{{Short description|American politician (1765–1832)}} {{other people}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Dirck Ten Broeck | image = Dirck Ten Broeck.jpg | office = Speaker of the New York State Assembly | term_start = 1798 | term_end = 1800 | predecessor = Gulian Verplanck | successor = Samuel Osgood | office1 = Member of the New York State Assembly | term_start1 = 1796 | term_end1 = 1802 | birth_date = November 3, 1765 | birth_place = Albany, Province of New York, British America | death_date = {{Death date and age|1833|01|30|1765|11|03}} | death_place = North Castle, New York, U.S. | party = Federalist | parents = Abraham Ten Broeck<br>Elizabeth Van Rensselaer | spouse = {{marriage|Cornelia Stuyvesant|1785|1825|reason=died}} | children = | occupation = | relatives = Dirck Ten Broeck (grandfather)<br>Stephen Van Rensselaer I (grandfather) }} '''Dirck Ten Broeck''' (November 3, 1765 – January 30, 1833)<ref name="Greene1912"/> was an American lawyer and politician. The first name is sometimes given as '''Derick'''.
==Early life== He was the only son of Abraham Ten Broeck (1734–1810) and Elizabeth (née Van Rensselaer) Ten Broeck (1734–1813).<ref name="albanyinstitute">{{cite web|title=Elizabeth Van Rensselaer (Mrs. Abraham) Ten Broeck (1734-1813)|url=http://www.albanyinstitute.org/details/items/elizabeth-van-rensselaer-mrs-abraham-ten-broeck-1734-181.html|website=www.albanyinstitute.org|publisher=Albany Institute of History & Art|access-date=12 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> His twin sister died before her second birthday.<ref name="DTB1765nysm">{{cite web|last1=Bielinski|first1=Stefan|title=Dirck Ten Broeck|url=https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/t/ditbroeck37.html|website=exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov|publisher=New York State Museum|access-date=2 October 2017}}</ref> His father served as Mayor of Albany from 1779 to 1783, and again from 1796 to 1798. His younger sister, Elizabeth Ten Broeck (1772–1848), was married Rensselaer Schuyler (1773–1847), a son of Philip Schuyler and Catherine Van Rensselaer, making her a sister-in-law to Angelica Schuyler Church, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Peggy Schuyler Van Rensselaer, and U.S. Representative Philip Jeremiah Schuyler.<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>
His maternal grandfather was Stephen Van Rensselaer I (the 7th Patroon and 4th Lord of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck) and his uncle was Stephen Van Rensselaer II.<ref name="EVRTBnysm">{{cite web|last1=Bielinski|first1=Stefan|title=Elizabeth Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck|url=https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/vr/elvr5068.html|website=exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov|publisher=New York State Museum|access-date=12 September 2017}}</ref> His mother and uncle were great-grandchildren of the first native-born Mayor of New York City, Stephanus Van Cortlandt.<ref name="Reynolds1911">{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Cuyler|title=Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, Included Within the Present Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene|date=1911|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b4k-AAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b4k-AAAAYAAJ/page/n42 32]|access-date=12 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was Dirck Ten Broeck (1686–1751), who also served as Mayor of Albany from 1746 to 1748. His father's sister, his aunt Christina Ten Broeck (1718–1801) was married to Continental Congressman and signor of the Declaration of Independence Philip Livingston (1716–1778).<ref name="Reynolds1911"/>
==Career== Ten Broeck was a Lieutenant colonel in the 1st Regiment of the City of Albany.<ref name="Greene1912"/>
He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1791. He served on the Albany City Council in 1793.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
He was a Federalist member representing Albany in the New York State Assembly from 1796 to 1802, and was Speaker of the Assembly from 1798 to 1800 when John Jay was Governor of New York.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
