“Antonie de Hooges, commis, afterwards Secretary of the Colonie. “His daughter and only child,” sans Bensen, “married Herman Rutgers, the ancestor of the respectable family of the name among us.” De Hooges died in 1658. The well-known promontory in the Highlands was called Anthony’s Nose, after him.191

He sailed from Amsterdam in the ship, “Den Connick David” (The King David) on 7/23/1641. He arrived in New Amsterdam 11/29/1641. He was engaged as under-bookkeeper and assistant to Arent van Curler. He arrived in the colony of Rensselaerwyck on 4/10/1642. At the time of his death he was secretary of the colony.204

DEHOOGES, Anthony, came to New Netherland in 1641, and next year succeeded Arent Van Curler as superintendent of the Colony Rensselaerswyck, and town clerk. His lot in Beverwyck, was on the north corner of Beaver St. and Broadwar=y. He died about 1656. his wife Eva Albertse Bratt, after his death, married Roeloff Swartwout of the Esopus in 1657. DeHooges left the following children, all living in 1657: Maticken, Anneken, Catarina, Johannes, Eleanora, being minors, they probably removed with their mother to Esopus.193, pg 114

On August 13, 1657, Roeloff Swartwout “in the presence of his father, Thomas Swartwout” and “Eva Albertsen (Bratt), widow of the late Antony de Hooges, in the presence of Albert Andriessen (Bratt) her father,” signed a marriage contract before Johannes (de) La Montagne, in which Eva reserved “for the children of her and Antony De Hooges, for each of them, a hundred guilders, to wit, for Maricken, Anneken, Catrina, Johannes and Eleanora De Hooges, for which sum of one hundred guilders for each child respectively [she] mortgates her house and lot, lying here in the village of Beverwyck.” In 1670 Roeloff Swartwout was trying to collect money for these children. Swartwout made a visit to Holland, and while there was appointed sheriff of Esopus (Kingston), on april 15, 1660. The next day he sailed on the ship Bonte Koe, and later settled at Esopus. Two of the children, Maria and Catrina de Hooges, married at Albany, but the remaining three went with their mother and step-father to Kingston, where they were married, and where they raised their children.188, Vol. LXVI, No. 1, Jan. 1936, pgs. 5-6