Hendrique (Henry) Quackenbush (1737-1813) [Section 9 Lot 15]
Colonel of the Albany Militia during the Revolutionary War, Accompanied Lord Amherst in 1759 when the British took Fort Ticonderoga from the French, fought at Saratoga with General Gates.
Hendrick Quackenbush was born in August 1737. He was a middle son of Albany residents Peter W. Quackenbush and his wife, the former Anna Oothout.
He began as a trader who frequently ventured into the Mohawk Valley, settling into an Albany life later than many of his contemporaries. Prior to his twenty-seventh birthday, he married Margarita Oothout of New Jersey in 1764. She died following the birth of their fifth child in 1770. In 1776, he married Elizabeth Roseboom. Hendrick was a member of the Albany Dutch church, baptism sponsor, and a church officer.
His home was on the Quackenbush property located on the northern border of the city. One of the oldest buildings in Albany today, the Quackenbush House at 683 Broadway, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His household including nine slaves is listed in the census of 1790.
Hendrick Quackenbush served as a private in the colonial militia and fought in the last of the wars with the French. However, with the outbreak of hostilities in 1775, he was commissioned an officer in the revolutionary militia. In 1766, he signed the "General Association."He served at the battle of Saratoga and ultimately rose to be colonel of an Albany militia regiment. He also served as a stalwart member of the Albany Committee of Correspondence, Safety, and Protection.
With the end of the war, he returned to business - managing to offset losses incurred by loaning large sums of money to the Revolutionary cause. He then acquired tracts of investment land in northern New York and a number of farms in what became Saratoga and Washington Counties.
He represented Albany County in the New York State Assembly in 1779; served as a presidential elector in 1804, and was appointed one of the trustees of Watervliet in 1795.
Hendrick Quackenbush died on February 4, 1813 at the age of seventy-six. An inscription on his headstone infers “his servant and faithful slave, Nancy” is also interred here.