30–31.  Peter Van Rensselear Ten Broeck was born on Thursday, April 17, 1817, baptized in the Reformed Church of Claverack, Columbia County, New York, U.S.A., on Saturday, May 10, 1817, and died on October 27, 1891. Note the variant spelling of Rensselaer. Mary Jenette Bortle was born in New York on Monday, October 2, 1820, and died in Berrien County, Michigan, on February 6, 1875. They were married in the Reformed Church of Claverack on Wednesday, January 19, 1842. She took the name Mary Jenette Ten Broeck. He is the son of William and Margaret (Becker) Ten Broeck. She is the daughter of Jeremiah and Lydia (_____) Bortle. They had three children:

i.	Jeremiah VanRansselear Ten Broeck [#30A]: He was born in Columbia County, New York, U.S.A., on December 23, 1842, and died in Michigan, U.S.A., on November 10, 1899.
ii.	Emma Alida Tenbroeck was born on March 1, 1848, and died on March 27, 1917. Emma A. (Tenbroeck) Murphy Charles E. Murphy She married Charles Murphy; he died November 26, 1905, at age 56. Their only child was Alva, a telegraph operator, who was fired (according to Emma Duffy) for drunkenness. His wife was Theresa. He was very hard on his mother, and at her funeral, went about brandishing a knife, seriously frightening Emma and her mother (Margaret Lydia).
iii.	Margaret Lydia Tenbroeck [#15]: She was born in Summit Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, on October 23, 1852, and died in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, on October 15, 1938.

Mary Jenette (Bortle) Ten Broeck	Peter Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck

Peter and Mary were married in the Reformed Church of Claverack. They were both listed as being from Claverack. R. Sluyter, (Rev.) performed the service; Jonathan Hardon was the witness. A notice appeared in the newspaper on March 12, 1842. Note that the Bible gives the year as 1841.

Peter Tenbroeck and his family moved from New York to Erie County, Pennsylvania in 1853. He, his wife, and two daughters then moved to Berrien County, Michigan during the Civil War. Their son, Jeremiah, joined them later, in 1886. Peter had an identical twin brother, Walter. Peter's middle name was obviously intended to be Van Rensselaer for the family of his great great grandmother, Maria Van Rensselaer. However, it was often spelled Van Ransselar or occasionally Van Ranselar.

Emma (Youngblood) Duffy recalls her mother, Margaret Lydia, saying that when the family moved from Pennsylvania to Michigan, her father (Peter) would not let her bring her clothes rack in a effort to keep the freight costs down. However, she took it apart and smuggled it along.

• The Bible of Margaret Lydia (Tenbroeck) Youngblood. The death records were written by Mary Jenette (Bortle) Ten Broeck.
• Census data
• Recorded Marriages from Hudson Newspapers, Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, New York
• Claverack Reformed Church baptism records from the Columbia County Historica Society
• Columbia County Historical Society of New York
• Runk, Emma Ten Broeck, Ten Broeck Genealogy, New York, 1897
• Baptism Record of Reformed Church: Claverack, (Columbia County) Reformed Church 1727-1899 (via Ancestry.com, Aug. 2001)