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Jan Joosten van der Hofste(d)e was born in Hazerswoude about 1618.  He
probably died after 2 March 1682.  On 21 October 1640 he married in Hazerswoude with Annitje
Ariens Rutten.  Nothing is known about Annitje.  It is possible that they have two children
besides Ary. There are twins born in Hazerswoude with no parents named but it is probable that
they are children of Annitje and Jan.

children:
1. Ary, b. abt 1641.  He died in the West Indies prior to 7-3-1682.
2. Aeltje, c. Hazerswoude 18 June 1642.
3. Maertje, c. Hazerswoude 18 June 1642.

Jan remarried in Hazerswoude on 15 November 1643 with Maertje Cornelis.  Maertje was
christened in Zoetermeer on 8 September 1619.  She was buried in Hazerswoude on 15 February
1689.

children:
1. Neeltje, c. Hazerswoude 20 November 1644.  She married on 25 February 1674 with Pieter       
    Gerrits van Poelgeest. It is possible that this Neeltje Jans who marries Pieter Gerrits is not the   
    daughter of Jan Joosten.
2. Maartje, c. Hazerswoude 18 November 1646.  She married on 1 January 1672 in Benthuizen
    with Leendert Dircks Bon.
3. Pleuntje, c. Benthuizen 26 April 1648.  She probably died in Loosdrecht.  She married first in   
    Benthuizen on 23 January 1675 with Jeroen Leenderts van der Zijde from Berkel.  She married 
    again in December 1679 with Aert Hendricks Voghel of Loosdrecht.
4. Rachel, c. Benthuizen 3 March 1651.  She married in  Hazerswoude on 14 November 1677       
    with Ysbrant Jans Appelman.
5. Lysbeth, c. Benthuizen 5 September 1653.  She died after 1721.  She married first in      
    Benthuizen on 25 January 1680 with Dirk Jorissen Kapelle.  On 25 September 1701 she      
    married again in Benthuizen with Cornelis Cornelis van der Helm.
6. Anna, c. Benthuizen 18 March 1656.  She married on 12 August 1695 with Cornelis
    Hogerbrugge.  It is possible that the Anna that married Cornelis Hogerbrugge is not
    the daughter of Jan Joosten.
7. Joost, c. Benthuizen 18 August 1658.  He probably died in Hazerswoude on 17 May 1688.
8. Kors, c. Benthuizen 11 June 1662.

Witnesses to the baptisms were Annetje Martens and Jannetje Joosten (4), Anneke Martens (5),
Adriaantje Jans Voling (6), Willem Pieters (7) and Maertje Cornelis (8).

Kors Jans (van der) Hofstede was baptized on 11 June 1662 in Benthuizen. 
He married first with Machteltje Willems Geleveen.  The marriage date and place have not been
found.  Machteltje was christened on 9 September 1663 in Benthuizen, daughter of Willem
Arents and Ariaentje Pieters.  Machtelt was first married to Pieter Heijndrickse van Til. 
Machteltje was buried in Bleiswijk on 9 June 1721. All the children of Kors are from the first
marriage.  From 1706 on the family lived in Bleiswijk.

children:
1. Maartje, c. Benthuizen 21 March 1690.  She married on 1 April 1716 in Bleiswijk with Arien   
    Dirks Roggeveen.
2. Pieter, c. Benthuizen 10 January 1692.
3. Jan, c. Hazerswoude 2 January 1695.
4. Ary, c. Benthuizen 2 June 1698.
5. Ariaantje, c. Benthuizen 27 December 1699.
6. Ariaantje, c. Benthuizen 29 October 1702.  She married on 9 January 1729 with Jan Claase
    van der Cijs from Zevenhuizen.
7. Neeltje, c. Benthuizen 9 March 1704.  She probably died in Hillegersberg on 29 March 1784.  

Kors remarried on 4 February 1725 in Bleiswijk with Maria Michiels de Knegt, probably from
Bergschenhoek.  Maria was buried in Bleiswijk on 5 October 1729.

When Kors married for the third time he was living in Bergschenhoek.  He married in Capelle
a/d Yssel on 10 October 1734, banns were in Bergschenhoek.  He married Stijntje Klaase
Kruijt, last widow of Harmen Kloot.

Jan Korsse van der Hofstede was christened in Hazerswoude on 2 January
1695.  He died in Hillegersberg on 21 October 1768. He married in Bleiswijk on 13 February
1718 with Geertje Claes Goedraad from Bleiswijk.  Geertje was buried in Hillegersberg on 22
June 1747.  Jan remarried on that date in Bergschenhoek with Leentje Dirks de Uijtenbroek,
widow of David Pieters de Bruijn.

children all christened Bergschenhoek:
1. Cornelis, c. 26 February 1719.  He died in Hillegersberg on 23 March 1719.
2. Neeltje, c. 5 May 1720.  She died in Hillegersberg on 29 March 1784.  She married on 29 July
    1759 with Jan van Hulst.
3. Cornelis, c. 1 January 1723.  
4. Maria, c. 17 September 1724.  She died in Hillegersberg on 2 November 1769.
5. Claes, c. 15 September 1726.  He died in Hillegersberg on 15 August 1781.  He married on 11  
   January 1767 in  Hillegersberg with Neeltje Brillenburg.  Neeltje was baptized on 6 September  
   1740 in Hillegersberg, daughter of Jan Brillenburg and Grietje Dekker.  There is one known       
   child of this marriage.  It died in Hillegersberg on 21 November 1769.
6. Machteltje, c. 22 January 1730.  She married in Zevenhuizen on 8 March 1761 with Maarten 
    Ariens Krijgsman, son of Arie Ariens Krijgsman and Klaasje Ariens Hoogerwaart.  Machteltje
    remarried in Bergschenhoek on 13 November 1785 with Hermanus Diederik.
7. Elizabeth, c. 24 August 1732.  She died in Zevenhuizen on  22 February 1791.  She married in
    Bergschenhoek on 25 January 1761 with Cornelis Krijnen van der Meer.