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Individual:
B: Coxsackie, Greene County, NY
Jacob Houghtaling was born about 1676 at Coxsackie and was living at "R
oelof-Janssen Kil" (the well-
known creek that later formed the Dutchess-Columbia County border) at t he time of his marriage, 23 October 1698, to jannetje jacobse van Noorstrand, daughter of Jacob Jansen van Noorstrand and jannetje Jacobsen born at "the Halve Maen" (Van Noorstrand Gen. 80). They were married in Kingston, where the bride then resided (KgM # 138).
In the 1714 census of Dutchess County, Jacob Hoogteeling appears as head of a household of one male 16-60, two males under 16, three females under 16, and one female 16-60. The Reverend Josua Kocherthal, the Palatine minister, recorded that on 29 July 1716 he married 'Jan von Nordstrandt, widower, residing with Jacob Hochdihl near Rhinebeck, and Belicka Caujun, widow of the late Fransa Caujun, residing with Henrich Chisem" (Lou MacWeathy, Book of Names). Jacob's residence is more clearly defined in the will of Robert Livingston of 1728 (WNYHS 2:324), in which he names Jacob Houghtaling as one of his Livingston Manor tenants on a tract of land "lying on the southwest side of Roelof Jansen's kill." As Jacob did not own this land, his name does not appear on the Dutchess Countylist of freeholders. In the Book of Supervisors he is listed as a resident of North Ward from 1717 to 1730, of Rhinebeck Precinct in 1738 and 1739, and of Northeast Town from 1742 to 1779, the last time his name appears, when he would have been 82 years old. As each of these sections was formed from the preceding, it is unlikely that Jacob moved during his lifetime. In 1725 he was one of three "surveyors of ye Fences" in hisdistrict (Bk. of Supervisors 2:32) and in 1727 he was one of the two "overseers of ye Kings High Ways" (Ibid.). No evidence of a will has been found.
Jacob and jannetje (van Noordstrand) Houghtaling had seven children aut henticated by church records. In addition, two other daughters appear,because of their sponsorship at family baptisms, to have belonged to this family.
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