|
BIOGRAPHY OF
THE ALLEN FAMILY.
THE ALLEN FAMILY of Bergen County is descended from Peter
Garrets Van Halen. The name is probably derived from Haelen
or Haalen, a town in Belgian Limbourg, from which place the family
originally hailed. The name has gone through several forms:
Haelen, Halen, Aelen, Alen, and Allen. Peter Van Halen was
the son of Gerret Van Halen, of the City of Rotterdam, in Holland,
where Peter was born about 1687. He came to America in 1706
and settled in the Paramus section of Bergen County, where, on
the 11th of August of that year, he married, at Hackensack, Tryntie
Hendricks Hopper. He purchased lands on the west side of the
Saddle River, where he resided and reared a large family of children,
whose names were Henry, 1706; Garret, 1798; William, 1710; Andrew,
1712; Maritie, 1714; Willempie, 1716; Lea, 1718; Rachel, 1723;
Andrew, 1725; and John, 1727, all baptized at Hackensack. The
descendants of these by the name of Allen and Van Allen are very
numerous in the western part of Bergen County.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 107.
|
