History of Paterson and Its Environs pp. 50–61.
Johannes, seventh son of Roelof and Jannetje Janse (Spier) Van Houten, was born Nov. 30, 1719, and married Elizabeth Van Rype, they both living at Acquackanonk. He lived in a stone house on the Totowa road, not far from the present site of the Laurel Grove Cemetery. He had three daughters and one son, the former were : Feytje ; Elizabeth, mar- ried Adrian Van Houten; and Jannetje, married Richard Van Giesen. The son Roelof married Catrina Van Houten. He occupied his father’s homestead on the southwest side of the Totowa road. The issue of his marriage was: Johannes, born July 13, 1784, married Sarah Mander- ville. He was a wheelwright by trade. His children were: Catrenau, married James Van Ness; Henry, born Dec. 18, 1809, married Ann B. Doremus ; their children were : Elizabeth Ryerson, married John L. Wil- son; John, born Aug. 27, 1837; Sarah Jane, married Ephraim M. Van Ness ; George, born Sept. 9, 1&44 ; Henry Manderville, born Jan. 9, 1847 and Catharine Ann. Helmagh, the youngest child of Johannes and Sarah (Manderville) Van Houten, was born May 2, 1822. He married Caroline, daughter of Jacob Berdan, and lived on his father’s place on the road from Totowa to Singac, where he carried on farming. The issue of his marriage was: Catharine, married Abraham Hamson Ryerson; Elizabeth, died aged ten years; Sarah, married Ira Ryerson; John H., born Nov. 26, 1849, married (first) Jeannette Walker, (second) Kate, daughter of Thomas Belding; Albert Berdan, born Jan. 25. 1852, married Susan Kreamer; Henry, born Sept. 14, 1853, married Emma F. Winter; Eliza- beth ; James, died in infancy ; Wilhelmus, born Feb. 14, 1859, married Rose Eckhart; and Frank L., born Dec. 29, 1861, married Anna, daughter of Jacob John Stagg.
Helmigh, youngest son of Roelof and Catrina (Van Houten) Van Houten, born Sept. 9, 1789, married Maria, daughter of General Abraham Godwin. He lived with his father on the old homestead. The issue of this marriage was: Susan, married John Spier, a grocer of Paterson, afterwards removed to Elmira, N. Y. ; she married for her second husband, Samuel Westervelt; and Catharine. There were four other children of Roelof and Jannetje Janse (Spier) Van Houten: Jacob, born Oct. 26, 1721 ; Maria; Henricus, born Feb. 17, 1726; and Abraham, born Oct. 12, 1727.
Descendants of Theunis Roelofse (Van Houten) — Theunis, third son of the original emigrants, married Tryntje Claes [Kuyper], from Minden, Holland, Dec. 23, 1677. These were amongst the eleven persons received into the Tappan Church at Bergen, and the baptisms of their first six children were recorded there. Theunis was the progenitor of the numerous Van Houtens of Tappan and neighborhood. The issue of his marriage was: Gerritje, Roelof, Annetje, Klaes, Jannetje, Vrouwtje, Johannes, Kornelia, Elizabeth, Pieterje, Grietje, another Grietje. These four young children, with the exception of Johannes, and the first Grietje, who died in infancy, were all married at Tappan, and their descendants had almost no intercourse with the Van Houtens of Acquackanonk, Totowa and Slooterdam.
(Nelson and Shriner 1920)