History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 64

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

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Halmagh-Dirck-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Antje Post had children :

I. Metje, m. Johannes-Dirck Van Giesen, m. 1. July 24, 1762. She is not mentioned in her husband's will, Oct. 8, 1808, and probably died before that date.

II. Adrian, m. Marretye Cadmus. He lived in his father's former homestead, on the north side of Totowa av- enue, near North Nineteenth street. He was called Adrian H. Van Houten. His will, dated Nov. II, 1823, witnessed by John Joseph Blauvelt, Cornelius E. Merselis and Garret Blauvelt, was proved June 10, 1824.3 Issue : I. Helmigh, bap. in 1770, at Paramus; 2. Leah, d. March 10, 1806, aged 33 yrs., 6 mos., and II days; 3. Abraham, b. Dec. 16, 1774; d. July 28, 1804; 4. Antye, b. March 21, 1778; 5. Elisabeth, b. May 18, 1781; 6. Adreyaen, b. Dec. 13, 1784; d. March

1 See pp. 127, 130. 2 See pp. 230, 241.

3 Essex County Wills, D, 26,

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16, 1806; 7. Dirck, b. May 1, 1787; d. Feb. 25, 1806; 8. Cattelyntye (Tyne), b. Dec. 29, 1789; m. John Post, jun. ; Ch., Adrian, b. April 2, 1827; 9. Pieter, b. Jan. 21, 1793. Of these children, Elisabeth, Ann, Tyne, Pieter and grandson Adrian A. Van Houten were named in the will of Adrian H. Van Houten in 1823.

III. Dirck, bap. Nov. 21, 1746; m. Ist, Ragel New- kerck; 2d, Ragel Post. He was a fine-looking man, six feet high, big and powerful. He was a great sportsman, raising and keeping horses and dogs. He was fond of hunting, and it is related of him that "he would go out on Preakness mountain, shoot a deer, pack it on a stick, carry it home on his shoulders, and hang it up in a tree, where the family would cut steaks off it as long as required."1 He lost an eye in some way. His property went fast,2 and he became quite reduced in circumstances before his death. He lived on Burhans lane, near Haledon avenue, but sold his home farm, extending from the river nearly to Oldham brook, on Feb. I, 1796. In his later years he lived on the west side of Main street, between Van Houten aud Ellison streets. He d. in 1819.

IV. Pieter, bap. Jan. I, 1750; m. Leya Van Rypen. She was bap. July 20, 1755, dau. of Simon (Simeon) Van Rypen, of Slooterdam.3 Pieter lived a short distance northwest of his brother Dirck, or quite near to the Oldham brook. He sold this farm, with his residence, May I, 1801, to Peter A. Hopper.4 There is reason to believe that he then removed to the southwestern part of Totowa, near the new Jackson bridge across the river. In 1805, however, this farm was occupied by his son, Simeon P. Van Houten. In 1817 Peter and his wife were living at Morristown. The following note to Judge Gerrebrant Van Houten, of Pater- son, in relation to some of Simeon's troubles, was proba- bly written from Morristown :

Mr. Van houten Sir I Write you this few lins to let you know that I ant abel to com down to sea to that hows and I woold wish yow to dow with it as you tink Proper and I will bea sattisfied with it this from yours and soforth

April 20th 1819

Peter Van howten

V. Jenneke, bap. at Paramus, Sept. 15, 1751; prob. d. young.

VI. Catrina, m. Roelof Johannes Van Houten; d. Jan. 26, 1838, aged 79 years. She was a very small woman, and in that respect was an amusing contrast to lier great, stal- wart husband.

VII. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 23, 1756; prob. d. young.

Jacob-Dirck-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Jenneke Van Rype had children :

I. Aeltje, bap. Dec. 20, 1747 ; m. Abraham Godwin. Issue: I. Dirck, bap. Jan. 29, 1769 ; this Richard Godwin was still living in 1831 ; 2. Antje, bap. Sept. 22, 1771; 3 and 4. Jennetye and Marretye, twins, bap. Jan. 4, 1788.

II. Metje, m. Johannes Ryerse. Issue : I. Jenneke, bap. May I, 1768; 2. Jacob. Both these children were liv- ing in 183I.

III. Marritje, b. April 13, 1754; m. Matheus (Metys) Ackerman. Issue : I. Polle, bap. Jan. 24, 1779 ; 2. Prove- dence, b. Jan. 15, 1780 ; 3. Matheus, b. May 5, 1782 ; 4. Jannetje, b. April 12, 1784; 5. Elizabeth ; 6. Susan ; 7. Abraham. These seven children of Marritje are all named in the will of their uncle, Jacob J. Van Houten, in 1831.

