Hoffman family
The Hoffman family of New York is a prominent family whose ancestor Martin Hoffman was born in Reval (now Tallinn), then the capital of Swedish Estonia. He emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1657. Among his descendants were Governor of New York John T. Hoffman, Congressman Ogden Hoffman, New York Attorney General Josiah Ogden Hoffman, State Senator Anthony Hoffman, several clergymen of the Dutch Reformed Church, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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| Current region | United States East Coast |
| Place of origin | Reval, then in Swedish Estonia |
Family tree
| Martinus Hoffman (1625 – 1712) | Emmerentje de Witte (1625 – ?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zecharias Hoffman (c.1675–1744) | Hester Bruyn (born 1683) | Nicolaes Hoffman (1680–1750) | Jannetje Crispell (1686–1752) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zechariah Hoffman married Maria Terwilliger (born 1720) | Jacobus Hoffman (born 1720) married Margaret Lefeber | Martin Hoffman (born 1706/7) married (1) Tryntje Benson (1712–1765), (2) Alida (Livingston) Hansen | Anthony Hoffman (1711–1784) married Catherine Van Gaasbeck (1718–1785) | Zecharias Hoffman (born 1713) married (1) Helena Van Wyck, (2) Letitia (Brinckerhoff) Van Wyck | Peter Hoffman (born 1727) married Cathariena Van Alstyne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zara Hoffman (1745–1823) married Cornelius C. Schoonmaker (1745–1790), Congressman 1791–93, NY Assemblyman 1777–90 and 1795 | Cornelia Hoffman (1734–1780) married Isaac Roosevelt (1726–1794), State Senator 1777–86 and 1789–92 | Nicholas Hoffman (1736–1800) married Sarah Ogden | Anthony Hoffman (1739–1790) NY Assemblyman 1777–79 and 1784, State Senator 1788–90 | Maria Hoffman (1743–1825) married Archibald Laidlie D.D. (1727–1779) | Peter Livingston Hoffman (1767–1807), married Helena Kissam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mary Colden (1770–1797), sister of Cadwallader D. Colden, (1769–1834), Mayor of New York 1818–21, Congressman 1821–23, State Senator 1825–27 | Josiah Ogden Hoffman (1766–1837), NY Attorney General 1795–1802 | Maria Fenno (1781–1823), daughter of John Fenno (1751–1798), newspaper publisher | Adrian Kissam Hoffman (1797–1871), physician, married Jane Ann Thompson (1801–1876) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ogden Hoffman (1794–1856), Congressman 1837–41, NY Attorney General 1854–55 | Mary Colden Hoffman (1796–1818), married Philip Rhinelander (1788–1830) | Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884), poet | John T. Hoffman (1828–1888), Mayor of New York 1866–68, Governor of New York 1869–72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ogden Hoffman, Jr. (1822–1891) U.S. District Court Justice in California 1851–91 | Mary Colden Rhinelander (1818–1894), married John A. King (1817–1900), State Senator 1874–75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alice King (1860–1920), married Gherardi Davis (1858–1941), Assemblyman 1899–1902 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- Genealogy of the Hoffman Family by Eugene Augustus Hoffman (Dodd, Mead and Company, New York)
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