Lucas Cornelisen VAN HORN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: CBVH 013
• Will: 28 May 1760, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ
• Probate: 19 Jun 1760, Bergen County, NJ

Notes:

(1) Zabriskie, George Olin, "Christian Barentsen Van Horn and Some of His Descendants," The American Genealogist, Vol. 44, No. 1 (January 1968), pp. 43, 44-45:

Lucas Cornelisen Van Horn, son of Cornelis Christiansen Van Horn . . . by his wife Margrietje Vanderburgh, was born in Hackensack Township, probably in the present Teaneck, N.J. lived in this same area. The New York City Lutheran Church records show that he was a member of the Lutheran Church at Hackensack on 19 Aug. 1711. The will of Luykes van Horn of Hackensack, dated 28 May 1760, proved 19 June 1760 (NJW 3:336 and Williams), mentions but does not name his wife, and children Marytye, Jannetje, Gritye, Elsye, Sietsye, Annatye, Angenitye and Rachel; executors: David Van Buskirk and Peter Demarest Jr; witnesses: William Campbell, Dr. Abraham van Horn and William van Horn.

Lucas married, first, with banns dated 21 April 1705, at Hackensack Reformed Church, Aaltje Sebase Banta, born in Hackensack Township, died 10 Nov. 1744 according to the Lutheran records which call her Antje, daughter of Seba Epke and Maria A. (Sip) Banta; second, 11 June 1747 at Hackensack Lutheran Church, Rachel Matthyssen, born at Hackensack Township, baptized there 4 May 1705 (Lutheran), daughter of Mattheus Cornelissen and Tryntje Hendricks Helling, and widow of Jan Borgond.

Children (all by first wife, born in or near Teaneck, N.J.): . . .

i. Marytje, b. 2 July 1705, bapt. 29 July 1705 at Hackensack (Lutheran).

ii. Annatje, bapt. 1 Dec. 1706 Hackensack (Ref.), d.y.

iii. Cornelis, b. 28 July 1708, bapt. 22 Aug. 1708, Hackensack (Luth.); d. 4 Dec. 1740 ca. 30 years (Lutheran Ch. recs.). . . .

iv. Margrietje, b. 25 Feb. 1710, bapt. 25 Feb. 1711 Hackensack (Ref.).

v. Jannetje, b. 28 Sept. 1712, bapt. 26 Oct. 1712, Hackensack (Lutheran). She did not m. Dirck Cadmus whose wife was really daughter of Rutger Jorise Van Horne of Bergen. She was mentioned in her father's will in 1760 but her marital status was not indicated. . . .

vi. Elsie, bapt. 6 Feb. 1715 Hackensack (Ref.). . . .

vii. Sietje, bapt. 1 Jan. 1717 Hackensack (Ref.). . . .

viii. Angenietje, b. 5 Jan. 1719, bapt. 25 Jan. 1719 (Ref.).

ix. Seba, bapt. 18 Dec. 1720 Hackensack (Ref.), twin; d. summer of 1744 (Lutheran recs.). . . .

x. Annatje, bapt. 18 Dec. 1720 Hackensack (Ref.), twin. . . .

xi. Aaltje, b. 27 July 1722, bapt. 5 Aug. 1722 Hackensack (Lutheran). . . .

xii. Rachel, m. David Van Buskirk.

