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Roelof Cornelissen Van Houten is my 9g grandfather and progenitor of the van Houten family in America. The text below is from History of Paterson and Its Environs (the Silk City) Volume 2<\/a> by William Nelson and Charles Anthony Shriner published in 1920 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company.<\/em><\/p>\n

VAN HOUTEN<\/a> \u2014 The progenitor of the Van Houten family<\/a> in the region of Totowa<\/a> was Roelof Corneliussen. There is no record of him previous to 1638, when Roelof Cornelissen Van Houten<\/a>[FG]<\/a><\/sup> was among the emigrants that year to Rensselaerwyck<\/a>. The records show that four brothers \u2014 Roelof, Pieter, Helmigh and Theunis, all sons of Cornells somebody \u2014 came to New Netherlands<\/a> between 1638 and 1650, settling in various places, but ultimately taking up their several abodes at Amesfoort, Long Island<\/a>. Their descendants took different surnames. Under date of Jan. 13, 1657, the Schepens<\/a> of Amesfoort assessed Roelof Corneliussen for ten florins<\/a>. His wife was Gerritje Van Nes<\/a>[FG]<\/a><\/sup>, but there is no record to show where either of them came from before their emigration to America. Their children in their later years sometimes assumed the name Van Houten, which might indicate that Roelof was from Houten<\/a>, a small village in the southeastern part of the province of Utrecht<\/a> in Holland. The children of Roelof Corneliussen and Gerritje Van Nes were three sons and a daughter Geesje, who became the wife of Lubbert Lubberts in (Westervelt).<\/p>\n


\nHistory of Paterson and Its Environs<\/i><\/a> pp. 50\u201361.<\/p>\n

Descendants of Helmigh Corneliussen (Van Houten) [FG]<\/a> \u2014 Hellemeg or Helmigh, eldest child and son of Roelof Corneliussen [Van Houten]<\/a> and Gerritje Van Nes<\/a>, was baptized June 25, 1648. He married, Oct. 27, 1674, Jannetje Pieterse [Marcelis]<\/a>, from Gelderland<\/a>. Late in the seventeenth century he bought land at Slooterdam<\/a>, which remained in the hands of his descendants for many generations. He was known as “Hellemeg Roelofse,” the first name being from a German root Wilhelm in that language is an intensive form of the same name. It has the meaning of “much” or “great,” shield or protection, and amongst Jersey Dutch was contracted to “Ham” or “Hap.”<\/p>\n

Helmigh and Jannetje (Pieterse) Van Houten had six sons and four daughters ; the latter were : Catelyntje<\/a>, married Johannis Gerritsen [Van Wagenen]<\/a>; Gerritje<\/a>, married Arie Sip<\/a>; Lysbet<\/a>, became the wife of Johannis Post<\/a>; and Jannetje<\/a>, married Michael Cornelisse Vreeland [WP]<\/a>. The eldest son of the twelve children was Roelof, baptized June 11, 1677. He and his father were the first of the Acquackanonk<\/a> community to buy land north of the Passaic River<\/a>, they purchasing a third interest in Totowa from Major Anthony Brockholls<\/a>. This purchase was in the neighborhood of Laurel Grove Cemetery<\/a>, or southwest of the road to Singac<\/a>. Roelof followed the trade of carpenter and wheelwright in the intervals of his farming. He married (first) Aagtje Cornelisse Vreeland<\/a>, April 21, 1701 ; of their three children, Tryntje married Hendrick Van Nes ; Eachje<\/a>, married Jacob Spier. His second wife, Feitje Sickels<\/a>, was mother of seven children, the daughters being Jannetje; Geertruy<\/a>, married Hermanus Van Wagenen<\/a>; Feytje, married Johannis Cadmus ; and Catalyntje<\/a>, married Frans Post<\/a>. Helmigh<\/a>, only son of Roelof and Aagtje (Vreeland) Van Houten, born March 11, 1704, married Nov. 6, 1730, Catharina Van Geisen. He lived at Preakness, and was the father of nine children, six of whom were daughters, namely: Echje, married Hendrick Doremus; Feytje, married Benjamin Yeomans; Yannetje (Jennie), died Oct. 1, 1796; Printye, married Doyle ; Catlinye, died unmarried ; and Geertruy, married Matthew Klankhite. Johannis, the youngest son, probably died young; he is not mentioned in his father’s will.<\/p>\n

