Barent Bleecker Lansing
(17 Jan 1793, Argyle, Washington Co NY)
(3 Dec 1853, Brooklyn NY)
(son of Colonel Gerrit G. Lansing and Mary Antill)
+ Sarah Breese(1815)
(6 Dec 1795, Saybrook CT)
(16 Jun 1879, Whitestown NY)
(daughter of Arthur Breese and Catharine Livingston)

Children:

Captain Arthur Breese Lansing	[married Janet Suffern]
Brigadier General Henry Livingston Lansing	[married Catharine Olivia Gibson]
Manette Antill Lansing	[married Charles Walker Morse]
Brigadier General Henry Seymour Lansing	[married Jane Amelia White]
Barent Bleecker Lansing, Jr.	[married Sophie E. Williams]

+ James Platt(Jan 1855)
(2 Jan 1788, Poughkeepsie NY)
(8 May 1870, Oswego NY)
(son of Zephaniah Platt and Mary Van Wyck)
(1st wife Eliza Floyd; 2nd wife Susan K. Woolsey)

At the age of twenty, Sarah married Barent Bleecker Lansing, the son of Revolutionary War Colonel and industrialist, Colonel Gerrit G. Lansing, and the nephew of Chancellor John Lansing. Like the Breese family the Lansings were socially prominent, and the two families were entwined by many ties of business and politics. Arthur Breese had been deputy clerk of Herkimer County under his wife's uncle, Jonas Platt, and Barent Bleecker Lansing was the partner of Jonas Platt's brother James for many years.

Barent Bleecker's interest seemed more in banking than business, and, for a couple of years, he was bookkeeper for the U. S. Branch Bank of Utica. The opportunity to step into the position of Cashier took the family to New Jersey, and Barent Bleecker to the Bank of Belleville. Another couple of years and an offer to become Cashier for the Oneida Bank of Utica allowed Sarah's husband was able to return his family to Utica. He held that position until he died in 1853, at the age of sixty. Two of their children - Henry Livingston Lansing and Henry Seymour Lansing - continued in the financial world. Henry Livingston Lansing was a banker and treasurer of the Erie Railroad. Henry Seymour Lansing was an accountant in Paris and Auditor of the 1876 Philadelphia World's Fair.

Another tie between the Lansing and Breese families was military service, though the Lansing family tradition was the Army over the Breese connections with the Navy. Three of Sarah and Barent Bleecker's sons joined the U.S. Army. The eldest, Arthur Breese Lansing, attended West Point, serving as a Captain in the Quartermaster Corps during the Mexican War. The next two boys, Henry Livingston and Henry Seymour, were instrumental in the creation of the Military Association of New York, and both rose to the rank of Brig. General during the Civil War.

Two years after Barent Bleecker's death, Sarah married James Platt, her husband's old partner. James had been married twice before, and had a family with his first wife that was raised by his second wife, Susan K. Woolsey, the daughter of Henry Livingston's sister Alida and her husband, General Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey, and Sarah's first cousin. Entwining the Livingstons and Woolseys closer, James Platt's son William married his stepmother's niece, Catharine Woolsey, the daughter of Susan's brother, Henry Livingston Woolsey.

The father of the subject of our sketch, Barent B. Lansing, was a native of Herkimer connty, N. Y., and was the son of Colonel Gerrit G. Lansing, an officer in the War of the Revolution, and who served gallantly in the "forlorn hope" at the battle of Yorktown, Va.,attached to Colonel Alexander Hamilton's command. Colonel Lansing married a daughter of Edward Antill, who was a granddaughter of Lewis Morris, esq., the first governor of New Jersey, at the city of Albany, N. Y., in the year 1786. Edward Anti11 was also an officer in the War of the Revolution, being the lieutenant colonel of a regiment, the origin and condition of which was different from any *other in the service, it being unattached to the quota of any State, was raised and recruited in Canada, and made up entirely of Canadians, and was known and called "Congress's Own."

Colonel Lansing had by his wife, Mary Antill, three sons, Richard R., Barent B., and Edward Antill.