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***Descendants of *Coenradt Houghtaling***

Generation No. 2

2. *MATHYS COENRATSEN² HOUGHTALING (*COENRADT¹) was born 1639 in Holland, and died 1706 in Coxsackie, New York. He married *MARIA HENDRIKSE 1666 in Coxsackie, New York, daughter of *HENDRIK MARSELIS and *CATRYN DEN BERG. She died Aft. 1706 in Coxsackie, New York.

Notes for *MATHYS COENRATSEN HOUGHTALING:
According to The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 101 Number 4 entitled: Mathys Coenradtsen Houghtaling of Coxsackie, New York and his Descendants by Constance Ross Ulrich:

The Houghtaling families in America stem from two immigrants to New York State in the mid-seventeenth century, both of Dutch origin, but probably unrelated: Jan Willemsen Houghtaling of Kingston, Ulster County and Mathys Coenradt Houghtaling of Coxsackie, Greene County.( Our family is decended from Mathys.)

Jan's descendants were sometimes recorded with the prefix "van" with indicates that Houghtaling was a place name. Cursory research in Holland shows the name appearing in the seventeenth enntury records of the province of Zuid-Holland as "van Hoogteijlingen". Mathys Coenradt and his descendants never used the "van". It is believed that he did not have a surname in Holland, but that the adopted the name Houghtaling about 1675, possibly twenty years after his arrival in America. In 1667 at Wiltwyck (Kingston) he was exposed to this surname when he appeared in court before Jan Willemsen Houghtaling, one of its magistrates, who had been using the surname as early as 1661.

The fifty or more variations in spelling, ranging from Hogdielen to Hultailen to Hoochtelink, represent a good example of phonetic recordings by Dutch, German and English clerks and ministers as this name became Anglicized and evolved into the present forms of Houghtaling, Hotaling, and Hotelling.

Mathy's Coenradtsen name first appeared on a list of boys and girls from the alshouse in Amsterdam, Holland, sho were being sent to the New World to work for the Dutch West India Company and to "increase the population of New Netherland". The list is dated May 27, 1655 and includes "Mathys Coenratsen, 16 years of age." One account of the unusual combination of names, Mathys Coenraets (the almshouse child) is probably identical with Mathys Coenraets of Albany, according to the late William J. Hoffman, an authority on early Dutch immigrants. He notes the apparent discrepancy in their ages, (the almshouse child having been born about 1639 and the Albany settler about 1644, but adds, "Ages as given in records were notoriously incorrect and these are not far apart."

Mathys is assumed to have arrived in America about 1655. He doesn't appear in records again until Nov. 8, 1667, when he appears in court at Kingston in a suit for wages due him from Reyn'Van Coelen. Again in 1668, he was brought into court for declaring, "Damn the King and the Devil fetch the King!" while chopping wood on a Sunday morning.

From 1668 on he lived in the Albany area. Testimony given by him at Albany in 1684 reveals his age then as "about 40", putting his birth date about 1644, a date corroborated by testimony of 1675/6, at which time he told the Court he was "about 32".

Most certainly he was a farmer who owned and traded pigs, horses and cattle. He is referred to as "plumber" in the invoice of the ship deWitte Kloodt under date 6 July, 1671.

Between 1670 and 1685 there are fourteen references to Mathys Coenradts or Mathys Houghtaling in the court records of Albany. From these it is possible to get a picture of his character and his way of life. He resided first "behind Kinderhook", sharing a farm with his father-in-law, Hendrick Marselis, in 1673, until Martin Gerritsen van Bergen, prominent real estate owner and Commissary, leased him "a certain farm lying at Kockxhachkingh heretofore occupied by Gysl Boogaert with a house and barn "for a period of six years (1675-1681), for the acknowledgment of "love and friendship". Upon expiration of this lease in 1681 he crossed the Hudson River to reside again in Kinderhook until 1683. That year he was back in Coxsackie where he remained. The 1697 census of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck lists him as head of household of two men, two women and three children, and in 1699 he took an oath of allegiance to the British Crown.

In 1691, Mathys Houtaling purchased from three Mohawk Indians "a parcel of woodland lying behind Koxhaghkye". In 1697, this same land was officially granted him by Governor Benjamin Fletcher, a representative of the Crown he had publicly defamed at Kingston thirty years before. The land conveyed by this grant comprised 3,500 acres of heavy wooded land in the Kalkeberg-Hills, west of Coxsackie, and took in most of presentday New Baltimore.

At the end of 1683, when the Albany Dutch Church records began, "Mathys and Maria Hoogtelling" were members. About 1666, Mathys married Maria Hendrikse, the daughter of Hendrick Marselis and Catherine Van den Berg. She probably survived Mathys, who died about 1706, but there is no evidence that she remarried.

