History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 63

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466

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II. Adriyaan, b. Aug. I, 1750; m. Yannetye Merselis; d. prior to 1786.

III. Cornelius, b. Nov. 20, 1753; m. Feytje (Sophia) Van Houten; she was b. March 14, 1764, dau. of Cornelius Van Houten and Marretye Van Giesen; she d. March IO, 1818; her husband d. May 10, 1820. "Case " Van Houten, as he was called, son of Robert, lived in a stone house on the southwest side of the Totowa road, a short distance from the river, near the entrance to the Laurel Grove cem- etery. He owned a quarry, known as "the Red Stone quarry," near Little Falls, whence he brought the stone in blocks to his shop, which stood on the same side of the road as his house, a little further west, and there he and his sons cut the stone for the use of masons and builders. The will

1 E. J. Wills, Liber 33, f. 161.

., 2 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, D, 282; F, 575.

3 Ib., K, 327. 4 Essex County Wills, F, 150.

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of Cornelius, dated May 6, 1820, was proved May 29, 1820; he devises all his estate to his children, giving Robert $100 of personal estate, and to Cornelius " a certain house called a shop standing on the south side of the road now newly built, subject to removal off the land."1

IV. Feytje, m. Hessel Pieterse, m. 1. Dec. 29, 1759; Hessel lived on the Wesel road, where the Cedar Lawn cemetery now is; d. May 25, 1806, aged 70 yrs., 3 mos., IO days; he d. May 18, 1795, aged 61 yrs., 2 mos., 5 days.2

V. Catriena, m. John Post, May 20, 1762.3

Cornelis-Roelof-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen had child- ren :

By his first wife (Rachel Post) :

I. Hendrick, bap. June 20, 1746.

II. Ragel, b. Dec. 26, 1749.

By his second wife (Marritje Van Giesen) :

III. Lena (Ellener), b. Nov. 24, 1761; m. Edo Merse- lis ; d. July 15, 182I. He lived in a stone house then stand- ing near the southeast bank of the Passaic river, nearly opposite the Laurel Grove cemetery entrance. There was a ford across the river at that point. One day, probably in the fall of 1780, when the American troops were encamped at Totowa and Preakness, General Washington was riding by just as Lena came up from the river with a pail of water, trilling a merry lay as she carried it to the house. The me- lodious warbling and the graceful bearing of the young girl attracted the General's notice, and following her to the house, with stately courtesy he begged her to sing again for him. Such a request, from such a source, was too much for a simple country maiden, and she retreated in dismay from the august presence of the Father of his country. Lena had issue : I. Marretye, b. Jan. 6, 1787; 2. Edo, b. Oct. 31, 1790; 3. Jennicke, b. April 15, 1794; 4. Cornelious, b. Nov. 7, 1796 ; 5. Peter, b. Dec. 19, 1800.

IV. Elisabeth, b. March 14, 1764; m. Ist, Thomas Do- remus, jun .; 2d, Barend Simonsen.

V. Fietje, b. March 14, 1764 (twin with Elisabeth); m. Cornelis-Robert-Roelof-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen ; d. March 10, 1818. A communication in the Bergen Express and Paterson Advertiser of the day, says : "In her, society loses a valuable member-her children, an indulgent moth- er, her husband, a beloved wife."

By his third wife (Metye Van Houten):4

VI. Roelof, bap. Jan. 19, 1772; m. Antye Van Giesen, May 2, 1793, b. and 1. at Totowa. Cornelius Van Houten and Metye his wife conveyed substantially all of their prop- erty to their son, Roelof C. Van Houten, Sept, II, 1806, all of them being then of Totowa. On May I, 18II, Roelof C. Van Houten, then of New York city, conveyed 88.10 acres of this property to Roelof (Roelof-Robert?) Van Hou- ten, of Totowa.5 Issue : I. Metye, b. Jan. 7, 1794; 2. Jo-

