Martinus Hoffman (1706–1772)
1706–1772
Dutchess County landowner; father-in-law of Isaac Roosevelt
Biography
Second husband of Alida Livingston (1728–1790), daughter of Philip Livingston, 2nd Lord of Livingston Manor. Hoffman family patriarch in Dutchess County, NY. Also the father-in-law of Isaac Roosevelt (1726–1794) — great-great-grandfather of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt — establishing a distant Livingston-Roosevelt family tie.