Mathys Coenradt Houghtaling...immigrated here in 1655 at age 16, from Amsterdam Holland, where he was living in an almshouse or 'poorhouse'; when he was offered a chance to come to America to help settle the land for the Dutch, Mathys did just that in what is now Coxsackie in Greene County.
Read more: Hotaling Brief Family History'
Our grandfather* Leon Arthur Merrick, was an eighth-generation descendant of Dutch immigrant Mathys Houghtailing; through his grandmother, Ellen 'Jane' Hotaling (blog post here).
Hotaling Surname
The first mention of Mathys Coenradtsen is the appearance of his name on a list of boys and girls from the almshouse in Amsterdam, Holland, who was being sent to the New World to work for the Dutch West India Company and to 'increase the population of New Netherlands.'
The letter of transmittal to Peter Stuyvesant from the Burgomasters of Mathys Coenratsen Houghtaling Family Amsterdam, noting the names and ages of the children, is dated 27 May 1655 and includes 'Mathys Coenratsen, 16 years of age'... (ibid here).
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Stuyvesant was the last 'governor' of the colony of New Netherland. He was zealous to grow the small settlement. However, in 1664, his territory was taken by England.
Kinderhook
That year (1683 ed) he was back in Coxsackie where he remained. The 1697 census of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck lists him as head of a household of two men, one woman, and three children, and in 1699 he took an oath of allegiance to the British Crown.
In 1691 Mathys Houghtaling purchased from three Mohawk Indians [Manueenta, Unekeek, and Kachketowaa, called by the Christians Shernierhoorn, Jan d'Bakker, and Cobus respectively} 'a piece of woodland lying behind Koxhaghkye,' to each of whom he paid 'a cloth of duffel.'
In 1697 this same land was officially granted to him by Governor Benjamin Fletcher, a representative of the Crown he had publicly defamed at Kingston thirty years before. The property conveyed by this grant comprised 3,500 acres of heavily wooded land in the Kalkeberg Hills west of Coxsackie and took in part of present-day New Baltimore.
Reformed Dutch Church
At the end of 1683, when the Albany Dutch Church records begin, 'Mathys and Maria Hoogteeling' were members. About 1666 Mathys had married Maria Hendrikse, the daughter of Hendrik Marselis and Catryn Van den Berg. She probably survived Mathys, who died in 1706, but there is no evidence that she remarried.
Although no probate record has been found for Mathys, there is evidence that an unexecuted will exists to which earlier historians had access. In this will, Maria is named as his wife and is appointed executrix, inheriting his estate 'as long as she remains a widow.' If she remarried, his instructions were specific: 'She shall convey ... the rest of the estate to the testator's children, to wit, Conrad, Johannes, and Jacob Hooghtelinck...' (ibid here)
Jacob Houghtaling
Our line descends through Jacob A Hooghteeling, born in 1676 in Coxsackie, New York. Our ancestors remained with the Dutch community in Rensselaer until about 1830, when they relocated to Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
Hotaling Surname
Americanized spelling of Dutch Hoogteijling, an indirect occupational name for a productive farmer, from hoogh ‘high’ + teling ‘cultivation’, ‘breeding’. - Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press - Ancestry
The fifty or more variations in the spelling, ranging from Hogdielen to Huftailen to Hoochtelink, represent an excellent example of phonetic recordings by Dutch, German, and English clerks and ministers as this name became Anglicized and evolved into the present forms of Houghtaling, Hotaling, and Hotelling. - Hotaling Brief Family HistoryMathys Coenradt Houghtaling
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| Dutch West India Company Warehouse, 17th Century |
The letter of transmittal to Peter Stuyvesant from the Burgomasters of Mathys Coenratsen Houghtaling Family Amsterdam, noting the names and ages of the children, is dated 27 May 1655 and includes 'Mathys Coenratsen, 16 years of age'... (ibid here).
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Stuyvesant was the last 'governor' of the colony of New Netherland. He was zealous to grow the small settlement. However, in 1664, his territory was taken by England.
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| Peter Stuyvesant |
No record of (Mathys Coenradtsen) has been found from 1655...until 8 November 1667, when he appears in court at Kingston in a suit for wages due him from Reyner Van Coelen. Before he left the Kingston area, he was brought into court in 1668 for ostensibly declaring, 'Damn the King and the Devil fetch the King' while chopping wood on a Sunday morning.From 1668 onward he lived in the Albany area. ...
Kinderhook
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| Birthplace of James van Buren Kinderhook, New York |
He resided first 'behind Kinderhook,' sharing a farm with his father-in-law, Hendrik Marselis, in 1673, until Martin Gerritsen van Bergen, prominent real estate owner and Commissary, leased him 'a certain farm lying at Kockxhachkin-h heretofore occupied by Gysbert Boogaert with a house and barn' for a period of six years [1675-1681] in the acknowledgment of 'love and friendship'.Rensselaer
Upon expiration of this lease in 1681 he crossed the Hudson River to reside again in Kinderhook until 1683 (ibid here).
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| Bronck House Coxsackie |
That year (1683 ed) he was back in Coxsackie where he remained. The 1697 census of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck lists him as head of a household of two men, one woman, and three children, and in 1699 he took an oath of allegiance to the British Crown.
In 1691 Mathys Houghtaling purchased from three Mohawk Indians [Manueenta, Unekeek, and Kachketowaa, called by the Christians Shernierhoorn, Jan d'Bakker, and Cobus respectively} 'a piece of woodland lying behind Koxhaghkye,' to each of whom he paid 'a cloth of duffel.'
In 1697 this same land was officially granted to him by Governor Benjamin Fletcher, a representative of the Crown he had publicly defamed at Kingston thirty years before. The property conveyed by this grant comprised 3,500 acres of heavily wooded land in the Kalkeberg Hills west of Coxsackie and took in part of present-day New Baltimore.
Reformed Dutch Church
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| Albany Dutch Church |
At the end of 1683, when the Albany Dutch Church records begin, 'Mathys and Maria Hoogteeling' were members. About 1666 Mathys had married Maria Hendrikse, the daughter of Hendrik Marselis and Catryn Van den Berg. She probably survived Mathys, who died in 1706, but there is no evidence that she remarried.
Although no probate record has been found for Mathys, there is evidence that an unexecuted will exists to which earlier historians had access. In this will, Maria is named as his wife and is appointed executrix, inheriting his estate 'as long as she remains a widow.' If she remarried, his instructions were specific: 'She shall convey ... the rest of the estate to the testator's children, to wit, Conrad, Johannes, and Jacob Hooghtelinck...' (ibid here)
Jacob Houghtaling
Our line descends through Jacob A Hooghteeling, born in 1676 in Coxsackie, New York. Our ancestors remained with the Dutch community in Rensselaer until about 1830, when they relocated to Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
From New Amsterdam to New York Illustrated
Terms of relationship - grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin, etc. - are used here generically to include relatives such as fourth great grandfathers, great grand uncles, second cousins twice removed, etc.
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