Maria Van Hoesen ^53,77

  General Notes:

http://gemini.berkshire.net/NYGenWeb/columbia/ Columbia County was formed in 1786 out of Albany County. In 1799, the southern boundary of Columbia County was modified to include the portion of Livingston Manor located in Dutchess County. Original settlement was by the Dutch near Kinderhook, in the north-west corner of the county, followed by a Palatine German settlement at Germantown (then East Kamp) in the southwest corner of the county. The eastern border was settled in the 1750's by New Englanders from Massachusetts and Connecticut. In the 1780's a group of New England Quakers from Nantucket and surrounding areas created the city of Hudson. The original land disbursement in Columbia County was in the form of Patents: Patent: Van Hoesen (Hudson) Acres: Date Purchased from Indians:1662 Date Patented: 1667 Patentees: Jan Frans van Hoesen

Maria married George Wilson Potts, son of George Potts and Unknown, on 11 Feb 1821 in Linlithgo, Columbia, N.Y., U.S.A..¹³⁸ (George Wilson Potts was born on 9 Aug 1801 in Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA and died on 12 Aug 1845 in Linlithgo, Columbia, New York, USA.)