Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
NameChristian Barendtsen Van Horn
Birth1625, Hoorn, Nord Holland, Nederland
Death26 Jul 1658, Nya Sverige, Nieuw Nederland (Delaware)
OccupationCarpenter
FatherBarendt Barentszoon Van Hoorn (1599-1624)
MotherMarlje (Mary) Baerts (1600-1629)
Spouses
Birthabt 1629, Nord-Holland, Nederland
Death19 Mar 1692, Bergen, Bergen County, Province of New Jersey
BurialBayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
Marriage20 Apr 1647, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
ChildrenJannetje Christianse (1649-)
Barent Christiansen (1651-1726)
Cornelius Christiansen (1653-1729)
Jan (Johannes) (1657-1692)
Notes for Christian Barendtsen Van Horn
"Christian Barentsz was born 1625/1626 in an area of Hooren in Oostland as the Horum region of Friesland District, Niedersachsen – Germany. There is a town called Horumersiel that is probably the closest we can come to locating the original Hooren.
"The mix-up was a result of originally using a translation of the marriage register instead of the actual scanned record which changed some of the punctuation that resulted in mis-identifying Hooren as the one in North Holland and not the one in East Friesland.
"Christian Barentsz marriage register of 1647 states he was from "Hooren in Oostland" which was identified back in the 1960s by Mr. Simon Hart as "Horum, Niedersachsen".
"I have a scanned copy of the original marriage register if anyone is interested.
"Bottom line - Christian Barentsz was not originally from Holland but rather from East Frisia which at the time was part of the County of Oldenberg which in turn was part of the Holy Roman Empire."
Many thanks to Del Van horn for getting this all squared away for the rest of us family members.
http://pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/vanhornfamily.html
Source: Del Van Horn
From History of Bucks County, pg 92:
The Van Horn Family. The family of Van Horn has been a prominent one in Bucks
county for two centuries, filling important positions in the official professional and
business life of the county in every generation and constantly sending out its
representatives to fill like important positions in other localities and states, its
representatives now being found in nearly every state of the Union.
The pioneer ancestor of the family was Christian Barendtse, that is Christian son
of Barendt, who it is said came from Hooren, a city of the Zuyder Zee, about
twenty-five miles from Amsterdam. The eact date of his arrival in America is not
known. He was a carpenter by trade, and the records of New Amsterdam show that he
and a fellow craftsman, Auke Jansen, were appointed, March 10, 1653, by the burgomasters
and schepens of New Amsterdam to view a house, about the building of which there was
some litigation. These records further show that he was frequently appointed a referee
during the next four or five years. And he is shown to have contributed towards the
strengthening of the city wall on October 15, 1655.
He is also said to have been with the force sent out from New Amsterdam, September
5, 1655, against the Swedes and Finns on the south river, at
Fort Christina. On his return to New Amsterdam he was appointed January 18, 1656,
a fire warden, in place of Johan Paul Jacquet, who had resigned and "removed to the
South River in New Netherlands."
On April 17, 1657, he was admitted a "Small Burgher" of New Amsterdam, an honor which
carried with it the freedom of trade and a right to membership in the respective guilds of
the town, and conferred upon natives of the city, residients there one year and
six weeks before the date of the charter, burgher's sons-in-law, city storekeepers,
salaried servants of the company and all paying the sum of twenty-five guilders.
On August 1, 1657, Christian Barentze, carpenter, was granted by Peter Stuyvesant,
director general of New Netherland, a lot in New Amsterdam, by the Land Gate,
for a house and garden. He also owned several
other properties in the neighborhood, some of which are said to have covered
a part of the present Trinity churchyard.
Probably as a result of his trip to the South river, Christian Barentse and Joost Rugger and
possibly others obtained a grant of land on the south side of None Such creek,
a tributary of the Chrisiana, near the present site of Wilmington, Delaware, and
began the erection thereon of a tide water mill. According to Amos C. Brinton, who has
given much attention to the ancient mill sites of Delaware Barentse and Rugger,
he began the erection of this mill in 1656. From the dates previosly given, however,
as well as from other records, it would appear that the date of Christain Barentse,
removal to the Delaware was sometime in the year 1657. Contemporary records also
refer to the mill as a "horse mill," the truth of the matter being most probably that the
horse mill was set up to serve until the tide water mill was completed. The low
marshy nature of the land and the turning up of the mud to the sun caused an
epidemic from which Barentse died July 26, 1658.