==Personal life== On September 6, 1785,<ref name="Cupid">{{cite web|title=Cupid Bracelet|url=https://www.albanyinstitute.org/details/items/cupid-bracelet.html|website=www.albanyinstitute.org|publisher=Albany Institute of History and Art|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> at the age of twenty, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant (d. 1825) at the New York City Dutch Church.<ref name="CSTBnysm">{{cite web|last1=Bielinski|first1=Stefan|title=Cornelia Stuyvesant Ten Broeck|url=https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/s/costuyvesant.html|website=exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov|publisher=New York State Museum|access-date=2 October 2017}}</ref> She was a daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant (1727–1805) and Margaret (née Livingston) Stuyvesant (1738–1818) and a sister of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant.<ref name="Aitken1912">{{cite book|last1=Aitken|first1=William Benford|title=Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke|date=1912|publisher=Knickerbocker Press|page=116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZ0xAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA116|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> Her father was a great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherlands.<ref name="StNick1905"/> For their wedding, he gave Cornelia a bracelet made by John Ramage featuring a watercolor painting of cupid.<ref name="Cupid"/> Together, they had twelve children who were baptized in Albany and several more babies that were stillborn.<ref name="DTB1765nysm"/> Their baptized children were:<ref name="Runk1897">{{cite book|last1=Runk|first1=Emma Ten Broeck|title=The Ten Broeck Genealogy, Being the Records and Annals of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck of Albany and his Descendants|date=1897|publisher=De Vinne press|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/tenbroeckgenealo00runk|access-date=2 October 2017}}</ref>
* Abraham Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1788–1810), who died unmarried.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Margaret Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1790–1873), who married Rev. Robert Gibson (1792–1829),<ref name="StNick1905"/> son of Robert Gibson of Charleston, S.C., on June 11, 1818.<ref name="Runk1897"/> Gibson founded the Edgehill School in Princeton.<ref name="RPBObit1890"/> * Petrus Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1792–1849), a priest who married Lucretia Loring Cutter (1792–1861), daughter of Mayor Levi Cutter.<ref name="Batchelder1876">{{cite book|last1=Batchelder|first1=Calvin Redington|title=A History of the Eastern Diocese|date=1876|publisher=Claremont Manufacturing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/ahistoryeastern00batcgoog/page/n81 75]|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistoryeastern00batcgoog|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> * Stephen Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1793–1793), who died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Dirck Ten Broeck (1794–1794), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Elizabeth Maria Ten Broeck (1795–1795), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Cornelia Ten Broeck (1798–1798), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck (1800–1800), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Stephan Philip Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1802–1866), a physician who married Mary Nielson, daughter of William Nielson.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Nicholas William Ten Broeck (1805–1805), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Elizabeth Ten Broeck (1810–1810), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/> * Elizabeth Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1813–1813), who also died young.<ref name="Runk1897"/>
Ten Broeck died in North Castle in Westchester County, on January 30, 1833.<ref name="StNick1905">{{cite book|last1=Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York|title=Genealogical Record|date=1905|publisher=The Society|page=65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA65|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Greene1912">{{cite book|last1=Greene|first1=Richard Henry|last2=Stiles|first2=Henry Reed|last3=Dwight|first3=Melatiah Everett|last4=Morrison|first4=George Austin|last5=Mott|first5=Hopper Striker|last6=Totten|first6=John Reynolds|last7=Pitman|first7=Harold Minot|last8=Forest|first8=Louis Effingham De|last9=Ditmas|first9=Charles Andrew|last10=Mann|first10=Conklin|last11=Maynard|first11=Arthur S.|title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record|date=1912|publisher=New York Genealogical and Biographical Society|page=92|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtYUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>
===Descendants=== Through his daughter Margaret, he was the grandfather of Dr. Robert Phillips Gibson (1819–1890),<ref name="RPBObit1890">{{cite news|title=Robert P. Gibson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1890/12/28/archives/obituary.html|access-date=2 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=28 December 1890}}</ref> who married Susan Moser (1822–1902)<ref name="StNick1905"/> in 1845.