IV. Jacob, m. Elizabeth -. On April 12, 1784, his father conveyed to him Lot No. 10 West, in the Bogt, except ten acres where the house and barn stood, and a lot of fifteen acres sold to Jacob Van Winkle; Jacob mortgaged the tract the next day to Isaac Vanderbeck, jun., of Saddle River, to secure the payment of £17, 45., Iod. in one year. Probably to pay off this mortgage, he sold to Vanderbeck a strip of 34 acres, out of the northerly end of Lot No. 10, and the title subsequently passed to Abraham Godwin. Jacob mortgaged the remainder of Lot No. 10 to John F. Post, April 12, 1792. On Feb. I, 1800, he conveyed 12} acres out of the southeast corner of this lot to Jurrie C. Vau Ri- per.1 He was known as Jacob I. Van Houten. In his later years, after he had sold his lands in the Bogt, he kept a grocery store at the corner of Bank and Ryerson streets, where he did quite an extensive business for that time. In his older days he catered more particularly to the trade of the children of the neighborhood, who were very fond of his "roundhearts," and other dainties equally toothsome. He was popularly known as "Yawpie" Van Houten. Notwith- standing his claims for consideration upon the urchins of the day, the more mischievous among them were wont to make sport of him and his peculiarities. One of those fuu- loving lads has been heard to relate, with great glee, how, upon one occasion, he and some of his companions roused "Yawpie" out of his sleep late one night and brought him to the door on some false alarm, whereupon one of them fired a pistol in the air and another threw a handful of dried peas against the old man's nether limbs, and then ran away, leaving him in an agony of fear under the supposition that he had been fatally shot. As the narrator of this incident was for half a century or more a venerated Presbyterian eld- er, it may be surmised that he repented him of this prac- tical joke. Jacob Van Houten died Jan. 31, 1832. His will, dated July 12, 1831, witnessed by Peter Hawrey, Casper Duryee and Abraham Hawrey, was proved Feb. 14, 1832. Executors-the Rev. Samuel Fisher and Paul Post. He ev- idently held Dr. Fisher in high regard, for in his will he di- rected his executors to cancel a number of $20 notes, dated May I, 1816, against the Rev. Samuel Fisher, who was pas- tor of the First Presbyterian church, and had given these notes to secure Mr. Van Houten for $310 which he had ad- vanced while a trustee of the society, 1816-23, toward the erection of the building. Jacob directed that the remain- der of his estate should be divided between his twelve nieces and nephews.2 From this it may be inferred that he left neither wife nor child.

V. Dirck, m. Elizabeth He lived in the Bogt,

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

2 See pp. 232, 234. 3 See p. 168.

4 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, B, 377.

1 Essex County Transcribed Mortgages, A, 45, 92 ; do. Deeds, A, 560. 2 Essex County Wills, E, 518 ; Records of the First Presbyterian So- ciety, Paterson, 1893, pp. 7-28.

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where he owned Lot No. 9, West. As soon as this came into his possession, by the will of his grandfather, Dirck, he began to sell and mortgage it. On June II, 1771, he took up a mortgage on sixty acres of this land for £70, pay- able Dec. I, 1785; on Sept. 13, 1783, he borrowed £126 on mortgage.1 He was called Derrick Ja. Van Houten.

Helmerich-Johannes-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Aagtje Vreeland had children (bap. at Bergen):

I. Johannes, bap. April 21, 1754; m. Rachel DeMa- ree, m. l. July II, 1778 ; d. Oct. 31, 1807 ; she d. Feb. II, 1843. His father devised certain lands to Johannes for life, with remainder to liis children.

II. Jenneke, b. Nov. 13, 1756; d. in inf.

III. Michael, b. March 9, 1761; d. in inf.

IV. Jenneke, b. Oct. 16, 1762.

V. Michael, b. Dec. 17, 1768; m. Aeltje Van Horne, Dec. 15, 1793; d. June I, 1803 ; she m. 2d, Cornelius Van Rypen, May 31, 1807; d. July 2, 1846.2

Johannes-Johannes-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Aeltje Sickels had children :

I. Johannes, b. Jan. 22, 1763; m. Annatje Collerd, Dec. 19, 1782. Issue : I. Geertje, b. Feb. 10, 1784; 2. Johannis, b. Feb. II, 1789; 3. Aeltje, b. Jan. 9, 1791; 4. Sara, b. June 25, 1795; 5. Annatje, b. March 15, 1798; 6. Johannis, b. Aug. 27, 1802.

