Person:Richard Van der Haan (1)

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Richard Van der Haan
 
m. 17 Jun 1721
  1. Elizabeth Van der Haan1723 - 1756
  2. Cornelus Van der Haan1727 -
  3. Richard Van der Haan1729 -
m. 19 Apr 1752
  1. Catrina Van der Haen1754 -
  2. Mindert Vanhorn1760 - 1832
  3. Tryntje Van der Haan1764 -
  4. Cornelius Van der Haan1766 -
Facts and Events
Name[7] Richard Van der Haan
Alt Name[1][3] Dirk _____
Alt Name Dirrick _____
Alt Name _____ Van der Haen
Alt Name[2] _____ Van de Havon
Alt Name _____ Vanderhaan
Alt Name _____ Van Horne
Alt Name[4] Richard Vanhorn
Alt Name[6] Richard VanHorne
Gender Male
Christening[1] 8 Oct 1729 New York City, New York, United States
Other 17 Apr 1752 New York City, New York, United StatesMarriage Registration (Ingeshreven)
with Martha Gerrebrandse
Marriage 19 Apr 1752 New York City, New York, United Statesto Martha Gerrebrandse
Residence[2][8] Bef 1754 Acquackanonk, Passaic, New Jersey, United States
Immigration[6] Dec 1788 Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Reformed Dutch Church (New York City), and Thomas Grier Evans (ed.). Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: baptisms from 25 December, 1639, to 27 December, 1730. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901)
    p.494.

    Record of baptism: 8 Oct 1729, Dirk; Parents: Dirk V. der Haan and Geertje Dykman; Witnesses: Richard Rhee, Elsje Sanders. https://archive.org/details/baptismsfrom163922evan/page/n329/mode/2up

  2. 2.0 2.1 "Extracts from American newspapers, relating to New Jersey. Vol. V. 1762-1765, in Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New Jersey. , Vol.24
    pp.533-4.

    "To be sold at publick Vendue on the Premises, at Atquacknunk in
    East New-Jersey, on Thursday the 13th Day of June next.
    A Good stone house, two stories high, with a kitchen, store-house
    and barn, a lot of ground, now in the occupation of Richard
    Van Der Havon: Said house and lot of ground fronts two rods in
    breadth, along the king's road, easterly 53 feet, which leads to
    the great falls, and in length northerly 202 feet, which leads
    to the little falls; it is either fit for a merchant or tradesman;
    there are sundry apple and other fruit trees on the premises.*
    An indisputable title will be given by us the subscribers: Also
    to be sold, sundry sorts of houshold goods.
    Gerribrant Gerribrants,
    Alexander Forbes,
    Richard Van Der Havon.

    N.B. The conditions of sale will be made known at the time and place
    of sale. Any person inclining to purchase the same before the day of
    sale, may apply to the subscribers aforesaid.-- The New York Gazette or
    Weekly Post Boy, May 23 1765.

    *At the Great Notch, where the roads cross. It was a tavern stand for
    more than a century."
    https://archive.org/details/documentsrelatin24newjuoft/page/532/mode/2up

    This advertisement supports the relationship of the three families of Forbes, Van der Haan and Gerbrants. The 'subscribers' are Richard and his two brothers-in-law, Alexander Forbes, who married his sister, Elizabeth Van der Haan, and Gerribrant Gerribrants, brother of his wife, Martha Gerrebrandse. -Karen Routley

  3. "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
    26:169.

    Baptism, May 3,1752 of Dirk, child of Alexander Forbush and Elizabeth Van der Haan. Witnesses: Dirk Van der Haan and Mettje Gerbrants.
    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924061993386&view=2up&seq=461

    Richard (Dirk) is a witness for the baptism of the child of his sister, Elizabeth Van der Haan and her husband, Alexander Forbes.

  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."

    Record shows use of the name "Richard Vanhorn"

  5.   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

  6. 6.0 6.1 VanHorne, Richard. Newark, N.J., to Liverpool by Dec. 1788 , in Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Smith, Leonard H. Jr. and Norma H.
    Vol 2, Part 2, p.289, 1992.

    Source: The Diary of Simeon Perkins, 1780-1789, p.506. Harvey, ed., facsimile edition,1969.
    Mindert's parents evidently arriving at Liverpool for his marriage.

  7. Descendants of this family adopted the surname Vanhorn/Van Horne. Both branches of this family eventually adopted this surname, Mindert's line starting with himself, and his brother, Cornelius' line, begining with his son Martin.
  8. Richard Van der Haan was a resident of Acquackanonk by 1754, the date of the baptism of his daughter, Catrina, until at least 1765, when he attempted to sell his home at Great Notch (S2)