Individual Details

Most sources give us birth as 1695, but cite a baptism in New York, 16 Oct 1706. This seems rather odd and probably should be investigated further. His gravestone would seem to reinforce the birth in 1695.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/d/a/Jean-A-Adams-IL/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0058.html
Captain Cornelius Van Horn, son of Abram Van Horn, was baptized in New York, October 16, 1706. {This statement is puzzling because his father appears to have been Mattias Cornelius and the baptism seems late.] He married (first) Catharine Cox; (second) Elizabeth Lawrence; (third) Hannah Seebrook. He settled in Monmouth, New Jersey. After his third marriage he removed to Hunterdon county, where his brother Abram and sister Helena also lived. He and his brother bought the time of a German emigrant for a term of years to pay his passage to this country. This man bargained to build three houses in three successive years for his freedom, he having all the spare time. One of these was a stone house with the initials C. V.H., dated 1753, and stood half a mile west of the White House station, and north of the railroad. Captain Van Horn's will, dated December 24, 1743, with a codicil February 3, 1744, proved March 16, 1744, bequeathed to wife Hannah and his children. He was buried in 1744 in the old Van Horn graveyard at White House and the gravestone is standing. It gives the date of death as February 12, 1744. His widow married Benjamin Drake, of Hopewell, near Trenton. Child of first wife: Thomas, born December 4, 1722. children of second wife: Mathias, 1724; Catharine, Elizabeth. Children of third wife: Mary, April 12, 1733; Cornelius, May 4, 1737; Abram, August 28, 1738; James, April 23, 1740; John, May 3, 1742; Daniel, May 2, 1743.
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs
Vol. IV, pg 1673
Clearfield Company, Inc., New York, 1911


Captain Cornelius Van Horne led a New Jersey contingent of British Troops
in the expedition against Canada in 1737. He named his wife Hannah,
seven sons, three daughters and his brother Abraham in his will.

Cornelius Van Horne was a Captain in the New Jersey militia. He fought
in the Colonial wars in 1737 and 1745. Later he was Commissioner of
Peace for Huntendon County.

After the death of Catherine Cox, Capt. Cornelius purchased a large tract
of land in Hunterdon County near the confluence of the northern and
southern branches of Rockaway Creek, near land owned by his brother
Abraham who had recently founded Whitehouse, New Jersey. He must have
purchased this land sometime before November 6, 1728 as on that date, he
and his brother Abraham were appointed on a Commission to try pirates.

According to "Our Van Horne Kindred" he was buried in the old cemetery
near the Railroad Station in Whitehouse and his tombstone inscription SAYS:
"In Memory of CAPTAIN CORNELIUS VAN HORNE Died February 12, 1744 in ye
49th year of his age."

Find A Grave Memorial# 11998380. His stone is now broken and chipped but said to be clearly the oldest marked grave in the cemetery - Haypress Cemetery, Whitehouse Station, Hunterdon Co, NJ.

Cornelius left a will dated December 24, 1743, with a Codicil added on
February 3, 1744 and are recorded in the Book of Wills, No. V. page 17,
in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, New Jersey. This
will is dated at Reading Town, County of Hunterdon, in the western
division of New Jersey and makes the following bequests: --

"To my beloved wife Hannah, fifty ponds in lieu of her dowry, and
provision for her support so long as she shall live and remain a widow.
ITEM -- to my eldest son Thomas, all that tract of land whereon I now
dwell, situate in the County of Hunterdon, and purchased of John Budd.
ITEM -- to my son Mathias, all that tract of land situate in Upper
Freehold adjoining Thomas Lenard, Abiah Cooke, Thomas Eversham and Joseph
Williams in the County of Monmouth; and that said Mathias shall pay two
hundred pounds proclamation money, in manner and form following, that is
to say: -- whatsoever said Mathias has over and above his equal dividend
of my whole estate, that he shall pay the one-half of that to my eldest
daughter, Catharine when she arrives at the age of twenty-seven years,
and the other hafl to my daughter Elizabeth when she arrives at the age
of twenty-four.
ITEM -- to my son Cornelius, a certain small tract of land situate upon
Crossrock Creek, in the County of Burlington, purchased of Matthew
Watson; that the said Cornelius shall pay the sum of five shillings
proclamation money to his younger brother Daniel at the age of twenty-one
years.
ITEM -- and after all my just debts have been paid, my seven sons and
three daughters are to have an equal division of my whole estate.
I hereby nominate my son Thomas Van Horne, my brother Abraham Van Horne
and my friend Nickolaes Wyckoff, to be my executors of this, my last will
and testament.
CODICIL, I leave my loving wife one of the side-saddles; and my son
Thomas his choice of all my horsekind, except the black horse branded J.
R. and my saddle; and to my daughter Catharine, three pounds, ten
shilling proclamation money; and I leave to my daughter Elizabeth, that
side saddle which was her mother's and I leave to my son Thomas, that
saddle which he usually rides upon."

Birth	1695	Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, New York
Baptism	4 May 1695	Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, New York
Marriage	1723	Monmouth County, New Jersey - Elizabeth Lawrence
Death	12 Feb 1744	Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey

Spouse	Elizabeth Lawrence (1699 - 1730)
Child	Mathais Van Horne (1724 - 1775)

Father	Matthys Cornelissen ( - )
Mother	Sophia Fytie Brouwer (1655 - )
Sibling	ABRAHAM Van Horne (1698 - 1759)