A letter written by Vice Amstel, to Stuyvesant, under date of September
5, 1658, and published in documents relating to the Colonial History of New York,
vol. xii, p. 224, relates entirely to the affairs of the widow and children of Christian
Barentse. It states that the widow had requested within three days of his burial
that she desired red
"The mix-up was a result of originally using a translation of the marriage register instead of the actual scanned record which changed some of the punctuation that resulted in mis-identifying Hooren as the one in North Holland and not the one in East Friesland.
"Christian Barentsz marriage register of 1647 states he was from "Hooren in Oostland" which was identified back in the 1960s by Mr. Simon Hart as "Horum, Niedersachsen".
"I have a scanned copy of the original marriage register if anyone is interested.
"Bottom line - Christian Barentsz was not originally from Holland but rather from East Frisia which at the time was part of the County of Oldenberg which in turn was part of the Holy Roman Empire."
Many thanks to Del Van horn for getting this all squared away for the rest of us family members.
http://pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/vanhornfamily.html
Source: Del Van Horn
From History of Bucks County, pg 92:
The Van Horn Family. The family of Van Horn has been a prominent one in Bucks
county for two centuries, filling important positions in the official professional and
business life of the county in every generation and constantly sending out its
representatives to fill like important positions in other localities and states, its
representatives now being found in nearly every state of the Union.
The pioneer ancestor of the family was Christian Barendtse, that is Christian son
of Barendt, who it is said came from Hooren, a city of the Zuyder Zee, about
twenty-five miles from Amsterdam. The eact date of his arrival in America is not
known. He was a carpenter by trade, and the records of New Amsterdam show that he
and a fellow craftsman, Auke Jansen, were appointed, March 10, 1653, by the burgomasters
and schepens of New Amsterdam to view a house, about the building of which there was
some litigation. These records further show that he was frequently appointed a referee
during the next four or five years. And he is shown to have contributed towards the
strengthening of the city wall on October 15, 1655.
He is also said to have been with the force sent out from New Amsterdam, September
5, 1655, against the Swedes and Finns on the south river, at
Fort Christina. On his return to New Amsterdam he was appointed January 18, 1656,
a fire warden, in place of Johan Paul Jacquet, who had resigned and "removed to the
South River in New Netherlands."
On April 17, 1657, he was admitted a "Small Burgher" of New Amsterdam, an honor which
carried with it the freedom of trade and a right to membership in the respective guilds of
the town, and conferred upon natives of the city, residients there one year and
six weeks before the date of the charter, burgher's sons-in-law, city storekeepers,
salaried servants of the company and all paying the sum of twenty-five guilders.
On August 1, 1657, Christian Barentze, carpenter, was granted by Peter Stuyvesant,
director general of New Netherland, a lot in New Amsterdam, by the Land Gate,
for a house and garden. He also owned several
other properties in the neighborhood, some of which are said to have covered
a part of the present Trinity churchyard.
Probably as a result of his trip to the South river, Christian Barentse and Joost Rugger and
possibly others obtained a grant of land on the south side of None Such creek,
a tributary of the Chrisiana, near the present site of Wilmington, Delaware, and
began the erection thereon of a tide water mill. According to Amos C. Brinton, who has
given much attention to the ancient mill sites of Delaware Barentse and Rugger,
he began the erection of this mill in 1656. From the dates previosly given, however,
as well as from other records, it would appear that the date of Christain Barentse,
removal to the Delaware was sometime in the year 1657. Contemporary records also
refer to the mill as a "horse mill," the truth of the matter being most probably that the
horse mill was set up to serve until the tide water mill was completed. The low
marshy nature of the land and the turning up of the mud to the sun caused an
epidemic from which Barentse died July 26, 1658.
A letter written by Vice Amstel, to Stuyvesant, under date of September
5, 1658, and published in documents relating to the Colonial History of New York,
vol. xii, p. 224, relates entirely to the affairs of the widow and children of Christian
Barentse. It states that the widow had requested within three days of his burial
that she desired red