1 Bergen County Wills, B, 269.

2 Hessel Pieterse and his wife are interred in the family burying ground on the Wesel road, near Market street.

3 See pp. 143, 146.

4 She was bap. Feb. 4, 1749, dau. of Gerrebrant-Dirck-Hellemeg- Roelof Cornelissen and Jannetje Sip. See p. 247.

5 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, E, 469; G, 201.

hannes, b. May 14, 1796 ; 3. Cornelious, b. Aug. 28, 1798; 4. Helenau, b. Sept. 8, 1800 ; 5. Maritye, b. Dec. 5, 1802 ; 6. Derich, b. March 16, 1805; d. in inf .; 7. Derick, b. Jan. 20, 1808.

VII. Gerrebrant, b. Feb. 24, 1775; d. in inf.

VIII. Gerrebrant, b. Jan. 18, 1778; m. Ragel Meet (Ra- chel Mead), April 14, 1800. His will, dated April 1, 1816, was proved Sept. 3, 1816. He devised all his estate in Sad- dle River to his wife Rachel, during her widowhood ; his eldest son Cornelious to have $1500 if he remained with his mother on the farm ; after the decease of the widow, the property was to be sold, Cornelious paid $1500, and the re- mainder of the proceeds to be divided among the other children. Executors-Edo Merselis and Jacob K. Mead. 1 Issue: I. Cornelious, b. Sept. 15, 1800 ; m. Eliza Onder- donk (Children: I. Ellen, b. June 24, 1825 ; 2. Rachel, b. Feb. 19, 1827; 3. Hannah, b. March 27, 1828) ; 2. Marea, b. Sept. 13, 1802; 3. Henderic, b. May 6, 1805 ; 4. Adder- yaun, b. July 16, 1807 ; m. Rachel Zabriskie ; d. Feb. 21, 1852; she d. Oct. 4, 1884, aged 68 years, 2 months, 19 days (Children : I. Rachel Ann, b. Aug. 25, 1832; 2. William Henry, b. May I, 1839 ; d. Sept. 13, 1878 ; 3. Adrian, b. May 2, 1842); 5. Jacob, b. Oct 9, 1809; 6. Abram, b. March 9, 1812; 7 and 8. John and Patty (in her father's will Patty is called Batty, one of the numerous Dutch abbreviations for Lybetje or Elizabeth), twins, b. May 20, 1814.

IX. Jannetye, b. Jan. 29, 1787 ; m. Michael R. Kelly, a school teacher in Paterson, prior to Oct. 18, 1813.

Cornelius-Roelof Van Houten d. between 1806 and 1813 ; his widow survived him at the latter date.

Adrian-Pieter-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Angen- ietje Boogaerd had children :

I. Pieter, b. March 8, 1736; m. Rachel Lyne, Oct. 20, 1755 ; she d. July 26, 1801. They lived in the Wanaque valley. By deed, March I, 1790, Pieter A. Van Houten, of Pompton, and Rachel his wife, conveyed to Martin G. Ry- erson, for £800 New York money, a tract of 135 acres of land on the Wanaque river, near Pieter Van Houten's house. 2

II. Willempye, b. May 9, 1739.

III. Claertje (Clarissa), b. May 23, 174I ; m. Coenraet Lyne, Jan. 8, 1758, "both living in the bounds of the church at Pompton."

IV. Jacob, b. April 18, 1745.

Johannes-Pieter-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Mar- tyntje Bartholf had children :

I. Crines (Kerines, Corynus), m. Elisabeth, dau. of Marten Reyersen, of Pompton. Crines bought, May 24, 1774, for £103, 4s., N. Y. money, from Jolin Roelof Ro- mine, a tract of 25.8 acres "at a place called and known by the name of Hardens Plains near the Dutch church of the Ponds," bounded north by Martin Ryerson, etc. On Dec. 21, 1789, he bought from Gerrit Van Allen and Caty Ryer- son, executors of John H. Van Allen, deceased, for £355, IOS., N. Y. money, a tract of 35.59 acres near the grist mill

1 Bergen County Wills, B, 98.

2 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, A, 352.

