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The Jacob Ten Broeck Stone House is located on Albany Avenue in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a stone house built in the early years of the 19th century and modified later in that century. It is one of the rare high-style Federal homes in the city. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Benjamin Ten Broeck I, who built the house, was the great-grandson of Wessel Ten Broeck, who had come to the New Netherland colony in 1626 with Peter Minuit.In 1748 he built his manor house (since demolished) near the site where three years later he built the first section of present house, intended to house tenant farmers on his land.
Four years later, in 1975, the original district was replaced with the larger Kingston Stockade District, which retained the Senate House and all the other properties of the original district. The house first belonged to Wessel Wesselse Ten Broeck, born about 1636, who emigrated to New Amsterdam from Wessen, in Westphalia in 1659.
Abraham Ten Broeck (May 13, 1734 – January 19, 1810) was a New York politician, businessman, and militia Brigadier General of Dutch descent. He was twice Mayor of Albany, New York and built one of the largest mansions in the area, the Ten Broeck Mansion , that still stands more than 200 years later.
Ten Broeck was born on July 26, 1738, in Albany, Province of New York in what was then British America. [2] He was the youngest son of Grietje "Margarita" (née Cuyler) Ten Broeck (1682–1783) and Albany mayor Dirck Ten Broeck, members of the Ten Broeck family which had long been prominent in colonial New York. [3]
On September 18, one day before the Battle of Freeman's Farm, Governor Clinton wrote to the state's militia commander, General Abraham Ten Broeck, indicating he had ordered the remaining Albany County north to support Gates, issuing orders to Van Alstyne and other regimental leaders directly to speed their movement. [5]
The Ten Broeck Mansion in Albany, New York was built in 1797. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [ 1 ] A decade later it was included as a contributing property to the Arbor Hill Historic District–Ten Broeck Triangle when that neighborhood was listed on the Register.
The Van Rensselaer family (/ ˈ r ɛ n s l ər,-s l ɪər /) is a family of Dutch descent that was prominent during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in the area now known as the state of New York.