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THE ALLEN FAMILY
Originally published in 1900 |
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THE ALLEN FAMILY of Bergen County is descended from Peter Garrets Van Halen. The name is probably derived front Haelen or Haelen,
a town in Belgian Limbourg, front which place the family originally hailed.
The name has gone through several forms: Haelen, Halen, Allen, Alan,
and Allen. Peter Van Halen was the son of Gerret Van Halen, of the City
of Rotterdam, in Holland, where Peter was born about 1687. He came to
America in 1706 and settled in the Paramus section of Bergen County,
where, on the 11th of August of that year, lie married, at Hackensack,
Tryntie Hendricks Hopper. He purchased lands on the west side of the
Saddle River, where lie resided and reared a large family of children, whose
names were Henry, 1707; Garret, 1709; William, 1710; Andrew, 1712;
Maritie, 1714; Willempie, 1716; Lea, 1718; Rachel, 1723; Andrew, 1725;
and John, 1727, all baptized at Hackensack. The descendants of these by
the name of Allen and Van Allen are very numerous in the western part
of Bergen County.
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