484–485.  Jacob Ten Broeck was born in Albany, New York, on Saturday, August 10, 1700, and died on September 14, 1744. Christina Van Alen was baptized on Sunday, April 16, 1704, and died on July 28, 1753. They were married on Wednesday, September 29, 1725. She took the name Christina Ten Broeck. Jacob Ten Broeck and Christina Van Alen were second cousins. Jacob Ten Broeck and Christina Van Alen were second cousins. He is the son of Wessel and Cattryna (Loockermans) Ten Broeck. She is the daughter of Johannes and Christina (Ten Broeck) Van Alen. They had 11 children:

i. Catharina Ten Broeck
ii. Johannes Ten Broeck
iii. Wessel Ten Broeck
iv. Petrus Ten Broeck
v. Wessel Ten Broeck
vi. Christina Ten Broeck
vii. Maria Ten Broeck
viii. Wessel Ten Broeck [#242]: He was born in Germantown, Columbia County, New York, on February 25, 1742, and died on June 13, 1785.
ix. Christina Ten Broeck
x. Jacob Ten Broeck
xi. Lena (or Lany) Ten Broeck

His second marriage was to Catrina Van Benthuysen.

Jacob Ten Broeck
Jacob Ten Broeck
Oil Portrait — 1720, Holland
Owner: Andrew J. Ten Broeck
North Germantown, New York.

Jacob was christened in the Albany church by Dominie Lydius. His sponsors were his maternal grandparents, Jacob and Marÿa (Tryntje) Loockermans. (This data and his birth date come from the family Bible.)

The family lived on part of the Ten Broeck Patent, on the west side of the Hudson on land inherited from Jacob's father. The farm, which was on the Kaaterskil (now Kaaterskill Creek), was called Lokern, probably after the town by that name in Belgium, northeast of Ghent. This brings to mind lines from How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix:

'Twas moonset at starting; but while we drew near
Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear;
— Robert Browning

Kaatsbaan, mentioned in the birth information, above, is the site of a Dutch church established about 1732. It is seven miles south of Catskill on the Old King's Road.

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