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Anthony Ten Eyck

Anthony Ten Eyck was anti-Federalist and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787-1788. He was also the first Judge of Rensselaer County and a state senator in 1797. Anthony Ten Eyck was born in Albany, New York on September 15, 1749.

Reference to the Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book: Vol. 97, number 96270

From COURTS AND LAWYERS OF NEW YORK A HISTORY 1609-1925 BY ALDEN CHESTER Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, 1895-1918 In Collaboration with E. MELVIN WILLIAMS Historian VOLUME III THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. NEW YORK and CHICAGO 1925

"The Act of the New York Legislature on February 7, 1791, set apart a certain portion of Albany County to form the county of Rensselaer, so named in honor of the Van Rensselaers who owned the patroonship which was so powerful during the Dutch period....The judges appointed in 1791 to constitute the courts of the new county were: Anthony Ten Eyck, First Judge; John Van Rensselaer, Israel Thompson, Robert Woodworth and Jonathan Brown, judges; John Knickerbocker, Jr., John W. Schermerhorn, Jonathan Niles, Benjamin Hicks, Nicholas Staats, Robert Montgomery, Moss Kent and John E. Van Allen, assistant justices....The first Court of General Sessions and that of Common Pleas were held in the tavern; of Ananias Platt, in Lansingburgh, in May, 1791, First Judge Ten Eyck presiding." Anthony Ten Eyck was the father of Egbert Ten Eyck Egbert Ten Eyck --jrbrown 19:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)