Isaac Roosevelt

1726 - 1794  (67 years)    Has 21 ancestors and 78 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Isaac Roosevelt
  Birth	8 Dec 1726	New York, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	USA
  rich
  Death	13 Oct 1794
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  1. Sarah Marie Roosevelt,   c. 19 Dec 1730   d. 1754  (Age ~ 23 years) ▻ Charles Crommelin + 2. Isaac Roosevelt,   b. 8 Dec 1726, New York, New York, USA d. 13 Oct 1794  (Age 67 years) ▻ Cornelia Hoffman,  m. 22 Sep 1752
  Person ID	I15331	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2001

  
  

  Father	Jacobus Roosevelt,   b. 28 Feb 1692   d. 5 May 1776 (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Catharina Hardenbroeck,   b. 20 Feb 1694   d. Aft 1739 (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	31 Jan 1713
  Family ID	F7747	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Cornelia Hoffman,   b. 13 Aug 1734, Kingston, New York, USA d. 13 Nov 1789 (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	22 Sep 1752	Dutchess County, New York, USA
  Children	+ 1. James Roosevelt,   b. 10 Jan 1760, New York, New York, USA d. 6 Feb 1847 (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F31208	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2001

  
  

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• Notes

  The fortune of die Hyde Park Roosevelts, amounting to approximately one million dollars on the death of F.D.R., was founded by Jacobus' son Isaac. Although the Bayards had introduced sugar refining to New York, and the Livingstons were in the business before hirn, Isaac Roosevelt became one of the first large-scale sugar refiners. His heirs invested their inheritance wisely, prirnarily in coal and railroads, and augrnented it through judicious marriages, but thereafter tbey were content to live as country gentlemen, and never again was there another real money-maker in this braneh of the dynasty. Isaac was also the only one of F.D.R.'s ancestors who sought in any way to mold the society in wlich he lived. He was a passionate, though minor, actor during the Revolutionary period-serving in the New York Provincial Congress in 1775; as a member of the convention that drafted the first constitution of New York in 1777; subsequently as a member of the first state Senate; and as an ardent Federalist in the New York convention that ratified the federal Constitution. F.D.R. was to recall his patriotic forebear during the 1936 canvass. When he reached Poughkeepsie on the day before the election, the President invoked the name of Isaac Roosevelt as a rejoinder to those who charged that he was less than devoted to the Constitution. "About a block from where I stand up there on the corner of Main Street," said candidate Roosevelt, "there was a little old stone building and in the year 1788 there was held there the constitutional convention of the State of New York. My great-great grandfather was a member of that convention . - . And so you will see that not only in rny own person but also by inheritance I know sornething not only about the Constitution of the United States, but also about the Bill of Rights. (Although the kinship was less direct, Tbeodore Roosevelt also used old Isaac to establish his patriotism-by-inheritance. Yet, while Isaac served well the cause of American independence at a time when it was not fashionable in New York, his place in history was more properly defined by a non-Roosevelt President, George Washington, who wrote in his diary in 1788: "Received an invitation to attend the funeral of Mrs. Roosevelt (the wife of a Senator in this State, but declined complying with it, first, because the propriety of accepting an invitation of this sort appeared to be very questionable, and secondly, (though to do so in this instance might not be improper), because it might be difficult to discriminate in cases which might thereafter happen. Despite the historical recollections of T.R. and F.D.R., the Roosevelt family had still not quite earned presidential recognition.