The Hoffman family of New York is a prominent Baltic German family whose ancestor Martin Hoffman was born in Reval (now Tallinn), then the capital of Swedish Estonia. He emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1657. Among his descendants were Governor of New York John T. Hoffman, Congressman Ogden Hoffman, New York Attorney General Josiah Ogden Hoffman, State Senator Anthony Hoffman, several clergymen of the Dutch Reformed Church, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Hoffman
Arms of the Hoffman family
Current regionUnited States East Coast
Place of originReval, then in Swedish Estonia

Family tree

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Martinus Hoffman
(1625 – 1712)
Emmerentje de Witte
(1625 – ?)
Zecharias Hoffman
(c.1675–1744)
Hester Bruyn
(born 1683)
Nicolaes Hoffman
(1680–1750)
Jannetje Crispell
(1686–1752)
Zechariah Hoffman
married Maria Terwilliger (born 1720)
Jacobus Hoffman
(born 1720)
married Margaret Lefeber
Martin Hoffman
(born 1706/7)
married (1) Tryntje Benson (1712–1765), (2) Alida (Livingston) Hansen
Anthony Hoffman
(1711–1784)
married Catherine Van Gaasbeck (1718–1785)
Zecharias Hoffman
(born 1713)
married (1) Helena Van Wyck, (2) Letitia (Brinckerhoff) Van Wyck
Peter Hoffman
(born 1727)
married Cathariena Van Alstyne
Zara Hoffman
(1745–1823)
married Cornelius C. Schoonmaker (1745–1790), Congressman 1791–93, NY Assemblyman 1777–90 and 1795
Cornelia Hoffman
(1734–1780)
married Isaac Roosevelt (1726–1794), State Senator 1777–86 and 1789–92
Nicholas Hoffman
(1736–1800)
married Sarah Ogden
Anthony Hoffman
(1739–1790)
NY Assemblyman 1777–79 and 1784, State Senator 1788–90
Maria Hoffman
(1743–1825)
married Archibald Laidlie D.D. (1727–1779)
Peter Livingston Hoffman
(1767–1807),
married Helena Kissam
Mary Colden
(1770–1797),
sister of Cadwallader D. Colden, (1769–1834), Mayor of New York 1818–21, Congressman 1821–23, State Senator 1825–27
Josiah Ogden Hoffman
(1766–1837),
NY Attorney General 1795–1802
Maria Fenno
(1781–1823),
daughter of John Fenno (1751–1798), newspaper publisher
Adrian Kissam Hoffman (1797–1871),
physician, married Jane Ann Thompson (1801–1876)
Ogden Hoffman
(1794–1856), Congressman 1837–41, NY Attorney General 1854–55
Mary Colden Hoffman
(1796–1818),
married Philip Rhinelander (1788–1830)
Charles Fenno Hoffman
(1806–1884), poet
John T. Hoffman
(1828–1888), Mayor of New York 1866–68, Governor of New York 1869–72
Ogden Hoffman, Jr.
(1822–1891)
U.S. District Court Justice in California 1851–91
Mary Colden Rhinelander
(1818–1894),
married John A. King (1817–1900),
State Senator 1874–75
Alice King
(1860–1920),
married Gherardi Davis (1858–1941), Assemblyman 1899–1902

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