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formerly of Henry Van Allen.1 The Oakland station on the New York, Susquehanna and Western railroad stands on one of these farms, which extended for some distance on each side of the present railroad. Crines d. before the date of his father's will, May 10, 1810. He was probably a mill- . er, running a small grist mill about where one of his de- scendants, Martin Van Houten, still has a mill, within a mile of the Oakland station.

II. Janitye.

III. Annatye.

Helmerich -- Pieter --- Hellemeg -- Roelof Cornelissen had children :

By his first wife (Geertje Van Hoorn):

I. Peter, m. Ch., Helmigh, bap. (at Schraalenburgh), April 15, 1764. By deed, Jan. 28, 1788, for £40 New Jersey money, Helmagh Van Houten, of the English Neighborhood, conveyed to Jacob Ackerman, mill- er, of Wagaraw, a one-sixth share in a tract of land in the Wagaraw mountain, derived by Helmagh from his father, Peter, to whom the same descended from Geertje Van Hoorn, who received it by devise of her father, Dirck Barent Van Hoorn. Helmagh Van Houten, of Franklin, gave another deed to Jacob Ackerman, Nov. 23, 1805, for a one-sixth share in the same tract.2 Helmigh was probably brought up in his grandmother Van Hoorn's family.

By his second wife (Eva Rutan) :

II. Yannetye. III. Helmich, bap. Dec. 25, 1755. IV. Paulus, b. Jan. 16, 1758. V. Johannes, b. Jan. 30, 1763.

Gerrit-Pieter-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Jannetje Kip had children :

I. Peter, m. Eva -; in 1795 he was living on Redwoods avenue, but on May 9, 1809, he resided at Preakness, when he sold to John Brown Lot No. 9, of his father's homestead.3

II. Jacob, m. Rachel Ackerman, prob. a dau. of Lou- rens Ackerman. He removed to Hackensack, where he lived when he sold, May 30, 1796, for £60 New York money, Lot No. 4, containing eight acres, of his father's homestead farm, to Benjamin Delamater.4 Issue: I. Jannetye, b. Dec. 27, 1777; 2. Lourens, b. Feb. 23, 1781; 3. Garret, b. Dec. 12, 1783; 4. Pettie [Peter], b. July 22, 1786; 5. Jacob, b. Nov. I, 1792; 6. Abraham, b. Feb. 9, 1797.

III. Helmich, b. Feb. 9, 1754.

IV. Anna, b. July 8, 1756; m. George Monsen. Ch .; Isaac, b. Sept. 13, 1789. Ann Mansun, of Totowa, con- veyed to Albert Van Saun, May 1, 1813, for $312.50, Lot No. 3 (7.64 acres) and Lot No. 5 (1.30 acres) of the farm formerly of Gerrit Van Houten.5

V. Johannes, b. Sept. 23, 1758; m. -- -; d. Aug. 7, 1827, aged 67 years, 10 months and 16 days, accord- ing to his tombstone, the mathematical accuracy of which statement is obviously questionable.

VI. Claertje, b. Sept. 7, 1760; d. in inf.

1 Ib., F, 238, 241. 2 Ib., D, 447, 464. 3 Ib., C, 505.

4 Bergen County Deeds, R 3, 289.

5 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, H, 481.