II. (prob.) Gerrit, b. Jan. 13, 1764; m. Cornelia Van Ness (dau. of Simon Van Ness, of Pompton Plains), June I, 1782; d. Aug. 23, 1826; she d. Sept. 15, 1824, aged 59 yrs., II mos. Gerrit left home at an early age to seek his for- tune as a mariner. In the course of his voyaging he came to Acquackanonk, where he found a wife, marrying when not twenty years of age. He continued his life on the water until 1796, when he bought from Abraham Ackerman, for £205 N. Y. money, one of the dock lots at Acquackanonk, 62x240 feet, and engaged in mercantile business and ship- ping. By deed March 16, 1803, for $333. 33, he bought of Jacob E. Vreeland, a tract of fourteen acres, formerly of Lucas Wessels. On this he erected a dwelling, which he occupied for three years, when he sold the place to Abra- ham Ackerman for $1,900. It is now the homestead of ex- Judge Henry P. Simmons. Mr. Van Houten then bought a stone house on the west side of Main avenue, a short dis- tance north of the Reformed church, and there ended his days. After his death this property was sold to Uriah Van Riper.3 Gerrit Van Houten was elected constable, and sub- sequently (Nov. 29, 1804) was appointed a justice of the peace. At a later date he was appointed a Judge of the Essex county common pleas, and held those offices for many years, and until his death. He was a man of super- ior education, and did a considerable business in drawing deeds, wills and other legal instruments. Referring to his death, the Paterson Intelligencer of August 30, 1826, said: "He was for a number of years a Judge of the County Courts, the duties of which station he discharged with in- flexible integrity. He advocated both by precept and prac-

tice the sacred principles of Christianity, enduring with the utmost fortitude and resignation, an illness of six months, and died with the cheering hope of a blessed immortality." His will, dated July 29, 1826, witnessed by John Nichols, Robert S. Gould and Samuel W. Pratt, was proved Sept. 15, 1826. He directed his executors to sell and dispose of his estate; to see that his son Henry was comfortably clothed until twenty-one; Henry to have "my large family Bible ;" remainder of the estate to be divided between all his children. Executors-his son, Gerrit Van Houten, jun., and friend Peter Jackson. 1

Johannes-Roelof-Cornelis-Roelof Cornelissen and Eliza- beth Van Rype had children:

I. Fytje, bap. Sept. 29, 1747.

II. Roelof, m. Catrina Van Houten; d. Dec. - , 1839, in his eighty-third year ; she d. Jan 26, 1838, aged 79 years. They are interred in the Van Houten burying ground at To- towa. Roelof was six feet high, and weighed from 180 to 200 pounds. His wife was barely half his size. Roelof oc- cupied his father's house on the southwest side of the Toto- wa road. It then stood in the edge of a dense forest, where now there is a meadow. When the young couple took pos- session, there stood between the house and the road, the hut of an aged Indian. While there was no special inter- course between him and the family, their relations were al- ways friendly, and he was allowed to remain there undis- turbed. At this time the Indians were accustomed to come down out of Garret Mountain, which was then covered with the primeval forests, and would camp on the meadow along the river, just east of where the ford crossed. They would pass the river by the ford or in their canoes and borrow cooking utensils of the Van Houtens, and after stewing or roasting their fish or game, and having a ceremonial dance, they would return the borrowed articles, accompanying them with a present of their rude cookery, which the Van Hou- tens always courteously accepted with a show of gratitude, but when the Indians were gone would carefully dispose of without using themselves.2 During the Revolution, the American soldiers frequently came to the house for milk, but they never annoyed the neighbors. Catrina brought with her, to assist in her housekeeping, a slave woman, Flora, who had been bequeathed to her by her father, Hal- magh-Dirck-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen. Flora was a good worker when she felt so disposed, but was most in her element on Sunday afternoons, when surrounded by fifteen or twenty of her own race in the great kitchen of the old house. Her attractions subsequently made such an im- pression upon Dirck Tanner, an enterprising and industri- ous free negro, that he bought her freedom and married her. She was the mother of the late William Tanner, one of the most respected of the colored men of Paterson for many years. She was buried on the farm of "Case" Van Houten, on the northeast side of the Totowa road. 3

1 Essex County Wills, D, 380.

2 Conversation with Edo Merselis, about 1878.

1 Essex County Transcribed Mortgages, A, 16, 42. 2 See p. 170.

3 Conversation with Halmagh-John-Roelof-Joliannes-Roelof-Corne- 3 Essex County Transcribed Deeds, A, 330, 332; B, 53; K, 59, 62; G, . lis-Roelof Cornelissen Van Houten, in 1878 and 1895, and with Samuel 659; K, 201.

