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Jannetie
Bradt Yates
Jannetie Bradt Yates was born is 1734. She was the daughter of Albany-area residents Daniel and Wyntie Bogardus Bradt.
She
was past her twenty-seventh birthday when she married
Albany native Abraham J. Yates in August 1761. Between
1763 and 1774, five of her children were baptized
in the Albany Dutch church where she was a member
and pewholder.
Wife
of an Albany baker and city official, Jannetie raised
her family in a modest home on one of Albany's back
streets.
Abraham
J. Yates filed his will in December 1794. It named
his "beloved wife" as the beneficiary of all his estate during her widowhood. However, Jannetie Bradt Yates died in November 1804. Her husband was buried next to her three months later.
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Sources: The life of Jannetie Bradt Yates is CAP biography number 4248. 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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