The Ancestors of Maria Hoagland

In The Bergen Family, Teunis G. Bergen lists her on page 416 as:

III. Polly Hogeland, b.(???), d.(???); m.(???), John Stryker.

In History and Genealogy of the Hoagland Family in America from Their First Settlement at New Amsterdam, 1638 to 1891, Daniel Hoogland Carpenter lists her on page 89 as:¹

117. Maria, baptized at Neshanic March 16, 1777; called also Polly; married John Stryker.

In about 1803 Maria married John Domenicus STRYKER. Born on 28 Aug 1758 in Solebury, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. John Domenicus died on 25 May 1835; he was 76.

They had the following children:

From Daniel Hoogland Carpenter’s History and Genealogy of the Hoagland Family in America from Their First Settlement at New Amsterdam, 1638 to 1891 (herinafter referred to as “The Hoagland Family),” pp.88+89:

58. CHRISTOPHER HOAGLAND, son of Christopher (17), was born about 1746. His father had bought property in Franklin township, Somerset County, N. J., about the year 1740, but does not seem to have been a permanent resident. At any rate he was at Flatlands in 1765, and died there in the early part of 1766. By his will he left all his real and personal estate (except small legacies) to his son Christopher, who very evidently was not yet of age. His son Christopher, the subject of our sketch, soon after the death of his father, removed to Somerset County, N. J., locating his home on the South Branch of the Rahway [SIC, should be “Raritan”] River, in Hillsborough township, on the
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road from the village of South Branch to Flaggstown. His farm joined the farms of his uncles, Martinus (21) and Harmanus (24). He married Maria, daughter of George and Maria Berge She was born April 1, 1749. He (Christopher) died 1822. His willmentions his wife and four

CHILDREN.

115. Jannetie, baptized at Neshanic, Nov. 12, 1769; married Koert Voorhees. He died 1816.
116. Christoffel, baptized at Neshanic July 12, 1772; died over 60 years of age, a bachelor.
117. Maria, baptized at Neshanic March 16, 1777; called also Polly; married John Stryker.
118. Joris, baptized at Neshanic June 13, 1788. He married,
April 26, 1809, Mary Van Vleet, and removed to Michigan about 182 They had Mary, born April 28, 1811;
Leah Huff, born March 8, 1814; Cornelia V., born May
28, 1817; Abraham Van Fleet, born October 13, 1820, and
Rebecca Quick, born April 1, 1825, baptized at Neshanic.
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⁹⁸ The sister of Maria, wife of Christopher Hoagland (58), was Sarah, born July 31, 1762. She married John Hoagland (62), of Shannack or Soueland, son of Martinus (21); and their children were Isaac, Martin, Bergen, George and Polly. Bergen Geneal., p. 417.

⁹⁹This Maria, born Feb. 27, 1720, O. S., is thought to have been a Hoagland. [Ed. Note: Carpenter is wrong here; analysis of wills and baptisms on record proves that Maria Bergen wife of George Bergen was not born a Hoagland but was instead Maria PROBASCO, the daughter of Jacob PROBASCO and Mary VAN LIEW.

¹⁰⁰Christopher Hoagland, of Hillsborough, made his will Jan. 1, 1821. It was proved April 8, 1822. He gives his personal estate to his wife Mary during her life-time, and the use of two south rooms and part of kitchen. To his son Christopher $50. To his daughter Mary $500. To his daughter Jane $100; and to his son George the whole of his real estate, etc. Witnessed by John Hoagland, Cornelius Peterson and John B. Hoagland. Somerset Co. Rec. Wills, Vol. C.. 83.