Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth County, New Jersey, Part 9

Author: Beekman, George Crawford. dn
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Freehold, N.J. : Moreau Brothers
Number of Pages: 226


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Jacob Couwenhoven's will was made April 24, 1815, proved June 22, 1815, recorded in Book A of Wills, pages 703, in Monmouth county Surrogate's office.


The second Jacob VanDorn built a good and substantial dwelling on his half of his father's lands about 1753. When Jacob died, his son, Peter Van- Dorn, lived there, brought up a large family and died there. Then his son- in-law, Elisha Holmes, occupied the


house and part of the 317 acres orig- inally assigned to second Jacob. Many of the old people now living remember Elisha Holmes.


The first Jacob VanDorn, by his wife, Marytje Bennett, had ten children, all of whom were reared on the home- stead at Holmdel, viz:


Arie or Aure (sometimes confounded with and spelled Aaron in English) his oldest son, was born about 1695 in Gowanus, (Brooklyn) married about 1730. Antje, daughter of Jan Schenck and Sara Conwenhoven, his wife, and died September 4, 1748, and is buried in the Schenck-Couwenhoven grave yard. His tomb- stone gives his age as 52 years and 8 months. His wife survived him for a number of years. He had one son, Jacob, baptized January 1st, 1734, and died September 9th, 1785, unmar- ried, aged 52 years, 9 months and 9 days ; in- terred by his father. He had four daughters, viz:


Mary, baptized March 31, 1731, married John Jacobse Couwenhoven of Middletown village.


Sarah, born about 1736, died unmarried.


Ann, baptized March 25. 1738, married Cy- renins VanMater, who lived near Stone Hill. north of Colts Neck.


Neeltje, or Eleanor, baptized May 16th, 1742, married first Hendrick Smock of Freehold township, and second Garret Hendrickson of Middletown township ; interred in Schenck- Couwenhoven yard. She died February 13. 1834, aged 90 years, 10 months and 8 days.


Engeltje, (Angelina) born about 1697, and about 1718 married Roelof, son of the first Garret Schenck and Neeltje Voorhees, his wife.


Her husband was known as "Brewer Roelof"Schenek to distinguish him from his cousin, "Black Roelof" Schenck. He resided on a farm lying on the north- west side of Pleasant Valley, adjoining 'that of his father-in-law on the north. This couple had eleven children. Some of them settled in Somerset and Hun- terdon counties and there cleared farms and raised families. Some in each generation went further and fur- ther west, and ever opening up the wilderness for farm lands, until now their descendants are found in all the northern tier of states to the Pacific ocean. And wherever they settled in the west. if sufficiently numerous to control public sentiment, (and it did not take very many of them to do this) we hear of no cowardly and horrible tales of lynching helpless and lonely prisoners in jail, but the orderly od- ministration of the law, that no one should suffer death unless first proved guilty before a fair jury.


Wherever they went they took their Bibles, their homely virtues, plain ways and industrious habits. And while they never claimed any hol-


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iness and perfection from all sins, and never boasted of being Pilgrims or the sons of Pilgrims, and above earthly things with all their hopes fixed on a crown of gold and harp in Heaven, yet they tried to live without wronging other people in word or deed, to im- prove and build up the country and start their children on an honest and industrious path in life.


Christyjan, (Christain) baptized September 17, 1699, married Altje, daughter of Jan Schenck and Sarah Couwenhoven, his wife.


She was baptized May 25th, 1705, and died at Middlebush, Somerset county, N. J., in 1801. It is said that when 95 years old she rode every Sunday when the weather permitted to the Dutch church at New Brunswick six miles from her home.


Christian VanDorn removed from Monmouth to Somerset county about 1723. He purchased a traet of 525 acres in the north side of the present Amwell road at Middlebush. He let his young- er brother, Abraham, who also eame at a later date to Middlebush, have 166 acres on the north of the 359 acres which he retained.