Lucas married Aaltje Sebase BANTA after 21 Apr 1705 in Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ. Aaltje died on 10 Apr 1744. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marytje VAN HORN was born on 2 Jul 1705 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 29 Jul 1705 in Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ.
2. Margrietje VAN HORN was born on 2 Jul 1705 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 29 Jul 1705 in Lutheran Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ; died before 5 Apr 1747.
3. Annatje VAN HORN was born before 1 Dec 1706 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 1 Dec 1706 in Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ; died before 18 Dec 1720 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ.
4. Cornelis VAN HORN was born on 28 Jul 1708 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 22 Aug 1708 in Lutheran Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ; died on 4 Dec 1740.
5. Jannetje VAN HORN was born on 28 Sep 1712 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 26 Oct 1712 in Lutheran Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ.
6. Elsie VAN HORN was born before 6 Feb 1715 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 6 Feb 1715 in Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ.
7. Sietje VAN HORN was born before 1 Jan 1717 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 1 Jan 1717 in Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ.
8. Agnenietje VAN HORN was born on 5 Jan 1719 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 25 Jan 1719 in Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ.
9. Seba VAN HORN was born before 18 Dec 1720 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 18 Dec 1720 in Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ; died in 1744.
10. Annatje VAN HORN was born before 18 Dec 1720 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 18 Dec 1820 in Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ.
11. Aaltje VAN HORN was born on 27 Jul 1722 in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 5 Aug 1722 in Lutheran Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ; died on 27 Aug 1804 in New York City, New York County, NY.
12. Rachel VAN HORN was born in Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ.

Family/Spouse: Rachel MATTHYSSEN. Rachel was born before 4 May 1705 in Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ; was christened on 4 May 1705 in Lutheran Church, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: CBVH 002
• Will: 22 Mar 1727, Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ
• Probate: 24 Mar 1729, Bergen County, NJ

Notes:

(1) Zabriskie, George Olin, "Christian Barentsen Van Horn and Some of His Earlier Descendants," The American Genealogist, Vol. 43, No. 4 (October 1967), pp. 193, 197-198:

Cornelis Christiansen Van Horn, second son of Christian Barentsen Van Horn by Jannetje Jans, was born in New Amsterdam and baptized there in the Reformed Church on 3 Aug. 1653. Cornelis acquired land in the old Hackensack Township, Bergen County, in the Bogota-Teaneck area, along with his step-father, brothers and half-brothers, and also in the Closter area. The first patents of the Teaneck area were mainly confirmatory. The first one to Cornelis was dated in 1685 and covered 1183 acres between the Hackensack River and the West Branch of Overpeck Creek. This land was in or near the area of Teaneck, just north of State Highway 4. Lutheran church services were often held in the home of Cornelis in Teaneck, a region where most of the other Lutheran families lived.

His Closter lands were on both sides of the Schraalensburgh Road, immediately south of the present Harrington Park between the Hackensack River and the Tenakill, with the northern line likely the Dwarskill. In 1686 Cornelis, his brother Hans, two half-brother Van Buskirks, three Bantas and one Vanderlinde, all of Hackensack, and the elder Van Buskirk of Bergen, were charged with "a Riote by them Comitted in the sd County (Bergen) and for refuseing to obey the King's Authority there." The records on the subject of the riot, the participants, and the end results, are scanty. It is likely that the dispute with the East Jersey Governor and Council was concerned with the title to the Hackensack lands.

According to the Rev. David D. Cole (History of Rockland County, New York, p. 255), on 29 April 1703 Cornelis Christianse and others were given the Waywayanda Patent covering land in Orange County, New York. This land other patents overlapped and also were on or near the disputed boundary between New York and New Jersey. This Cornelis may have been our Van Horn, but there is no evidence that he or any of his children lived in Orange County. Williams, however, said that he was Van Horn and that in 1763 he and his fellow patentees lost title to the land in Orange County for non-payment of quit rents.

On 22 March 1726/7 Cornelis van Horen, yeoman of Hackensack, Bergen County, N. J., made his will, and it was proved 24 March 1728/9 (N. J. Wills 1:479; also in Williams): to wife Margarieta, life interest in the whole estate, or as long as she remained his widow; to eldest son Luickes "farm on which he now lives"; to sons Christeyaen, Cornelis ("my third son"), and Johanes "land where they each live"; to youngest son Derik "farm where I live"; to unnamed children of the eldest daughter Jannetje ??20; to daughter Anatie, wife of Samuel Desmorest, ??100; to youngest daughter Else, wife of John van Boskerck, ??45 as she had had ??55. "My brew kettle [is] to remain where it is for use of my five sons."

