Abraham J. Hasbrouck

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Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck (October 16, 1773 – January 12, 1845) was a United States representative from New York and a slaveholder.{{cite news |last1=Weil |first1=Julie Zauzmer |last2=Blanco |first2=Adrian |last3=Dominguez |first3=Leo |title=More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/ |access-date=30 January 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=20 January 2022}}

Biography

Hasbrouck was born in Guilford (now Libertyville in Gardiner), Ulster County, New York. He was privately tutored and moved to Kingston in 1795, engaging in mercantile pursuits.

He was one of the incorporators of the Delaware & Hudson Canal and was appointed a first lieutenant of Cavalry in the New York Militia.

He was an organizer and director of the Middle District Bank of Kingston and served in the New York State Assembly in 1811. Hasbrouck was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Thirteenth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1815; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1814.

He engaged in freighting goods to New York City by water. He was a member of the New York State Senate in 1822.

He died in Kingston in 1845 and was buried at the Albany Avenue Cemetery.

Hasbrouck's cousin, Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, was also a U.S. Representative from New York.

Both Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck and Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck are descendants of the Hasbroucks who founded New Paltz in 1678. The Hasbroucks were Huguenots, Protestant followers of John Calvin who fled what is today Northern France and South Belgium who fled persecution by the ruling Catholics. The original settlement of their ancestors survives today as Historic Huguenot Street, a National Historic Landmark District.

Hasbrouck was the great-grandfather of Major General Henry Granville Sharpe and Robert W. Hasbrouck.{{cite book |last=Hasbrouck |first=Kenneth Edward |date=1974 |title=The Hasbrouck Family in America |volume=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6ZRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ROBERT+W.+HASBROUCK+m+.+Astrid+K.+Scheerbarth%22 |location=New Paltz, NY |publisher=Hasbrouck Family Association |page=96 |isbn=978-0-6083-1913-1 |via=Google Books}}{{cite book |author=Committee On Genealogy, Saint Nicholas Society |date=1902 |title=Genealogical Record of the Saint Nicholas Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_6Q-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA101 |location=New York, NY |publisher=Saint Nicholas Society |page=101 |via=Google Books}}