VII. Claartje (Klaertye), b. Sept. 7, 1761; m. Benjamin Delamater. He was probably a son of Samuel Delamater, of New York, who married Catalina Waldron, of Harlem, in 1756.1 Benjamin lived in a little house still standing on the southwest side of Kearny street, about one hundred and fifty feet northwest of Doremus street. He was a shoe- maker by trade, and was wont to go around the country with his kit of tools, making and repairing shoes, it being the custom in his day for people to buy their own leather, which was made up into shoes by traveling journeymen. Issue: I. Yannetye, b. Jan. 30, 1788; 2. Catlyntye, b. Feb. 21, 1790; 3. Sarah, b. May 5, 1792; 4. Elisabeth, b. March 23, 1795; 5. Samuel, b. July 15, 1798; 6. Antye, b. Feb. II, 1803; 7. Gerret, b. Feb. 9, 1805. Delamater sold his farm of sixteen acres, lying between Redwoods avenue and Mar- ion street, and from a line somewhat southeast of Crosby avenue to the brook, on May 4, 1816, to Samuel Ball, of Or- ange. He had disposed of his household goods and farm- ing utensils by "public vendue," on April 26 previously. He probably removed to the Genessee country about this time.

VIII. Gerret, b. April II, 1763.

IX. Jannetje, b. July 18, 1765.

X. Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1767; m. Gilbert Kuyper, April I, 1793. She was apportioned Lots 6 and 7 of her father's homestead. 2

XI. Isaac ; in 1797 he lived on Totowa avenue. By deed May 7, 1801, for $250, his widow Mary, then of Wan- tage, Sussex county, conveyed to Albert Van Saun Lots 3 (eight acres) and 8 (an acre and a quarter) of Gerrit Van Houten's homestead farm. 3

Johannes-Cornelis-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Jan- netje Doremus had children:

I. Cornelis, b. March 25, 1744; m. Helena (Helen, Ellener) Van Houten; d. Nov. 23, 1824; she was b. Nov. 18, 1751, dau. of Johannes Van Houten, of Pompton; d. May 7, 1838, aged 88 years, 5 months, 19 days. Cornelis lived on the Van Houten homestead at Slooterdam.

II. Hendrick, bap. March 9, 1749; m. Marytje Van Rypen. Issue: I. Johannes, b. Aug. 29, 1773; 2. Lena, b. Feb. 17, 1777 ; 3. Jannetje, bap. March 19, 1780; 4. Mar- retje, b. Dec. 20, 1782; 5. Gerret, b. Feb. 2, 1789.

Helmich (Helmerich)-Cornelis-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornel- issen and Jannetje Van Rype had children :

I. Corneles, bap. Feb. 9, 1750 ; prob. m. Antje Hen- nion, of Bergen county, m. license May II, 1773. He was a farmer, and probably lived on Lot No. 7, West, in the Bogt. By deed (unrecorded) dated July I, 1782, he released to his brother Abraham an equal undivided one-half of all the lands which were of their father and mother in their life- time. He prob. d. before 1808.

II. Catlyntje (Cathalyntje), m. Adrian J. Post.4 Is- sue : I. Helmich, b. May 18, 1774; d. in inf .; 2. Antje, b. Sept. I, 1777; 3. Helmagh, b. Oct. 25, 1780.

1 Delamater Genealogy, 183. See also The Van Houten Manuscripts,

. ,IIg. 2 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, O, 306.