No record has been found of the marriage of Cornelis to his wife Margrietje Vanderburgh, daughter of Lucas Dirckszen Vanderburgh and Annatje Cornelis. She was baptized 26 May 1658 in the Dutch Church on Manhattan, and was living when Cornelis made his will, but nothing more is known of her.

Williams said that Van Horn was the Cornelis Christiaenszen who married Anna Wessels 19 Feb. 1689 in New York City. This is most unlikely for three reasons: (a) Cornelis Christiaensen Van Horn did not live in New York City (the church record said that both the bride and groom lived there); (b) The marriage came much too late for the first four Van Horn children (they were married 1705-1711); and (c) The numerous granddaughters named Margrietje support the conclusion that Margrietje, not Anna, was the mother of Cornelius's children.

Children (all probably born in Teaneck): . . .

i. Lucas Cornelisen. . . .

ii. Jannetje Cornelis. . . .

iii. Christian Cornelisen. . . .

iv. Cornelis Cornelissen. . . .

v. Johanes Cornelisen. . . .

vi. Annatje Cornelis.

vii. Dirck Cornelissen, bapt. 14 Feb. 1697, Hackensack Reformed Church; d.y. . . .

viii. Elsie Cornelis, bapt. 16 Apr. 1699, Hackensack Reformed Church. . . .

ix. Dirck (Derrick) Cornelisen, b. 2 Sept. 1705, bapt. 30 Sept. 1705 in New York Lutheran Church.

Cornelis + Margrietje VANDERBURGH. Margrietje was born before 26 May 1658 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland [now New York City, New York County, NY]; was christened on 26 May 1658 in Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, New Netherland [now New York City, New York County, NY]; died after 22 Mar 1727. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Reference Number: CBVH 000
• Immigration: Bef 3 Aug 1653, New Amsterdam, New Netherland [now New York City, New York County, NY]

Notes:

(1) E-mail message dated January 8, 2010 to the compiler from Marleen Van Horne :

There were three immigrants to New Netherlands whose descendants took some version of the Van Horne surname. The three men were Jan Cornelissen, from Hoorn, North Holland; Christian Barentsen, probably from Hoorn, Terschelling Island, Friesia; and Matthys Cornelissen from Jutland. These men were not related, and had absolutely nothing to do with one another after coming to North America. . . .

Christian Barentsen died when his children were still small, they were raised by his wife's second husband. They lived primarily in Bergen County, New Jersey and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

(2) Zabriskie, George Olin, "Christian Barentsen Van Horn and Some of His Earlier Descendants," The American Genealogist, Vol. 43, No. 4 (October 1967), pp. 193-195:

Hoorn is a seaport in the province of Noord Holland in the Netherlands, located on the Hoornerhop, an arm of the IJsselmeer (Zuider Zee), about 25 miles northeast of Amsterdam and was established as a municipality in the 14th century. During the colonization of New Netherland in America, Hoorn furnished quite a few immigrants, several of whom, or their descendants, adopted Van Hoorn (Horn-Horne) as a permanent surname. This name means only that the founder of the family came from Hoorn (usually born there), and does not imply relationship among the various families of that name in America, or to the ancient Netherlands family of Hoorn, or denote the right to any coat of arms.

One immigrant from Hoorn was Christian Barentsen, who, with his wife, Jannetje Jans, and one young son, came to New Amsterdam before 3 Aug. 1653, when their second son, Cornelis, was baptized there in the old Reformed Dutch church.

In 1911 C. S. Williams prepared a manuscript entitled "Christen Barentsen Van Horn and his Descendants" and this was reproduced by some dittographic process and published. In 1929 the Rev. Francis M. Marvin published The Van Horn History (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Press Publishing Co.), in which he leaned heavily on Williams' material without giving credit thereto.

