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State of Service: NY
Qualifying Service: Captain
Birth: 1757 Death: 15 Dec 1788
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Captain Jeronemus Hoogland was born in Flatbush, New York in 1757 to John Hoagland and Elizabeth Rapalye in the town of Flushing, New York. In 1775 Hoogland was appointed Adjutant of Col. John Lasher’s Regiment of New York Militia. He was captured during the opening stages of the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776. While being interrogated by his British captors, he and other officers were much abused and threatened with hanging for refusing to disclose American troop dispositions and provide other information. He was later imprisoned on board a small snow which had been employed in bringing cattle from England. Here he was forced to lay upon the dung and filth of the cattle without any bedding or blankets and endured the well-known horrors of life on a prison ship. The prisoners were only allowed 6 ounces of pork and a pint of flour, or the same portion of biscuit for each man each day. They would have all died had the poor and others of the city not supported them.
Adjutant Hoogland was finally exchanged after about 5 months captivity and released with his health and constitution broken. On 7 October 1777 he was commissioned as Adjutant (with the rank of 1st Lieutenant) of the 2nd Continental Dragoons. In this capacity he served during the battles around Philadelphia and at Valley Forge. On 20 November 1778 he was promoted to Captain of 3rd troop of the same regiment in which capacity he served with distinction in the Highlands and Neutral Zone of New York and in Connecticut until the end of the war. One of his many assignments was to convey the captured British spy Major Andre to General Washington at West Point.
Following the war Hoogland went into business as a merchant with his 3rd troop Lt., Horace Seymour in Lansingburgh New York. He was active in the Federalist Party and was elected to the New York State Convention to decide whether or not New York State would adapt the federal constitution. When the Federal Constitution was voted on, Hoogland voted in favor.
In 1788, in a contemporary writing by Elkanah Watson, Watson noted that “He (Hoogland) was then, although young in years, old in suffering. He appeared like an old man hobbling on crutches. Thus he lingered a few years (months) longer, and sank into a premature grave, a martyr in the cause of liberty. Posterity can never estimate the sacrifice and suffering of the patriots of the Revolution.” He died December 16, 1788 in his 31st year. His was regarded as a national hero at the time as his death was reported across the country. His obituary stated:
‘This gentleman is one of the many whose deaths may, in great measure, be attributed to their warm attachment to, and the many severe hardships they encountered for the welfare of their country…– respected as an officer – esteemed as a man – and beloved as a friend.”
Robert J. Gang III
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