The Staats farm called Hooghbergh on Staats Island just north of Castleton dates from the seventeenth century and was the eighteenth century seat of brothers Gerrit and Jochem Staats. Jochem raised a large family there and was an affable host as noted by a number of Hudson River travellers. His same-named and younger contemporary, Jochim Staats, was an Albany-based merchant. A surprising number of early Albany residents spent at least a part of their lives on Staats Island.
The Dutchess County hamlet of Staatsburg also recalls the family today.
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Sources: Our expositions on the Albany Staats family are based primarily on research in community-based resources. Chief among the printed resources on the family is Josephine Staats Ellsworth, The Staats Family: A History of the Dutch Settlements in New York and Delaware, 1642-1992 (Wilmington, DE, 1992), which appears to comprehend earlier works. Also notable is Harold Staats, Genealogy of the Staats Family printed by the family in 1921. The latest "anecdotal" word, Three Centuries on the Hudson River, by William Staats focuses on the family seat known as Hooghbergh. The Wikipedia entry entitled "Joachim Staats House and Gerrit Staats Ruin" has proven to be the most consistently available statement on the property.
Online and illustrated family essay. The New York State Library holds considerable manuscript material on the family - numbering some 1,100 items. A different Abraham Staats appears to have established his family on Long Island and in New Jersey at the same time.
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Link to Staats family members in the Index.
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