Bergen County

Genealogy of Albert V. Huyler of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

Albert V. Huyler. Johannes (John) Huyler came to America from Holland about 1741, and went to Bergen County, where he married, in 1742, Eva, daughter of Cornelius Banta. He purchased of the heirs of Colonel Jacobus Van Cortlandt a large tract of land (several hundred acres) between Cresskill and Tenafly, extending from the Hudson River to the Tienn Kill, where he resided until his death. His children were Cornelia, married John Banta; Joris (George), married Maria Symonson; John, married (1) Effie Westervalt and (2) Anntje Banta; Jannetje (dead); and Wilhelmus, married Christian Cole. John Huyler (2) known as “Captain John,” … Read more

Biography of Jacob H. Hopper of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

Jacob H. Hopper. The Hopper family, it is said, started in France. They spelled the name Hoppe, and finally changed it to Hopper. Some of them went to Holland during times of religious persecution. It is known that Andries (Andrew) Hopper came to America from Amsterdam, Holland, with a wife (and, perhaps, two or three children), as early as 1653, and located in the City of New Amsterdam. The name of his wife does not appear in the New Jersey records. After their arrival the couple had three children born to them: William in 1654, Hendrick in 1656, and Matthew … Read more

Genealogy of Richard B. Haring of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

Richard B. Haring is descended in the ninth generation from Jan Pietersen Haring, the emigrant from Hoorn, Holland, and the line of descent is the same as that of his father, John T. Haring (see page 154), extending it one generation further, as follows: John T. Haring (8), born May 16, 1822, married, May 24, 1843, Rachel, daughter of John R. Blawvelt, born August 24, 1822. He resides at Tappan, on part of the farm which his first American ancestor purchased from the Indians. The issue of John T. Haring (8) of the ninth generation are three: Tunis J., Richard … Read more

Genealogy of John T. Haring of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

John T. Haring’s ancestors, for many generations, have resided at Old Tappan. He is descended in the eighth generation from Jan Pietersen Haring, the emigrant from Hoorn, Holland, for an account of whom, and of his children, see Genealogy of Garrett A. Haring. His line of descent as far as the fourth generation is identical. John Cozine Haring, of the fourth generation, born November 24, 1693, and his wife, Aeltie Van Dolsen, born in April, 1696, had issue of the fifth generation eight children, of whom one was Frederick J. Haring (5). Frederick Johns Haring (5), born December 7, 1729, … Read more

Genealogy of Henry G. Haring of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

Henry G. Haring is a descendant in the eighth generation from Pieter Haring, of Hoorn, Holland, for a sketch of whom and of his sons and grandsons the Genealogy of Garrett A. Haring. This branch of the family always resided around Tappan, Hillsdale, Westwood, and Pascack, in Bergen County. Henry G. Haring’s line of descent from Pieter, of Holland, is as follows: Pieter Haring (1), of Hoorn, Holland. Jan Petersen Haring (2), of Hoorn, Holland, the first emigrant to America, married Margaretta Cozines (widow), and had issue of the third generation six children, one of whom was Cozine Johns Haring … Read more

Genealogy of Garret T. Haring of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

Garret T. Haring is descended in the ninth generation from Jan Pietersen Haring, the emigrant from Hoorn, Holland. The line of descent is the same as that of Garret A. Haring down to the fifth generation. Garret John Haring (5), a son of John Cozine Haring (4) and Aeltie Van Dolsen, born April 28, 1725, married, in 1751, Cornelia Lent, and had issue of the sixth generation eight children: Aeltie, Peter, Frederick, James, Catharine, Elizabeth, John, and Abraham. John Garrets Haring (6), born at Tappan in 1752, married Rensie (Garrets) Eckerson and had issue of the seventh generation four children: … Read more

Genealogy of Garret A. Haring of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

Garret A. Haring. The city of Hoorn is located on a small arm of the Zuyder Zee in Holland. It is now a place of little importance, but from the beginning of the fifteenth to the seventeenth century it was a city of considerable magnitude and trade. During the Spanish wars it was sufficiently so to be fortified and stubbornly defended by the Spanish under Admiral De Bossu. It glories in being the birthplace of William Schouten, who in 1616 first doubled the southmost cape of South America, which he named after his birthplace, Cape Horn. Abel Jansen Tasman, who … Read more

Genealogy of Albert Zabriskie Haring of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

Albert Zabriskie Haring is a lineal descendant of Jan Pietersen Haring, the first emigrant of the name (see sketch on page 61). Cornelius Jansen Haring (2) (the third of the children of Jan Pietersen Haring (1) and Margaretta Cozine), born in New York in 1672, married, in 1693, Catalyntie, daughter of Judge Matthew Flearboom, of Albany, N. Y. Cornelius removed to Tappan, N. Y., with other members of the family, in 1686, and in 1721, when the Tappan patented lands were divided, he received as his portion a large tract in Harrington Township, on both sides of the Tappan road … Read more

Biography of Charles A. Hamilton of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

Charles A. Hamilton, of Closter, Bergen County, N. J., was born at Cannan Four Corners, Columbia County, N. Y., March 24, 1859. He is the son of Silas B. and Emily J. (Haight) Hamilton, a grandson of James Hamilton and William Haight, and a descendant of a long line of Scotch ancestors. Mr. Hamilton received his education in his native State. He left school at the age of seventeen and entered a railroad office, where he remained three and a half years. He then accepted a position with the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York City, and has since … Read more

Biography of The Goetschius Family of Bergen County

Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey

The Goetschius Family is also a numerous family in the western part of Bergen County. They are all descended from John Henry Goetschy, who was born in the Canton of Zurich, in Switzerland, about 1695, where he studied for the ministry in the University of Switzerland. He came to America about 1728, and first preached at Skippach and in the valleys of the Delaware and Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. His son, John Henry Goetschius, born at Liguria, Switzerland, in 1718, studied in the University of Zurich, and came to America with his father in 1728. He was licensed to preach in … Read more