Excerpt from Memorials of the Rev. John Cantine Farrell Hoes D. D Among the earlier emigrants from Holland who found a home on the shores of this continent was Jan Tysse Hoes, the ancestor of him who is the subject of this sketch. The name of Hoes reaches through eight generations in this country, extending back to the early part of the seventeenth century. John D. Hoes, the grandfather of Dr. Hoes, died January 25, 1789, at the age of thirty-five. His father, Peter I. Hoes, was born in Kinderhook, N. Y., and after a residence of several years in Middleburgh, N. Y., returned to Kinderhook in 1817, where he continued to reside, highly respected for his intelligence and all the qualities that form a good citizen, till his death in 1846, at the age of sixty-one. Hannah Hoes, the sister of Peter, and aunt of Dr. Hoes, was the wife of Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States. The. grandfather, on the mother's side, was Peter Swart, a native of Schoharie, where he died in 1829, at the age of seventy-seven. He was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and rendered efficient service in the valleys of the Schoharie and Mohawk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.