HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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and both he and his wife are favorably- 

 known here, enjoying the warm regard of 

 manv friends. 



THE HOGELAND FAMILY. The 

 first American ancestor of the Hoge- 

 lands^ of Bucks county was Dirck Janse 

 Hoogelandt, who emigrated from Maer- 

 senoven, in the province of Utrecht, Hol- 

 land, in 1657, and settled at Flatbush, 

 Long Island. He married October 8, 

 1662, Anneken Hanse Bergen, widow of 

 Jan Clerq, and daughter of Hans Han- 

 sen, a native of Bergen, Norway, a ship 

 carpenter, who had migrated to Holland 

 and thence to New Netherlands in 1633. 

 Many of his descendants eventually 

 found their way to Bucks county later, 

 as three of his granddaughters married 

 Kroesens, one married Johannes Sleght, 

 and a fifth Gysbert Bogart, an early set- 

 tler in Bucks. Dirck Janse Hoogelanat, 



married second Elizabeth . His 



children were: Annetje, baptized 1663; 

 Joris (or George); Lysbeth; William 

 Dirckse; Jan Dirckse; Sara and Necltje. 

 Of these William Dirckse took the oath 

 of allegiance at Flatbush in 1687 as a 

 native, and conveyed land there in 1702. 

 He is said to have settled later on Staten 

 Island. He had children, Dirck, Eliza- 

 beth and Marytje. 



Dirck Hogelandt, born at Flatbush, 

 Long Island, November 14, 1698, married 

 October 15, 1720, Maria Slodt,- born in 

 New York, November 25, 1700, and re- 

 moved to Southampton township, Bucks 

 county, where he purchased land in 1722. 

 He became a large land owner and a 

 prominent and influential man in. the 

 Dutch colony of Bucks, and was a mem- 

 ber of colonial assembly for the years 

 1752, 1753, 1754, and '1755. He died 

 February 6, 1778, and his wnfe Mary died 

 July 6, 1777. They were the parents of 

 eleven children, and have left numer- 

 ous descendants in Bucks. The children 

 were: 



1. Jane, born in Bucks county, August 

 24, 1721, married Rev. P. H. Dorsius, 

 pastor of the Dutch Reformed church of 

 Northampton and Southampton; she 

 died December 17, 1793. 



2. George, born August 24, 1723, died 

 February 17, 1778, married (first) Oc- 

 tober 4, 1760, Maria Schenck, and had one 

 child, Euphemia; and (second) July 30, 

 1767, Mary Wynkoop, and had Derick, 



1 Christopher Hooglandt emigrated from Haer- 

 lem, and married, June 28, 1661, Catharine Cregiers, 

 and had children, Dirck, Lysbeth, Martyn, Christo- 

 pher, Franz, Denys, Jacob and Harman, some of whom 

 settled in Ulster county. New York, and others in New 

 Jersey. It is possible that Jacob Hogelandt, who mar- 

 ried Joanna Vandegrift and had children baptized at 

 Southampton as early as 1744, was of this family. 



3 The Slodt family of New York are probably 

 distinct from the Sleght or Slecht family of Long Is- 

 land, who are the ancesters of the Slacks of Makeiield 

 and Sleghts who were early settlers in North and 

 Southampton. 



born July 25, 1769, and George, born 

 June 22, 1771. 



3. John, born 1725, married Cornelia 

 Stoothoof and had several children. 



4. Maria, born June 16, 1728, married 

 January 20, 1757, Giles Craven, died in 



1777. 



5. Catharine, born October 26, 1730, 

 married October 22, 1766, Harman Van- 

 sant. 



6. Sarah, born February 16, I733> died 

 unmarried July 3, i777- 



7. Elizabeth, born August 16, 1735, 

 died in Wrightstown, February 27, 1786, 

 unmarried. 



8. Daniel, born April 14, 1738; see for- 

 ward. 



9. Derick, born May 26, 1740, married 

 1769, Idah Bennett, died February 5, 

 1811. 



10. Benjamin, born December 21, 1742, 

 a merchant at Philadelphia, died No- 

 vember 19, 1792. 



11. Anna, born April 20, 1748, married 

 Jacob Bennett. 



DANIEL HOGELAND, son of Dirck 

 and Mary (Sleght) Hogeland, was bap- 

 tized at the Southampton church, April 

 3, 1738. In 1760 his father had pur- 

 chased, 297 acres of land on the county 

 line in Southampton, and upon this tract 

 Daniel took up his residence at about 

 the time of its purchase, his father con- 

 veying it to him in I774- He was a 

 blacksmith by trade, but probably de- 

 voted himself to the vocation of a farmer 

 on taking possession of this large tract. 

 He was a captain of militia during the 

 revolution, and saw active service under 

 Captain John Keller. He married Elsie 

 Kroesen, May 23, 1761. He died in De- 

 cember, 1813, and his widow in 1823. 

 They had four children: Derrick K., bap- 

 tized April 26, 1762; Elshie (Alice) mar- 

 ried Harman Vansant; Hendrick, bap- 

 tized May 5, 1766, married, August 2, 

 1787. Rebecca Wynkoop, and died before 

 his father, leaving one son, John Wyn- 

 koop Hogeland, (his widow married 

 George Fetters in 1796); and M"aria, who 

 married Abraham Stevens, September 

 27, 1789. The old homestead was par- 

 titioned among the two daughters and 

 Derrick K. in 1815. It extended from 

 the counfcy line to the Street road, just 

 above Feasterville, and the greater part 

 of it remained in the tenure of their re- 

 spective heirs until the present genera- 

 tion. 



DERRICK KROESEN HOGE- 

 LAND, son of Daniel and Alice Kroe- 

 sen Hogeland was born on the old home- 

 stead April 26, 1762, and was iDaptized at 

 Southampton church on May 23, 1762., 

 He was a justice of the peace in South- 

 ampton for nearly fifty years. He died 

 December 10, i837- His wife was Jo- 

 hannah Stevens whom he married May 

 IS, 1783; she w-as born July i, 1764; they 



