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THE VAN SAUN FAMILY
Originally published in 1900 |
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THE VAN SAUN FAMILY.-The Van Sauns are a numerous family
to-day in Bergen County. Jacob Van Zauwen carne to America in 1677
and settled at New Amsterdam. There, the following year, he married
Jennetie Lucas. The entry of this marriage discloses the fact that the
groom was a native of Ransdorp in Holland.
One of his sons, Jacob Van Saen (as he wrote it), born in New Amster- dam about 1683, went to Hackensack in 1705, and married Rachel Bogert. He purchased lands in the Paramus district of Bergen County, where he finally settled. He and his wife joined the Hackensack Dutch Church in 1726. His issue were Jacob, 1706; John, 1709; John, 1711; Jennetie, 1714; Isaac, 1717; Angenitie, 1719; Lucas, 1722; and a daughter, 1725. These intermarried with the Bantas, Demarests, Goetschius, and other families, and scattered over the Counties of Bergen and Passaic.
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