Abraham VanDorn is said to have served as sheriff of Somerset county, 20 consecutive years, and was highly respected for his business qualities. In 1752, while Rev. John Leydt was pastor of the Dutch church at New Bruns- wick, Christain and Abraham VanDorn were both in the eonsistory, one as dea- con and the other as elder. They fol- lowed in their father's steps. He was the first deacon of the Duteb church in Monmouth, when the church was or- ganized in 1709, and his son Abraham was the first child baptized after the installation of Joseph Morgan, the pas- tor, by Rev. Bernardus Freeman, from Long Island.


Christain VanDorn, by his wife. Altje Schenck, (sometimes spelled Alchy) had 17 children, all of whom grew up, married and had large families, except one named Roelof. At the time of her death, 1801, Altje Schenck VanDorn had 17 children, 129 grand, 200 great grand and six great great grandchil- dren, in all 352 descendants. For the names of Christain VanDorn's children, whom they married and where they settled, and some account of their des- cendants, see an article by Hon. Ralph Voorhees, on the VanDorn family in Somerset county in August, 1873, num- ber of "Our Home," a monthly maga- zine then published by A. V. D. Honey- man at Somerville, N. J., pages 337 to 342.


Wilhelm (William) VanDorn, born about 1701, married Altje, daughter of Cornelius Couwenhoven and Margaret Schenek, his wife, of Pleasant Valley, and died young without children. His widow married for her second husband Cornelius Middach.


Jacobus (Jaeob) VanDorn, born Jan- uary 21, 1703, baptized in Brooklyn April 27th, 1703, married first Marytje, daughter of Jan Schenck and Sarah Couwenhoven, his wife. This made three sisters of this Schenck family who married into this VanDorn family. Marytje Schenck was born August 8, 1712, and died October 31, 1756.


Jacob VanDorn married a second wife, Rachel, daughter of Garret Schenck and Neeltje Voorhees, his wife, also of Pleasant Valley, and a cousin to his first wife, She was at this time the widow of Guysbert Longstreet of Squan (Manasquan). Jacob VanDorn died February 26, 1779, on the western half of his father's lands, containing about 317 acres. He had by his first wife seven sons and three daughters of whom more hereafter.


Augenietje, baptized March 29, 1705, married about 1729, William Wyckoff, who lived near Monmouth court house or Freehold village. This couple had five sons and six daughters. One of their sons, Jacob Wyckoff, born 1730, and died Mareh 5, 1812, married Sarah Conwenhoven, granddaughter of Jacob Couwenhoven of Middletown, and who is named in his will. She was born 1733 and died August 25th, 1796. Their son William, was a colonel in the Rev- olutionary war and was the father of Nathaniel Scudder Wyckoff, one of the principal farmers and land owners in what is now Manalapan township, dur- ing the early part of the present cen- tury. Another son of William Wyckoff and Augenietje VanDorn was Peter Wyckoff, who was a guide or aid to General Washington at the battle of Monmouth, and was also the grand- father of the famous "Chevelier Henry Wyckoff," onee editor of the Democrat- ie Review. Some of the descendants of this William Wyckoff and Augenietje VanDorn settled in Louisiana and others at Easton, Pa. The late Col. Wyckoff who fell at the head of his regiment in the battle of Santiago, Cuba, is said to be a descendant of this Easton branch.


Katrintje (Catharine), born 1707, married a Cornelius Wyckoff, supposed to be from Long Island or Somerset county.


Brom, (Ahraham) baptized October 20, 1709, being the first child baptized


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in the Dutch church of Monmouth. His father was a deacon at this time. He removed to Somerset county, N. J., and settled on the north part of the tract purchased by his brother, Christain VanDorn, at Middlebush. He became sheriff of Somerset county, and one of the leading and influential men of that day. Whom he married I am unable to say, but it is said he married a For- man. *


Peter, baptized September 2, 170I, and was drowned at Shoal Harbour, (now Port Monmouth) when a young man and unmarried.


Isaak (Isaac) baptized March 13, 1715. He remained a bachelor and lived near the old VanDorn homestead and carried on a tannery, shoemaker shop and country store.


Jacob VanDorn, the fourth son above named, owned and occupied under his father's will, about 317 acres, the west- ern half of the tract next to Hillsdale. He built the dwelling house where Elisha Holmes resided until his death. In 1745, while sick, he executed a will now in possession of Hon. Daniel P. VanDoren of Freehold.


