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Anna
Hoffman T. E. Mc Clelland
Anna
(Nancy) Hoffman was born in July 1774. She was the
daughter of Harman Hoffman of Claverack and his first
wife, Catherine Douw.
In
July 1790, she married Barent Ten Eyck at the Albany
Dutch church. The marriage produced two children
before Ten Eyck's death in 1796. Her second husband
was Scottish physician William Mc Clelland. Their
son, "Genet," was baptized in
the Albany Presbyterian church in November 1798.
Dr.
Mc Clelland set up his home in Albany's first ward.
Anna had become the wife of a prominent physician
and professor of medicine!
William
Mc Clelland became ill and died in 1812 at the age
of forty-three. In 1813, the Widow Mc Clelland was
listed in the first city directory in a house at
16 Van Tromp Street. However, Anna Hoffman Ten Eyck
Mc Clelland died in April 1813 and was buried in
the Presbyterian plot in the State Street cemetery.
She had not reached her fortieth birthday!
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Sources: The life of Anna Hoffman Ten Eyck Mc Clelland
is CAP biography number 2116. This profile
is derived chiefly from family and community-based
resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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