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Dorothy
Bosch Hallenbeck
Dorothy Bosch was baptized at the New Amsterdam Dutch church in May 1661. She was the daughter of Hendrick Alberts and his second wife Maria Gerrits Bosch. She was left but one shilling in the will of her father who characterized her as "a stubborn and disobedient daughter for many years."
By
the 1680s, she had married Isaac Casperse Hallenbeck
of Albany. By 1706, more than seven of her children
had been baptized in the Albany Dutch church.
These
Hallenbecks lived on Albany's south side where their
home commanded an extensive tract of land that stretched
all the way to the Beaverkill.
In
1708, Dorothy Bosch Hallenbeck was named administrator
of Isaac Casperse's estate. She outlived her husband
by almost twenty-five years - probably passing most
of her widowhood in the Albany household of one of
her children. She died in February 1744 and was buried
in the Albany Lutheran church yard.
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Sources: The life of Dorothy/Dorite/Dorothea Bosch/Bos/Bush/Terbush Hallenbeck
is CAP biography number 2037. 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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