Dirck Ten Broeck (November 3, 1765 – January 30, 1833) 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 Abraham Ten Broeck (May 13, 1734 – January 19, 1810) was a New York politician, businessman, and militia Brigadier General of Dutch descent. He was twice Mayor of Albany, New York and built one of the largest mansions in the area, the T ...

(1734–1810) and Elizabeth (

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Van Rensselaer) Ten Broeck (1734–1813). His twin sister died before her second birthday. 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

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and

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, making her a sister-in-law to

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, Peggy Schuyler Van Rensselaer, and U.S. Representative Philip Jeremiah Schuyler. His maternal grandfather was Stephen Van Rensselaer I (the 7th

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and 4th Lord of the

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) and his uncle was Stephen Van Rensselaer II. His mother and uncle were great-grandchildren of the first native-born

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. 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

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man and signor of the

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Philip Livingston (1716–1778).

Career

Ten Broeck was a Lieutenant colonel in the 1st Regiment of the City of Albany. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1791. He served on the Albany City Council in 1793. He was a

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member representing Albany in the

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from 1796 to 1802, and was Speaker of the Assembly from 1798 to 1800 when

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was Governor of New York.

Personal life

On September 6, 1785, at the age of twenty, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant (d. 1825) at the

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Dutch Church. She was a daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant (1727–1805) and Margaret (née Livingston) Stuyvesant (1738–1818) and a sister of

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. Her father was a great-grandson of

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, the last Dutch governor of

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. For their wedding, he gave Cornelia a bracelet made by John Ramage featuring a

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. Together, they had twelve children who were baptized in Albany and several more babies that were stillborn. Their baptized children were: * Abraham Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1788–1810), who died unmarried. * Margaret Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1790–1873), who married Rev. Robert Gibson (1792–1829), son of Robert Gibson of

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, on June 11, 1818. Gibson founded the Edgehill School in

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. * Petrus Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1792–1849), a priest who married Lucretia Loring Cutter (1792–1861), daughter of Mayor Levi Cutter. * Stephen Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1793–1793), who died young. * Dirck Ten Broeck (1794–1794), who also died young. * Elizabeth Maria Ten Broeck (1795–1795), who also died young. * Cornelia Ten Broeck (1798–1798), who also died young. * Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck (1800–1800), who also died young. * Stephan Philip Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1802–1866), a physician who married Mary Nielson, daughter of William Nielson. * Nicholas William Ten Broeck (1805–1805), who also died young. * Elizabeth Ten Broeck (1810–1810), who also died young. * Elizabeth Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1813–1813), who also died young. Ten Broeck died in North Castle in

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, on January 30, 1833.

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, 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

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. on May 30, 1853. They were the parents of Margaret Stuyvesant (née Jackson) White (1855-1939), Elizabeth Deblois (née Jackson) Merrill (1857-1933), Stuyvesant Ten Broeck Jackson (1860–1940).

References

;Notes ;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")
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