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THE VAN HORN FAMILY
Originally published in 1900 |
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THE VAN HORN FAMILY.-The first American progenitor of the Van
Horn family in Hudson and Bergen Counties was Jan Cornelissen, who
came to America from his birthplace, the City of Hoorn, Holland, previously to the year 1645. Mr. Winfield, in his "History of Hudson
County," thinks this emigrant was under twenty-one years of age when
he arrived at New Amsterdam, and cites as proof the fact that, on
October 4, 1647, a power of attorney was executed by him for the purpose
of collecting money due him from his guardian in Holland. He sided with
the English in 1664, and took the oath of allegiance to the king the same
year. One of his sons, named Joris. married, March 11, 1663. Maria Rutgers, of Amersfoort, L. I., and had eight children, one of whom was Rutgert
Jansen Van Horn, baptized at New York, January 5, 1667. This Rutgert
married, April 25, 1697, Neeltie Van Vechten. Another son was Cornelius Jansen Van Horn. In 1697 both Rutgert and Cornelius went to Schraalenburgh, where Cornelius married Jacomina Demarest, widow of Samuel
Helling, and settled east of Closter, where his descendants still reside.
Rutgert returned to Bergen and purchased lands at Bayonne, where he
resided until 1711, when he bought a farm at Communipaw, where he spent
his days, and where he died May 15, 1741. Rutgert's descendants spread
over Hudson County, and those of Cornelius over Bergen County.
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