Gerritje Ten Eyck

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Gerritje Ten Eyck was born in 1710. On September 17, she was christened in the Dutch church in New York City as the daughter of Albany residents Coenradt and Gerritje Van Schaick Ten Eyck. By 1728, that marriage appears to have produced ten children.

Coenradt and Gerritje Ten Eyck were Albany mainstays until their deaths in 1753 and 1756 respectively.

However, in August 1728, those parents christened their last child - another Gerritje who was baptized at the Dutch church in Albany. That same-named daughter, married in 1752, raised a large family in Albany, and survived until 1782.

On September 12 1743, her father noted in his bible that "then my daughteer Gerritje died." She was buried from the Albany Dutch church on November 13.

A subsequent bible entry yielded ". . . and was buried which our hearts feel a more of God's will and I am contented with the separation for she was a lovely child in her mother's eyes."

This Gerritje apparently lived for thirty-three years.


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notes

the people of colonial Albany Sources: The life of this Gerritje Ten Eyck has not been assigned a CAP biography number. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. The biographical note on the first Gerritje is presented here to document an infrequent but apparently utilized naming practice. The reasons for which are open to much speculation.

See NYGBR, volume 63, p. 158.





first posted 7/15/13