Person:Mindert Vanhorn (1)

Mindert Vanhorn of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, is most likely identical with Meyndert Van der Haan of Acquackanonk, New Jersey, son of Richard Van der Haan and Martha Gerbrands, which is supported by the following: 1.The birth year of 1760 is identical. See Sabine's estimate of his birth. 2.The names of his parents Richard and Patty/Martha conform to Richard/Dirk and Martha/Metje. 3.The source of the unusual name Mindert/Meyndert is found in his maternal grandfather, Meyndert/Myndert Gerrebrantsen. 4.VanHorn/ VanHorne genealogical sources were searched yielding no matching of the names Myndert (or its variations) with Van Horn during the time period in question. 5.The residence of Meyndert and his parents was at Acquackanonk, New Jersey, not identical with but in proximity to Newark. Meyndert's father attempted to sell the home farm at Great Notch (now Little Falls) in 1765. 6.The extended family of Meyndert, his brother, Cornelius, and uncle, Alexander Forbes, explain two of the given names of Mindert's children, names not found in the family of his wife, Susanna Harlow. 7.There is no trace of a marriage, children, or death for Meyndert Van der Haan in the area of his birth. 8.The branch of the family of Meyndert's bother, Cornelius Van Der Haan, changed the family surname to Van Horn, though not until the lifetime of Cornelius' son, Martin. See source 3 for Martin Van Horn (2). Karen Lane Routley.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Death record of Minard Vanhorn, in Holder, Jean M., Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers, 1829-1834
   Genealogical Association of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Pub. No. 6, p.74., 1982.

   "(died) in Liverpool, Mr. Minard Vanhorn, 75", source: Halifax Journal, Mon. 6 Feb. 1832.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Sabine, Lorenzo. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an Historical Essay (47479)
   Vol. 2, p. 590., 1864.

   "VAN HORNE, MIND. Of New Jersey. At the peace, he went from New York to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where the Crown granted him one town lot. He was twenty-three years of age, and unmarried." (The Revolutionary War ended in 1783, which suggests a birth year of 1760.)

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} The Diary of Simeon Perkins, 1797-1803.
   p.148, 1967.

   "Mindert, son of Robert and Patty Van Horne, of Newark, New Jersey, went to Shelburne, N.S., at the age of 23, as a Loyalist settler. He moved from Shelburne to Liverpool in 1784. On December 31, 1788, he married Susannah, daughter of Robert and Jane (West) Harlow."

   The series of volumes of The Diary of Simeon Perkins include numerous references to Mindert Vanhorn who worked as a carpenter on Perkins' home, ship and store. In the diaries he is alternatively called "Minard," "Mindart," and "Mindert". From these passages we know that Mindert was given a deed to some town lots in 1790, served on a jury in 1793, travelled to Lunenburg in 1799, and even that, on Dec. 22, 1789, he "Cut his Knee about 2 O'clock, So he could not work."

4. ↑ "Vital Records of Liverpool, Nova Scotia", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   127:56.

   "Minddert Vanhorn, son of Richard Vanhorn and Patty, his wife, of New Ark in the Province (now State) of New Jersey, was married in Liverpool to Susanah Harlow, daughter of Robert Harlow and Jane, his wife, on the thirty-first day of December in the year, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight."

5. ↑ VANHORN, MINDDERT, in Smith, Thomas Brenton. Genealogical notes of Thomas Brenton Smith. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2002)
   Vol.858, Folder 27 "Vanhorn", pp.14-15.

   https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95N7-39SM

   Source also called "Nova Scotia, Queens County, Notes of Thomas Brenton Smith, 1700-1950"

6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Records from the Dutch Reformed Church at Acquackanonk, New Jersey, in United States. Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-2000
   Acquackanonk (Passaic) ll, Book 55, p.51.

   Meyndert, born 9 Sep 1760, bapt. 12 Sep 1760; parents: Dirk Van der Haan and Metje Gerrebrandse. Witnesses: Jan Thomasse and Marritje Van Houte.

   https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60766/images/42037_1521003239_0787-00028?ssrc=&backlabel=Return
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   https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60766/

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Wardell, Pat A., "Early Bergen County Families"
   "V" p.14, 2011-2014.

   Available from the Genealogical Society of Bergen County (GSBC) at
   https://www.njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/#Indexes

8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Kelly, Arthur C. M., and New Jersey) Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of Acquackanonk (Passaic. Vital records of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church at Acquackanonk (Passaic, New Jersey), 1727-1816: (including some births, 1692-1726) and Acquackanonk Reformed Church graveyard. (Kelly)
   p.34.

   Meyndert, son of Dirrick Van Der Haan and Metje Gerrebrandse, was born 9.9 and baptised 9.12, 1760. Witnesses: Jan Thomasse and Marritje Van Houte.