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Issac
Bogert
Isaac Bogert was born in January 1695. He was the son of Albany builder Jacob and Jannetje Quackenbush Bogert.
In
November 1725, he married Hendrickie Oothout at the
Albany Dutch church. The marriage produced seven
children by 1741 but church burial records reveal
that only two lived to adulthood.
Isaac
followed his father in the building trades and was
known as a carpenter in Albany and in outposts as
far away as Oswego - perhaps explaining why he did
not marry until he had passed his thirtieth birthday.
Over a long career, he performed contract carpentry
work for several governmental jurisdictions. After
coming of age in his father's house in the third
ward, these Bogerts became first ward mainstays.
Upwardly mobile, Isaac was elected assistant alderman
three times beginning in 1736.
Hendrickie
Oothout Bogert died in April of 1764. A few years
later, Isaac's modest first ward home was noted on
city assessment rolls - with his son, Hendrick, emerging
as the head of their family. Isaac Bogert also may
have kept a still just outside the city borders near
the property of his Quackenbush kinfolk.
Isaac
Bogert died in September 1770 at the age of seventy-five.
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Sources: The life of Isaac Bogert is CAP biography number
6066. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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