A. Van Saun, July 27, 1881.

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III. Elizabeth, bap. Dec. 24, 1752; m. Adrian-Garre- brant-Dirck-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen; he d. about Oct., 1782; she d. Feb. 23, 1825. On her tombstone she thus ad- jures her friends:

Friends and relations weep no more My toil and labors now are o'er Be thou prepared to follow me Death soon will also summon thee.

IV. Yannetye, b. Oct. 31, 1763; m. Dirk (Richard) Van Giesen. Issue: I. Metye, b. Nov. 12, 1783 ; m. Halmagh- Dirck -- Halmagh -- Dirck -- Hellemeg -- Roelof Cornelissen; 2. Leybetye, b. May 29, 1787; m. Henry-George Doremus, and lived with him in a stone house which they built on her property near the southeast corner of Broadway and Straight street ; . 3. Feytye, b. March 19, 1791 ; d. Nov. 28, 1809, unm.

Sixth Generation.

Roelof-Helmigh-Roelof-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen and Annatje Kip had children:

I. Halmagh, b. Jan. 8, 1766; m. Lena (Elenor) Van Blarcom (b. Oct. 7, 1772, dau. of Anthony Van Blarcom and Hannah his wife1 ); d. July 24, 1841; she d. April 25, 1858. He was a noted character in his day. In person he was of medium height, quite stout with sandy hair and a florid complexion, wherefore, to distinguish him from the other Halmagh Van Houtens, he was called Rooe Hap (" Rooe " 2 being an obsolete Dutch word, still in use among the Jersey Dutch, for "red ")-or "Red Halmagh." Having bought from John Van Blarcom, Nov. 23, 1792, half an acre of land at what is now the northwest corner of East Eighteenth and Willis streets, he built a small frame house and swung to the breeze a sign bearing a rude figure of a bull's head as a token that entertainment was there to be had for man and beast. Standing thus at the turn of the main road from Paterson to "the Landing" and New York, the "Sign of the Bull's Head " drew much custom from the wayfarer. The prosperity of the new tavern was greatly threatened when the surveyors of the highways met on Jan. 25, 1798, and laid out Market street, from Hamilton street to the Wesel road, thus opening a new and more direct route from the town to New York, which, however, had the disadvantage of passing a long distance from this tavern. But "Rooe" was equal to the emergency. He secured the appointment of new surveyors, who met on July 30, 1798, at the house of John I. Post (the ancient stone house still standing on the south side of Willis street, between Madison avenue and East Nineteenth street), and decided to vacate the new road "and to Relay the same from where the Road that leads from the Liberty Pole falls into the street by the Hotell to the House of Halmigh Van Houtin at the Sign of the Bulls head:"3 -that is to say, they not only vacated the proposed new road, which threatened Halmagh's busines, but they laid another road that would make his a "corner stand."

Willis street was for several years thereafter known as "the public road that leads from the factory to the Bullshead." Van Houten sold the tavern site, with a quarter of an acre of ground, to John J. Post, on Jan. 8, 1803, for $900, 1 and Post's son Adrian kept tavern there for nearly twenty years. The name was afterwards changed to "Peace and Plenty." On April 13, 1805, Halmagh bought from John Ryerson and Polly his wife, of Saddle River, a tract of 33. 12 acres, with house, barn, stables and other buildings, where Warren Mitchell now lives, on the road from Lower Preakness to Mountain View. For this farm he paid $750. He added 34. 13 acres adjoining, on Jan. 31, 1806, by purchase from Abraham T. Ryerson, of Saddle River, for $761.71.2 In the latter conveyance he is designated as Helmug R. Van Houten of Acquackanonk. He had probably continued to reside in the meantime next to his old tavern. About 1808 he removed to his new place near Lower Preakness, where he kept tavern for several years. Subsequently he bought a tract of twenty-six acres on the east side of Haledon av- enue, at the crown of the hill, and built a stone house on the southeast corner of the present Haledon avenue and the road leading to the Goffle. Here he kept tavern until April 3, 1818, on which date he sold this place and ten acres in Bare Mountain for $1,650, to Cornelius P. Hopper, 3 who subsequently tore down the old tavern and built a larger and handsomer stone residence, still standing on the opposite side of the road. Van Houten returned to Paterson about this time, buying, April 13, 1819, for $500, from Rose Wright and others, devisees of Alexander Chambers, of Trenton, deceased, a lot 40x100 feet on the north side of Broadway, a short distance east of Mulberry street.4 He resided here for two or three years, when he again engaged in his old business of tavern keeping, at what was known as the "Four Corners," at the corner of the Slooterdam and Small Lots roads, a short distance from the Bergen county end of the present Fifth avenue bridge. About 1825 he again returned to Paterson, and occupied his house on Broadway. It had the old-fashioned half-doors, which the young men of the day would sportively leap when calling upon Halmagh's four handsome daughters. He sold this place, Dec. 30, 1836, to James Angus and John D. Hogan, for $1,800, and on April 7, 1837, he bought from Robert Campbell, of New Barbadoes, a house and lot on the north side of Water street, next to the Second Reformed church, for $1,200.5 There he ended his days. His will, dated Feb. 21, 1835, proved Aug. 17, 1841, devises all his estate to his wife Elen, during widowhood, with remainder to his children. Executors- wife Elen, Thomas Stagg and Brant Van Blarcom. 6