3 Ib., O, 303. 4 See p. 15I.

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III. Abraham, bap. (at Second River) March 12, 1756; m. Ist, Hannah Wessels ; she d. Aug. 7, 1822, aged 73 years ; he m. 2d, Rachel Van Giesen, widow of Adrian J. Post, April 1, 1823 ; d. May 15, 1825; she d. Feb. 22, 1863. Ch., Abraham, b. Sept. 21, 1824; d. May -, 1849, unm. Abraham Van Houten, the elder, is said to have been "born and raised in the old Hopper house, that fine, large old farm house on a hill at Small Lots, where ex-Sheriff Henry Hopper lives. From there he came to Paterson. He was a farmer and a carpenter."1 He was called "Yan- neke's Brom," Jennie's Abraham, his mother's name being Jannetye or Yanneke. He lived in a stone house on the south side of Broadway, nearly opposite Mulberry street, where the Wigwam was afterwards built, now the site of the car sheds of the Paterson Railway Company. He occupied this house until 1818, when he bought another stone house then standing on the north side of Broadway, next west of the Erie railway, where he died. He seems to have been a man of superior intelligence. For twenty years or more he acted as agent of the Society for Establishing Useful Man- ufactures, and his day-book (now in the author's possession) shows that he was careful and systematic in looking after the interests of his employers. His farm, lying between Broadway and Pearl street, and from East Eighteenth street nearly to Carroll street, was kept in fine order. He also had a farm at Stony Road, next east of the Merselis farm, which he likewise kept in excellent condition. He did not seem to think, however, that it was worth while to bestow as much attention upon his lands at Totowa. He had several slaves, towards whom he was always very easy. One of them, named "Jack," a tricky fellow who used to steal a sack of grain now and then, excused himself on the plea, "It is no sin to steal from master." The other was called "Squire." "Betsey" was employed about the house. At one time he carried on a brick-yard at Totowa. "Abra- ham Van Houten was counted a wonderfully rich man in his day. When he died he was worth eight thousand dollars, and the people all stared, as if they thought he must have come out of the sky, to have so much money. I used to see him walking about the streets with his cane, and bossing his three or four niggers, and I used to think, 'If I only ever get to be as rich as he is, I would be satisfied;' but I did not expect ever to get so much money. He owned a woodlot up at Stony Road, where my father also had a. 12- acre lot of wood. Old Abraham used to go up there with his darkies, and would go through the wood carefully, tap- ping one tree after another with his cane and saying, 'Cut this one, Jack,' always carefully selecting a tree that was dead at the top, and ought to be cut out to let the others grow. The men always took note of the trees that he thus selected, and would mark them at once, so as to prevent mistakes. As he did not have land enough (!) he would have his wood piled up in great stacks along on the road, where it could be more easily handled and loaded on the wagons."2 He was elected a trustee of the Paterson Acad- emy, May 6, 1811. By deed (unrecorded) dated July 27,

1 Conversation with John R. Van Houten, April, 1881.

2 Ibid.

1773, Jenneke Van Houten, widow and relict of Helmeg: Van Houten, deceased, and her son Cornelius Van Houten, of the township of Achqueghenonck, for the consideration of five shillings, quit-claimed to Abraham Van Houten a part of Lot No. 7 in the Bogt: "Beginning at Passaick riv- er and from thence southerly that is to say on a parpendic- ular line to the north bounds of said lot No. 7, twelve chains and twenty-one links more or less to the line of John Van Blercom's lot; and from thence easterly with the full breadth of said Lot No. Seven twenty-one chains and seventy-six links more or less to a lot of land now in pos- session of John Roe Van Houten1 containing 24 acres be the. same more or less; bounded southerly by said John Van Blercom's lot ; east by said John Van Houten's lot; north by Walling Van Winckels lot, and the road leading from the. Bridge Near the Great Falls to Acquaghenonck; west by the first mentioned line." By deed (unrecorded) dated July 6, 1808, Elizabeth Van Houten, widow and relict of John Van Houten, late of Totowa, deceased, released to Abra- ham Van Houten the equal half part of a tract of 82 acres in Weasil Mountain, "descended and devolved from Abra- ham Van Riper, late of the township of Acquackanonk, de- ceased, to the said Elizabeth Van Houten and Abraham Van Houten, the surviving heirs at law." The will of Abra- ham Van Houten is dated Feb. 16, 1825, witnessed by James Van Blarcom, Garret A. Hopper and Henry I. Van Blar- com. It was proved May 26, 1825. He gave to his wife Rachel the use of his farm, dwelling house and personal es- tate until his son Abraham Van Houten should arrive at the age of twenty-one years, with remainder to his son Abra- ham; but if said son Abraham should die having no child- ren, then he gave certain legacies, and one-third of the res- idue of his estate to his wife Rachel, in fee, and the other two-thirds to his relatives.2 Abraham, the younger, at- tained to the age of twenty-one, and afterwards died, with- out having had a child. It was held by the courts, howev- er, that on his attaining twenty-one, his estate, under his father's will, was absolute and unqualified, the clause giv- ing the property over being held to mean the death of Abra- ham under twenty-one having no children.3 Abraham the younger, by his will, dated April 29, 1848, proved June I, 1849, devised all his estate to his mother, Rachel Van Hou- ten. 4