Considering the materials available to Williams in 1911, he did a creditable, though far from perfect job, but the same cannot be said of Marvin, for in spite of his "almost exhaustless research" (p. 55), he so badly jumbled his materials from Williams and elsewhere (mostly unverified records from family members) that the resulting book qualifies as one, if not the poorest family history ever written about New Netherland families. Marvin attached most of the Van Horns in his book to Jan Cornelisen Van Horn, and in turn to his son Cornelis Jansen Van Horn and his wife, Anna Maria Jans, whom he claims was a half-sister to "Anneke Jans Bogardus, and had the same interests in variolis grants in America and legacies in Holland" (p. 93). For them he again conjures up the old specter of illegitimate descent from William of Orange. So by the strokes of Marvin's pen (or perhaps his typewriter), he ties himself and other members of the 'Van Horn Heirs Association' of which he was president, to the ridiculous claims of a Van Horn fortune in Holland and another from the Trinity Churchyard dispute in New York City.

About 1960 Mrs. Elsie O. Hallenbeck of Amsterdam, New York, privately published Our Van Horne Kindred, in which she correctly removed the descendants of Cornelius and Abraham Van Horne of Whitehouse, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and including Marvin himself, from among the descendants of Jan Cornelisen Van Horn, and set them up as descendants of Matthew Cornelissen. He, according to Mrs. Hallenbeck, came from Hoorn, Noord Holland, to the Long Island Dutch towns about 1663. About thirty years later, he married Fytje Brouwer, widow of Evert Hendricksen, and fathered two sons who became Cornelis and Abraham Van Horne, first of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and later of Hunterdon County.

It is the purpose of this article to discuss only Christian Barentsen Van Horn and some of his descendants. In so doing, I shall not directly discredit each of Marvin's errors - they are far too numerous for that. In the light of my residence in Hawaii, and the very few records concerning Bucks County, Pa., available in Hawaii, plus the fact that this compilation is neither personally ancestral or commissioned, I shall not attempt to extend the lines of those descendants who lived in Pennsylvania. I have been much assisted in the preparation of this article by Mr. Daniel V. Raymond of Bronxville, New York, and, for the records of the Van Horns of West Springfield, Mass., by Mr. Frederick C. Warner of North Amherst, Mass. In New Jersey I have had the very able assistance and advice of Howard I. Durie of Woodcliff Lake, and Jack D. Quackenbush, Jr., of Hawthorne.

Christian Barentsen was in New Amsterdam by 1653 and in 1655 was among the Dutch who sailed with Peter Stuyvesant from New Amsterdam to the South River, the Dutch name for the Delaware, and captured the Swedish settlements there. In 1657 Christian began selling the property he had acquired in New Amsterdam, and in 1658 he, with others, were building a mill near the present Wilmington, Delaware. Williams gave some details of Christian's activities in New Amsterdam, but the best account of his life is by William Nelson in his The Founder of the Van Buskirk Family in America (Proc. N. J. Hist. Soc., 3rd ser., 3:165-8).

Christian died on the South River, 26 July 1658, leaving his widow Jannetje Jans and three sons. They returned almost immediately to New Netherland against the advice of Jacob Aldrichs, Vice Director of the Dutch Colony on the South River. On 12 Dec. 1658 in New Amsterdam, Jannetje married Laurens Andriessen Van Buskirk whom Nelson implies was also at South River. For the next year or more, Laurens and Jannetje attempted to secure a final settlement of Christian Barentsen's South River estate without full success. Soon the Van Buskirks, and her Van Horn sons, moved Ito New Jersey where in 1662 Laurens purchased land on Bergen Neck, south of the present Jersey City.

Laurens Andriessen Van Buskirk was a remarkable man. A native of Holstein, then in Denmark, now a part of Germany, he was a "draijer" or wood-turner by trade, and of Lutheran religious affiliation. He became a man of importance in the new Dutch settlements in and near the present Jersey City, serving in many public capacities in East Jersey, and acquiring a great deal of property in and near Bergen, and in the Bogota-Teaneck area of Bergen County.

