Anna Visscher Ten Eyck

Anna Visscher was born in October 1778. She was the daughter of Matthew and Lydia Fryer Visscher. Her father was a Revolutionary operative and then an Albany stalwart until his early death in 1793. But Anna would grow up with only an older brother - first in the Southside home of her mother's father and then in a substantial building on North Pearl Street where her widowed mother would reside until her death in 1841.

In May 1801, Anna married newcomer New Yorker Abraham R. Ten Eyck at the Albany Dutch church. By 1822, the marriage had produced nine children.

Abraham R. Ten Eyck was a bookseller and publisher and soon became an Albany mainstay. These Ten Eycks raised their family in a substantial row house and book store on North Market Street.

Their marriage would be a long one and only ended when Abraham R. Ten Eyck died at home in June 1857. Anna Visscher Ten Eyck passed on in September 1870 at the age of ninety-two. At that time, she was the oldest communicant in her church.

Sources: The life of Anna Visscher Ten Eyck is CAP biography number 4099. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.