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- 17 Sept 1699; Christoffel Hooglant, Helenaa Aartse; Christoffel;JanAartse, Catharina Cregier wife of Marten Roelofse Jillesse
His will being dated Mar. 12, 1676, and rec. on p. 83 of Lib. 3 inoff. of surr. of N. Y.)
From "The Hoagland Family in America"
This sturdy pioneer (Christoffel) was born in Holland in 1634. Hecamefrom Haarlem to New Amsterdam when but a youth. He was clerk foramercantile house, and it appears that on his coming of age hecommencedbusiness for himself. In 1655 his name appears on the recordsof theBurgomasters and Schepens Court. We infer from the previoussilence ofthe records regarding him that he had but lately arrived inthis country.He next comes to our notice on the 16th of March, 1661,when he unitedwith the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam.
The fact that so many respectable persons from Haarlem were thenlivingin New Amsterdam, as Johannes de Puyster, Abraham van Duzer,William deGroot, Abraham de La Noy, Anthony de Mill, Gerrit Roos,JohannesVerbrugge and Cornelis Steinwyck, all of more or less note,starts thequery whether Hooglandt may not have come out with some oneof these as abusiness assistant, for he seems to have been bred to amercantile life.Evidently he had been well educated, and was of a goodfamily.
The next notice of him is on April 24, 1661, when he stands as witnessatthe baptism of a child of Martin Abrahams, who had arrived here ayearbefore from Bloemendael. On June 23rd ensuing, his intendedmarriage withMiss Catrina Cregier, a young woman born here in 1645,and the daughterof Capt. Martin Cregier, a noted officer under Kieftand Stuyvesant, wasformally announced from the pulpit of the chruch inthe fort. Thisalliance was not only calculated to give yourg Hooglandta socialstanding, but shows that he was even then held in esteem. Hemust havealready obtained some prominence as a merchant, because, onOctober 21,1661, he and Hendrick Willemsen, baker, "as having a betterknowledge ofbread," were appointed by the Court of Burgomasters andSchepens to putin force an ordinance passed on that date regulatingthe quality, weightand price of bread, and the forbidding of bakers"to bake any morekoeckjes, jumbles or sweet cake."
While yet young he was regarded as a leading citizen. On the conquestofthe country by the English in 1664, he, as Schepen, though notjoiningwith those who urged surrender without resistance, made thebest of thesituation, and took the oath of allegiance. Evidently a manof sterlingcharacter, we see him filling his place with the best ofthe citizens.
On May, 1666, he sat as a juryman with Francis Rombouts,GulianVerplanck, William Bogardus, Johannes De Puyster and others, onanimportant case before the Mayor's Court, relating to the "Bronck'sLand"in Westchester County. At this date he was living in the HoogeStreet,supposed to have been a part of the present Pearl Street, westside ofBroad, his lot being described as "Hoogland's Corner, front toye bridge,50 feet to ye Pearl Street," crossing the canal, which atthat date ranthrough Broad Street. He was also the owner of otherproperty in thecity. On May 21, 1669, being at this time an Alderman,he purchased fromWilliam Van Borden a house and lot "outside the LandGate (at Wall Streetand Broadway), and south of the house of GerritHendricksen, the blaauwboer," and there he spent the remainder of hisdays. He also bought landnear the house of the noted Capt. JacobLeisler from ex-GovernorStuyvesant. In 1676 two farm lots (governmentgrants) were surveyed forMr. Hooglandt upon Staten Island. He was alsothe owner of several tractsof land in the States of New York and NewJersey.
On the New Amsterdam Court records, 1662, we find Hooglandt becomingbailfor Nathaniel Green, a Boston merchant.
On February 2, 1672, "Mr. Christopher Hoagland" and others wereappointedto arrange a difference between Capt. Jacques Cortelyou andthe town ofNew Utrecht. When New York was recaptured, and temporarilyin the handsof the Dutch, Lieut. Christopher Hoogland and the othermilitia officers,showed great zeal in fortifying the city; and, beingassembled at thefort on December 19, 1673, were publicly thanked byGov. Colve, and tookthe oath of fidelity.
With Peter Jacobsen Marius, Mr. Hoogland was designated, June 21,1674,to appraise the sloop Edmond and Mathew, Capt. RichardPattishall, withits cargo of tobacco, which had been captured andbrought to this port bythe Dutch Captain, Cornelis Ewoutsen. In themeantime, certainmerchandise sent from London, consigned to Hoagland,was carried intoBoston, confiscated and sold as a prize.
This formed the subject of petitions to the Governor of New York in1676and 1677, in which his fellow merchants, Rombouts and Verplanck,joinedwith him as having sustained similar losses.
On March 12, 1676, being "Monday in the afternoon about fiveo'clock,"Mr. Hoogland and his wife Catharine Cregier--"the testatorsickly and thetestatrix going and sound of body"--made their jointwill, which wasdrawn up by William Bogardus, Notary, and witnessed bytheir friends,Francis Rombonts and Paul Richard, merchants. Itprovided for theultimate and equal division of the property amongtheir present children,viz: Dirck, Harman, Martin, Christopher andFrancis De Groot Hoogland;and "the children which they may by theblessing of God get in thefuture." The wisdom of this last provisionbecame obvious when anotherson was born to them four years later, andwhom they named Harman, thefirst child of that name having died.Surviving eight years, Mr. Hooglandattained again the position ofAlderman in 1678.
His death took place on February 8, 1684, when he was probablyaboutfifty years of age. His will was proved in the Court of Record,May 11,1686, and recorded on the 22nd of the same month, andadministration wasgranted to his widow April 14, 1687. She was then aresident of PearlStreet, her father, Capt. Cregier, occupying the sameor adjoiningpremises.
On October 3, 1688, the widow Hoogland signed a marriage contractwithRoeloff Martinsen Schenck, a prominent and wealthy resident ofFlatlands,to whom she was married on the 9th of November following.She thereuponremoved with her younger children to "The Bay," asFlatlands wasfamiliarly called, and where she was still livingSeptember 4, 1704, thedate of Mr. Schenck's will. There her youngestson, Harman, spent hislife. It was in this way that the family wasdrawn to Long Island, andnot (as might be plausibly conjectured)through any tie of kinship withthe Flatbush Hooglands.
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1634 - 1683 (49 years)