He fathered four sons by Jannetje Jans, and seems to have dealt with them and his three Van Horn step-sons in absolute impartiality. Six of the seven sons and their families were Lutherans. After the death of Laurens and their mother, all seven retained true brotherly relationships. On 29 Aug. 1679, soon after the marriage of the eldest Van Horn son, Laurens and Jannetje made a joint will which they did not later change. It was proved 19 March 1692/3, most likely because of the death of Jannetje Jans. On 13 July 1694 letters of administration were granted to Andries Laurensen Van Buskirk. As the will left all property to the "longest liver," it seems certain that Laurens, not Jannetje, as has been claimed, was the one who died in 1694. It was the eldest Van Buskirk son who administered the joint estate, not the eldest Van Horn son which would have been the case had Jannetje been the last to die.

Williams said (p. 4): "As to the ancestry of Jannetje Jans, wife of Christian Barentsen, nothing whatever is known." This is also the conclusion reached by Dr. George E. McCracken (TAG, supra, 38:65-69) and we concur, despite attempts to tie her with Anneke Jans Bogardus, the Webbers and William of Orange. She must have been an outstanding person to have married such men as Van Horn and Van Buskirk, and to have reared seven sons so successfully.

Children by first husband Van Horn: . . .

i. Barent Christiansen, prob. b. in Noord Holland ca. 1651. . . .

ii. Cornelis Christiansen, bapt. 3 Aug. 1653, New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church. . . .

iii. Johannes Christiansen, bapt. 18 Mar. 1657, New Amsterdam Dutch Reformed Church.

(3) Nelson, William, "The Founder of the Van Buskirk Family in America," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 3rd Series, Paterson, NJ: The Press Printing and Publishing Company, 1906, Vol. 3, pp. 159, 165-168:

Christiaen Barents, or Barentsen, a carpenter, came from Hoorn, in North Holland. with his wife, Jannetje Jans, and one child, it is supposed, in or perhaps previous to the year 1653. On August 3, of that year, he had a child, Cornelis, baptized in the New York Dutch church. Another son, Jan, was baptized in the same church, March 18, 1657. Christaen Barentzen was admitted, April 17, 1657, to the Small Burgher right of New Amsterdam. He bought a plot of ground, February 17, 1654, on the west side of Broadway, opposite Wall street, to which he added another tract, July 30, 1657, by purchase from Lubbertus van Dincklage, having a frontage on Broadway of 12 rods 6 feet 7 inches, with a like width in the rear, and a depth of 8 rods 7 feet 7 inches on the north side, and 7 rods 7 feet 9 inches on the south side. These two tracts apparently comprised a goodly portion of the present Trinity church yard. Christiaen sold the premises, or a part thereof, Nov. 17, 1657, to Cornelis Pluvier, for 1616 guilders 13 stivers in cash, and a mortgage for 1233 guilders 7 stivers, or about $1,140. The plot sold was thus described:

A house and lot on the west side of the broad highway, bounded east and north by said highway and the city wall; westerly by Dominie Drisius; and southerly by house and lot of Jacob Vis and the [West India] Company's garden. Width on east side 3 rods 4 feet 5 inches; depth north and south 7 rods 5 feet; the west side 8 rods 6 feet, on which breadth the length on north side, which is the wall, is 8 rods 1 foot 7 inches; on the south side, 7 rods 7 feet 9 inches, being further wide in the rear, the west side, 8 rods 1 foot.

He bought another tract from Lubbertus van Dincklage, July 30, 1637, on the east side of Broadway, and on both sides of Wall street, having a frontage of 12 rods 6 feet 7 inches, and a depth of 8 rods 7 feet 7 inches on the north side, and 7 rods 7 feet 9 inches on the south side. To this was added a small tract by patent from the Director General and Council, August 1, 1657. He sold the combined plots, May 30, 1658, to Hendrick Hendricksen [Kip], tailor, for 600 guilders in cash, and a mortgage for 500 guilders, the deed describing them in these rather indefinite terms:

A house and lot in the Heere [wegh] by the land gate. Width on the west side, which is the Heere wegh, 3 rods 8 feet 4 inches, and on east side 1 rod 6 feet 4 inches; depth on north side, 11 rods 2 feet 8 inches, and on south side 11 rods 1 foot 9 inches. Being premises patented to said Barents, August, 1657.