Roelof, eldest son of Helmigh and Catharina (Van Geisen) Van Houten, married, Dec. 20, 1756, Annetje Kip. They were living as late as 1791, at Preakness, at which time he conveyed a tract of land in that location inherited from his father. He had two sons; the eldest, Halmagh, born Jan. 8, 1766, married Lena, daughter of Anthony Van Blarcom. Halmagh was a noted character in his day. In person he was of medium height, quite stout, with sandy hair and a florid complexion ; to distinguish him from the other Halmagh Van Houtens, he was called Rooe Hap (Rooe was an obsolete Dutch word used among the Jersey Dutch for red) or Red Halmagh. In 1792, at what is now the northwest corner of Park avenue and East Eighteenth street, he built a small frame house and swung to the breeze a rude figure of a bull’s head as a token that entertainment was there for man and beast. He sold this tavern site in 1803, and the name was afterwards changed to “Peace and Plenty.” Halmagh in 1808 removed to a farm he had bought on the road from Lower Preakness to Mountain View, where he again maintained a tavern. Subsequently he purchased a tract of land and built a stone house on the southeast corner of the present Haledon avenue and the road leading to Goffle. Here he kept tavern until April 3, 1818, when he returned to Paterson, and a few years later engaged in his old business of tavern keeping at what is now known as the Four Comers, at the Slooterdam and Small Lots roads, a short distance from the Bergen county end of the present Fifth avenue bridge. He eventually returned to Paterson, where he ended his days. His children were: Johannes, born Dec. 9, 1795, married Caty Westervelt; he was called John H. Van Houten, and for some time after his marriage lived on East Eighteenth street, adjoining his father’s former tavern ; the issue of his marriage was two daugh- ters : Marrah and Ellen. The other children of Halmagh and Lena Van Blarcom were: Annaatje (Hannah), married David Sharte; Tryntje, married Henry Bowman; Vrouwetje, married Thomas H. Stagg; Ellen, became wife of Samuel J. Van Saun ; Henry, born Sept. 8, 1809, married Helen, daughter of James Pier, their children were : Fannie E., died un-married ; James F., died a bachelor ; John H., born Nov. i, 1840, married Elizabeth Bush, their only child, Mary E., married William Ryerson; Lea Catharine, married William B. Jacobus ; Charles N., born Aug. 24, 1852, married a lady of Des Moines, Iowa ; William Wesley, born March 27, 1856, married Ada Ashman; and Amarintha, married Richard Van Horn, of Paterson. The seventh child of Halmagh and Lena (Van Blarcom) Van Houten was Cornelius, born Dec. 3, 181 1, married Jane Terhune. He was a blacksmith by trade. The issue of his marriage : Mary Ellen, who was twice married; Elizabeth Jane, married Edward Vreeland; Cornelius Henry, later called Charles; and John Helmis, died young. Peter, the youngest child of Halmagh and Lena (Van Blarcom) Van Houten, was born May 14, 1816, learned his trade as carpenter and builder with his uncle Samuel Van Saun, in New York, and died in that city, March 30, 1857.<\/p>\n

(Nelson and Shriner 1920)
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\nHistory of Paterson and Its Environs<\/i><\/a> pp. 50\u201361.<\/p>\n

