutenant of Cavalry in the New York Militia. He was an organizer and director of the Middle District Bank of Kingston and served in the

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in 1811. Hasbrouck was elected as a

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to the Thirteenth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1815; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1814. He engaged in freighting goods to New York City by water. He was a member of the

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in 1822. He died in Kingston in 1845 and was buried at the Albany Avenue Cemetery. Hasbrouck's cousin,

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (November 29, 1791 – February 23, 1879) was a United States Congressman from New York and the sixth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1840 to 1850. He was a slaveholder. Biography He ...

, was also a U.S. Representative from New York. Both Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck and Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck are descendants of the Hasbroucks who founded

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in 1678. The Hasbroucks were

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, Protestant followers of

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who fled what is today Northern France and South Belgium who fled persecution by the ruling Catholics. The original settlement of their ancestors survives today as Historic Huguenot Street, a National Historic Landmark District. Hasbrouck was the great-grandfather of Major General Henry Granville Sharpe and Robert W. Hasbrouck.

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Historic Huguenot Street

Hasbrouck Family Association
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