Dorothe Knickerbocker

Dorothe, bap. 29 June, 1729, at Kinderhook, N.Y.; spon.: Martin Hofman and Catrina Vosburgh; m. (1) 9 Nov., 1750, at Germantown, N.Y., her cousin Peter Martense Vosburgh, son of Marten Vosburgh*** and Eytje Van Buren. In the marriage record she is called "Carlotta," but this is evidently meant for Dorothea. On 21 Oct., 1757, "Peter Martense Vosburgh and wife Dorothea Knickerbacker" joined the church at Linlithgo. She m. (2) before 1775 Dirck Wesselse Ten Broek, bap. 1 May, 1715, at Albany; d. on his bowery and was interred in the family

_____________________________________________________________________________________ *** Marten Vosburgh was baptized 31 Jan., 1697, at Albany; m. there 21 Oct., 1719, Eytje Van Buren, bap. 7 Nov., 1700, at Albany, dau. of Pieter Martensen Van Buren and Ariaantje Barents. Marten was son of Jacob Abrahamsen Vosburgh. _____________________________________________________________________________________

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cemetery, eldest son of Samuel Ten Broek and Maria Van Rensselaer. Dirck Wesselse Ten Broek m. (1) 28 June, 1743, at Kinderhook, Catharina, dau. Of Leendert Conyn and Emmetje Jannetje Van Alen, and she was mother of his children. Dorothea Knickerbocker appears to have had no children by either of her husbands. "Dirck Ten Broek and Dorothea Knikkebakker, his wife," stand as sponsors for Dirck, son of Andreas Gardener and Barbel Schmit, bap. 25 Dec, 1774, at Germantown. Ten Broek several times represented the manor of Livingston in the Provincial Assembly. The Assembly of New York, under the Constitution, was composed of twenty-four members. They met at Kingston, 9 Sept., 1777, and the following month were dispersed by the British troops. He was a member of this session, as also of the second, which was held at Poughkeepsie the year following. He continued to be Representative until 1783 (History of Albany and Schenectady Counties, N.Y., Howell & Penney, p. 353)- The bowery of his grandfather, Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck, with its tract of twelve hundred acres on the Roelof Jansen Kil, became his property, partly by inheritance from his father, and partly by purchase from the heirs of his uncle, Tobias Ten Broek (Ten Broek Genealogy, p. 65