On September 6, 1785,[7] at the age of twenty, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant (d. 1825) at the New York City Dutch Church.[8] She was a daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant (1727–1805) and Margaret (née Livingston) Stuyvesant (1738–1818) and a sister of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant.[9] Her father was a great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherlands.[10] For their wedding, he gave Cornelia a bracelet made by John Ramage featuring a watercolor paintingofcupid.[7] Together, they had twelve children who were baptized in Albany and several more babies that were stillborn.[3] Their baptized children were:[6]
Abraham Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1788–1810), who died unmarried.[6]
Margaret Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1790–1873), who married Rev. Robert Gibson (1792–1829),[10] son of Robert Gibson of Charleston, S.C., on June 11, 1818.[6] Gibson founded the Edgehill School in Princeton.[11]
Petrus Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1792–1849), a priest who married Lucretia Loring Cutter (1792–1861), daughter of Mayor Levi Cutter.[12]
Stephen Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1793–1793), who died young.[6]
Dirck Ten Broeck (1794–1794), who also died young.[6]
Elizabeth Maria Ten Broeck (1795–1795), who also died young.[6]
Cornelia Ten Broeck (1798–1798), who also died young.[6]
Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck (1800–1800), who also died young.[6]
Stephan Philip Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1802–1866), a physician who married Mary Nielson, daughter of William Nielson.[6]
Nicholas William Ten Broeck (1805–1805), who also died young.[6]
Elizabeth Ten Broeck (1810–1810), who also died young.[6]
Elizabeth Van Rensselaer Ten Broeck (1813–1813), who also died young.[6]
Through his daughter Margaret, he was the grandfather of Dr. Robert Phillips Gibson (1819–1890),[11] who married Susan Moser (1822–1902)[10] in 1845.[1] They were the parents of many children,[9][13] including Susan Meta Gibson, an artist,[14] and Henry Pierson Gibson (1856–1921),[10] who was buried at the Ten Broeck vault in St. Mark's Churchyard.[15]
Through his son Petrus, he was the grandfather of Cornelia Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1820–1892)[16] who married George Edwin Bartol Jackson (1829–1891),[17] a lawyer from Portland, Maine.[18][19] on May 30, 1853.[20] They were the parents of Margaret Stuyvesant (née Jackson) White (1855-1939), Elizabeth Deblois (née Jackson) Merrill (1857-1933), Stuyvesant Ten Broeck Jackson (1860–1940).[20][21][22]
^ abcdGreene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (1912). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 92. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
John Stilwell Jenkins: History of Political Parties in the State of New-York (Alden & Markham, Auburn NY, 1846, Jenkins writes "Derick Ten Broeck" and erroneously "Derick Ten Eyck")