Johannes, son of Roelof and Annatje (Kip) Van Houten and brother of “Red Halmagh,” married, in Dec, 1796, Sally Van Bussen. He was called John R. Van Houten. Issue : Rulif, born Sept. 18, 1797, married Jane, daughter of Helmigh Dirck and Metje (Van Geisen) Van Houten ; their children were: Helmagh, born Jan. 31, 1820; and William, married Gertrude Ann Speer, and died April 30, 1892, aged 67 years, 4 months, 26 days. The second child of Johannes, mentioned above, was William, died in infancy; the third, a second William, born Aug. 21, 1800; Lena; Annaatje; John, born Nov. 6, 1805, went to Albany, N. Y. ; his descend- ants are in Des Moines, Iowa; Sally; Henry, born Dec. 18, 1809; Helmagh, born Oct. 10, 1814, married Ann Van Riper, June 23, 1836; their children were: John, born July 30, 1837; Halmegh, born Aug. 7, 1840; and Cornelia Ann.<\/p>\n

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Robert van Houten-1712-1786<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Robert, eldest son of Roelof Van Houten by his second marriage with Feitje Sickels, married Elizabeth Post. He lived a short distance west of Laurel Grove Cemetery entrance, on the same side of the road. He died Jan. 27, 1786, aged 74 years, 16 days. Children: Roelof, baptized Aug. 6, 1746; he was sometimes called Roelof R. Van Houten, and his homestead was where the Totowa road turns off to Signac ; his first wife was Antje Hennion, by whom he had three children. Robert, March 28, 1793, married Ellen Van Geisen. He and his wife and family of ten children removed about 1820 to Genessee County, N. Y. ; Johannes, born Dec. 2, 1777, married Elizabeth Tomson. He was called John R. Van Houten, and lived on the south side of Broadway, fifty feet east of Main Street, in the city of Paterson. The issue of his marriage was: John, born Dec. 19, 1803; Jane Margaret, born Aug. 31, 1805; and Robert, born March 11, 1807. Elizabeth, born April 22, 1780. Roelof Van Houten, by his second wife, Antje Berdan, had nine children : Jacob, married Elizabeth Lynes ; he lived about a mile and a half above the Pompton church towards Wanaque. He was a farmer and wheelwright. His two children were Ruliff, born Oct. 17, 1808, and Clarissa, born Aug. 10, 1810. Among the other children of Roelof and Antje (Berdan) Van Houten were: Antye, married Halmagh Van Winkle, and with her husband removed to Canton, Illinois, and finally to Missouri, where she died, leaving many descendants by the name of Van Winkle; Marregrietye, married Jason M. Bass; they also removed to Canton, 111.; Adreyaen, died before the age of ten years; Albert, born Nov. 11. 1791, married (first) Charity Vreeland, Sept. 11, 1813, by whom he had four children: Ruliff (Ralph), born April 25, 1815, married Sarah Ann Alyea, their children were : Elizabeth Ann, married John J. Hop- per; Sophia, married Peter Merselis; and Charity Louisa; Catherine, married Cornelius P. Doremus; Cornelius, born Feb. 24, 1820, married Ellen Jane Van Riper, the issue of this marriage was Adrian, who married Jennie, daughter of George Vreeland of Rutherford ; and Albert, married Alida, daughter of Daniel Schoonmaker; Ann Mariah, died unmarried. Albert Van Houten, by his second marriage with Nelly Powelson, was father of four children: Jane, married David Benson; Charity, died in childhood ; Peter, born May 12, 1834, married Catharine, daughter of John D. Merselis, of Paterson. The issue of this marriage was: John Merselis, died young; Nellie, died at the age of eighteen; Albert, born Feb. 15, 1864; Henry Merselis, born Jan. 8, 1869, married Jennie Drew ; Garret Merselis, born March 4, 1871 ; Mary and Jennie. Charity Ann, the youngest child of Albert and Nelly (Powelson) Van Houten, married David P. Quackenbush.<\/p>\n

