Cornelis Ten Broeck

Cornelis Ten Broeck was born in 1727 and christened in Albany on May 22. He was the son of Johannes Ten Broeck and his second wife Catharina Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck. A middle child in a very large family, this Cornelis grew up in the first ward home of a prominent businessman and civic leader. As a number of same-named contemporaries are at-risk including a quite prominent and contemporary Albany city resident, we are cautious in the assignment of qualitative information to his life. This subject is more closely identified with Claverack.

Family-based resources tell us that he married one Maria Bodyn of New Jersey. Perhaps, he met the bride as a result of his parents' frequent stays in New Brunswick. Maria appears to have been the daughter of a Huguenot family. The marriage is said to have produced six children (1755-65) who were christened in New Jersey and then in Claverack.

In 1766, the property of Cornelis was valued modestly on the Claverack assessment roll. In February 1767, the property of the widow of Corn Jno. Ten Broeck was noted in the same location.

The Ten Broeck Genealogy tells us that the couple resided in the Claverack - Kinderhook area but that Cornelis died during the "land riots" on June 26, 1766. Cornelis "Jno." Ten Broeck would have not yet reached his fortieth birthday.

Sources: The life of Cornelis Ten Broeck is CAP biography number 56. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. Our sole source for all narrative statements regarding this individual are taken from TBG pp. 81-83.

Family: His father's first marriage appears to have been childless. The second marriage produced 11 or 13 births (1714-33). This individual arrived in the middle of that cycle.