Johannes Van Hoesen was a freeholder, or owner of land, in Stockport in 1700 and in Claverack, Columbia Co, NY. in 1720. He had land south of the Hudson-Athens slips as well as the Kinderhook area. In 1705 he was a deacon in the Lutheran Church, and in 1724, at his death, he deeded property to his sons. He was an Indian interpreter at all of the great meetings for many years. He was married twice, the first time to Jannetje Jansse Cornelisz de Ryk, who bore him eleven children, including two who died in infancy. On 19 Jun 1709 Johannes second married Wilhelmina Viele, daughter of Arnout Cornelise Viele & Gerritje [Viele], and widow of Levinus Winnen, in Reformed Dutch Church of Albany. Johannes and his second wife were witnesses at the 1713 baptism of his grandson Johannes, son of Jan and Tanneke Van Hoesen. Johannes Van Hoesen's children married well and had many children. Some remained in upper New York and many prominent families descend from them. Some removed to Pennsylvania and changed the spelling of their last name. Some were emboldened to penetrate the frontier wildernesses of North Carolina, Kentucky and Arkansas. |
Johannes Van Hoesen, Jr. was first married Annetje Van de Kar who died young, probably in childbirth. On 11 Apr 1720 Johannes second married Elizabeth Christina Laux. Elizabeth's parents died on the voyage to America, leaving her an orphan at the age of ten. Johannes met her as a teenager and fell in love with her. In the spring of 1728 Johannes and his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children, along with other Germans, migrated to Tulpehocken Creek, Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania, and settled in the vicinity of what is now called Robesonia. On the 5th of April 1753, he sold his land to John Joseph Derr and Henry Boyer and, at the age of 56, moved to North Carolina and settled in Anson County. |