Jan Berdan (2) and his stepmother could not agree, so John left home and went to Hackensack sometime previous to the year 1693, for on May 20, 1693, under the name of Jan Bordet or Boudet, he was married at Flatlands, L. I., to Eva Van Sicklen, of that place. His place of residence at the time of his marriage is given as Hackensack, N. J. The person who wrote the record of his marriage very likely either mispelled or misunderstood the name. The baptism of his eldest child was recorded in the "Church on the Green " in 1695. He bought a large farm at what is now Maywood, extending from the Hackensack River to the Sprout Brook, on which he lived and spent his life in agricultural pursuits. He bought lands west of the Saddle River, and one or more tracts in the Wieremus section of Bergen County of the Romeyns. His issue of the third generation were ten children: John, 1695; Eva, 1697; Ferdinand, 1700; Albert, 1701; Willimina. 1704; Rynier, 1706; Elena, 1708; Dirck, 1712; David, 1714; and Annatie, 1718.

David Berdan (3), who married, May 12, 1738, Christyontjin Daniels Romeyn, resided on the homestead at Maywood, and had issue eleven children: Eva, Mary, Geesie, Annatie, Margaret, John, Daniel, Lena, Daniel, Mary, and Daniel.

John Berdan (4) was born at Maywood, N, J., in 1749, and died there in 1818. His calling was that of a farmer. He married Ursula Van Voorhis, by whom he had eleven children of the fifth generation: Albert, Isaac, Daniel, John, Peter, David, Peggy, Anna, Christian, Hannah, and Maria. David Berdan (5), born April 3, 1786, married twice. By his first wife he had children Jane and Sally, and by his second wife, Abagail Bean, he had seven children: John, James, Albert. Harriet, Ann, Rachel, and Christina, all of the sixth generation.

James Berdan (6) was born at Maywood, March 10, 1818, and died there September 6, 1862. He was a farmer, and married Mary Wortendyke, by whom he had issue of the seventh generation Abagail L., Mary E., Cornelius WV., and Walter, of whom Cornelius W. is the subject of this sketch.

Cornelius W. Berdan was born in New York City, December 24, 1850. While yet a mere lad his parents removed to Maywood in Bergen County, where Cornelius attended the district school. He subsequently finished his education at Professor Williams's private academy at Hackensack. At seventeen years of age lie became a clerk in a New York broker's office, and later entered the employ of the American News Company, where he remained until 1874. when he entered, as a law student, the office of the late Judge Manning M. Knapp, at Hackensack. A year later he entered the office of Garret Ackerson, Jr., then the most prominent lawyer in the county. Mr. Berdan was admitted to the bar in February, 1878, and has been successfully practicing his profession ever since.