Barents seems to have been drawn toward the South River (the Delaware), soon after coming to America, or perhaps he was employed by the authorities to go thither to follow his trade. When Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant sailed, September 5, 1655, from New Amsterdam with the expedition equipped for the purpose of conquering the Swedish settlements and forts on the Delaware, Barents was one of the artisans in the company. He must have returned very soon, for we find him appointed fire warden in New Amsterdam, January 18, 1656. His sales of land, November 17, 1657, and May 30, 1658, were probably with a view to settling permanently on the Delaware, whither he appears to have removed in the latter year, and presently we find him engaged in building a mill in the City of Amsterdam's unhappy Colony of Nieuw Amstel. Before he could complete the work he was seized with the fatal malady which swept like a besom of destruction through the settlement that summer, and from which he died July 26, 1658. Jacob Alrichs, Vice Director of the Colony, sent word of the death to the Orphan Masters at New Amsterdam, with an inventory of the estate, and the request that his widow might be assisted, this letter being laid before those officials August 28, 1658. The requisite "assistance," it will be observed, was promptly furnished by our friend Laurens Andriesen, who married the fair and not inconsolable young widow four months and a half after her sad bereavement. A petition presented by her to the Director-General and Council in relation to the estate of her deceased husband was by them referred to the Orphan Masters, the order bearing date the day of her marriage to Laurens. Was this merely a coincidence? The Orphan Masters thereupon, in behalf of the children, took these proceedings, December 18, 1658:

Before the Board appeared Burgomaster Olof Stevensen Cortlandt, who is informed by the Orphan masters of the inventory of the property of Cristiaen Barens, who died at the South River, and of the inventory of his property here, made by the widow, wherein differences appearing, with which they do not know what to do, the widow of said Cristiaen Barens, called Jannetje Jans, is called and asked, whether the payment for the house near the Landgate had been received. She answers: Yes, by Hendrick van Dyck, who had power of attorney from her husband. Asked about the payment for the house where Hendrick Hendricksen, the tailor, lives, she says not to have received it, but it is still due and charged.

Jannetje Jans is ordered to send to the South River the last inventory, made here, as they have the case in hand. She says, she has asked the people on the South River to have the proceeds of the goods there forwarded to her, which was promised to her, if she can give bail or security. She is therefore advised to write to the South River that she will give security for the money, and offers as such a house.

It was nearly seven months later, or on July 8, 1659, that the matter again came up in the form of a letter from the New Amsterdam Orphanmasters to the authorities at South River:

At the request of Lauwerens Andriesen Draijer, who has married the widow of Christiaen Barens, deceased at the South River last year. we inform you herewith, that there are deposited in your Orphans' Court the goods, belonging to his children as paternal inheritance, while the children are here in this city, and we request, that following the usages of other places, said goods may be sent to the Orphans' Court here. You will find us in similar cases willing to reciprocate.

Another year and a half dragged slowly by, ere the desired accounting was received from the South River. That it was a disappointing one is clearly shown in the statement to the Orphanmasters, on January 30, 1660:

Lauwerens Andriezen appearing declares, not to have received more from the estate, left by Cristiaen Barens, deceased, his wife's former husband, than 574 fl. from Salomon Hanzen. He also says that there are still outstanding at the South about 13 or 14 hundred florins, heavy money at the rate of 10 beads of wampum for one stuyver, and shows an account of the estate with what it owes and what is due to it. The Orphanmasters reply, that a copy of the account shall be made by Secretary Nevius and the original shall be returned to him: they further order him to bring to the next session the statement and inventory shown to the Director General and Council, with their marginal order thereon.

Christian + Jannetje JANS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]