History of Paterson and Its Environs pp. 50–61.
Johannes, ninth child and youngest son of Helmigh and Jannetje (Pieterse) Van Houten, was born Oct. 28, 1696, and married Helena Johannesse Vreeland, Oct. 23, 1718, both of Bergen. There were two sons by this marriage: i. Helmigh, married Aagtje Vreeland ; their children were: Johannes, baptized April 21, 1754, married Rachel De Masee, July 11, 1778. Of their family of three children, Helmigh, born Aug. 1, 1779, married Catharine Van Rypen, Dec. 9, 1799; the issue of this marriage was: Catharine, married John Vreeland ; John, born Aug. 27, 1803 ; Gerrit, born Sept. 10, 1806; Rachel, married Gerritt Newkerk; Elizabeth Van Rypen, married Jacob Greenlief ; John, died young ; Jane and Helmig, born Jan. 12, 1821 ; Catarinje, married Jacob Zabriskie ; and Aegfie, married (first) Mindert Gerrebrant ; (second) Richard Lyon. The other children of Helmigh and Aagtje (Vreeland) Van Houten were: Jenneke and Michael, both died young; Jenneke, born Oct. 16, 1762; and Michael, born Dec. 17, 1768, married Aeltje Van Home. 2. Johannes, youngest of the two sons of Johannes and Helena (Vreeland) Van Houten, was baptized June 17, 1735; married Aeltje Sickels. Children : Johannes, born Jan. 22, 1763, married Annatje Collerd, Dec. 19, 1782; the issue of this marriage was all daughters: Geertje, Johannis; Aeltje, Sara, Annatje and Johannis. The second son, Gerrit, born Jan. 13, 1764, married Cornelia, daughter of Simon Van Ness. He was of a seafaring turn of mind, but finally settled at Paterson, engaged in mercantile business and shipping, and lived on the west side of Main street, north of the Reformed church. He was a judge of the Essex County Common Pleas Court, holding this office until his death, Aug. 23, 1826.
John, son of Gerrit and Cornelia (Van Ness) Van Houten, was born March 9, 1783, married Elizabeth Gould; their children were: Gerrit, who emigrated to the West; Maria, married William James; Encrease, born Nov. 18, 1807, died June 8, 1886; he married for his first wife, Sophia Van Riper and the issue of their marriage was: Sophia ; Angeline A., married Charles P. Lovell ; John Encrease, married Julia Ann Van Orden; Mary Elizabeth; Emily Gould; Moses Gibson; Sarah Ann, married Abraham Levi; and Thomas Henry, born Aug. 8, 1818, married Mary Brooks. The fourth child of John and Elizabeth (Gould) Van Houten, Moses Gould, born April 8, 1818, married Mary Brooks ; the fifth child, Sarah Julia, married Henry Johnson ; the sixth, Cornelius Gibson, married Catharine Hall, the seventh, Agnes Gould, married John Ackerman.
The other children of Gerrit and Cornelia (Van Ness) Van Houten were: Simon, died a bachelor; Polly (Mariah), married Thomas Van Riper ; Cornelius ; Michael, drowned in the Passaic river, aged six years ; Gerrit, mentioned below ; Pieter, died unmarried ; Cornelia, married John Terhune; Michael, died in infancy; and Henry, born Oct. 29. 1806, married Anna Brower. He was brought up in the watchmaker’s trade and carried on a small store on Broadway. Subsequently he studied for the ministry, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Hawley, Pa., at the time of his death.
Gerrit, son of Gerrit and Cornelia (Van Ness) Van Houten. men- tioned above, was born Nov. 12, 1797, and married (first) Hester Van Ness, by whom he had seven children, three dying in infancy, the others were : Peter, died young unmarried ; Mary Catharine ; Cornelia, married Joseph Cooper; Henry, born June 11, 1834, married (first) Charity Elizabeth Ackerman, by whom he had three children : Mary Frances, died in infancy ; Hester Catharine, married Gilbert Speaker ; and George Washington, born Aug. 24, 1863. By his second wife, Harriet Black, he had three daughters : Frances, married John Van Iderstine ; Hester, married Hartman Brower, of Paterson ; Leah, married Edward Black, of Paterson.
Descendants of Cornells Cornelissen (Van Houten) — Cornelis, second son of Roelof Cornelissen and Gerrit je Van Nes, the original American emigrants, was baptized Sept. 10, 1651. He joined the Bergen church, June 25, 1677, ^”^ married, Nov. 13th, of that year, Maddalena Van Giesen, from New York. He was known as Cornelis Roelofse. and in the English records his name is spelled Cornelius Rowlofson. He was one of the original patentees of Acquackanonk, but there is no record of his receiving any apportionment in the original allotment in the hundred acres farms fronting on the Passaic river. That he settled in Acquackanonk is evidenced by two early deeds in which he is described as a planter or farmer. He died about the year 1700, when he was less than fifty years of age ; his widow married Sander Egberse, a widower. His children were: Gerretje, married (first) Tyme Valentyne, (second) Marritse Van Dense ; Rollof ; Reiner, married Gerritje Spier ; Hendrick, married Magdalaentje Hendrickes Bruyn ; Dirckje, married Franz Johannes Spier; Johannis, married Trintje Pieterse; and Cornelia. The only record of descendants of these children we have been able to obtain is of Roelof, the eldest son. He was baptized at New York, Dec. 31, 1679, and married Jannetje Janse Spier, a native of Acquackanonk, where they both lived at the time of their marriage. He was a miller, and probably removed to Pompton. Their children were: Helena; Cornelius, born at Wesel, April 11, 1717, he married Sarah De Marest, Dec. 13, 1739. The issue of this marriage was: Abraham, Jannetje, Jan, a second Jan, Elizabeth, Sara and Jakemyntie.
(Nelson and Shriner 1920)