He afterward recovered and lived many years, or until 1779. He had other children born after this date, so he cut off his signature from this will and so cancelled it. He probably made a later will. With exception of his signature the paper remains unaltered. It shows, however, exactly what chil- dren he then had, what disposition he intended of his property and also what friends he trusted to look after his minor children and carry out his wish- es. In short, he speaks for himself in this will and I think it important that a copy should be preserved in print. It will interest his numerous descendants now residing in many states of our union.


True copy of second Jacob VanDorn's


"In the grave yard of Old Scots burying ground we find a tombstone inscribed "Ele- anor, wife of Abraham VanDorn, daughter of Jonathan and Margaret Forman, who died May 22, 1733, aged 20 years." Jonathan For- man married Margaret Wyckoff and became a communicant of the Dutch church in 1714. His wife no doubt brought up her children accord- Ing to Dutch manners and customs and so the Forman children, like the Holmes, became Dutchmen through intermarriage with a more vigorous and sturdy race. I think his daugh- ter Elinor married this Abraham VanDorn, who removed to Somerset county, but he lost her almost as soon as he married her, accord- ing to the inscription on this tombstone.


will made in 1745, and afterward can- celled by him:


"In name of God, Amen. I, Jacob VanDorn of Freehold, in the county of Monmouth and Eastern Division of the Province of New Jer- sey, Yeoman, this 28th day of May, A. D. 1745, being very weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory. do make, ordain and constitute this my last will and testa- ment as follows, viz:


Imprimis: I resign my soul into the hands of God, my great and glorious Creator, who gave it me, and my body to the earth in hopes of a glorious resurrection at the last day through the merits of my blessed redeemer. Jesus Christ our Lord, to be buried at the dis- cretion of my executors hereinafter mentioned. And as for my temporal estate, which God, in mercy hath given to me, my will and desire is that my funeral charges first be paid, and all my other just and lawful debts discharged and the remainder to be disposed of as follows, viz :


Item: I give unto my loving wife so long as she shall remain my widow, full possession of the farm I now live on with everything be- longing to it; and if she should marry again, I give unto her £100 of this currency at 8 shillings the ounce to be levyed out of my movable estate.


Item : I give unto my eldest son named Jacob, three and one quarter parts of my es- tate ; it being divided into sixteen equal parts (viz: all my estate both real and personal).


Item: I give unto my second son named John, three sixteenths parts of my estate, both real and personal.


Item : I give unto my third son named Wil- liam, two and three quarters of sixteenth parts of my estate, both real and personal.


Item: I give unto my fourth son named Isaac, two and one half of the sixteenth parts of my estate, both real and personal.


Item: 1 give unto my daughter named Sarah, two and one quarter of the sixteenth parts of my estate, both real and personal.


Item: I give unto my youngest son named Aure, two and one quarter of the sixteenth parts of my estate, both real and personal. My will and desire also is, that if any of the above named children should die, having no legitimate issue, their portion to be equally divided between the surviving children.


My will and desire is that my executors hereinafter named, and I give them full power and authority, if my widow should marry again, so to dispose of the remainder of my estate, as may be by them esteemed the most advantageous for my children, And if any of my said children be under age at that time to bind them out to such trades as they shall see most suitable, paying each their several portions as soon as they shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years, or as the payments shall come in, if they shall sell the said estate.


Item: I do hereby nominate, ordain and constitute Roelof Schenck, the son of John Schanck, and William Wyckoff of said Free- hold, executors of this, my last will and testa- ment."


Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of


JOHN BRAY, ISAAC VAN DORN. JACOB SCI. ENCK.


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Jacob VanDorn had by his first wife, Maritje Schenck, the following chil- dren, all of whom were raised on the western part of the homestead tract:


Jacob, born January 15. 1731, died October 19, 1761, unmarried.


John, born January 6, 1733, married about 1756, his cousin, Augnitje, daughter of Roelof Schenck and Engeltje VanDorn, his wife. He removed to and settled at Peapack about 1760, and had sons Jacob, William and Roelof, and a daughter Ann.


