Jannetje (Loop) Houghtaling: Palatine Emigrant

We've updated our post on our seventh great grandfather* Jacob Houghtaling, son of the Dutch orphan, Mathys, with the following notice:

UPDATE: Upon further research, only the family of Jacob Houghtaling/Hotelling, Jr.., moved to Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It was an error on our part (blog post here).

Tioga County Courthouse
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania

This post is about his mother, Jannetje (Jane Loop) Houghtaling, who had one confirmed son - our great-grandpa Jacob, Jr., - that came to Tioga County, Pennsylvania around 1830.

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Mom's DNA profile matches descendants of great-grandma Loop-Houghtaling.

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Great Palatine Emigration

The great Palatine emigration from Germany to America began in 1709. The causes were poverty, bad winter weather, the devastation of war, and England's efforts to use publicity to attract settlers to America to provide a buffer against the French.

As word returned home from America that conditions were comparatively very favorable in the New World, emigration from the region continued and grew. The earliest known arrival of a Loop in America was in 1737. Other Loop's continued arriving in small groups, usually accompanied by many relatives and friends from the same villages. 

In the colonies, the early Loop arrivals settled in upstate New York along the Hudson River. Later arrivals settled in New Jersey. Still later arrivals settled in Pennsylvania, becoming known as Pennsylvania Dutch (from the word "Deutsch", meaning German). 

Read more: The Loop Family in America

Pictures from Old-Germantown 

Anthony Lupp of Bad Marienberg, Germany

Almost all the Loop's, Loope's, Leupp's, and Lupp's of America are descendants of Anthony Lüpp of Bach in the parish of Bad Marienberg in the Hesse-Nassau region of Germany. ...He was the son of Jakob Lüpp and Katherine Müller (Threin Müller).  

Tourist information Bad Marienberg

Most of the Lüpp's were farmers. Two or three of them, however, were schoolmasters or schoolteachers, and three brothers were silversmiths in New Jersey, which trade they may have learned in Germany. 

Anthony's sons and grandsons, for the most part, lived in the many little villages scattered around the parish town of Bad Marienberg. These towns were Pfuhl, Hof, Bach, Ritzhausen, Langenbach, Ilfurt, Fehl, Eichenstruth, Unnau, Erbach, and others. It appears to have been a tradition during that period that when a man married, he moved to his wife's town. 

Bad Marienberg, Germany

Perhaps part of her dowry was some land or at least a livelihood working on the father-in-law's farm. Whenever a male Lüpp married a woman from another parish, he subsequently disappears from the Bad Marienberg parish records, though he might appear occasionally as a godparent for his relatives or friends. (ibid here)

Sidenote: This tradition continues. When our family lived in this region - Kaiserslautern, Germany; 1973-6 - the German couple who were friends of my parents lived in the upstairs apartment of her parent's house.

Emigrants to America 

We know of three lines of descent from Anthony Lüpp that lead to American immigrants (see the chart).

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1. Anthony's son Sebastian was the father of Jacob, who was the father of immigrants Christian, Gerlach, Martin, and Sebastian. Anthony's son August Lüpp, had a son Henrich, who had sons Henrich and Christian. 

2. Son Henrich (a schoolmaster), was the father of immigrant Ludwig Lupp. 

3. Son Christian was the father of immigrant Anthony Lupp. These few lines, which produced these six immigrants, account for most of the Lupp's, Loop's and Leupp's in America, then and now. 

Christian Loop of Hillsdale, NY

Hillsdale Hamlet

Christian Loop, the first child of Jacob Lupp and Anna Elizabeth Ross, was born in Langenbach, Hesse-Nassau, Germany, in 1695. He married Anna Maria Filger before December 1728. 

As far as we have been able to ascertain, Christian Loop, one of the four immigrant sons of Jacob Lupp of Langenbach, was the first Loop to set foot in North America. Though we have no ship record of his arrival, we can pinpoint his date of arrival to within a few months.  

Village of Langenbach

His son John was christened in Langenbach, Germany, on May 1, 1737, and his wife is listed as one of those present on October 16, 1737, at the christening, in New York City, of a child born at sea. So Christian Loop and his family arrived in New York City sometime between May and October of 1737, probably nearer to October.  

Also witnessing the christening was Elizabeth (Loop) Cooper, who was the wife of Martin Cooper and was probably Christian's sister Elizabeth born in 1717. These people do not appear again in the New York Lutheran Church records, so it is likely they had only just arrived and only stopped long enough to christen the child born at sea, before moving on up the Hudson River to the settlements (ibid here).

Jannetje (Jane) Loop

Jannetje Loop, the seventh child of Christian Loop and Anna Maria Filger, was christened November 4, 1744, in Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York. She married Jacob Hoagteling, probably the Jacob, son of Jan and Jannetje Hoagteling, born in 1740 in Linlithgo, Columbia County, New York.  

The main square in Kinderhook

After her marriage, she and her husband settled near her brother Hendrick in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York. We know of four children: twins Hendrick  (church record here) and Jacob Hoagteling (church record here), born in 1771, David Hoagteling, born in 1776, and Adam Hoagteling, born in 1779. All were christened in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, NY (ibid here).

New York Loop families spread slowly westward along the Mohawk River and Erie Canal, to western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. 

So it was great-grandpa Jacob Houghtaling - the twin -  who became Jacob Hotelling after the War of 1812, sometime between 1830-40, and migrated to Pennsylvania.

Sidenote: We're not convinced they were twins. In the church book, they appear as the last entry on one page and the first in the following page. (Note: Church records were always single-sided, so the ink didn't bleed through to the other side). Someone studying the Loop family - not carefully checking - might assume they are twins. But this is one of those occasions - we believe - where two births were recorded together at a later date. The birthdates and the two witnesses are different for each delivery,

What do you think of this family connection?  

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*Note: Relationships, such as grandmother, 2nd great, etc., are expressed from the perspective of the grandchildren of Leon Arthur and Anna Grace (Fuller) Merrick.

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.