Abraham Ten Broeck
Abraham Ten Broeck (* 1734, † January 19, 1820 ) was an American politician, businessman, and brigadier general of militia. He was twice Mayor of Albany ( New York) and the builder of one of the largest, still -standing villas in the area.
Career
Abraham Ten Broeck, of Dutch descent, was the son of Dirck Ten Broeck, a politician and the beginning of 1746 the mayor of Albany, and Margarita Cuyler. Furthermore, were two of his great-grandfathers, Dirck Ten Broeck Wesselse and Jan Jansen Bleecker, former mayor of Albany. Abraham was sent to New York City, there to attend a business education in the house of his brother, Philip Livingston. After the death of his father in 1751, he went at the age of seventeen to Europe to study there more on foreign business and the culture. He returned in 1752 to Albany back.
Ten Broeck made his fortune as a result of trade in Albany. He also pursued a military and political career. During the 1750s he was active in the state militia. Then he was elected to the City Council in 1759 and 1760 in the Assembly of the Province of New York. In November 1763 he married Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, a sister of the Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer II and granddaughter of the first indigenous mayor of New York City, Stephanus Van Cortlandt. The mid- 1760s was Ten Broeck one of the richest men in Albany. After his brother died in 1769 at the age of 27 years, was Ten Broeck as co - executors of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, a position which he held until 1784, when his nephew, Stephen Van Rensselaer III. , Came of age.
Ten Broeck was still militarily active and was appointed in 1775 to the Colonel of the militia of Albany County. On June 25, 1778, he was appointed Brigadier General of the Tryon and Albany County militia, but later only by the Albany County. On March 26, 1781, he resigned from this post.
He was from 1775 to 1777 member of the Provincial Congress of New York and was 1777 Chairman of the Committee of Safety. After the death of John Barclay and Abraham Yates, both mayors of Albany, Ten Broeck was appointed both times for mayor and served in that position from 1779 to 1783 and from 1796 to 1798.
The Ten Broecks lived in a house that was in 1788 with the considered equal to the homes of Schuyler and Yates. 1797, burned down in a fire, which destroyed several city blocks. With the construction of the new Ten Broeck Mansion was soon after started so that the family could live there beginning in 1798. The historic villa in Arober Hill still stands today.