HEINRICH NICHOLAS2 RETTINGHAUSEN (CLAES1) (#558) was born in Mulheim-on-Ruhr, Germany 1646. HEINRICH died May 1718 in Dordrech, Netherlands, at age 71.
He married SWAENTJEN RIDDERS 1675 in Mulheim-on-Ruhr, Germany. (SWAENTJEN RIDDERS is #2621.)
HEINRICH NICHOLAS RETTINGHAUSEN and SWAENTJEN RIDDERS had the following children:
i. NEELTJEN3 (#21661) was born before 26 December 1679.
ii. MARIA (#21660) was born before 20 March 1684.
iii. ADRIANUS (#21662) was born 1693.
WILLIAM BARTON in l778 located in Holland, still surviving and of great age, a son of William Rittinghausen's brother Nicholas, with whom he had an interview. This old man Adrian Rittinghuysen (b. 1693), stated his paternal ancestors were early and long seated at Arnheim, a fortified city on the Rhine where they conducted manufactories of paper during the course of some generations. He stated that his father. Nicholas Rittinghuysen. was a paper manufacturer of Arnheim and that his father had a brother, William, who went to North America where be was understood to have established paper mills near Germantown.
