Johannes Christiansen Van Horn, third son of Christian Barentsen Van Horn, was probably born in New Amsterdam, although he may have been born in Delaware. He was baptized in the Reformed Church in New Amsterdam, 18 March 1657. He was named in his mother's and step-father's joint will in 1679, and with his brother Barent and others, he participated in the "small riot" in 1686. On 29 Sept. 1697 a patent for 160 acres in Hackensack Township was issued to "Christiancie Johannes, son and heir of Johanes Christiancie, late of Bergen County, deceased." In New York City on 16 Oct. 1697 "the will of John Christins, annexed, was proved and Hugh Crow is confirmed as executor." Nothing more is given, so this may have been Van Horn's will. These two events came soon after Johannes' son Christian became 14 years of age, and could apparently hold title to land, no doubt under a guardianship. Williams said that this man married Lenah Boon, the daughter of Matthias Boon of New Harlem; that his will was dated 20 Feb. 1705/6; and that his widow married Michael Mallenoth on 31 Jan. 1708. Williams also credited John Christian and Lenah Boon with five children: Christian, bapt. 16 Feb. 1683 , who moved to West Springfield, Mass.; Barent, born in 1690, who also moved to Massachusetts; Mary, bapt. 26 Apr. 1695 at Hackensack; Jan, bapt. 14 June 1700 at Hackensack; and Elizabeth, bapt. 28 March 1703 at Hackensack. Obviously, Williams saw John Christian's will which was dated in 1706 and proved 19 March 1716/7, which certainly appears to be a clerical error for 1706/7. But apparently Williams did not understand two highly significant statements in the will. First, John Christian, the testator, lived in Hackensack, Essex County, while Hans Christiansen Van Horn lived in Hackensack Township, Bergen County. Until 2 Jan. 1709/10 Hackensack River divided the two counties and Hackensack village on the west bank of the Hackensack was in Essex County. Therefore, the testator was not Van Horn, but some other John Christian who lived on the west - not the east - side of the Hackensack. The second statement of importance was that the testator's son John was his eldest son and was under age. Nevertheless, Williams gave Christian as the eldest son; said that he was baptized in 1683 and married in Massachusetts in 1705. We must add to these two factors, the point that Johannes Christian Van Horn was dead before his son Christian was given his land patent in 1697, and could not have made his will in 1706. From these facts we are forced to conclude that there were two John Christians. The one in Essex County apparently came from Scotland as an indentured servant of Thomas Yallerton in October 1684 . On 27 Sept. 1693 he purchased 60 acres of land on New Barbadoes Neck from John Berry. As this land was on the west bank of the Hackensack River, it was likely in or near the present Little Ferry, south of the town of Hackensack. His wife was given variously as Lena, Helena, Elenor, etc., and as Boon and Bun. It may be that she was a daughter of Matthew Boon or Bun of Woodbridge, N.J. Her will, as Elenor Mellenot, widow, was dated 30 Oct. 1737 and proved 10 May 1765 . To her five daughters she gave land left to her by her first husband, John Christine, and confirmed to her by her son John Christine. The six children of John Christeen and his wife Eleanor Boon were : Antje ; Sarah ; Margrietje, bapt. April or May 1692 at Bergen , m. John Berry; Maritje, bapt. 26 _____ 1695 at Hackensack : John, bapt. 14 June 1700 at Hackensack ; and Elizabeth, bapt. 28 March 1703 at Hackensack . The members of this Christeen family have been confused with the members of the Christie family of Bergen County, descendants of James Christie and Magdalena Demarest. Williams said that Christian, the first child of Johannes Christiansen Van Horn, was baptized 16 Feb. 1683, but did not say where. The entry is in the records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York, and is for the baptism of Christaen, son of Johannes Christaens and Anna Corneliszen. Having said that Christian's mother was Lenah Boon, it was hardly politic for Williams to cite a record which clearly gave his mother as Anna Corneliszen, but strangely, he did use the date. To summarize, Johannes Christiansen Van Horn was dead by 1697 and was survived by at least one son, Christian, who obtained title to the land in Teaneck in 1697. According to Williams, he and his younger brother Barent were living in Massachusetts shortly thereafter. This seems highly illogical unless their mother married some one who took her and the two Van Horn boys to Massachusetts. In the printed records of the old Bergen Church at Jersey City is an undated entry which shows that Anna Cornelis, widow, with letters from the French congregation at Kinderkamack near where the Van Horn land was situated, married a Jan Webbe. A photocopy of this entry in the original records in Jersey City gives the date of the marriage as 5 March 1692/3. On 23 Sept. 1694 Jan Web [balance of entry missing] had a son Cornelius baptized in the Hackensack Reformed Church. Then the Webbs disappear from the New Jersey records. At this point Mr. Frederick C. Warner of North Amherst, co-author of an article on John Webb of Northampton , was asked to check at Springfield concerning the two Van Horn boys, their mother Anna and John Webb who was assumed to have been their step-father. By a remarkable coincidence, Mr. Warner is a descendant of this John Webb and the son Cornelius who was baptized in New Jersey in 1694. Up to this time all that Mr. Warner knew was that John Webb had been away from Springfield from the time he left in 1689 with the Militia during King William's War until he returned in about 1697 with a wife Anna , a son Cornelius , and a daughter Anna. This John Webb was probably the militiaman of that name who was captured by the French and Indians during the Schenectady massacre, 9 Feb. 1689/90, and then taken to Canada. When, how, and why he came to New Jersey is not apparent from the records. Anna Cornelissen, wife of Johannes Christiansen, and secondly of John Webb, was the daughter of Niels or Cornelis Matthyssen "van Stockholm" , and his wife Barentje Dircks "van Meppel" , who were married in the New Amsterdam Reformed Church under banns dated 26 Feb. 1661. Anna, their first child, was born in the Harlem area of Manhattan and baptized 10 Sept. 1662 in the Reformed Church at New Amsterdam. In this entry her father's first name has been erroneously given as "Nicolaes." As a byproduct of the Van Horn research in Massachusetts, Mr. Warner has fully identified one ancestor and added two more, and as he said, "Certainly no one searching for Anna's ancestry in the Springfield area would ever have found it." In final summary, Johannes Christiansen Van Horn was alive in New Jersey in 1686, and his widow remarried there on 5 March 1692/3. Therefore, Johannes died between these two dates, probably at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey. It is apparent that he was not the husband of an Antje Christians, a seaman, who was captured by the Barbary pirates and held at Sallee for ransom, because Antje Christians was authorized on 8 June 1693 to solicit funds for the ransom. Children: . . . i. Christian, bapt. 16 Feb. 1683 In Reformed Church on Manhattan. . . . ii. Barent, b. ca. 1690.[4]