Barent Gardenier

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Barent Gardenier

|office = Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York

|constituency = {{ushr|NY|7|C}} (1807–09)
{{ushr|NY|5|C}} (1809–11)

|termstart = March 4, 1807

|termend = March 3, 1811

|successor = Thomas B. Cooke

|predecessor = Martin G. Schuneman

|birth_date = {{birth date|1776|7|28}}

|birth_place = Kinderhook, New York, U.S.

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1822|1|10|1776|7|28}}

|death_place = New York, New York

|restingplace = Old Dutch Churchyard, First Reformed Church, Kingston, New York

|party = Federalist

|education = Litchfield Law School

|spouse = Sally (Sarah) Lawrence (m. 1801)

|profession = Attorney

}}

Barent Gardenier (July 28, 1776 – January 10, 1822) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a United States representative from 1807 to 1811.

Biography

Barent Gardenier was born in Kinderhook, New York, on July 28, 1776.Hollace Carey Gordinier, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jSxMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22barent+gardenier%22+born+1776 Gardenier: Ephraim Gordinier, 1785-1860: His Ancestors and Descendants Including the First Two Generations of Gardeniers in America] (1990), p. 2. He received a liberal education, studied law at Litchfield Law SchoolMarian C. McKenna, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tfqwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22barent+gardenier%22 Tapping Reeve and the Litchfield Law School] (1986), p. 190. and was admitted to the bar.Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j1s4AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22barent+gardenier%22+admitted+bar&pg=PA165 The Croakers] (1860), pp. 165-166. In November 1801 he married Sally (Sarah) Lawrence.Jerome Bonaparte Holgate, [https://books.google.com/books?id=VUNnAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22barent+gardenier%22+sarah&pg=PA214 American Genealogy: Being a History of Some of the Early Settlers of North America] (1851), p. 214.Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., [http://genealogytrails.com/ny/ulster/baptisms5.html Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York, 1660-1809] (1980), submitted to Genealogy Trails by Foxie Hagerty.

Gardenier practiced in Kingston, New York, and was also editor and publisher of a Federalist newspaper, the New York Courier.Thurlow Weed Barnes, [https://books.google.com/books?id=558MAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Barent+Gardenier%22+born&pg=PA56 Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir] (1884), volume 1, p. 56. He was elected as a Federalist to the 10th and 11th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1807, to March 3, 1811.Weed, Parsons and Company, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iD1DAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Barent+Gardenier%22+Congress+1807+1811Civil&pg=PA335 List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York] (1879), p. 335.

He had a heated controversy with Senator John Armstrong relating to the latter's alleged authorship of the famous Newburgh letters, anonymous circulars in which the author (presumably Armstrong) had attempted unsuccessfully to instigate Continental Army soldiers to act against Congress at the end of the American Revolution in order to secure back pay, pensions and land grants that had been promised but were not immediately forthcoming. Armstrong denied writing the letters, but historians are of the view that Armstrong was the author. By the early 1800s Armstrong was a Democratic-Republican politician and follower of Thomas Jefferson, which caused the Federalist Gardenier to highlight Armstrong's supposed authorship of the Newburgh letters as a campaign issue.John C. Fredriksen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dM_AIslBqh4C&dq=%22john+armstrong%22+newburgh+conspiracy&pg=PA46 The United States Army: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present] (2010), p 46.Jacob Judd, editor, [https://books.google.com/books?id=apRYAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22john+armstrong%22+newburgh+conspiracy&pg=PA94 The Van Cortlandt Family Papers], 1976, vol. 1, p. 94.Carl Edward Skeen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=rxJ3AAAAMAAJ&q=Gardenier John Armstrong, Jr., 1758-1843: A Biography] (1981), pp. 48 and 237.

In 1808 Gardenier fought a duel with George W. Campbell, a congressman from Tennessee, resulting from Gardenier's opposition to the Jefferson administration's trade embargo with Great Britain and France. Campbell was angered at Gardenier's speech, and in Gardenier's view included personal insults in his rebuttal speech. Gardenier challenged Campbell, and their duel was notable as being the first to be fought on what became the Bladensburg Dueling Grounds. Gardenier was wounded, but subsequently recovered and won reelection.Richard Buel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cqcGDHOMh9oC&dq=gardenier+campbell+duel&pg=PA64 America on the Brink] (2005), p. 64-65.Ryan Chamberlain, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FF1GmybMOZoC&dq=gardenier+campbell+duel+bladensburg&pg=PA36 Pistols, Politics and the Press: Dueling in 19th Century American Journalism] (2009), p 36.Harper & Brothers, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SzSV2jeAhwMC&dq=gardenier+campbell+duel+first+bladensburg&pg=PA358 Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909] (1905), vol. 1, p. 358.

From 1813 to 1815, Gardenier was District Attorney of the First District which included New York, Queens, Kings, Suffolk, Richmond and Westchester Counties.John Thomas Scharf, editor, [https://books.google.com/books?id=EkgVAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22barent+gardenier%22+%22first+district%22+new+york&pg=PA653 History of Westchester County, New York] (1925), vol. 1, part 2, p. 653.

Gardenier died in New York City on January 10, 1822.New York Newspaper Death Notice Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection), entry for Barent Gardenier, retrieved via Ancestry.com, September 23, 2013.Hale Cemetery Inscriptions, 1675-1934, entry for Barent Gardenier, retrieved via Ancestry.com, September 23, 2013. He is buried at Kingston's First Reformed Church.

Congressional record

His speeches given in the 10th and 11th congresses appear in:

Abridgement of the Debates of Congress from 1789-1856, D. Appleton & Co. 1857, vol. 3, p. 612.
The Rep. from N.Y. on building gunboats, pp. 627–629.
inquiry into conduct of Gen. Wilkinson, 1807; vol. iv. 1808-1813, p. 87.
re submission to the late edicts of England & France, p. 137.
on remunerating those who resisted the law for direct tax, p. 139.
on prosecutions for libel, p. 192.
re the call on the President (James Madison, 1809) for papers, p. 215.
supports petition of Elizabeth Hamilton; also referenced on pp. 48, 124, 191, and 350.

References

External links

[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000049 Biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA69 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pp. 69 and 448 [Addenda]; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

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| district= 7

| before= Martin G. Schuneman

| after= Killian K. Van Rensselaer

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| state= New York

| district= 5

| before= John Blake, Jr.

| after= Thomas Cooke

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