IV. Catrina, b. Dec. 4, 1759.

V. Jennetje, b. Feb. 11, 1762 ; m. Hendrick-Frans Post (b. Jan. 28, 1761, at Wesel), 5 Nov. 10, 1782. Issue: I. Margrietje, b. March 21, 1783; 2. Jenneke, b. Aug. 14,. 1785; 3. Elizabeth, b. July 16, 1792 ; 4. Hendrick, b. Oct. 23, 1794.

VI. Elizabeth, m. Dirck (Derrick) Van Rypen (bap. Dec. 2, 1736, son of Jan-Thomas-Juriaen-Thomasse and Marritje Van Houten), 6 Jan. 22, 1767. Issue : I. Jenneke, b. Nov. 18, 1774; 2. Marritje, b. April 24, 1778.

1 That is, John Roelof Van Houten. 2 Essex Wills, D, 212.

3 8 N. J. Equity Reports (4 Halsted), 272, 745.

4 Passaic County Wills, A, 413.

5 See p. 146. 6 See p. 161.

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Gerrebrant-Dirck-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Jan- netje Sip had children:

I. Dirck, m. Marytje ("Molly") Van Rypen; d. Dec. I, 1810, aged 68 years, 4 months and 20 days. She was baptized Nov. 12, 1747, dau. of Abraham-Harmen-Juriaen Thomasse and Elizabeth Bradbury;1 d. May 25, 1816, aged 67 years and 6 months, according to her tombstone, which bears the inscription:

Dear friends who live to mourn and weep, Behold the Grave wherein I sleep. Prepare for death for you must die And be intombd as well as I.

Dirck occupied his father's homestead in the present West Side Park, but his last days were spent with his son Gerre- brant, in the stone house on Water street, known for the last half century or more as the Doremus homestead. When the great flood occurred in the river, in November, 1810, Dirck Van Houten lay on his death bed in the kitchen of that old house, and the water rose to the doorstep. Al- though he was commonly known as "Dirck " Van Houten, he signed his name to official documents as Richard G. Van Houten. His will, dated Aug. 13, 1810, witnessed by Ad- rian Van Houten, Jacob R. Van Houten and Encrease Gould, was proved March 27, 18II.2 He devised all his estate to his wife during her widowhood, with remainder as follows:

3d-I give and bequeath to my son Gerrebrant Van Houten one lot of land of fifteen acres of lands adjoining lands on which he now lives to- gether with twelve acres of woodland in the flat swamp being the north- east corner of my lot adjoining land of the late Cornelius Van Houten to be so taken out.

2d-I give and bequeath to my said son twelve acres beginning at the northeasterly corner of said lot, it being also the corner of lands late of Cornelius Van Houten & Hermonous Courter running along the line of said Van Houten five chains thence parallel with the line of the said Courter westerly till it contains twelve acres strict measure he having had one hundred and eleven acres in the Singac which I had some time ago conveyed to him by deed.

