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BIOGRAPHY OF
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 discovered Van
Dieman's Land and New Zeeland, was also a native of Hoorn. Back
from the city the land is low but fertile, adapted to grazing
and dairy purposes. Manufacturing and shipbuilding were, two
centuries ago, extensively carried on there. It was at Hoorn
that the great fleet of Admiral De Ruyter was built. But the
most extensive of its varied interests were its herring fisheries,
which were numerous and of great value, employing large numbers
of men.
Among the families residing at Hoorn were the Harings. The
name is mentioned on the pages of history as far back as 1573,
and when the Dutch were defeated at the battle of Diemark, in
that year, it is related of one John Haring, of Hoorn, that he
stood with sword and helmet, on a narrow part of the dyke, and
singly by miracles of valor kept back a thousand Spaniards, until
his comrades had made their retreat. Then plunging into the
sea, he escaped unhurt. Not long afterward, in a sea fight,
he climbed on board the great Spanish ship "The Inquisitor"
and hauled down her flaunting colors and was fatally pierced
by a bullet. Among his descendants Pieter Jansen Haring (1)
is said to have been a native of Newenhuysen in Holland, where
he was born in 1610, and from whence he removed to Hoorn. His
third son, Jan Pietersen Haring (2), one of a large family, was
born at Hoorn, December 26, 1633. He emigrated to America in
1660, and on Whitsuntide in 1662 became the second husband of
a young widow named Margaretta Cozine, born in Haarlem, Holland,
in 1634. This was the first marriage in the Dutch Church, on
the farm called the Bowery, which church was situated where now
stands St. Mark's Church, corner of East Eleventh Street and
Second Avenue, in New York.
John Pietersen Haring purchased and resided until his death
(December 7, 1683) on a farm of 100 acres, which extended from
the Bowery Lane westward to and beyond Bedford Street, including
both sides of Broadway, from Waverly Place to Bleecker Street.
His descendants continued fro more than a century to own portions
of it. John Pietersen Haring (2) had children of the third generation
Peter, Cozine, Cornelius, Abraham, Brechie, Vroutie, and Maretie.
All of these with their mother, Margaretta Cozine, removed to
Tappan in 1686. The widow had previously (February 2, 1685)
taken a third husband in the person of Daniel de Clark, by whom
she left no issue. John Pietersen Haring's children all married
and settled at or near Tappan on the Tappan patent, of which
two of the sons were joint purchasers with de Clark, the Blawvelts,
Smiths, and others, in 1686. They all reared large families.
Peter, Cozine, Cornelius, and Abraham settled within the limits
of Harrington Township in Bergen County, N. J., where their descendants
are very numerous. The township received its name from the family
in 1775. Garret A. Haring, the subject of this sketch, is descended
in the seventh generation from John Pietersen Haring, the first
American ancestor. The line of descent is as follows: (1) John
Pietersen Haring and Margaretta Cozine, (2) Cozine Johns Haring
and Margaretta Garrets Blawvelt, (3) John Cosines Haring and
Aeltje Van Dolsen, (4) Garret Johns Haring and Cornelia Lent,
(5) Abram Garrets haring and Elizabeth Blawvelt, (6) Garret Abrams
Haring and Maria Smith, (7) Abram Garrets Haring and Charity
Johnson, and (8) Garret Abrams Haring and Lavina Van Houten.
Rev. Garret Abram Haring, for many years the beloved pastor
of the True Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, Bergen County,
is one of the oldest and best known clergymen in Eastern New
Jersey. His great-grandfather, Abram G. Haring, born May 18,
1755, settled in Tappan, N. J., and followed agricultural pursuits.
By his wife, Elizabeth Blawvelt, also of Holland descent, he
had a son, Garret A. Haring, who was born March 22, 1781, and
who was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. This
Garret A. haring settled in Ramapo, Rockland County, N. Y., and
spent his active life as a farmer and miller, dying December
12, 1869. He married Maria Smith and had two children: Abram
G. and Hetty (Mrs. Albert J. Terhune). Abram G. Haring was born
on the homestead in Rockland County on the 16th of July, 1803,
and was also a farmer, succeeding his father in the management
and ownership of the family estate. He married Charity Johnson,
of Ramapo, and had two sons: Rev. Garret A. and John J. Mr.
Haring died March 12, 1864, after a career which equaled in usefulness
and prominence that of his honored father, who survived him nearly
six years.
Rev. Garret A. Haring, eldest son of Abram G. and Charity
(Johnson) Haring, was born on the family homestead in Ramapo,
Rockland County, N. Y., on the 18th of November, 1829. There
he also spent his early life, acquiring in the district schools
the rudiments of an education and following various business
pursuits. But he was not destined for a mercantile nor an agricultural
life. His tastes were scholarly; his inclinations were for a
profession. And with this end in view he took up the study of
theology. Having thoroughly fitted himself for the ministry,
Mr. Haring received a call and was duly ordained pastor of the
True Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, and in
that capacity has labored ever since. Under this pastorate,
which covers a generation, the church has grown and prospered
until now it is one of the largest in that locality.
Mr. Haring is a man of broad scholarly attainments, of noble
and generous impulses, and universally esteemed and respected,
not only for his learning and culture, but also for those affectionate
and sympathetic qualities which make him so popular among all
denominations. He has always interested himself in the affairs
of the community, and is an ardent advocate of every movement
and project which has the welfare of the people at heart. He
is a Democrat in politics, a friend of education, and a benevolent,
patriotic, public spirited citizen.
January 1, 1851, Mr. Haring married Miss Lavina Van Houten.
They have three daughters: Melissa, Ellen H., and Anna Naomi.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, pages 61-63.
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