The four other children of Roelof and Antje (Berdan) Van Houten were daughters, namely : Feytje, married Theunis I. Spear, Jr. ; Maria, a twin of Feytje, died in infancy; Catreneu, married Henry Schoonmaker, of Athenia ; and Jannetje, married James Schoonmaker, he had a cotton mill at GodwinviUe, afterwards at Passaic, and at the time of the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion was superintendent of a mill in in the South.<\/p>\n

(Nelson and Shriner 1920)
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\nHistory of Paterson and Its Environs<\/i><\/a> pp. 50\u201361.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

(Nelson and Shriner 1920)
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\nHistory of Paterson and Its Environs<\/i><\/a> pp. 50\u201361.<\/p>\n

Johannes, youngest son of Roelof and Feitje (Sickels) Van Houten, born June 6, 1717, married Catharine Cadmus, Nov. 11, 1736; they lived at Acquackanonk, but we have no record of any issue.<\/p>\n

Pieter, of the third generation, second son of Helmigh and Jannetje (Pieterse) Van Houten, was baptized Jan. 23, 1680, and married Claertje Post, April 8, 1703. He settled at Slooterdam, on land conveyed to him by his father. Of his nine children, three died in infancy. His daughters were: Jannetje, married Gerrit Hendrickse; Catarina, a twin, married Hendrick Hoppe. His eldest son, Adrian, born Aug. 17, 1706, married Angenietje Boogaerd, Dec. 19, 1734. At the time of his marriage he was living at Acquackanonk, but later in life removed to Pompton, where he died Dec. 23, 1753. By his marriage with Angenietje Boogaerd, he had four children: Pieter, Willempje, born May 9, 1739; Claertje (Clarissa), married Coenralt Lyne ; and Jacob, bora April 18, 1745. His eldest son Pieter, mentioned above, was born March 8, 1736, and married Rachel Lyne, Oct. 20, 1755 ; they lived in the Wanaque Valley. Their children were : Adrian, born June 3, 1759, married Vannetje Romig, and they had one child, Peter, born Jan. 31, 1789; Caty, married Simon Van Ness, of Pompton Plains ; John, born July 7, 1762, married Hannah Kidney, and the issue of this marriage was : John Kidney, James, Sally, married George Tyce; Rachel, married Henry Riker; Polly, married Halmagh I. Van Wagoner. Mary, fourth child of Pieter and Rachel (Lvne) Van Houten, married Peter Fisher; Agnes, married William Murphy; Eleanor, married Theunis Ryerson; Peter, born Nov. 19, 1774; Conrad, born April 10, 1776; and Annaetje, born Jan. 31, 1781.<\/p>\n

Helmerich, second son of Peter and Claertje (Post) Van Houten, born Dec. 10, 1709, married (first) Geertje Van Hoom, and (second) Eva, daughter of Paulus Rutan, of the Bogt. When past middle age he joined the Van Ripers, Rutans, Staggs and others, who were among the hardy pioneers who ventured into the frontier forests before the Revolution, penetrating so far west as Waywayanda, in Sussex county, and there he died. By his first wife he was the father of one child, Peter, who married and had one son Helmigh, baptized April 14, 1764, who was probably brought up in his grandmother Van Hoorn’s family. By his second wife there were four children: Vannetje, Helmich, Paulus and Johannes.<\/p>\n

