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Apparently there were three immigrants to New Netherlands whose descendants took some version of the Van Horne surname. The three men were Jan Cornelissen, from Hoorn, North Holland; Christian Barentsen, probably from Hoorn, Terschelling Island, Friesia; and Matthys Cornelissen from Jutland [Denmark, according to his marriage record]. These men were not related, and had absolutely nothing to do with one another after coming to North America. . Matthys Cornelissen NEVER used the Van Horne surname - this has been added incorrectly by poor research.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lisaann/people/vanhorne/matthys.htm
Matthys Cornelissen Van Horne (Cornelissen meaning son of Cornelius) came to the Long Island (called Flat Lands at the time) New York Dutch towns ca. 1663. About 30 years later he married Fytie Brouwer, b. 1656/59 daughter of Adam Brouwer and Magdalena Jacobse Verdon. They’re marriage intention is dated, 20 Feb 1692 at Flatbush, New New York.[1]
Fytje was the widow of Evertt Hendricksen or Evertt Hendricks Van Gelder, m. ca. 1676. Fytie and Evert Hendrickson (Van Gelder) had the following children: Adolph, Jacobus, Altje, Hendrick, and Jannitje. Matthyse and Fytie had two sons who became Cornelius and Abraham Van Horne first of Monmouth County New Jersey and later Hunterdon County New Jersey.
[New Amsterdam was seized by England in 1664 from the Dutch and was renamed New York. The British subsequently insisted on the adoption of surnames for tax purposes.]
Mathias took the Oath of Allegiance to the British in September of 1687 and was entered as a resident of Brooklyn, New York and had resided in New Netherlands for 24 years. [2]
Mathias was listed on the Tax Assessment roll of New Utrecht in 1693.
Mattyse was a landowner in Brooklyn who purchased 223 acres of land in Middleton Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey from Obadiah Browne, son of Capt. Brown of the famous Monmouth Patent. He deeded one half of the Middleton land to each of his two sons. This may be the reason Abraham, his brother, Cornelius, and their half sister, Sarah, moved to Monmouth County about 1718. [3]
Matthyse never used the surname Van Horne.

He took the Oath of Allegiance in September 1687 at Kings Co., New York, as "Matthys Cornelisen, 23 jeare" (in this country for 23 years, not 23 years of age).
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York, Excerpted from The Documentary History of the State of New York (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979, 1989, 1999), p.37.

Children of Matthyse and Fytie :
Cornelius m. Catharine Cox, Elizabeth Lawrence, Hannah Seabrook
Abraham bap. 15 Jan 1699 m. Anna Covenhoven

[1] H.S.Y.B. 1898, p. 95 “20 Feb 1692. Matys Cornelisen to Fytye Adams Brouwer” from Paul E. Van Horne
[2] Documentary History of New York, relating to Long Island Vol. 1, Page 430.
[3]Colonial Tavern Keepers: NLSR Vol 1 Pages 21 and 22 & Paul E. Van Horn, article Abraham Van Horn, Owner, White House Tavern


He appeared on the census of 1698 at Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York, as Matthys Cornelisse, with a household of 1 man, 1 woman, and 5 children.

• On 20 Apr 1709, Nicholas Brower of Brookland, "am holden and firmly bound unto Mattyse Corneliusse of Brookland, in the penal sum of 350 pounds." The conditions of the obligation required Nicholas to pay "unto Cornelius and Abram the two and only sons and children of Mattys Corneliusse and Feytie his wife," the sum of 175 pounds each, within twelve months of the decease of Matthys Corneliusse and Feytie his wife, and in the meantime to pay yearly, and every year to Matthys and Fytie, his wife, and the longest liver of them after, the rate of six percent, payable on 1 May, yearly (a payment schedule is then described). Signed by Nicholas Brower. Then on 12 Aug 1709, Mattyse Corneliusse bound himself to Nicholas Brower, for the same sum of 350 pounds.

Spouse	Sophia Fytie Brouwer (1655 - )
Child	Cornelius Van Horne (1695 - 1744)
Child	ABRAHAM Van Horne (1698 - 1759)