William, born December 3, 1736, married first Rachel, daughter of Guysbert Longstreet of Squan, (now Manasquan) and Rachel Schenck, his wife. She died about 1765 and he afterward married Mary Hunt. He re- moved to Peapack and had sons, Jacob and Gilbert, and perhaps others. He died October 4th, 1816.


Isaac, horn January 24, 1739, and died Oct- ober 5, 1749.


Sarah, born February 20th, 1741, married about 1761, John Antonides of Dutch Lane, at East Freehold, and had ten children.


Aure, (sometimes mistaken for Aaron) born, September 14, 1744, married May 9, 1765, Ghacy, youngest daughter of Jan Roe- lofse Schenck and Jacomyntje Couwenhoven. She was born February 14, 1748, and died February 3, 1820. She was named after her father's mother. Geesie Hendrickson, wife of Black Roelof Schenck, but as the younger gen- erations lost knowledge of the Dutch lan- guage they would spell Dutch names according to sound, so "Geesie" became "Ghacy," "Antje" became "Onchee," "Altje" "Alchy." etc., etc. This couple had known each other from childhood, for the homesteads lay near each other. Aure VanDorn and Ghacy, or Geesie Schenck, his wife, removed to Peapack and settled there. They raised a large family of children. General Earl VanDorn, who was killed in the Confederate service during the war of the Rebellion, was a descendant of this couple and not of Aaron, son of Christain VanDorn, as erroneously stated in a foot note to one of Judge Voorhees' articles in "Our Home" magazine of Somerville, N. J. See foot note on page 339 of "Our Home," in the year 1873.


Mary, born November 3, 1746, married John Schenck of Penns Neck. He was a captain in the Revolutionary war.


Isaac, born March 14. 1752, married July 3. 1784, Anne, daughter of Garret Couwenhoven and Neeltje or Eleanor Schenck, his wife, who was born May 21. 1754, and died June 11, 1843. Isaac VanDorn died at Middletown vil- lage where he lived, on the farm his only son, Garret VanDorn, lived and died on, as has been heretofore mentioned.


Peter, born July 4, 1755, married January 9, 1777, Jannetje, daughter of Elbert William-


son and Williamptje Schenck, his wife." Jan- netje Williamson was baptized July 12, 1758. Peter VanDorn lived in the home his father built and occupied his lands and raised a large family of seven sons and four daughters. Among his sons was one named William who married a danghter of Daniel Polhemus at Phalanx, purchased a farm in the present township of Marlboro about 1816, where he resided until his death. He left surviving him one son, Hon. Daniel P. VanDoren, now, (1898) residing in Freehold, and who still owns his father's farm, and one daughter, Jane, who married the late John Rue Perrine, who was among the first farmers of Manal- apan township during the greater part of his life.


Ann, born October 27. 1756, married Lewis, son of Thomas Thompson, who then owned the old stone house on the west side of the turn- pike from Freehold to Smithburgh, (now El- ton, formerly Clayton's corner). This prop- erty was owned by Achsah Hendrickson, wife of Enoch Hendrickson, for many years. Since her death one Hartman has bought it. The private family grave yard of the Thompsons is on the farm.


This Lewis Thompson was a zealous and active loyalist during the revolu- tionary war. In courting and visiting his wife near Pleasant Valley he had become familiar with all the roads and byways and also with the customs and habits of the Dutch settlers there.


Children of Peter VanDorn and Jannetje (Jane) Williamson, his wife.


Mary, born February 21, 1778, married Rulif Smock.


Jacob, born October 13. 1779, married Gitty Jane Schenck.


Elbert, born November 14, 1781, married Sarah Cowenhoven.


Williampe, born April 3. 1784, married Dr. Benjamin DuBois, son of Dominie DuBois.


Ann, born January 30, 1786, died young.


John, born November 28, 1787, married Mary Cowenhoven.


William, born March 2, 1790, married Cath- arine Polhemus, died September 2, 1850. His wife died the day previous. Both were buried at the same time in the yard of Brick church. Isaac, born July 13, 1792, married Eleanor Hankinson, died August 16, 1858.