Although no probate record has been found for Mathys, there is evidence that an unexecuted will exists to which earlier historians had access. In this will, Maria is named as his wife and is appointed executor, ingeriting his estate "as long as she remains a widow." If she remarried, his instructions were specific: "She shall convey...the rest of the estate to the testator's children, to wit, Conrad, Johannes, and Jacob Hoogtelling, Hendrick, Trentje, the wife of Richard Van den Berg, Rachel and Mathys Hooghtelinck, also Marga Morris taking the place of her mother, Styje, eldest daughter of the testator." One half of his land, identified in his will by patent date and described as "lying back and west of Koshagky," was bequeathed to his son Mathews "about 12 years old, because he is a cripple". For the remaining half, Mathews was to pay his brothers and sisters the appraised value. Conrad, named as "eldest son", was given a horse when his mother remarries or dies." Captain Jonas Dow was one of the appointd guardians of Mathews. All of the original paten appears to have been inherited by the descendants of Mathys's eldest son, Conrad, and Mathys's second daughter, Catryntje Van den Berg.

Another version reads:
"The following is an abstract of the "Will of Mathys Hooghtling", from the un-published papers of Anna Hotaling. Anna Hotaling says she copied the will in about 1932 at the home of Dr. A.W. Van Slyke, Coxsackie, NY

Probate date: Sept. 1706 Albany Co., NY

"After the testator's death his wife Maria Hooghtelinck shall be administratrix and exectutrix of her whole estate personal and real nothing excepted, as long as she remains a widow.

When she marries again she shall receive the household furniture and a milch cow, also one third of the revenues from the land left by the testator which the law gives her, she shall, when she marries again convey by executors the rest of the estate to the testator's children, to wit, Conrad, Johannes, and Jacob Hooghtelinck, Trentje, the wife of Richard Van der Berg, Rachel and Mathewe Hooghteelinck, also Marga Morris taking the place of her mother Styje, eldest daughter of the testator. Then his land lying back and west of Koxhagky, in the aforesaid county, as granted by patent from the late Govenor Ben Fletcher, July 5, 1697, also the cattle (one cow as afore so excepted) and the farm implements shall go one half to the testator's youngest son, Mathews, about twelve years old, because he is a cripple, for the other half he is to pay this brothers and sisters the appraised value. Conrad as the eldest son, shall have a horse when his mother remarries or dies.

Capt. Jones Dow and ________ are appointed guardians of the minor child.

Later (after 1706) church baptism records indicate, but do not prove that Maria outlived Mathys, and I have been unable to find any indication of her remarrying".

Notes for *MARIA HENDRIKSE:
The earliest records, 1683, of the Dutch Reformed church of Albany, NY, show Mattys Hooghteeling and Maria Hoochteeling as members. All birth and marriage dates of the frist two generations of the Hotaling Family come from the Dutch Reformed Church Records of Albany.

More About *MATHYS HOUGHTALING and *MARIA HENDRIKSE:
Marriage: 1666, Coxsackie, New York

Children of *MATHYS HOUGHTALING and *MARIA HENDRIKSE are:

	i.		CONRAD³ HOOGTEELING, b. Abt. 1667.
	ii.		HENDRICK HOOGTEELING, b. Abt. 1669, Coxsackie, New York; d. Coxsackie, New York.

Notes for HENDRICK HOOGTEELING:
Re: Birth date: J. B. Beers, in History of Greene County, 1884, reports birth of this son, but his source is unknown. Probably died before 1706: not mentioned in his father's will, so it is assumed he died unmarried before his father, in 1706.

	iii.		ZEYTJE/STYJE/CHRISTINA HOOGTEELING, b. Abt. 1670.
	iv.		JOHANNES HOOGTEELING, b. Abt. 1672.

Notes for JOHANNES HOOGTEELING:
No evidence of marriage or christening; 3 references in Albany records; as owner of a condemned sloop, 1698 (CCM),; on oath of allegiance list, 1699; and as a witness, 1714, Loonenberg Zion Church family baptizism.

3.	v.	*JACOB HOOGTEELING, b. 1676, Coxsackie, New York.
	vi.	CATRYNTJE HOOGTEELING, b. Abt. 1680.
	vii.	RACHEL HOOGTEELING, b. 1684.

Notes for RACHEL HOOGTEELING:
Baptized Dec. 28, 1684 (Albany Reformed Dutch Church)

Died unmarried. Unexecuted will of Sept. 4, 1745 mentions "cosen John Van den Berg and Robert Van den Berg, sister Catrina Van den Berg, and five cousens"
(actually nieces, daughters of sister Catryntje); Mary van den Berg, Antje Van Santen, Regel Colyou (Rachel Collier), Dortee, wife of Teunis Hoghteling and Layda Bronk.

viii.

MATHYS/MATTHEWS HOOGTEELING, b. 1694.

Notes for MATHYS/MATTHEWS HOOGTEELING:
Baptized April 29, 1694, Albany Reformed Dutch Church, witness: Annetje Harmenz, Marte Gerritsz (Van Bergen; a cripple.

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