Johannes, third son of Pieter and Claertje (Post) Van Houten, was born at Wesel, March 17, 1713. He was a miller living at what is now Oakland. He married, June 11, 1739, Martynje Bartholf ; their only son Crines married Elizabeth, daughter of Martin Ryerson, of Pompton. He died before the date of his father’s will, May 10, 1810. He owned a small grist mill within a mile of the Oakland station on the New York, Susquehanna & Western railroad. His children: Martin, married Elizabeth Randall; he lived at the Ponds, where he died June 26, 1854, aged 74 years, 2 months, 12 days. Martintje (called Matilda), married Guliem C. Bogert ; Marytje, married Crines Quakenbush ; and Ryer, died unmarried. Children of Martin and Elizabeth (Randall) Van Houten : Martin, married Hester, daughter of Anthony Bartrim, an Englishman, who was a farmer and blacksmith at the Ponds. Crines, married Elizabeth Voorhees, of Paramus. The children of Martin and Hester (Bartrim) Van Houten were : Mary, married Henry Demarest ; Martin, for many years carried on the mill at Oakland operated by his father and his grand- father; Rachel, married (first) Henry Romaine, of Paterson, (second) Abram Folly; Anthony Bartrim, married Mattie McNab; Jennie, married (first) John Shurts, (second) David C. Bush; John H., married Hester, daughter of Hopper Voorhis, of Hackensack. He was an inspector of buildings for many years in Paterson ; William Henry Harrison, born June 15, 1844, married Kate, daughter of James Westervelt; James, married (first) Jane Plumstead, (second) Mattie, daughter of Joseph Blauvelt, of Paterson. Of the foregoing brothers, Anthony, John, William and James were among the leading carpenters and builders in Paterson for many years. The other children of Martin and Hester (Bartrim) Van Houten were : Rachel, married (first) Abraham Ryerson, (second) Tunis Blauvelt ; and John, married Elizabeth Christie, from Ramapo.<\/p>\n

(Nelson and Shriner 1920)
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\nHistory of Paterson and Its Environs<\/i><\/a> pp. 50\u201361.<\/p>\n

Gerrit, youngest son of Pieter and Qaertje (Post) Van Houten. married, June 2T^ 1745\u00bb 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 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 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

(Nelson and Shriner 1920)
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Elizabeth, second child of Dirck and Marretje (Van Rypen) Van Houten, married David Bensen; the third, Jannetje, married Peter Poulese ; the fourth, Antje, married Jacob Berdan, Jr. ; the fifth, Abraham, born March 23, 1778, married Catharina, daughter of John Sip, of Athenia. At the time of his marriage his father built a house for him on the south side of Totowa avenue, southwest of the present West Side Park. His children were: Molly, married Thomas P. Doremus; Gertruy, married Ira Ryerson; Annatje (Hannah), married John Nicholas Ryerson; and Richard, born May 2, 1812, married Eliza, daughter of James Post. He wrote his name Richard A. Van Houten, and lived in is father’s house on Totowa avenue, which he enlarged and improved. He was a man of superior intelligence, cultivated by wide reading and European travel. He was a farmer and milkman, and being a total abstamer from the use of intoxicants was dubbed “Vinegar Dick.” He was a member of the Assembly in 1857-58. The issue of his marriage was: Catharine, married (first) J. W. Feitner, (second) Adrian Van Houten; Abraham, died aged thirteen years; Hannah, died in infancy; Jane, married Henry H. Freeman, a silk manufacturer, afterwards a real estate agent of Paterson ; Mary Elizabeth, married George Van Houten ; Abraham died aged two years; Gertrude Ryerson, married Richard E. Doremus; and Richard, born Aug. 14, 1856, married Ida Wirtendyke.<\/p>\n

The other children of Dirck and Marretje (Van Rypen) Van Houten were : Maria, married Jacob Van Ryper ; Gerritje, a twin of Maria, died in infancy ; Adreyean, died in infancy ; Adreyean, mentioned below ; Neesje, married Casparus Wessels; Gerritje (Charity), married David Demarest.<\/p>\n

