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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



7. Nicholas Van Horn, born in Ber- 

 gen county, New Jersey, died in Dela- 

 ware; he was for a time a resident of 

 Bucks county, and the baptism of two 

 of his children Barnet on July 24, 1715, 

 and Rachel on April 29, 1720, are re- 

 corded at Abington Presbyterian church. 

 8. Peter Barentsen Van Horn, born 

 at Bergen, 1686, died in Middletown 

 township, Bucks county, February 20, 

 1750. He married (first) Tryntje (Cath- 

 arine) Van Dyck, and (second) Eliza- 

 beth Gabriels, on May 9, 1706. She was 

 baptized at Albany, New York, May 12, 

 1689, and died November 3, 1759. She 

 was a daughter of Gabriel Tomase 

 Struddles. Peter settled on land con- 

 veyed to him by his father in Northamp- 

 ton in 1707 and 1715. and later pur- 

 chased 425 acres in Middletown. Ac- 

 cording to the Rev. Samuel Streng. Pe- 

 ter Van Horn joined the Episcopal 

 church, and was a vestryman of St. 

 James Protestant Episcopal church at 

 Bristol, 1734-7. His children, all with 

 the possible exception of Barnard, his 

 eldest son, being by the second wife 

 Elizabeth, were as follows: Catharine, 

 baptized June 4, 1710, died 1755, married 

 Thomas Craven, of Warminster, Bucks 

 county; Barnard, who "married Patience 

 Hellings; Charity, who married, June 

 6, 1732, Isaiah Vansant (see Vansant 

 family) Jane baptized October 16, 1715, 

 married, Au.gust 10, 1732, Edmund Rob- 

 erts; Gabriel, baptized March 3, 1716, 

 died 1789, married Martha Brelsford; 

 Elizabeth, who married April 21. 1737, 

 Peter Praul ; Peter, baptized August 25, 

 1719. married in 1746, Margaret Marsh- 

 all; Mary, who married William Gos- 

 line. of Bristol, Bucks county; Benjamin, 

 who married, June S, 1749. Hannah Da- 

 vis; Richard, born 1726, died unmar- 

 ried, February i, 1756; John, twice mar- 

 ried, second wife being Mary Collett, 

 a widow ; and Garret, who married Mary 

 Neal. and died in 1801. 



9. Barent Barentsen Van Ho'-n, born 

 in Bergen, New Jersey, April 3, 1691. 

 died in Bucks county, in 1776. He mar- 

 ried (first) February 23, 1712, Jannetje 

 Pieters. and (second) January 25. 1726. 

 at Bergen, Elizabeth Klinkenberg. He 

 received by Deed in 1714 276 acres in 

 Northampton township, Bucks county, 

 from his father. He had fourteen chil- 

 dren, most of whom married and reared 

 families. 



TO. John Van Horn, born in Bergen, 

 New Jersey, 1692. died in Lower Dublin, 

 Philadelphia county. 1758. and is buried 

 in the Vandegrift burying ground. He 

 married Rebecca Vandegrift. daughter 

 of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Van- 

 degrift. of Bucks county, and had one 

 son John and six dau.ghters. 



II. Abraham Van Horn, born in IWr- 

 gen. New Jersey, died in Northampton. 

 Bucks county, in 1773. on farm of 290 

 acres received by deed from his father 



in 1722. He married first Mary Dungan, 

 and second Mary Vansciver, and had 

 six sons, Barnard, Isaac, Abraham, 

 David, Jacob, and Jeremiah, and three 

 daughters. Mary, wife of Derrick Krew- 

 son. Charity, and Martha, who married a 

 Van Sciver. 



12. Jane Van Horn, born at Bergen, 

 New Jersey, April 18, 1697. married Ad- 

 rien La Rue, and resided at Six-Mile 

 Run. New Jersey. 



13. Isaac Van Horn, born at Ber- 

 gen, New Jersey, died in Solebury town- 

 ship. Bucks county, Pennsjdvania, • in 

 1760. He married Alice Sleght (or 

 Slack) and had eight children: Bernard, 

 who married first Sarah Van Pelt and 

 second Jane Slack; John, who married 

 Catharine Neafie; Catharine, who mar- 

 ried a Van Pelt; Charity, Geertje, Elsie, 

 Isaac, baptized 1749,* married Alice 

 Neafies; and Jane. 



14. Jacob Van Horn, born at Ber- 

 gen, New Jersey, died there . April 14, 

 1775- 



15. Benjamin Van Horn, born at Ber- 

 gen. January 10, 1705. 



(6) Christian Van ■ Horn, second 

 son of Barendt and Geertje (Dirckse) 

 Van Horn, born at Bergen. New Jersey, 

 October 24, 1681. He married William- 

 tje Van Dyck, daughter of Hendrick 

 Janse and Jennetje (Heermans) Van 

 Dyck, and granddaughter of Jan Tom- 

 asse Van Dyck, who emigrated from 

 Amsterdam in 1652 and settled in New 

 Utrecht, Long Island. His sixth child, 

 Hendrick Janze, baptized July 2. 1653, 

 married, February 7, 1680, Jannetje 

 Hermans, daughter of Herman Janse 

 Van Barkeloo, and settled on Staten Isl- 

 and, where he was a constable in 1689 

 and assessor in 1703. In 1704 he pur- 

 chased land in Bucks county and re- 

 moved there. At the organization of 

 Bensalem church, in 1710. he produced 

 a certificate from the Staten Island 

 church. He purchased four tracts of 

 land in IMiddletown, two of which he 

 retained until his death in 1721, and de- 

 vised to his daughter Williamtje. wife 

 of Christian Van Horn, and his g'\ind- 

 (la ightcr. Susanna Van Vleck. who later 

 m.'lv'-ied her cousin, Henry Van Horn. 

 He had but two children, Williamptje, 

 and J;innetje. who became the wite of 

 \hz Reverend Paulus Van Vleck, the 

 first ])asior ar Neshaminy. 



Christian Van Horn located in North- 



*Isqac Van Horn, of Solebury township. Bucks 

 county. Pennsylvania, was commissioned January I. 

 177(5, ensign of Captain John Beatty's company. Bucks 

 county's contingent of the Flying Camrv Hiffh Penn- 

 sylvania Battalion, Colonel Robert Magaw, and was 

 tiken prisoner at Fort Washington. November Ifi, 

 177f). Exchanged in 1(78, and promoted to lieutenant. 

 Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion, captain lieutenent, July 



1, 177P; captain. Second Pennsylvania. June 19. 1781. 

 Retired from service January 1. 1783. Settled in West- 

 moreland county. Pennsylvania. 1781. Member of 

 seventh and eighth congress. (1801-1803> from Pennsyl- 

 vania. Receiver of public monies at /^anesville Ohio, 

 in 1815. Died in Muskingum county, Ohio. February 



2, 1834. Pennsylvania Archives. Second Series. 



