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History of Paterson and Its Environs pp. 50–61.
Gerrit, youngest son of Pieter and Qaertje (Post) Van Houten. married, June 2T^ 1745» Jannetje Kip. He was a successful farmer at Slooterdam, and died about 1794. Children: Peter, resided at Preakness: Jacob, married Rachel Ackerman, and removed to Hackensack ; Helmith, born Feb. 9, 1754; Anna, married George Monson; Johannis, died Aug. 7, 1827, aged 67 years, 10 months, 16 days; Claertje, died in infancy; Claertje, married Benjamin Delameter; Gerrit, born April 11, 1763; Jannetje, born July 18, 1765; Sarah, married Gilbert Kuyper; Isaac, who in 1796 lived in Totowa avenue, died in 1801 ; his widow disposed of his father’s homestead farm.
Cornells, third son of Helmigh and Jannetje (Pieterse) Van Houten, was born March 21, 1662. He married Aagtje Johannisse Vreeland, April 19, 171 1. He lived at Bergen, where he died Oct. 4, 1748. Children: Jannetje, married Abraham Van Giesen; Johannes, born March 25, 1714, married Jannetje Doremus, they lived on the old homestead at Slooterdam; they were parents of two sons, Cornelius, born March 25, I7z|4, married Helena, daughter of Johannes Van Houten. The issue of this marriage was : Johannis, married Antje Post ; Helmich, born October, 1775, emigrated to Indiana ; Jannetje, married (first) Hendrick Post, (second) Edo Van Winkle ; Hendrick, born Aug. 4, 1784, married (first) Jenneke Van Winkle, by whom he had four daughters : Lena, Annaatje, Helena and Elizabeth. By his second wife, Rachel Harris, he had one daughter Rachel, married Elias Vreeland. Hendrick, youngest son of Johannes and Jannetje (Doremus) Van Houten, was baptized March 9, 1749 J he married Marytje Van Rypen; issue: Johannes, born Aug. 29, 1773; Lena; Jannetje; Marretje; and Gerret, born Feb. 2, 1789.
Helmerick, second son of Cornelius and Aagtje Johannisse (Vreeland) Van Houten, was baptized April 12, 1716. He married Jannetje Vanneke Van Rypen. Children: Cornells, baptized Feb. 9, 1750, married Antje Hennion; he was a farmer, and lived in the Bogt; Catlyntje, married Adrian J. Post ; Abraham, baptized March 12, 1756 ; he was called “Vanneke’s Brom,” Jennie’s Abraham. He lived in a stone house on the south side of Broadway, nearly opposite Mulberry street He occupied this house until 1818, when he removed to a stone house on the north side of Broadway, west of the Erie railway. He was the agent of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. He also owned a farm lying between Broadway and Pearl street from East Eighteenth street nearly to Caroll street. He married (first) Hannah Wessels; his only son Abraham died at the age of twenty-one years without issue. His second wife was Rachel Van Geisen, widow of Adrian J. Post.
The other children of Helmerick and Jannetje (Van Rypen) Van Houten were : Catarina ; Jannetje, married Hendrick Post ; Elizabeth, married Derrick Van Rypen. The other daughters of Cornelius Van Houten and Aagtje Johannisse were: Klaesje, married Hartmann Blinkerhoff ; Fietje, married Jacob Demott and Cathalina.
Jacob, fourth son of Helmigh and Jannetje (Pieterse) Van Houten, was born Dec. ii, 1687, and married, June 10, 1718, Maritje Sickels. He had but one child, Jannetje, who married Waling Van Winkle. He lived at the southwestern end of Totowa, near the present Laurel Grove Cemetery, in his early life, but after the death of his wife made his home with his daughter in Acquackanonk, in a stone house on River street, between West and Prospect streets.
Dirck, fifth son of Helmigh and Jannetje (Pieterse) Van Houten, was born Dec. 11, 1687, and married Metje (Martha) Gerrebrantse, Sept. 27, 1 71 1. He was an enterprising and progressive member of the Van Houten family, being a large landholder. He lived in a stone house on the north side of Totowa avenue, between North Nineteenth and North Twentieth streets. He was a well educated man in his day, and able to write his name in full — Derrick Van Houten. His will was proved Dec. 16, 1769. His eldest child, Gerrebrant, named after his maternal grand- father, was born about 1712. He was a farmer and resided in a stone house located in what is now West Side Park. He, like his father, became a large real estate owner. In connection with his brother Helmigh, extensive tracts adjacent to Totowa and Singac, also in the Wanaque Valley, were purchased. He married Jannetje Sip, who became the mother of two sons and two daughters — Geerje, married Michael Vreeland; and Metje, married Cornelius Van Houten. Their eldest son Dirck occupied his father’s homestead and married Mar3rtje (Molly) Van Rypen. The eldest child of Dirck and Molly (Van Rypen) Van Houten, Gerrebrand, was born Nov. 2, 1770. From his early life he was prominent among his fellow citizens. He carried on a general store prior to 1818, in a one-story frame building adjoining his residence. This business he removed in 1822 to the southeast comer of Main street and Broadway, and he afterwards erected a commodious residence on Water street. He was a member of the Legislature in 1803, justice of the peace for Bergen county, also one of the justices of the Common Pleas Court. He was one of the promoters of the Paterson & Hamburgh turnpike; also one of the first to subscribe to the stock of the Paterson Bank in 1815, and was for several years president of that institution. He died suddenly of apoplexy, March 11, 1831. Judge Van Houten married, Jan. 30, 1791, Jannetje, daughter of Henry Gerritse, Jr. The issue of this marriage was: Maria, married John R. Berdan; Hillegout (Ellen or Helen), married George- John Ryerson; Catharine, died in infancy; a second Catharine married Ralph Doremus.
(Nelson and Shriner 1920)