History of Paterson and Its Environs pp. 50–61.
Adriyaan, second son of Robert and Elizabeth (Post) Van Houten, was born Nov. 20, 1750, and married Vannetje Van Houten. Their only child was Adreyaen, born May, 1776, His father died when Adreyaen was very young and he was brought up in his Aunt Feytje’s home, who had married Hessel Pieterse, living on the Wesel road. Arriving at man- hood, he opened a large country store on Main Avenue, below Prospect street, Passaic. He removed to Paterson in 1816, where he carried on a store in a frame house in which he resided on the southwest corner of West and River streets. Later he engaged in the business of spinning and carding wool. He married, May 3, 1801, Tina, daughter of Cornelius Van Winkle. Their children were: Cornelius, known as Squire Van Houten, born May 12, 1802, married Maria Houseman, and their children were: Adaline, married Albert A. Hopper; Christiana; Maria Jane, married (first) Henry S. Hollister, (second) Albert Berdan; Ann Simmons, married John Davidson ; and Adrian, died aged twenty-six, leaving no issue.
The other children of Adreyaen and Tina (Van Winkle) Van Houten were : Jane, married Charles Hughes ; Anny, married James Simmons ; Adrian, died in infancy ; Iddo, name afterwards changed to Edward, born at Passaic, Feb. 7, 1813, married Ella Lake. Their children were: Wallingson, born March 6, 1838, married Gertrude Anna, daughter of Richard Alyea; issue: Clara, Matilda, Richard Alyea, born April 30, 1867, married Mary, daughter of John E. Manson, and Edward, born July 16, 1868, married Janet, daughter of John E. Manson. The second child of Edward and Ella (Lake) Van Houten was Edward, born Jan. 17, 1840, married Lida, daughter of Jacob Hopper ; the third child, Matilda, married John Alyea ; the fourth, John, died in infancy ; Matye, the youngest child, married David Proksy, a dealer in coins in Paterson.
The seventh child of Adreyaen and Tina (Van Winkle) Van Houten was Walling Van Winkle, who died aged fifteen years. The youngest, Christiana, married Alexander Morrow.
The third child of Robert and Elizabeth (Post) Van Houten was Cornelius, born Nov. 20, 1753. He was called “Case” Van Houten, and lived in a stone house on the southwest side of the Totowa road, near the entrance to the Laurel Grove Cemetery. He owned “the Red Stone Quarry” near Little Falls, where he quarried stone in blocks and dressed for the use of masons and builders. He married Feytje (Sophia), daughter of Cornelius Van Houten. Children: Robert, a mute, died unmarried; Cornelius, born Feb. 17, 1786, married Sally (Salome) Schoonmaker, Dec. 25, 1807. They had a family of nine children: Sophiah, died in childhood; Eliza Ann, died unmarried; Sophiah, married Marquis Emmons Speer; Daniel, born June 23, 1819; Robert, born Jan. 24, 1822; Cornelius Henry, born May 17, 1824; James, born Sept. 24, 1827; Maria Jane ; and John Richard, born July 17, 1833.
The other children of Cornelius and Feytje (Van Houten) Van Houten were: Elizabeth, married Garret Cadmus; Marretje, married Merselis Post; Adreyaen, a mute, died unmarried; and Rulef, died aged twenty-three, single. There were two daughters of Robert and Elizabeth (Post) Van Houten, namely: Feytje, married Hessel Pieterse; and Catriena, married John Post.
Cornelius, second son of Roelof and Feitje (Sickels) Van Houten, was bora Jan. 16, 1715. He married (first) Rachel Post, Jan. 11, 1735, by whom he had two children : Hendrick and Ragel. His second wife was Marretje Van Geisen ; children : Lena, married Edo Merselis ; Elizabeth, married (first) Thomas Doremus, Jr., (second) Barend Simonsen ; and Fietje, a twin of Elizabeth married Cornelius Van Houten. Cornelius married (third) Metje Van Houten. Their eldest son Roelof, baptized Jan. 19, 1772, married Antje Van Geisen and lived at Totowa. The issue of this marriage was : Metje, Johannes, Cornelius, Helenau, Marite, Derich and Derick. The second son, Gerrebrant, died in infancy; the third son, another Gerrebrant, born Jan. 18, 1788, married Ragel Meet (Rachel Mead) ; their children were: i. Cornelius, born Sept. 15, 1800, married Eliza Onderdonk and their children were: Ellen, Rachel, and Hannah ; 2. Marea ; 3. Henderic, born May 6, 1805 ; 4. Adderyaun, born July 16, 1807, married Rachel Zabriskie (children : Rachel Ann, William Henry, Adrian, born May 2, 1842) ; 5. Jacob, born Oct. 9, 1809 ; 6. Abram, born March 9, 1812 ; 7-8. John and Patty, twins, born May 20, 1814. The youngest child of Cornelius and Metje (Van Houten) Van Houten was Jannetje, who married Michael R. Kelly, a school teacher of Paterson.
(Nelson and Shriner 1920)