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Lucas
Luycasse Hooghkerk
Lucas Luycasse Hooghkerk was born about 1660. He was the son of Hendrick Luycasse.
He
married Hendrickje Jans in 1686. She died after bearing
two children. In November 1692, he married the widow
Judik Marselis. The two marriages produced ten children
who were baptized in the Albany Dutch church between
1687 and 1712.
In
1697, his modest first ward home was listed on a
census of Albany householders. After unsuccessfully
seeking to trade for furs, he leased land on Gallows
Hill for use as a brick kiln. In 1730, that lease
was set for fifty years.
In
1715, he was identified as a private in Gerrit Roseboom's
Albany company of the county militia. In 1720, his
name appeared on a list of Albany freeholders.
Patriarch
of the Albany Hooghkerk family, Lucas Luycasse Hooghkerk
died in February 1741. He was buried from the Albany
Dutch church where he was a long-time member. ~
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Sources: The life of Lucas Luycasse Hooghkerk is CAP biography
number 3603. This profile is derived chiefly from
family and community-based resources. We search for
defining information on his origins.
In
1699, the city council reported that he did not possess
freedom of the city (unique rights of residency including
the ability to trade) - probably because he had been
born outside the boundaries of Albany/Beverwyck.
In 1701, he was ordered to stop trading until he
qualified (by virtue of freemanship or a license).
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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