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Gerritje
Van Schaick Ten Eyck
Gerritje Van Schaick was born in September 1687. She was the eldest daughter of Albany residents Anthony and Maria Vanderpoel Van Schaick.
Just
past her seventeenth birthday, Gerritje married silversmith
Coenradt Ten Eyck at her father's Albany home on
September 24, 1704. Seven months later, the first
of her ten children was baptized in the Albany Dutch
church.
These
Ten Eycks lived in the first ward where Coenradt
was a prominent businessman and Albany official.
Over the next decades, their fortunes were bolstered
by substantial bequests from Gerritje's family -
the Van Schaicks. By the late 1740s, they had moved
across State Street to a "good house" in the third ward.
Gerritje
lost her husband early in 1753. She inherited the
use of his property and was a well-known Albany householder
for the next decade. Eight of her children married
and raised their own families. Her son, Jacob, became
mayor of Albany in 1748. Daughter Anna Margarita
married future mayor John Barclay in 1771.
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Notes: The
life of Gerritje Van Schaick Ten Eyck is CAP biography
number 3755. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources. The date
of her death is still unknown to us! She made a will
in 1756 which was probated in October 1768.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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