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[[File:Hannah van buren 2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Hannah Van Buren]]]]
Van Buren married [[Hannah Van Buren|Hannah Hoes]] (or Goes) in [[Catskill, New York]], on February 21, 1807, when he was 24 years old and she was 23. She was his childhood sweetheart and a daughter of his maternal first cousin, Johannes Dircksen Hoes.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lazo|first=Caroline Evensen|date=2005|title=Martin Van Buren|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lkIHdziH5EQC&pg=PA14 |publisher=Lerner Publications Company|page=14|isbn=978-0-8225-1394-0 |ref={{sfnRef|Lazo}}}}</ref> She grew up in [[Valatie, New York|Valatie]], and like Van Buren her home life was primarily Dutch; she spoke Dutch as her first language, and spoke English with a marked accent.<ref>{{cite book|last=Matuz |first=Roger|date=2012|title=The Presidents Fact Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0ixeA5QxXwC&pg=PA152|publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers|page=152|isbn=978-1-57912-889-0}}</ref> The couple had six children, four of whom lived to adulthood: [[Abraham Van Buren II|Abraham]] (1807–1873), unnamed daughter (stillborn around 1809), [[John Van Buren|John]] (1810–1866), Martin Jr. (1812–1855), Winfield Scott (born and died in 1814), and Smith Thompson (1817–1876).<ref name="MVLiB" /> Hannah contracted [[tuberculosis]], and died in Kinderhook on February 5, 1819, at age 35.{{sfn|Silbey|2002|p=27}} Martin Van Buren, aged 36, never remarried.<ref>{{cite book|last=McGeehan|first=John R.|date=2007|title=The Everything American History Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jep_y0tYIj0C&pg=PA295|publisher=Adams Media|page=295|isbn=978-1-60550-265-6}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Early political career==
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