Peter (2) married (1) Jacomina Cornelis and (2), in 1719, Antie Meyer (widow). Gysbert (2) married (1) Magdalena la Comba in 1706 and (2) Antie Christie. John (2) married, July 16, 1693, Meta Jans. These three all settled at Bergen, now Jersey City. Gysbert went to Hackensack in 1715, joined the church there, and bought lands. His brothers Peter and John soon followed him and bought lands west of the Saddle River as well as in the Aquackanonck (Passaic) patent. Peter bought 500 or 800 acres in the Pompton district of Bergen County. Among his children of the third generation were Sarah, Garret, Jacomina, and Willempie. Gysbert's children of the third generation were John, Mary, Anthony, William, Henry, Ellen, and Jacobus. John's children of the third generation were Neltie, Jane, Elizabeth, Rachel, and Isaac. This family, composed principally of descendants of Peter and Gysbert, are very numerous in Franklin, Saddle River, Ridgewood, and Hohokus Townships in Bergen County.

John Van Blarcom (3), a grandson of John (1), married, in 1725, Jannetie Lent, of Rockland County, N. Y., and settled near Paramus in New Jersey. From there in 1735 he removed to near Nanuet in Rockland County, N. Y.. where he bought a farm. His issue were Peter, 1727; Elizabeth, 1731; Peter, 1734; and David. 1736. His son, Garret Van Blarcom, born October 10, 1786, married Maria Hopper, also born in 1786. He died in 1854 and she in 1846. Their children were Peter, born in 1805, died November 20, 1862, and John, born in 1808, died in 1880. Peter Van Blarcom had three sons and five daughters: Garret; Mary, of Addison, N. Y.; William, deceased; Daniel, of Suffern, N. Y.; Henrietta and Bridget (twins), deceased; Eliza, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and Jane, of Pearl River, N. Y.

Garret Van Blarcom, son of Peter, was born in May, 1829, and became a blacksmith at Tappan, N. Y. He was twice married and has a son, the subject of this sketch.