Peter, born April 15, 1794, married first Catharine DnBois, second Elizabeth VanDer- veer. He died February 20, 1877.


Arthur, born July 29, 1797, married Harriet VanCleaf.


Jane, or Jannette, born April 29, 1799, mar- ried Elisha I olmes. She died September 27. 1837, aged 37 years, 7 months and 27 days. She was buried by her husband in the Schenck Couwenhoven yard.


Sarah, born May 31, 1803, married Pierson Hendrickson, who carried on business for many years at Tinton Falls.


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Captain John Schenck, the famous partizan leader, resided on an adjoining farm, now occupied by his grandson, David Schenck, and near the Van- Dorn's. A reward of fifty guineas had been offered for his capture or death by the British. There were several mid- night raids made by the Tories and British to capture him. Three differ- ent times these bands surrounded his house between midnight and daybreak to capture him. He generally slept out in the woods or if in his house he had scouts outlying who brought him instant word of the approaching enemy.


On one of these occasions the Tories were guided or led by this Lewis Thompson, who had married among his near relatives and neighbors. Knowing the country, Thompson managed so well that Captain Schenck barely es- caped in his night clothes from a rear window and concealed himself by lying down in a wheat field behind his house. It was in June and the wheat stalks were high enough to hide a man lying down, but so near was he that he could plainly hear them talk and their threats to his wife, and recognized this Lewis Thompson. When war ended Lewis Thompson with his wife removed to Nova Scotia. After remaining there many years and learning that the old bitterness and anger had died away, they came back to visit their relatives. While visiting his wife's people at Holmdel he went one day into a coun- try store kept by one of his wife's rel- atives. While there Captain John Schenck happened to enter. As soon as his eye fell on Thompson, he turned to the storekeeper, saying "Either that Tory rascal must go out or else 1 will. The same roof can never cover us both, and if I go out I shall never step foot on your premises again if I live a hun- dred years."


Knowing that Captain Schenck would do just what he threatened, and that he would lose the custom of his large fam- ily connections, he turned to Thompson saying "You must get out of my store and never enter it again." So Thomp- son left. He died before his wife, leav- ing several sons and daughters. One of his sons became a lawyer and settled at Somerville, N. J. His mother went there to live with him after her hus- band's death, and died there at an ad- vanced age.


Van Doren Marriages From Brick Church Records.


Joseph VanDoorn and Femmetje Wyckoff. Aug. 5, 1739.


Antje VanDoorn and Jan Clerk, Dec. 29. 1721. Arie (or Aure) VanDoorn and Geesie (Ghacy) Schenk, May 9, 1765.


Catharine VanDoorn and Hugh Newel, Nov. 1, 1773.


Isaac VanDoorn and Anne Covenhoven, July 3, 1785.


Jacob VanDoorn and Gitty Schenck, Feb. 4, 1802.


Williampe VanDoorn and Benjamin DuBois, Feb. 16, 1803.


Albert VanDoorn and Sarab Covenhoven, March 14, 1803.


John VanDoorn and Mary Covenhoven, Jan. 30. 1809.


William VanDoorn and Catharine Polhemus, Nov. 28, 1815.


Arthur VanDoorn and Harriet VanCleaf, Jan. 6, 1817.


Peter VanDoorn and Catharine DuBois, March 4, 1817.


Jane VanDoorn and Elisha Holmes, Feb. 17, 1819.


Garret VanDoorn and Willampe Coven- hoven, Feb. 24, 1821.


Sarah VanDoorn and Pearson Hendrickson, Ang. 7, 1823.


Margaret VanDoorn and Joseph D. Vander- veer, Jan. 13, 1834.


Peter VanDoorn and Elizabeth Vanderveer, Jan. 26, 1836.


Jacob VanDoorn and Eliza Jane VanMater, Dec. 5, 1837.


David VanDoorn and Mary H. Crawford, Dec. 25, 1824.


From Inscriptions on Tombstone in Private Family Burying-ground on the Daniel D. Covenhoven Farm Near Taylor's Mills.