Adreyean, ninth child, was born March 2, 1784. To distinguish him from the numerous other Van Houtens of the same name he was called after his mother, “Molly’s Yawn.” He lived in his father’s house in the present West Side Park, and so the brook running through his farm came to be known as Molly Yawn’s Brook, which has been modified into Molly Ann’s Brook. He married Margaret, daughter of John Doremus. They had eleven children : Richard, died in infancy ; Gertrude, married John B. Van Ripen; Mariah, married John Romaine Oldis; John, born Feb. 7, 1820, married Abigail Ann, daughter of Abraham Van Blarcom. There were two daughters, and one son, who died in infancy, by this marriage : Margaret and Abigail Lavinia. Richard, the fifth child, married Jane Ryerson. His children were: Adrian, born Jan. 25, 1844; Margaret, married Hiram Rynier Speer ; Catherine, married Christopher Hartley. William, the sixth child, born Jan. 27, 1824, married Catharine Ann, daughter of James Demarest, of Fairlawn. The issue of this marriage was : Anna Catharine ; Richard ; Jennie, married Jacob Westervelt ; Henry, married Maggie Hines ; Adrian, died in childhood ; Mary, married Abraham Paulson ; Maggie, married Dr. William H. Pruden, a dentist in Paterson. The seventh child, Elizabeth Jane, married Daniel R. Brinkerhoff. Adrian R., the eighth child, born Aug. 2, 1828, married Catharine, a daughter of his cousin, Richard Van Houten, and a widow of J. W. Feitner. He was a farmer and a dealer in produce, and was at one time a member of the Board of Aldermen of Paterson. Children : Abraham, married Gertie Rogers ; George, died in infancy ; John H., died in infancy ; Jennie; Ira Ryerson, died in childhood; and Mary, married Charles Borden ; the ninth child, Margaret Ann, married Cornelius H. Garrison ; the tenth, Abraham, born Dec. 28, 1832, married Jane Amelia, daughter of Comelius I. Westervelt. He removed to Texas. The eleventh child, George, born Dec. 19, 1834, married Mary E., daughter of Richard Van Houten; of their four children, two, Nellie C. and William, died in infancy, the others were John Milton, born Feb. 16, 1868, married Jennie, daughter of John Kingsland ; and Richard.<\/p>\n

Adrian, youngest child of Gerrebrant and Jannetje (Sip) Van Houten, born Oct. 9, 1785, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Van Houten. At the time of his marriage his father gave him a farm on Water street, where he lived during the eight years of his married life. The issue of his marriage was : Jannetje, married Albert Van Saen ; and Andreyaen, bora Nov. I, 1782, he married, April 10, 1807, Annaatje Sip, and shortly after he assumed the name of Aaron A, Van Houten. He removed to Passaic, where he acquired a portion of the Sip farm on the river road at the corner of what is now called Van Houten avenue. He was the father of six children: Marytje, married John Van Winkle; Elizabeth, married John Sip ; Clarissa, married John V. Ryerson ; Jane, married Elias A. Vreeland ; Cornelius, married Maria Zabriskie, and they had four children, the eldest dying in infancy, the others were : Anna, Aaron, and Zabris- kie ; and Anna Sip, married Henry Doremus.<\/p>\n

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Halmagh, second son of Dirck and Metje (Gerrebrantse) Van Houten, was born about 1714. He lived at Totowa, in a house formerly occupied by his father, a long, low, stone building on the north side of the Totowa road between North Nineteenth and North Twentieth streets. He married, Oct. 29, 1742, Antje, daughter of Gerrit Post. His will was proved Jan. 30, 1784. His children were seven, of whom only three sons and two daughters arrived at maturity. The latter were : Metje, married Johannes Van Geisen ; Catrina, married Roelof Van Houten. Adrian, eldest son of Halmagh and Antje (Post) Van Houten, married Marretje Cadmus. He lived on his father’s homestead on the north side of Totowa avenue, near North Nineteenth street, and was called Adrian H. Van Houten. The issue of his marriage was: Helmigh, Leah, Abraham, Antje, Elizabeth, Andreyaen, Dirck; Cattelyntje, married John F. Post, Jr.; and Peter, born Jan. 21, 1793, married Ellen Van Wagoner, and removed to New York. Dirck, the second son of Halmagh and Antje (Post) Van Houten, was baptized Nov. 21, 1746. He was a man of fine appearance, six feet high, big and powerful, a noted sportsman and hunter. He lived on Barkham’s lane, near Haledon avenue, but in later years he sold this farm and resided on the west side of Main street, be- tween Van Houten and Ellison streets. He married (first) Ragel New Kerck, by whom he had three children : Antje, Helmigh and Catlantje. Helmigh, the only son, was born March 10, 1778. He kept the Black Horse Tavern on Broadway, afterwards kept taverns on Totowa avenue and at Hawthorne. He married Metje, daughter of Richard Van Geisen ; their children were: Jannetje, married Ruliff Van Houten; Diric, died in infancy; Diric, born Aug. 9, 1805, married Sally, daughter of Johannes and Sally (Van Blarcom) Van Houten. He was called Richard H. Van Houten, and lived in a stone house which is now numbered No. 146 Broadway, just west of the Erie tracks. He was the father of seven children: Abraham, born April 10, 1837, married Catharine Doty; Henry, died single ; George, born Dec. 20, 1845 ; Rachel ; Mary, married Preston Stevenson, a lawyer of New York City; and Aaron, born June 13, 1857, married Millicent Steele. The other two children of Helmigh and Metje (Van Giesen) Van Houten were: Henry, born Dec. 4, 1815, a carpenter at Paterson ; and Catharine, died young.<\/p>\n