<ref name="Greene1912"/> They were the parents of many children,<ref name="Aitken1912"/><ref name="DAR1908">{{cite book|last1=Daughters of the American Revolution|title=Lineage Book|date=1908|publisher=The Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/lineagebook01revogoog/page/n102 66]|url=https://archive.org/details/lineagebook01revogoog|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> including Susan Meta Gibson, an artist,<ref name="Leonard1914">{{cite book|last1=Leonard|first1=John William|title=Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915|date=1914|publisher=American Commonwealth Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoam00leongoog/page/n315 324]|url=https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoam00leongoog|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> and Henry Pierson Gibson (1856–1921),<ref name="StNick1905"/> who was buried at the Ten Broeck vault in St. Mark's Churchyard.<ref name="HPGOBit1921">{{cite news|title=DIED. Gibson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/11/04/archives/obituary-4-no-title.html|access-date=2 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=4 November 1921}}</ref>
Through his son Petrus, he was the grandfather of Cornelia Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1820–1892)<ref name="68thConvention">{{cite book|title=Journal of the Sixty-Eighth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Maine|date=1887|publisher=W. H. Stevens & Co. {{!}} B. Thurston & Company|location=Portland, M.E.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSoRAAAAIAAJ&q=Cornelia+Stuyvesant+Ten+Broeck+Jackson&pg=RA5-PA24|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> who married George Edwin Bartol Jackson (1829–1891),<ref name="Bowdoin1902">{{cite book|last1=Bowdoin College|title=General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine ...|date=1902|publisher=Bowdoin College|page=79|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gypJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA79|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> a lawyer from Portland, Maine.<ref name="AA1888">{{cite book|title=American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence A.D. 1776. Vol. III|date=1888|publisher=Joel Munsell's Sons|location=Albany, N.Y.|page=88|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nyk9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA88|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Maine1888">{{cite book|title=The Poets of Maine: A Collection of Specimen Poems from Over Four Hundred Verse-makers of the Pine-tree State|date=1888|publisher=Elwell, Pickard|page=[https://archive.org/details/poetsmaineacoll00grifgoog/page/n434 420]|url=https://archive.org/details/poetsmaineacoll00grifgoog|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> on May 30, 1853.<ref name="BC1895">{{cite book|last1=College|first1=Bowdoin|title=Library Bulletin: Including the Obituary Record and the Reports of the Librarian|date=1895|publisher=The Library|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyxsedhgmawC&pg=PA93|access-date=2 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> They were the parents of Margaret Stuyvesant (née Jackson) White (1855-1939), Elizabeth Deblois (née Jackson) Merrill (1857-1933), Stuyvesant Ten Broeck Jackson (1860–1940).<ref name="BC1895"/><ref name="GSJObit1976">{{cite news|title=Prof. George S. Jackson, 69, Of English Faculty at Maine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/03/archives/prof-george-s-jackson-69-of-english-faculty-at-maine.html|access-date=2 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=3 February 1976}}</ref><ref name="1957JacksonWedding">{{cite news|title=WEDDING IS HELD FOR MISS JACKSON; She Wears Gown of India Silk at Marriage in Stowe, Vt., to Robert W. Heussler|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/01/13/archives/wedding-is-held-for-miss-jackson-she-wears-gown-of-india-silk-at.html|access-date=2 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=January 13, 1957}}</ref>
==References== ;Notes {{reflist|30em}}
;Sources * John Stilwell Jenkins: ''History of Political Parties in the State of New-York'' (Alden & Markham, Auburn NY, 1846, Jenkins writes "Derick Ten Broeck" and erroneously "Derick Ten Eyck") * [http://dl.tufts.edu/view_votingrecord.jsp?pid=tufts:MS115.002.NY.1798.00001 Speaker election result January 1798] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405221335/http://dl.tufts.edu/view_votingrecord.jsp?pid=tufts:MS115.002.NY.1798.00001 |date=2012-04-05 }} at Project "A New Nation Votes", Tufts University Digital Library * [http://dl.tufts.edu/view_votingrecord.jsp?pid=tufts:MS115.002.NY.1798.00019 Speaker election result August 1798] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405221357/http://dl.tufts.edu/view_votingrecord.jsp?pid=tufts:MS115.002.NY.1798.00019 |date=2012-04-05 }} at Project "A New Nation Votes", Tufts University Digital Library * [http://dl.tufts.edu/view_votingrecord.jsp?pid=tufts:MS115.002.NY.1800.00001 Speaker election result November 1800] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405221401/http://dl.tufts.edu/view_votingrecord.jsp?pid=tufts:MS115.002.NY.1800.00001 |date=2012-04-05 }} at Project "A New Nation Votes", Tufts University Digital Library
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