Gerrit Jacob Lansing

Gerrit Jacob Lansing    (4 Mar 1711, Albany NY - bef 2 Mar 1810)
        (son Jacob Gerrit Lansing and Helena Glen)
+ (29 Nov 1734, Albany NY)     Maria Everts    (8 Oct 1713, 27 Jan 1741)

CHILDREN:

Jacob Gerritse Lansing (4 April 1736 - 25 Nov 1803)
+ (28 Aug 1774) Femmetje Lansing (2 Jul 1751, 27 Mar 1807)

Maria Lansing (bap:Oct 1737 - 22 Aug 1739)

Alida Lansing (bap:Sep 1738 - 19 Sep 1742)

+ (Abt. 1748) Jannetje Waters (bap: 12 Apr 1723, Albany NY - 2 Mar 1810)

CHILDREN:

John Lansing (bap: 5 Mar 1749 - 26 Nov 1754)

Chancellor John TenEyck Lansing (4 Mar 1711, Albany NY - bef 2 Mar 1810)
+ (Abt. 1748) Jannetje Waters (bap: 12 Apr 1723, Albany NY, 2 Mar 1810)

Abraham G. Lansing (11 Dec 1756, Albany NY - 5 Sep 1834, Albany NY)
+ (9 Apr 1779) Susannah Yates (18 Aug 1762 - 25 Feb 1840, Albany NY)

Sarah Lansing (1 Jul 1759 - infancy)

Colonel Gerrit G. Lansing (11 Dec 1760, Albany NY - 8 Jun 1831, Oriskany NY)
+ (1 Nov 1786) Mary Antill (18 Jan 1771, Montreal - 24 Aug 1834, Utica NY)

Sarah Lansing (22 Jun 1763, Albany NY - 12 Oct 1831, Albany NY)
+ (17 Dec 1787, Albany NY) Barent Bleecker (9 June 1760, Albany NY - 1 Jun 1840, Albany NY)

    Sanders G. Lansing    (17 Jun 1766, Albany NY - 19 Sep 1850, Mannheim NY)
    + (9 Dec 1789, Albany NY)      Catharine Ten Eyck    (17 Oct 1769 - 1850)
        (granddau Colonel Jacob J. Lansing and Marytje "Polly" Egberts)

From People of Colonial Albany
by Stefan Bielinski

Gerrit Ja. Lansing was born in 1711. He was the first son of Albany businessman Jacob G. Lansing and Helena Glen.

Gerrit grew up in Albany's third ward and learned tthe gunsmith's trade. In 1739, he married Albany native Maria Evertsen. Three children were born before her death in 1741. About 1748, he married Jane Waters who bore at least seven children over the next two decades. He was a long time member and pewholder of the Albany Dutch church.

In 1737, he first served as a firemaster for the third ward. In 1744 and 1745, he was elected assistant alderman. by that time, he was established in a house on Market Street. He was known in the community as a merchant as well as a gunsmith.

During the 1760s and 70s, his Market Street home was an Albany landmark. His sons, John Jr. and Abraham G. Lansing, became prominent Albany personages.

Gerrit Ja. Lansing was dead by August 1782 when letters of administration were granted to his widow.

LINKS

Gerrit Ja. Lansing, by Stefan Bielinski
Homes of Sanders Lansing and Chancellor John Lansing