4th-I give and bequeath to my loving son Abraham the southwest side of my homestead farm beginning four chains from the corner of my garden fence up stream at the bank of the river, thence with a straight line to the southwest side of a small bridge in a field across a ditch thence along the old road or drift way till it comes to the southwest side of a stone bridge in the said road, thence northeasterly half a chain, thence north- westerly a straight line till it comes to lands of my son Gerrebrant Van Houten the same course that my outside lines bear, and also one lot of woodland adjoining lands of Adrian Van Houten, be the same more or less, and also one equal half of a ten acre lot of woodland lying in the clove be the same more or less, adjoining lands of the sd Gerrebrant Van Houten, and also one other lot of land lying near the Coll barack 3 adjoining lands of Peter Hopper at both ends containing nineteen acres be the same more or less, and one equal half of the residue of the lot of land at the Hartabarach not before bequeathed and fifteen acres out of a lot of woodland I own in Singac adjoining lands of Richard Dey also ten acres out of the north end of my twenty-eight acre lot adjoining lands formerly of John Van Giesen to him his heirs and assigns forever.

5th-I give and bequeath to my loving son Adrian Van Houten one pair of horses my best wagon with all the farming utensils my wind mill I give to Abraham and Adrian each the half and I give to my sd son Adrian two milk cows one heifer and three sheep as his other brother had and one negro boy named Jim and also my weav- ers loom with the apparatus thereto belonging and also the residue of my homestead not before bequeathed and also twenty acres or resi-

1 See p. 164. 2 Bergen County Wills, A, 347.

3 Kaal bergh-Bare (or Bald) mountain, near Oldham.

due of my twenty-eight acre lot adjoining lands of the Van Giesens and also one equal half of my wood lot in the clove adjoining lands of Garre- brant Van Houten and also all the residue of my lot of land at Harta- barach not before bequeathed adjoining lands late of Courter and also fifteen acres of wood land at Singac adjoining R. Deys land and also five acres out of a twenty-five acre lot near the Green brook adjoining lands of Adrian A. Van Houten to him his heirs and assigns forever.

6th-I give and bequeath the residue of my twenty-five acre lot near the green brook together with five acres of land out of my woodlot in Singack off of the north west end of said lot to my six daughters namely Betse, Jane, Ann, Polly, Nashe and Charity to be equally di- vided between them share and share alike.

7th-I give and bequeath to my two daughters Polly and Charity their outsets as their other sisters have had.

8th-I give and bequeath to my six daughters namely Betse, Jane, Ann, Polly, Nashe and Charity all the residue of my personal estate to be equally divided between them share and share alike.

9th-I hereby order and direct that my three sons Gerrebrant, Abra- ham and Adrian do pay $275 each amounting in the whole to $825, and divide the same equally between my six daughters share and share alike and I hereby charge the same on their lands herein bequeathed namely to Betse, Jane, Ann, Polly, Nashe and Charity, within three years after my decease.

roth-But in case any of my children should die without issue that their share hereby bequeathed to him or them shall be equally divided among my children share and share alike.

IIth-And lastly I hereby appoint my three sons Garrebrant, Abra- ham and Adrian my executors.

II. Gerretje, m. Michael-Hartman Veeland.1 Issue : I. Marretje, b. Dec. 31, 1766; m. Jacob Van Riper ; 2. Hartman, b. June 25, 1770; m. Thynie Post, Dec. 15, 1793; 3. Cornelius, b. Nov. 10, 1777; d. in inf. ; 4. Michael; 5. Jannetje, b. June 30, 1787.

III. Metje, bap. at Second River, Feb. 4, 1749 ; m. Cornelius-Roelof Van Houten.

IV. Adrian, b. Oct. 9, 1755; m. Elizabeth Van Houten, dau. of John-Roelof Van Houten ; he died intestate, and Gerrebrant Van Houten and John Van Houten were ap- pointed administrators, Oct. 24, 1782; she d. Feb. 23, 1835, aged 82 years, 3 months and one day. When Adrian was married, his father, Gerrebrant, gave him a farm on Water street, which he afterwards devised to his son by will,2 and erected thereon a stone house, where Adrian lived during his eight years of married life. This property subsequent- ly passed into the possession of David Bensen.

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History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 63

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914 Publication date: 1901 Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 466

Author: Nelson, William, 1847-1914
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Paterson : Press Printing and Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 466