968–969. Wessel Ten Broeck was born in Albany, New York, on Thursday, April 7, 1664, and died on May 27, 1747. Cattryna Loockermans of Albany, New York. was born in August, 1669, and died on January 6, 1729. They were married in Albany on Wednesday, April 2, 1684. She took the name Cattryna Ten Broeck. He is the son of Dirck Wesselse and Christÿna (Van Buren) Ten Broeck. She is the daughter of Jacob and Tryntje (Marÿa) (_____) Loockermans. They had nine children:
| i. | Anna Catherina Ten Broeck: She was born on April 25, 1685, in Albany, New York, and died on March 6, 1743. She married Anthony Van Schaick. | |
| ii. | Dirck Ten Broeck: He was born on December 4, 1686, in Albany, New York, and died on January 3, 1751. He married Margarita Cuyler; their marriage license was granted on November 26, 1714. | |
| iii. | Christina Ten Broeck: She was born October 16, 1689, in Albany, New York; died July 16, 1690. | |
| iv. | Jacob Ten Broeck: He was born February 25, 1692, in Albany, New York; died June 25, 1693. | |
| v. | Christina Ten Broeck was born in Albany on June 6, 1694. She married David Van Dyck. | |
| vi. | Elizabeth Ten Broeck: she was born August 18, 1696, in Albany, New York; died May 29, 1699. | |
| vii. | Marya Ten Broeck: she was born June 23, 1698, in Albany, New York; died July 29, 1699. | |
| viii. | Jacob Ten Broeck [#484]: He was born in Albany on August 10, 1700, and died on September 14, 1744. | |
| ix. | Cornelius Cuyler Ten Broeck: He was born on March 6, 1706, in Albany, New York, and died in 1772. He married Maria Cuyler on October 12, 1733. |
Ten Broeck Genealogy by Emma Ten Broeck Runk includes the following entry on pages 37–40.
Wessel, the eldest child and son of Major Ten Broeck, married a few days before he was twenty years of age Caatje Loockermans, a maiden of fifteen, the daughter of one of the early men of Albany. They resided in what was called, in those days, the third ward of Albany, and as a merchant and citizen he was active and useful in both public and private life.He first appears in a public capacity in that dangerous period of the change on England's throne, and the uncertainty of authority in her colonies, when, on November the fifth, 1689, "forty of ye inhabitants, principall men of ye town and county of Albany, agreed to keep the Fort and City, for the behoofe of King William and Queen Mary, ... promising to assist, if accasion required, for the preservation of Peace and Tranquility."
Beginning with January, 1695, he audited, for two years, the deacon's books of the Dutch Church, and in 1697 he kept them, jointly, with Hendrick Van Rensselaer [who is also featured in this genealogy]. He was present as a church officer and also as a city magistrate, when Dr. Dellius, the pastor, owing to the misunderstanding consequent upon the granting of the famous Mohawk Patent, held his farewell interview with the Indian converts in June, 1698.
He signed the petition of the of the Protestant subjects in the colony to King William the Third, in December, 1701. As a Deputy from the city and county of Albany, he greeted Lord Cornbury on his arrival as Governor-General in 1702, and was one of those to present to him the address of allegiance and welcome.
Wessel Ten Broeck was an alderman of Albany at the time his father served as mayor of the city; he was a member of the Indian Board during the conference with the Five Nations, held in 1701, and almost continuously, for twenty-five years, he stood among the men in who the citizens reposed the public trust.
There was constant need for measures of defense in those times, and when in 1700 Lord Bellomont prepared the report of the militia, Wessel Ten Broeck was Lieutenant of a company of foot soldiers under Colonel Schuyler. [The Schuylers also appear significantly in this genealogy.]
He applied for a grant of land, and received the certificate in 1733. It was situated on the west side of the Hudson River, and extended from the Kaaterskill to the banks of the Hudson, about five miles south of Catskill. He mentioned this tract in his will, which was dated June the tenth, and recorded January the twenty-ninth, 1753, in the Albany County Clerk's office, Volume I, page 215.
The family Bible of Wessel Ten Broeck is of great interest; it is in Dutch, printed in 1682, at Dordrecht, Holland. [Reference is made to an illustration of the Bible.] Heavy boards, covered with tooled leather, form the binding; the corners are finished with brass pieces, and the book has clasps of the same metal. Between the Old and New Testaments are maps of Asia Minor and Egypt, and also a drawing representing Paradise.
The recores are found on the boards of the covers and on the blank pages next to these, in both the front and back of the volume. The writing is in Holland Dutch, the earliest date being the marriage of Wessel to "Cattryna Locermans," on the second of April, 1684. The entries pertaining to his children and descendants are very full. The Bible is now [1897] the property of a lineal descendant—Mr. Andrew J. Ten Broeck, of North Germantown, Columbia County, New York.