Anthony De Hooges
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Christening: 14 Dec 1620 - Noord, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Death: 11 Oct 1655 - Albany, Albany, NY
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Johannes De Hooges (Abt 1590- ) 5
Mother: Maria Tijron (Abt 1590- ) 5
Spouses and Children
1. *Eva Albertsen (Affien) Bradt (9 Jan 1636 - 1689) 5
Marriage: Oct 1647 - Albany, Albany, NY
Children:
1. Catrina De Hooges (1647- ) 5
2. Maricken De Hooges (Abt 1648- ) 5
3. Anneken De Hooges (Abt 1650- ) 5
4. Johannes De Hooges (Abt 1653- ) 5
5. Eleonora De Hooges (1655- ) 5
Notes
General:
SOURCE: Ancestral File 4.12, as of 21 Aug 1992. All entries not verified. Tucson FHL.
MARRIAGE: Coulter, William J., Minisink and Wallkill Precinct Historical Chronicles Part 1, pub. 31 Aug 1940, p. 109; Orange County Genealogical Society, Goshen, NY.
DEATH: Genevieve Lentz-Wilmore, WESTFALL RESEARCH; P.O. Box 176, Winchester IN 47394, 1985; p. 10; Orange Co. Genealogical Society Library, Goshen NY.
NAME: Last name also spelled Hoges.
IMMIGRATION: Anthony kept a journal of his voyage to New Netherland in den Coninck David; copy of privately printed journal owned by Brenda Ericsson, Tucson AZ. See the VAN RENSSELAER BOWIER MANUSCRIPTS, pp. 580-603 for the journal pages. Some notes from the 1641 journal follow. 30 Jul-set sail from Texel in company with 35 or 36 sail 5 Aug -rough weather, during the night a horse died and we threw it overboard 7 Aug -very rough weather during the night, one calf dead 9 Aug -at daybreak our main yard broke; fixed at noon; in evening about three
and one half leagues from Dunkirk 13 Aug-a calf died; that evening it became very calm, foggy and dark 17 Aug-wanted to go to Plymouth to get water, hay, but couldn't because of fog 18 Aug-during the night drifting in a calm; a dead horse overboard 22 Aug-anchored in five fathoms, hauled casks of water on board; calf died 23 Aug-again hauled water; dead horse overboard 2 Sep -in latitude 47 degrees 13 minutes, topsail breeze and clear weather 15 Sep-in latitude 34 degrees 24 minutes, 28 leagues from island of Madera 4 Oct -only 16 full casks of water; 600 leagues from New Netherland; animals
drink 2 casks of water in three days, so had water for animals for only
24 days;"we began to look at each other." Decided to sail to St. Kitts. 5 Oct -in latitude 19 degrees 40 minutes; a dead heifer overboard 8 Oct -stiff breeze during the night; a dead heifer overboard 9 Oct -dead horse overboard; the four horses on starboard were now overboard;
the four on port remained 17 Oct-foggy; St. Kitts near; dead horse overboard 18 Oct-anchored in ten fathoms, one cask of water left; boat ashore 19 Oct-began three days of taking on casks of water 29 Oct-tarred the ship; calm; dead sheep overboard 3 Nov -the wife of Govert Loockermans gave birth to a daughter 16 Nov-off Delaware Bay; hard storm doesn't permit them to land 29 Nov-ran aground at Sandy Hook, two hours later afloat again; in the
afternoon anchored at Manhattan, in front of the East River. "Thus
the Lord delivered us at last after much adversity, for which be He
praised forever. Amen. The next day a dead horse overboard."
PERSONAL: Anthony did not mention the sweetheart he left behind. On 13 Mar 1643 Kiliaen van Rensselaer wrote a letter to Domine Megapolensis in which he said "I hope that Anthonie de Hooges will conduct himself well. What I fear most for him is that he may become addicted to drink, against which he must be strongly warned. His sweetheart here, Anneken Sporom, married...so that he need not wait for her any longer. I have sometimes thought that his thoughts were too much concentrated on her and that he liked the country less on that account....especially warn him to abstain from strong drink and women. I understand that he says he is little respected; let him behave well and have patience and he will be advanced in due time. One must first suffer before one can enjoy." The preceding and following are from the NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, "Anthony De Hooges, Secretary of Rensseraerswyck, and His Descendants," by Howard S.F. Randolph, Jan 1936. After landing in New Amsterdam, Anthony reached Rensselaerswyck on 10 Apr 1642. From 22 Mar 1648 until his death in 1655 de Hooges was secretary of the colony and commissioner, for which he received salaries of 360 and 100 pounds a year. He also received a salary of 56 pounds as reader in the church for a little over two months in 1653, and was a deacon in 1654. Anthony left many descendants. However, he had only one son and that son had an only son, named for Anthony, who probably died in infancy; so the name became extinct in this country.