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[This information is from Vol. III, pp. 1342-1343 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45. Some of the formatting of the original, especially in lists of descendants, may have been altered slightly for ease of reading.]
Caspar Janse Halenbeek (as the name was then spelled), is the first of this name on record in Albany county, New York, and is believed to have been the emigrant from Holland. He was in Beverwyck in 1654; made his will September 9, 1685, which devised two lots in Albany. He died August, 1703, leaving two sons, Isaac C. and Jan.
(II) Isaac Casparse, son of Caspar Janse Halenbeek, had a parcel of land in Albany below Hudson street. He died January, 1709. He married Dorothea Bosch and had seven children baptized in the Dutch church. She died and was buried in the Lutheran graveyard, February 7, 1744. Children and dates of baptism:
In his will, proved March 28, 1728, Isaac C. mentions all these children.
(III) Hendrik, son of Isaac Casparse and Dorothea (Bosch) Halenbeek, was baptized in the Dutch church at Albany, New York, March 16, 1692. He was a resident of Albany, and by his will, proved August 18, 1766, set apart the ancient landmark at the corner of South Pearl and Hamilton streets, Albany, known as the Halenbeek Burial Ground, and formally dedicated it to the purpose of a burial place for himself and family. This was removed in 1860 and no interments were made there after 1850. A provision of his will was that no child or descendant should be buried there who did not contribute to its maintenance during his or her lifetime.
Hendrik Halenbeek was married to Susanna Bratt in 1718. Children and dates of baptism:
In his will dated November 19, 1764, Hendrik mentions as then living wife Susanna, and children, Isaac, Dorothea, Elizabeth, Daniel, Gerrit, Jacob, Anthony and Bernardus.
(IV) Jacob, youngest son of Hendrik and Susanna (Bratt) Halenbeek, was born in Albany, about 1746. He was a resident of that city at the time of the birth of his son, Caspar Jacob, about 1775. He married and had issue.
(V) Caspar Jacob, son of Jacob Hallenbeck, was born in Albany county, New York, about 1775, and died there at the age of thirty-five years. He was a farmer of Albany county, where he married Maria Bratt, born in Jerusalem, Albany county, New York, daughter of an early Dutch family of that name. She was a bride at sixteen, a widow at the age of thirty years, and the mother of seven sons, namely:
(VI) Jacob J., youngest son of Caspar J. and Maria (Bratt) Hallenbeck, was born in the town of New Scotland, Schenectady [actually Albany] county, New York, December 19, 1815, died in West Glenville, same [Schenectady] county, August 6, 1858. He was a farmer. He married Margaret Van Deusen, born in the town of Berne, Albany county, New York, died in West Glenville at the age of seventy-eight years. Children:
(VII) Jacob H., son of Jacob J. and Margaret (Van Deusen) Hallenbeck, was born in Albany county, New York, April 11, 1842. He was two years of age when his parents removed to Schenectady county, where he died in the town of Scotia, March 15, 1908. He grew up on the farm, and was educated in the public schools. He had no liking for the life of a farmer, and soon left the paternal acres for the more congenial life of a dealer in all kinds of merchandise. He had a genius for barter and sale, and was constantly engaged at his business. He was a Republican in politics, and for twenty years was county poor master. He was a member of the Reformed church, and stood well in his community. He married in Guilderland, Albany county, New York, in 1866, Margaret J. Sager, born in the town of Knox, Albany county, New York, August 16, 1844. She was educated in the New Scotland public schools where she lived until her marriage. The past thirty-five years she has spent in Scotia. She is a daughter of Adam and Hannah (Van Alstyne) Sager. Adam Sager was a farmer of Albany county, and settled later in Glenville, Schenectady county, where he died at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife Hannah died September 10, 1898, aged eighty-four years. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Adam was a son of Conrad and Margaret (Bratt) Sager. Conrad was a farmer of Albany, his native county, where he died in 1845. His wife Margaret died aged eighty-three. They were lifelong residents of Albany county, and members of the Reformed church. Adam and Hannah (Van Alstyne) Sager had children:
Children of Jacob H. and Margaret J. (Sager) Hallenbeck:
Mrs. Hallenbeck and family are members of the Reformed church. The sons are Republicans.
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