Mary VanDoorn, d. March 16, 1877. 88 yrs.,


5 mos , 2 days. Her husband, John VanDoorn, d. June 25, 1864. 76 yrs., 6 mos., 27 days. Peter Covenhoven, d. Feb. 12, 1857. 54 yrs .. 10 mos. His wife, Sarah VanDoorn, d. Aug. 6, 1873. 70 yrs., 3 mcs., 12 days.


From Christ Church (Episcopal) Grave Yard, Middletown Village, N. J.


Isaac VanDorn, d. May 7, 1831 : age 79 yrs .. 1 mon., 12 days. . His wife, Anne Garretse Covenhoven, d.


June 11. 1843 : age 89 yrs., 21 days.


Their son, Garret VanDorn, b. May 31, 1789, d. Aug. 6, 1856.


His wife, Williampe Covenhoven, b. Jan. 1, 1791 : d. Jan. 31, 1874.


William, son of Isaac and Anne VanDorn,


d. Mar. 1, 1817, age 21 yrs., 8 mos., 4 days.


Mary VanDorn, daughter of Isaac and Anne VanDorn. d. Mar. 13, 1805; age 17 yrs., 3 mos., 22 days.


Jacob, son of Isaac and Anne VanDorn, d. May 30, 1808 : age 22 yrs., 8 mos., 4 days.


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From Brick Church Cemetery.


Peter VanDoorn, Sen., d. Apr. 18, 1834 ; age 78 yrs., 9 mos., 14 days.


His wife, Jane Willemsen, (daughter of El- bert Willemsen and Willempe Schenck) d. Jan. 28, 1845 ; age 86 yrs., 6 mos., 23 days.


Peter VanDoorn, d. Feb. 20, 1877; age 82 yrs., 10 mos., 5 days.


His wife, Elizabeth Vanderveer, d. Mar. 2. 1862, age 59 yrs., 12 days.


Isaac VanDoorn, d. Ang. 16, 1858 ; b. Mar. 13, 1793. A soldier of the war 1812.


His wife, Elleanor Hankinson, b. Mar. 23, 1805, d. Mar. 28, 1888.


Peter A. VanDoorn, d. Jan. 17, 1876 ; age 71 yrs., 5 mos., 20 days.


His wife, Elizabeth Kernaghan, d. Mar. 5, 1869 : age 58 yrs., 5 mos., 23 days.


Sarah VanDoorn, wife of John Patterson, d. Oct. 23, 1852 ; age 22 yrs., 1 mo., 24 days.


William VanDoorn, d. Sept. 2, 1850, b. Mar. 2, 1790.


His wife, Catharine Polhemus, b. July 16, 1797, d. Sept. 1, 1850.


This last was a double funeral. In death they were united as in life. The fine mon- ument in yard of Brick Church over their graves tells briefly the story.


Among the well known and honored citizens of Monmouth who have borne the VanDorn name was Rev. Luther Halsey VanDorn, a lineal descendant of Christain VanDorn and Altje Schenck, his wife, of Somerset county, hereto- fore spoken of. He was pastor of the old Tennent church seventeen years. The children he baptized and the young couples he married, are now old men and women scattered through the town- ship of Manalapan and those adjoining. They remember, however, Dominie Van- Dorn's plain, earnest ways and talk, and the sincere interest he took in all that concerned their welfare. After he left Tennent he had charge of two churches in New York City, and then was called to a church at Montville, N. J. In the latter years of his life when his head was silvered and his shoulders bowed with the infirmities of age, he was pastor of the Dutch church at Mid- dletown village, in this county. Here he "died in harness." While a man of reserved and rather stiff manners out- wardły, he had a kind and sensitive heart, keenly alive to ingratitude, slights or insults, and very sympath- etic for the troubles and sorrows of others. While he had his own share of the troubles, cares and trials which fall on a country minister of this de- nomination and also of domestic afflic- tion, he bore them with that reticence and dislike of every public exhibition of either joy or grief, hereditary in his family and race. When trouble and bereavement came to others-his par -- ishioners and neighbors- he was re- markably tender and sympathetic in his efforts to console and comfort them, but in a very plain and homely manner. The writer once saw him, when an old man and a little while before his death,




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