Adolf Jan got married three times, the first time in a grand wedding to Lucia Hope, who tragically died, leaving no trace, the second time to a Wickevoort Crommelin who also apparently died, and the third time to Johanna de Roo, with whom he was so wise as to draw up a testament beforehand in 1770.
This son Archibald (1747-1821) was the youngest baby of Zachary and Agathe and his birth probably caused her death.
Archibald became a member of Dutch Parliament, regent of the West Indian Company (WIC), and built the former palace in the Hague formerly known as 'Hope House' and now known as 'Palace Lange Voorhout'.
Archibald joined the Amsterdam Hopes (Thomas, Adrian, Jan, and Henry) as apprentice in 1774, at about the same time that young John Williams joined the firm as an apprentice.
Archibald got married in the same year to Magdalena Antonia van de Poll, who he probably met in Heemstede, where her family had a summer home next to Jan Hope’s Groenendaal.
Thomas Hope helped him through his connections to become appointed to the West Indian Company (WIC) in 1776.
Proof that Archibald was friends with John Williams is the record showing that in 1785 he was witness at the baptism of John Williams son Henry. The story goes that Henry Hope took John Williams into his own house when he was too ill to come to work one day and he was not being cared for at his own lodgings. From that day on John Williams lived with Henry Hope, who adopted him and arranged a marriage with his sister’s daughter Ann Hope. That must have taken place somewhere between 1774 and 1785.
In 1786 Archibald went to Surinam to become director there until 1789. He became regent of Amsterdam and acquired other prestigious memberships before becoming a member of Dutch Parliament in 1814.
He bought Broek in Waterland in Velsen in 1781 and hired the same gardener as Henry to do the landscaping.
I haven’t been able to discover if he had any children or not, and it’s not clear to me if he left his wife at home or took her with him to Surinam.
in de periode 1814-1819: lid notabelenvergadering (1814), lid Staten-Generaal, lid Tweede Kamer, staatsraad in buitengewone dienst