480–481. Samuel Ten Broeck was born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York, in 1680, and died on April 5, 1756. Maria Van Rensselaer was born in Albany, New York, on Saturday, March 23, 1689, baptized the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, New York, on Wednesday, March 27, 1689, and died on July 31, 1771. Baptismal witnesses were Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Catharina Roeloffs. They were married in Albany on Friday, November 7, 1712. She took the name Maria Ten Broeck. He is the son of Dirck Wesselse and Christÿna (Van Buren) Ten Broeck. She is the daughter of Hendrick and Catharine Annetje (Van Brugh) Van Rensselaer. They had eight children:
| i. | Christina Ten Broeck: She was baptized on February 7, 1714; died young. | |
| ii. | Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck: He was baptized on May 1, 1715; married (1), June 28, 1743, Catarina Conyn, daughter of Leendert and Jannetje (Van Alen) Conyn; married (2), before September, 1777, Dorothy Vosburg, baptized at Kinderhook, April 20, 1735, daughter of Dirck and Alida Vosburg. | |
| iii. | Hendrick Ten Broeck: He was baptized on March 24, 1717; died at Claverack, New York, 1796; married October 22, 1722, daughter of Anthony Van Schiack and Anna Cuyler. | |
| iv. | Johannes Ten Broeck: He was baptized on September 4, 1720. | |
| v. | Cathrina Ten Broeck: She was baptized at Johnstown, Columbia County, New York, August 5, 1722; died May 18, 1753; married (1), January 3, 1744, Ephraim Van Vechten, baptized June 12, 1709, died at New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 10, 1746, son of Volckert Van Vechten and Lidia Ten Broeck; married (2), January 29, 1752, Robert Johannes Lansing, born January 17, 1707, died March 3, 1795, son of Johannes Gerrit Lansing and Helena Sanders. | |
| vi. | Johannes Ten Broeck: He was baptized at Johnstown, October 8, 1724; died October 23, 1793; married December 12, 1753, Marytje Hoffman, died at Hudson, New York, May 10, 1805. | |
| vii. | Jeremiah Ten Broeck [#240]: He was baptized in Kinderhook on February 1, 1727, and died on October 24, 1802. | |
| viii. | Christina Ten Broeck: She was born November 29, 1729; married at Claverack, New York, September 4, 1754, Harmanus Schuyler, born at Schenectady, April 2, 1727, died September 1, 1796, son of Nicolaas Schuyler and Elsie Wendell. |
Samuel, through the bequest of his father, inherited his portion of the estate in lands that were part of the bouwerie on the Roelf Jansen Kil, in the section where the Ten Broeck family is one of the most ancient. It was here that he passed the years of his life, and by his will made April 23, 1750, he devised the larger part of the tract to his eldest son.
This property had formerly been divided between Albany and Dutchess Counties, but by the Act of May 24, 1717, relating to certain grants on the south of the Roelof Jansen Kil, it was all annexed to Albany County. Thus it remained until, in 1786, the lines were once more changed, and it became part of the new county of Columbia.
In a list of freeholders, made in 1720, "pursuant of an order of Court", Samuel Ten Broeck is cited as "of Claverack". He was also justice of the peace for Albany County.
He and his younger brother, Johannes, married sisters,
Samuel and Maria being married in the "two steeple" church of
Albany.
They were of notable lineage in both branches, reaching back to the
Patroons of Rensselaerwyck, and to Anneke Jans, so famous in
New York litigation suits; and through the latter, descended from the
ninth Prince of the House of Orange: William of Nassau,
Sovereign Count of the States of Holland and Zeeland.