II. Johannes, m. Sally Van Bussen, Dec. 18, 1796; d. suddenly. He was called Johannes, or John R. Van Hou-

1 See pp. 216-218. The record in the family Bible says Anthony was b. Dec. 11, 1715, which is evidently an error for 1745.

2 Rooe is pronounced Ro-a.

3 History of Passaic County Roads, 29.

1 Essex County Transcribed Deeds, A, 354.

2 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, D, 375 ; E, 566.

3 Ib., K, 521.

4 E. J. Wills, Liber No. 37, f. 539; Essex County Transcribed Deeds, D, 475.

5 Bergen County Transcribed Deeds, Z, 364.

6 Passaic County Wills, A, 133.

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ten. Issue: I. Rulif, b. Sept. 18, 1797; m. Jane Van Hou- ten (dau. of Helmigh-Dirck Van Houten and Metje Van Giesen), Aug. 29, 1819 (ch., I. Helmagh, b. Jan. 31, 1820 ; 2. William, m. Gertrude Ann Speer: d. April 30, 1892, aged 67 yrs., 4 mos., 26 days); 2. William, b. Feb. 5, 1799 ; d. in inf .; 3. William, b. Aug. 21, 1800; 4. Lena, b. Jan. 5, 1802; 5. Annautye, b. Sept. 23, 1803; 6. John, b. Nov. 6, 1805; went to Albany; his descendants are in Des Moines, Iowa ; 7. Sally, b. Sept. 13, 1807; 8. Henry, b. Dec. 18, 1809; 9. Helmagh, b. Oct. 10, 1814; prob. m. Ann Van Ri- per, June 23, 1836; children-I. John, b. July 30, 1837; 2. Halmegh, b. Aug. 7, 1840; 3. Cornelia Ann, b. March 7, I842.

Roelof-Robert-Roelof-Hellemeg-Roelof Cornelissen had children:

By his first wife (Antye Hennion):

I. Robbert, b. March 28, 1774; m. Lenaw (Ellen) Van Giesen, May 18, 1793. He conveyed to John Van Allen, of Franklin, Bergen county, April 10, 1817, for $5,000, his homestead, containing 40 acres, together with another tract of 45 acres, half a mile south of his dwelling house.1 The farm is now occupied by Ralph Garrison, who married a daughter of John Van Allen. Issue : I. Rolef, b. Sept. 16, 1793 ; 2. Metye, b. Jan. 24, 1796 ; 3. Antye, b. May 2, 1798 ; 4. Elesabeth, b. July 24, 1800; 5. Marritye, b. Nov. 28, 1802; 6. Johannes, b. March 8, 1805; 7. Marregretiye, b. March 15, 1807; 8. Adrian, b. March 15, 1810; 9. Sophia, b. Oct. 14, 1812; IO. Maria, b. Sept. 2, 1815. The whole family removed to the Genessee country about 1820.

II. Johannes, b. Dec. 2, 1777 ; prob. m. Elizabeth Tomson. He was called John R. Van Houten. In 1805 he lived on the south side of Broadway, fifty feet east of Main street, on Lot No. 4 of Abraham Van Houten's property. Issue: I. John, b. Dec. 19, 1803; 2. Jane Margaret, b. Aug. 31, 1805; 3. Robbert, b. March II, 1807.

