Maria Laidlie

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Maria Hoffman, the "sixth child of Colonel Martinus Hoffman and Tryntje Benson, was born at Kingston, June 20, 1743, and was baptized there July 24, 1743 by Dominie Mancius; sponsors Harmen and Maria Rutgers.

"She married (by license issued by the Secretary of the Provence of New York), on July 18, 1768, in the Reformed Dutch Church at New York, the Rev. Archibald Laidlie, D.D. ...

"Mary (Hoffman) Laidlie is described as a lady of 'great moral and intellectual worth'. All accounts agree that her union with Archibald Laidlie was a particularly happy one. .She survived him for forty-six years. Old and full of days, and ripe in the Christian graces, she died in the summer of 1825. An affectng funeral discourse was pronounced in the Middle Dutch Church on June 12, 1825, by her grandson, Richard Varrick Dey, the pastor of the church of Greenfield Conn."

The children of Archibald and Mary Laidlie were:

• Martin Laidlie, born 1769
• William Laidlie, born 1770
• Catherine Laidlie, born March 28, 1773 died January 20, 1819; married Anthony Dey on February 22, 1800 at the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, as his first wife.
• Martin Laidlie, born 1774
• Maria Gertrude Laidlie, born 1777

From the Hoffman Genealogy, pp 153-154, & 211, more fully cited below.

Further, from 'The American' New York, New York, May 13, 1825, found on Genealogybank.com

"Died - On Thursday morning, Mrs. Mary Laidlie, relict of the late Rev. Dr. Archibald Laidlie, in the 83d year of her age. The relatives and friends of the deceased, the Rev. clergy in the city, and particularly the members of the Reformed Dutch Church, and the relatives and friends of her son-in-law Anthony Dey, and of her grandson the Rev. Richard V. Dey, are respectfully invited to attend her funeral on Saturday afternoon next at 4 o'clock, from the house of A. Dey, corner of Nassau and Cedar streets, without further invitation. The corpse will be removed to the North Dutch Church precisely at 4:30 o'clock."

Further reference: "Genealogy of the Hoffman family: descendants of Martin Hoffman, with biographical notes", by Eugene A. Hoffman, New York, 1899, pp. 153-154, & 211, and found on archive.org.

There is a portrait of Mary (Hoffman) Laidlie, painted approximately 1820, in the New York Historical Society Portrait Gallery. Although there is a link to the portrait, as of May 1, 2020, this painting was taken offline.

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