Person:Barnardus Hallenbake (1)

"Beruardus Halenbake, father of Dorothea Stafford, was a son of Hendrik, who was a son of Isaac Casparse, who was a son of the original settler Caspar Jacobse Haleubeek, who made his will in 1685. The estate of Hendrik Halenbake originally comprised what is now the southern section of Albany, extending from Plain to Arch street, where it adjoined the farm of Gen. Schuyler, and having the river for its eastern and Eagle street for its western boundaries. This, with an island in the river, and lands in other places, in all 1800 acres, constituted the Halenbeck estate." (citing Munsell's Hist. Colls., vol. II, pp. 410-416) -- Collections on the History of Albany, Vol. III. (1870) by Joel Munsell, page 445.