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HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY. 



follows: I. John, born at Flatlands, Long 

 Island, June 27, 1718, died in North- 

 ampton in 1777. 2. Lammetje, born Au- 

 gust 21, 1720, married first Derick Kroesen, 

 and second Cornelius Wj'ckoff. 3. Chris- 

 toffel, born April 15, 1722, married, Oc- 

 tober 26, 1748, Elizabeth Kroesen, 

 daughter of Henry Kroesen. Died 

 1765, leaving children, Simon, born 

 1752; Else, born 1754; Jane, born 1757; 

 Henry, born 1759; and Jacob, born in 

 1762. 4. Simon, born April 18, 1726, 

 married, January 24, 1751, Elsie Kroesen. 

 Died 1795, leaving nine children, Cor- 

 nelia, wife of Jacob Vandegrift; Simon, 

 married Joanna Hogeland; Jane, mar- 

 ried Joshua Praul; Derrick; Margaret, 

 married Abraham Lefferts; Jacob; John; 

 Elizabeth, married Thomas Fenton; and 

 Mary, married Joseph Fenton. 5. Mar- 

 garet, 'born January 12, 1729, married 

 Derick Kroesen, and had several chil- 

 dren. 6. Jacobus or James, born Janu- 

 ary 25, 1732, married Rachel LaRue, 

 daughter of Isaac LaRue. 7. Nicholas, 

 born July 14, 1736, died 1805, married 

 December 29, 1759, Jane Vansant. 8. 

 Peter, born March 2, 1739, probably died 

 young, not mentioned in father's will. 



John Van Artsdalen, born January 29, 

 1718, accompanied his father to Bucks 

 county and settled on a farm in North- 

 ampton township, containing 250 acres, 

 where he lived and died. He married, 

 April 30, 1742, Elizabeth Kroesen, 

 daughter of Garret, granddaughter of 

 Dirck Kroesen and Elizabeth Kregier, 

 and great-granddaughter of Gerret 

 Dirckse Kroesen, who emigrated from 

 Holland about 1650 and settled in Brook- 

 lyn, where he died in 1680. John and 

 Elizabeth (Kroeson) Van Artsdalen had 

 seven children, as follows: I. Jane, born 

 November 17, 1744, died of smallpox, 

 January 30, 1756, unmarried; 2. Ariantje. 

 born May 25, 1746, married, February 18, 

 1767, Arthur Lefferts; 3. Lammetje, born 

 April 2. 1748, married, January II, 1770, 

 Peter Lefferts; 4. Elizabeth, born Sep- 

 tember I, 1750, died at the age of two 

 years; 5. Simon or Simeon, born July 10, 

 1753. was pastor of the Dutch church at 

 Readington. Hunterdon county. New 

 Jersey, died 1788, married IVIagdalen 

 Hogeland; 6. Elizabeth, born May 7, 

 1756, married John Cornell, left no is- 

 sue surviving : 7. Garret, born ]\Iay 8, 

 1758, died 1848, married, November 29, 

 1781, Euphemia Hogeland, born October 

 24, 1761. died February 19, 1829, daugh- 

 ter of George and Maria (Scheneck) 

 Hogeland, a lineal descendant of Dirck 

 Hogeland, the emigrant. (See Hogeland 

 Family in this work.) 



Garret Van Artsdalen purchased the 

 interest of his brother and sisters in the 

 old homestead and resided thereon. He 

 and his brother Simon were members 

 of Captain Henry Lott's company of as- 

 sociators in Northampton in 1775- The 

 children of Garret and Euphemia 



(Hogeland) Van Artsdalen were: I. 

 John, born January 17, 1784, married, 

 April 17, 1806, Jane Kroesen, died 1844; 



2. Simon, born November 10, 1786, mar- 

 ried Deborah Dyer, had twelve children; 



3. Isaac, born September 23, 1791, mar- 

 ried. September i, 1814, Ann Torbert. 



4. Garret, born May 5, 1797, died Sep- 

 tember 20, 1799. 5- Maria, born May 2, 

 1-794, married Joel Carver. 



Isaac Van Artsdalen was reared on 

 the old plantation in Northampton, and 

 in 1831, his father conveyed to him 

 ninety acres thereof, and a year later he 

 acquired of his brother Simeon another 

 tract, part of the same, and he spent his 

 whole life on the farm of his ancestors. 

 He died in i860. Ann Torbert, the 

 mother of the subject of this sketch, 

 was a daughter of James and Margaret 

 (McNair) Torbert, of Makefield, and a 

 granddaughter of James Torbert and 

 Hannah Burley, and of James and Mar- 

 tha (Keith) McNair. Her four great- 

 grandfathers Samuel Torbert, Samuel 

 McNair, John Burleigh and William 

 Keith emigrated from the north of Ire- 

 land and settled in Makefield, Bucks 

 county, about the year 1730. Samuel 

 Torbert came from Carrick-Fergus on 

 the northeast coast of Ireland in 1726. 

 He was a tanner, and located in New- 

 town where he lived for many years. 

 Late in life he became a farmer in Upper 

 Makefield, where he died in 1778. Isaac 

 and Ann (Torbert) Van Artsdalen had 

 eight children, as follows: i. Garret, born 

 1816. died 1881, married Harriet E. Warne 

 and had seven children ; 2. James Torbert, 

 born in 1818. married Catharine Nag- ^ 

 lee; 3. Theodore Milton, born 1821, died 

 1904, married, 1843, Cornelia M. Cornell; 



4. Cyrus Torbert, born April 5, 1823, 

 married Jane E. Cornell, see forward; 



5. Margaret Ann, born 1825, married, 



1846, David Wynkoop ]\IcNair. 6. Alice 

 Elizabeth, born 1828, married James An- 

 derson; 7. Maria, born 1831, married, 

 1850. James L. Torbert; 8. Isaac Keith, 

 born 1834. married Sarah IMatthiea. 



Cyrus T. Vanartsdalen was born and 

 reared on the old homestead in North- 

 ampton, and remained on the farm with 

 his father until twenty-five years of age. 

 He then followed farming in Northamp- 

 ton until 1859, when he purchased the 

 farm in Newtown township, where he 

 still resides. He married, December 15. 



1847. Jane Eliza Cornell, daughter of 

 Jacob and Maria Cornell, of Northamp- 

 ton, who bore him three children: Mary, 

 born December 18, 1850, died January 

 25. 1875, was wife of George C. Fetter. 

 Alice, born November 22. 1853, died Feb- 

 ruary II, 1880, was wife of Murray 

 Gardner. Isaac T., born March 28, 

 1757, married Addie C. Camm. Mr. 

 Vanartsdalen has been a member of the 

 Presbyterian church since his eigh- 

 teenth year, served several yearr> as dea- 

 con and has been an elder of lue New- 