Dirck Van Houten, by his second wife, Ragel Post, had ten children: Martijnes, born March 11, 1784, married Catharine Van Houten; his only child was Sally; Dirck, born May 2T, 1785; Lybetje, married Worthy Clark ; Adeyaen, born June 20, 1790; Abraham, born Oct. 12, 1791 ; Pieter, born Jan. 28, 1793; John, born in February, 1794; Cornelius, born Oct 4, 1798; Gerebrant, born Dec. 4, 1798; Jannetje, married Henry D. Garrison.<\/p>\n

Pieter, third son of Halmagh and Antje (Post) Van Houten, was baptized Jan. i, 1750, and married Leya, daughter of Simon Van Rypen. Children : Obadiah Force ; Simeon, married Marytje Van Blarcom. The children of Simeon and Marytje (Van Blarcom) Van Houten, mentioned above, were: Catharine, who tradition states was the handsomest girl of Paterson; two of Paterson’s enterprising manufacturers, rivals for her favor, fought a duel and were indicted in courts of Rockland County, New York<\/a> ; she, however, did not marry one of the principals, but one of the seconds, William Dickey; Annaatje; Leyeu; Elisabeth; Petrus, married Maria Kiersted, and was noted as a dancer and a horse jockey; and Henedric, born Oct. 11, 1807. The other children of Pieter and Leya (Van Rypen) Van Houten were: Maregrietje, married Hamilton ; Hellmigh ; Leya, married William Paterson Woodruff, and removed to Morris county ; and Peter.<\/p>\n

The four youngest children of Dirck and Metje (Gerrebrantse) Van Houten were: Martje, married Johannis Van Riper; Jannetje, married Halmagh Sip; Dirck, doubtless died young; and Jacob, born Aug. 22, 1724, married Jenne Van Rypen, Sept. 6, 1745 ; they both were living at Acquackanonk at the time of their marriage. The children of this marriage were: Aeltje, who became the wife of Abraham Godwin; Metje, married Johannes Ryerse ; Marritje, married Matheus Ackerman; Jacob, known as Jacob L. Van Houten, also by the nickname “Yawpie Van Houten,” kept a grocery store at the comer of Bank and Ryerson streets. His estate was divided between his nieces and nephews, therefore it is inferred that he left neither wife nor child. Dirck, the youngest child, lived in the Bogt; he was called Derrick J. Van Houten.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Descendants of Cornells Cornelissen (Van Houten) \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Descendants of Theunis Roelofse (Van Houten) \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

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Roelof Cornelissen Van Houten is my 9g grandfather and progenitor of the van Houten family in America. The text below is from History of Paterson and Its Environs (the Silk City) Volume 2 by William Nelson and Charles Anthony Shriner published in 1920 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company. VAN HOUTEN \u2014 The progenitor of … <\/p>\n

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