III. Elisabeth, b. April 22, 1780 ; she was brought up in the family of her uncle, Hessel Pieterse; m. Rynier Kip, May 17, 1801. Issue: I. Fytje, b. July 15, 1802 ; 2. Isaac, b. April 1, 1805 ; 3. Henry, b. Aug. 5, 1812 ; 4. John, b. Feb. 23, 1816.

By his second wife (Antje Berdan):

IV. Jacob, m. Elizabeth Lynes, living about a mile and a half above the Pompton church, toward Wanaque; he was a farmer and wheelwright there. Issue : I. Ruliff, b. Oct. 17, 1808; 2. Clarissa, b. Aug. 10, 1810.

V. Antye, b. Feb. 17, 1785; m. Halmagh Van Winkle, Aug. 19, 1804. Issue: I. Johannes, b. Feb. 22, 1805 ; 2. Adrian, b. July 17, 1809; 3. Peter Merselius, b. Feb. 25, 1814; 4. Ann Maria, b. July 29, 1817. Soon after the birth of the last-named child, Halmagh Van Winkle and wife removed to the neighborhood of Canton, Ills. Mrs. Van Winkle wrote such enthusiastic letters to her sister, Marregrietye, urging her to come out there, that the latter also removed thither. Antye soon after began to feel that the country was getting too crowded for her, and she "moved on" to

Missouri, where she died, leaving many descendants of the name of Van Winkle.

VI. Marregrietye, m. Jason M. Bass; he was a grocer in New York. As just related, he and his wife removed to Canton, Ills. ; about 1850 she came back to Paterson on a visit; on her return homeward she was taken ill and died before reaching Canton.

VII. Adreyaen, b. Sept. 10, 1789; d. June 20, 1799.

VIII. Albert, b. Nov. II, 1791; m. Ist, Geertje (Gerritje, Charity) Vreeland, 1 Sept. 11, 1813; 2d, Nelly Powelson, (dau. of Peter Poulese, of the Wesel road, and Jannetye, dau. of Dirck-Garrebrant Van Houten, of Totowa), wid. of Brinkerhoff, of Fishkill, N. Y., or vicinity. Albert lived at the corner of Broadway and East Eighteenth street. He d. Feb. 22, 1860; his second wife d. March 2, 1860.

IX. Feytye, b. Jan. 26, 1794; m. Theunis I. Spear, Ju- ly 18, 1813;2 d. Oct. 24, 1859.

X. Maria, b. Jan. 26, 1794 (twin with Feytye) ; d. in inf.

XI. Catreneu, b. Dec. 22, 1796 ; m. Henry Schoonmak- er, of Athenia.

XII. Jannetye, b. April 29, 1800; m. James Schoon- maker. He had a cotton mill at Godwinville, and after- wards at Pascack. Later he was superintendent of a cotton mill in the South, and was there when the war began. Is- sue: I. Daniel, b. Feb. 26, 1822 ; 2. Ann Mariah, b. March I, 1825; 3. Ralph, b. Nov. 22, 1827 ; 4. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 24, 1830.

Adriyaan -- Robert -- Roelof -- Hellemeg -- Roelof Cornelissen and Yannetye Merselis had child :

I. Adreyaen, b. May 4, 1776; m. Tina Van Winkle, May 3, 1801; d. June 23, 1857; she was b. Feb. 3, 1777 ; 3 d. March 15, 1844. Adreyaen's father having died when he was very young, he was taken into the family of his aunt Feytje, who had married Hessel Pieterse, on the Wesel road. Mr. Pieterse had no children of his own and was generous in the use of his large means in aiding his less fortunate rel- atives. It was doubtless through him that Adrian was set up in business at Acquackanonk, where he subsequently had a large country store, on Main avenue, below Prospect street; he also had one of the Dock Lots, probably No. 5. 4 By the will of his grandfather, Robert Van Houten, he re- ceived a tract of 352 acres near Little Falls, which he sold Feb. 2, 1800, to Evert H. Van Ness, of Caldwell, for $893. 5 In 1816, he removed to Paterson, forming a partnership with his father-in-law, Cornelius Van Winkle, in a country store. He built a large frame house, two stories high, with covered porch in front, where he had his store and residence, on the southwest corner of West and River streets. It was torn down two or three years ago to make way for the present brick hotel. In 1818 Van Houten carried on the business of spinning and carding wool, in the "Young Beaver Mill," near the river, west of Prospect street ; the

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History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic, New Jersey, Part 64

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