Capt Zacharias Hoffman, Sr

Third Generation 3. Zacharias3 HOFFMAN (Martinas2, Herman1) (#281) birth date unknown. He married Ester BRUYN March 24, 1705. (Ester BRUYN is #282.) Ester was the daughter of Jacob BRUYN and Gertrude ESSELSTYN. He served as an officer in the military. Zacharias HOFFMAN and Ester BRUYN had the following children:

• 8 i. Zachariah4 HOFFMAN (#1444).
• 9 ii. Janneke HOFFMAN (#1445).
• 10 iii. Margaret HOFFMAN (#1446).
• 11 iv. Maria HOFFMAN (#1442) was born, 1707.
• 12 v. Geertruy HOFFMAN (#1443) was born, 1709.
• + 13 vi. Jacobus HOFFMAN was born BEF 07 FEB 1720.
• 14 vii. Ida HOFFMAN (#1447) was born, 1721.
• 15 viii. Nicolas HOFFMAN (#1448) was born, 1724.

"Zacharias became a lawyer and returned in 1704 to Esens, where his mother had come from, to litigate family property settlements left over from the 1660s when his grandfather and an aunt had died. He carried with him powers of attorney to let him represent his mother’s interest as well as those of cousins who had also inherited property rights. He was granted a patent to a portion of the present Township of Shawangunk, New York, on 28 November 1709. In 1717, in a list of militia officers for Ulster County, one of the names of the officers for New Paltz and Shawangunk is Captain Zach. Hoffman. He appears in the same capacity in 1738." < from wikitree