120–121. Samuel J. Ten Broeck was born on Monday, March 28, 1757, and died on April 25, 1830. He was buried in Claverack, New York. Christyntje Ten Broeck was born on Tuesday, January 8, 1765, and died on September 24, 1842. He is the son of Jeremiah and Marytje (Van Alen) Ten Broeck. She is the daughter of Wessel and Jannetje (Peersen) Ten Broeck. They had four children:
| i. | Wessel Ten Broeck was baptized in Claverack Reformed Church, Columbia County, New York, on August 27, 1787. He married December 18, 1814, Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, born at Claverack April 5, 1783, daughter of Peter Van Rensselaer and Maria Ten Broeck. | |
| ii. | Jacob Ten Broeck: twin of Jeremiah | |
| iii. | Jeremiah Ten Broeck was baptized in Claverack Reformed Church on June 11, 1790, and died on January 11, 1826. He died unmarried and is buried at Claverack; he was a twin of Jacob. | |
| iv. | William Ten Broeck [#60]: He was born in Claverack Town[ship], Columbia County, New York, on May 18, 1792, and died in Claverack, New York, on August 18, 1836. |
Samuel resided at Claverack, and when the young men of this section responded to the call to arms, although not of age, he entered the Ninth Company of the Livingston Manor Regiment, probably as an Ensign. In the promotions of 1776 he was made a Second Lieutenant.
Like his cousin Samuel, he married into the family—his second cousin. He was entitled, according to the usage prevalent among those of Dutch ancestry, to adopt his father's initial, J., for his own middle letter. Accordingly, we find his will, which is recorded at Hudson, New York, and is dated May 10, 1826, signed as Samuel J. Ten Broeck of Claverack. Per the Act of February 2, 1848, his wife, Christina, received the pension accorded the widow of a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. [The Ten Broeck Genealogy, pp. 118–9.]
A Biographical Review of Delaware County, New York includes the following in a biographical sketch of William A. Ten Broeck, son of William. "They owned two hundred and fifty acres of land and a beautiful residence in Columbia County, near Mellenville, and thereon Samuel Ten Broeck died at fourscore, after an especially prosperous life. His wife lived to be a century old. They belonged to the Dutch Reformed church, and had only two children, Wessel Ten Broeck married into the Van Rensselaer family, and lived at Claverack in the same county, but died young. The other son, William, was born on the homestead, where he grew to manhood. He married Margaret Becker, the daughter of an enterprising Columbia County farmer. After their marriage they took the homestead, which they greatly improved, and there they raised a family of six boys ..." [The preceeding contains several factual errors: ages and number of children; however, it is hoped that the links to Columbia County are accurate.]
Revolutionary War Veterans Buried in Columbia County, New York,
on page 279, list Samuel J. Ten Broeck as born on 25 Mar 1759, died
25 Apr 1830. His wife was Christyntje.
Several other Ten Broecks are also listed here.
Christyntje's name is also found as "Christina". Her marriage to Samuel links two branches of the Ten Broeck line that were both decended from Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck but through differing numbers of generations. Her paternal grandparents were also related, as second cousins.