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Johannes
E. Wendell
 Johannes E. Wendell was born in Albany in June 1713. He was the second oldest of the ten children of Albany attorney Evert Wendell and his wife, Engeltie Lansing Wendell.
As
the first son, he was raised to follow in the profession
of his eminently successful father. Practicing law
by the early 1740s, he would inherit his father's
law books and surveying instruments. Prior to his
father's death in 1750, perhaps his practice was
centered more in Schenectady. At age twenty-seven,
he married minister's daughter Maria Catharina Van
Santvoort in the Schenectady Dutch church in 1741.
The marriage produced five children - the last baptized
in Albany in 1751!
Already
established and heir to his father's extensive legal
practice, he received only a small share of Evert
Wendell's substantial estate. Following the death
of his father, he settled in Albany where he was
elected to the common council as an assistant alderman
for the first ward in 1750 and 1751.
A
promising career was cut short by his death in September
1751 at the age of thirty-eight. His widow was named
on the city census in 1756.
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Notes: The
life of Johannes E. Wendell is CAP biography number
2949. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources. The will of his
father provides some insight on their relationship
and also on Evert Wendell's provision for his grandchildren.
Photo
of a color portrait of Johannes Wendell by Nehemiah
Partridge. Inscribed "Aged 23, 1737." Collection of the Albany
Institute of History and Art.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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