Susanna Bradt was born in 1697. She was the daughter of Albany residents Daniel and Elizabeth Lansing Bradt.

She married Hendrick Hallenbeck in 1718. Their thirteen children were born between 1719 and the mid-1740s and baptized in the Albany Dutch church where Susanna was a member and a sponsor for a number of family baptisms.

Hendrick Hallenbeck died in 1766 after naming her his beloved wife and chief beneficiary. They had lived in a house on the southside of Albany - overlooking a large pasture just beyond the stockade. The widow (now family martiarch and trustee of extensive city acreage) continued to live there until her death in November 1787. She was buried from the Albany Dutch church but probably in the Hallenbeck burying ground located next to her first ward home.

Sources: The life of Susanna Bradt Hallenbeck is CAP biography number 4279. This profile is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.