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HISTORY 01' BUCKS COUNTY. 



grandfather, Christian Van Horn, in 

 1726, whereon he lived until his death m 

 1777, when it was divided between his 

 sons- Henry and Isaiah. Sarah (Van- 

 sant) Van Horn died in 1785. They were 

 the parents of but two children, viz: 

 Henry and Isaiah. Henry, married, 

 April 26, 1787, Elizabeth McCorkle, and 

 had three children; Amos, born March 

 4, 1792, died at Newtown, September 5, 

 1823, married, January 8, 1817, Mercy 

 Starkey; Susan, born October 25, i794, 

 died in Michigan, September 5, 1872, 

 married Joseph Roberts; and Elrzabeth, 

 born January 27, 1797, married Joseph 

 Winship, and died at Newtown, May 12, 

 1868. 



Isaiah Van Horn, second son of 

 Christian and Sarah (Vansant) Van 

 Horn, was born in Newtown township, 

 Bucks county, married, December 31, 

 1794, Catharine Suber, daughter of John 

 and Catharine (Van Horn) Suber, and 

 his first cousin. He was adjudged fifty 

 acres of the homestead farm by the or- 

 phans' court in 1787, but on March 15, 

 1791, sold it to his brother Henry, and 

 on his marriage in 1794 took up his 

 residence on a farm belonging to the 

 estate of his father-in-law, Isaiah Van- 

 sart, in Upper IMakefield, where he died 

 in 1802. His widow, Catharine, married 

 John Wynkoop, January 31, 1805. The 

 only child of Isaiah and Catharine( Van- 

 sant) Van Horn, was Sarah, born Feb- 

 ruary 29, 1796; died January 27, 1838. 

 She married (first) on January 16, 1812, 

 Aaron Winder, and (second) Avigust 

 24, 1825, Abner Morris. (See Winder 

 Family in this volume). Catharine 

 Wynkoop, the mother, died in Decem- 

 ber, 1820. 



R. Winder Johnson, of Philadelphia, 

 to whom we are indebted for the above 

 account of the Van Horn familj', is a 

 grandson of Aaron and Sarah (Van 

 Horn) Winder, ^reat-grandson of Isa- 

 iah and Catharine (Suber) Van Horn, 

 great-great-grandson of both Christian 

 and Sarah (Vansant) Van Horn, and 

 John and Catharine (Van Horn) Sub- 

 er, and great-great-great-grandson of 

 Henry and Susanna (Van Vlecq) Van 

 Horn, John and Lena (Van Pelt) Van 

 Horn, and Isaiah and Charity (Van 

 Horn) Vansant, and great-great-great- 

 great-grandson of Christian and Will- 

 iamtje (Vandyck) Van Horn, and Peter 

 and Elizabeth (Gabriells) Vanhorn, the 

 last mentioned Christian and Peter Van 

 Horn, being sons of Barendt Christian- 

 zen Van Hoorn and his wife Geertje 

 Dircks Classen, and grandsons of Chris- 

 tian Baretzen Van Hoorn and Jannetje 

 Jans, the pioneer ancestors of the family 

 in America. An account of the Van 

 Pelt, Vansant, Vandegrift, Winder and 

 Johnson families also largely the result 

 of investigations made by Mr. John- 

 son, will be found elsewhere in this 

 work. 



Henry Van Horn, son of Henry and 

 Susanna (Van Vlecq) Van Horn, was 

 reared on the old homestead purchased 

 by his grandfather. Christian Van Horn, 

 in 1726, and at the death of his father, 

 in 1761, inherited a one-half interest there- 

 in with his brother Christian. They made 

 a division of the 252 acres, each con- 

 veying to the other 126 acres in 1773. 

 After the reverses on Long Island in No- 

 vember, 1776, and at Fort Washington 

 when the Continental forces were so badly 

 routed and so niau}^ of the Bucks county 

 contingent were taken prisoners, Henry 

 Van Horn raised an independent company 

 of militia and was commissioned their 

 captain, December 6, 1776, (See Penna. 

 Arch. vol. xiv p. 175) and took them into 

 the service. He died of camp fever late 

 in 1777. He married Elizabeth Vansant, 

 daughter of Isaiah and Charity (Van 

 Horn) Van Sant, and they were the par- 

 ents of eight children : Joshua, born Feb- 

 ruary 21, 1759; Isaiah, born October 24, 

 1760, was drummer in his father's com- 

 pany, 1776-7; Mary, born May 5, 1764, 

 married Isaac Gillam, died April 18, 1823; 

 Christian, . born July 13, 1766 ; Susanna, 

 born October 9, 1768, married Jesse Wil- 

 lett, who had previously married her sis- 

 ter Sarah ; Elizabeth, married an Ander- 

 son, and • died January 26, 1813 ; Sarah, 

 born February 7, 1773, married Jesse Wil- 

 lett, died prior to 1809; Henry, born Ap- 

 ril 5, 1777. Elizabeth the mother, died 

 November 25, 1807, aged about eighty 

 years. 



Henry Van Horn, youngest child of 

 Captain Henry and Elizabeth (Vansant) 

 Van Horn, born in Newtown township, 

 April 5, 1777, learned the trade of a car- 

 penter and cabinet maker and located at 

 Yardley, Bucks county, where he followed 

 the trade of a cabinet maker for several 

 years. His sign uniquely painted is now 

 in possession of his grandson, Richard H. 

 Van Horn, of Lambertville, New Jersey. 

 He also purchased a farm of 93 acres in 

 Lower IMakefield in 1805, which, in 181 1, 

 he conveyed to his brother-in-law, Isaac 

 Gillam. He purchased a farm of 200 acres 

 in Upper ]\Iakefield, near Eagle Tavern, 

 where he resided the balance of his life. 

 He died in Februarj', 1849. He married, 

 in 1798, Hannah Reeder, of Canaan, Up- 

 per Makefield, and their six children who 

 grew to maturity were as follows : 



1. Abraham, born 1802, married, in 1829, 

 Eliza Hampton, by whom he had one child, 

 Margery. He married (second) Chris- 

 tiana Neald, and a son Henry K. was 

 born in 1834. He married (third) Eliza- 

 beth Sampsel. He sold his farm in Upper 

 ]\Iakcfield and removed to Sandy Spring, 

 Maryland, where he reared a family of 

 thirteen children. 



2. Elizabeth, born 1804, married William 

 Ryan, of Upper Makefield, born 1810. They 

 settled near Rocksville, Northampton 

 township, Bucks county, and engaged in the 

 milling business. Three of their children 



