[3] His paternal grandparents were Catharine (nee Cuyler) Ten Eyck (1709–1790)[4] and Jacob Coenraedt Ten Eyck (1705–1793), who served as Mayor of Albany from 1748 to 1750 and was a member of Albany’s Committee of Safety during the Revolutionary War.
Then he studied law at Albany, New York, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and practiced in Watertown.
He was First Secretary of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society in 1817, President of the Village of Watertown in 1820, and was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821.
[8] In November 1824, Ten Eyck was elected to the 18th,[9] and declared re-elected as a Jacksonian to the 19th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to December 15, 1825, when his election was successfully contested by Daniel Hugunin, Jr.
[10] Together, they were the parents of:[11][3] He died on April 11, 1844, the same day as Micah Sterling who had preceded him in Congress, and both were buried at the Brookside Cemetery in Watertown.