Henry Aten

Birth: Sep. 3, 1723 Death: May 16, 1780 https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18090331 Research provided by Mame.

Hendrick "Henry" Aten b. Sept 3,1723 in Hunterdon Co,NJ. died Aug 4,1773 in Upper Mt Bethel,Northampton Co,PA. married Mary L Bellas/Bellis. Their Children are: (1) Henrdick "Henry" Aten b.May 1757 d. March 29,1812 in Mt Bethel,Northampton Co,PA. married Jane Unknown. (2) Thomas Bellis Aten b.Aug 2,1760 d.Sept 5,1855 in Clinton,Allegheny Co,PA.married Mary Beer. (3) Mary "Polly" Aten b.Mar 5,1763 d.Nov 22,1838 in PA.married John Funston. (4) John J Aten/Auten b.June 19,1765 d.Aug 30,1840 Milton,Montour Co,PA.married 1st Mary Burns,2nd Jane Morden. (5) Sarah Aten b.1770 d.1842.Williamsport,Lycoming Co,PA. married William Britton. (6) George Aten b.1772 d.1856 in Findley Twp,Allegheny Co,PA. married Isabell "Mary" Quinn.

Provided by Robert Kuhmann:

Hendrick "Henry M." Aten, b. 3 September 1723 (3rd child, 2nd son of Adrian Aten b.1695 d.???? and Jacobje Middagh-Aten b.~1693 d.????), married Mary Bellas {Bellis} in 1752. The first five (of their six) children were born in Northampton Co., PA. In 1764, he was deeded a farm adjoining that of his brother, Dirck. Their sixth child, George was probably born in Northumberland Co., PA. (in 1771 or 1772). Hendrick died in 1773 and was buried in the Aten Cemetery in Upper Mount Bethel. After Hendrick's death his wife Mary, remarried a man named Campbell and later moved (with younger family) members to Clinton, Allegheny Co., PA, where she died and was buried.

Provided by Sally Shreeve:

Henry Aten served as a private in Capt. Timothy Jayne's company in the 5th Bn. of Northampton County militia In the Revolutionary War.

The ???? you have in your nice writeup can be filled in. Adriaen died 11 Dec 1757 in Readington, Hunterdon, New Jersey. Jacobje Middaugh died 16 May 1782 in Northampton County, PA.

I have a marriage date for Hendrick Aten and Mary Bellas as 21 April 1753 but I cannot find my source that that information.

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Children:

 Henry Aten (1757 - 1812)*

 Thomas Bellas Aten (1760 - 1855)*

 Mary Aten Funston (1763 - 1838)*

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Burial: Aten Cemetery Northampton County Pennsylvania, USA

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PROLOGUE

My original copy of this Brief History and Genealogy of the Aten Family in America by Mrs. D.T. O’Hara came to me (Dorothy Armitage) from James F. Aten, who was sent it by a man who knew his father, James F. Aten, Sr., and thought Jim might find it interesting. It has no date but other articles about the anticipated Sesquicentennial celebration in Ohio indicate it was published in 1953.

A second copy of the same article was received from Alan Lamb. It was sent to him by Joan Witt of E. Liverpool, OH. Handwritten information was added by Mrs. John R Wilson, also of East Liverpool. She included her family connection: (Richards and Wilson)—Henry Aten Sr. married Mary Morgan, their son Henry Jr. married Eliza Dever, their daughter Mary Catherine married Wm. H. Gamble, their daughter Helen Elizabeth married L. Dan Richards, their daughter Donna Jean married John R Wilson, their son Dirk married Loris Lee Henderson (who have a daughter, Ashley Marie)

There are several typographical errors and misspellings in the Wellsville Echos publication which have simply been corrected. There are also a few errors of fact which other research has uncovered. In those cases the original writing was left intact but a note with a correction has been inserted [in italics].

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Volume Iv, No. 3 Wellsville, Ohio Page 31

BRIEF HIST0RY AND GENEAL0GY 0F THE ATEN FAMILY IN AMERICA - By Mrs. D.T. 0'Hara

  Adrian Hendrick Aten, the imrnigrant

and founder of the Aten family in Am-

erica, was born in Utricks [Utrecht], Nether-

lands, near Amsterdam, and emigrat-

ed to America and settled at Flat-

bush, Long Island, in 165I. His name

appears on the records of Flatbush as

an officer of the peace in 0ctober,

1665. He married Elizabeth Thomas in

the Netherlands, and the first child,

Hendrick, was born there in 1660.

[not possible; the family arrived in New

Amsterdam in 1651.]

  Other children John, Thomas, Annette,

Maritye and PauI were born at New Am-

sterdam. Records show Hendrick married

Maria De Mott, John married Elissea [really Elizabeth] Schillman, [Thomas married Elsje Schillman], Annette married Thomas Schill-

man, Maritye no record, Paul married

Marite Van Neste .

  Adrian Hendrick made his will March 20,

1695, and died around 1700.

  From Long Island and Staten Island,

after the English conquest of New Am-

sterdam in 1674, the descendants of the

original Holland settIers followed the

Raritan river to its sources, the

North and South branches. Nearby is a

stream known as Holland Brook, many

descendants of the original Holland set-

tlers still dwell there. They also fill

the adjacent valley of Campbell's Brook,

named for a Scotsman who owned the land,

Lord Neil Campbell, who had a land grant

from the English crown.

  Early in the 1700’s the Aten families

migrated west on the Raritan river. Thom-

as Aten, third child of Haidrick [Hendrick], born

1670, settled first near New Brunswick,

N.J. in Somerset County. They had four

children, Adrian, John Janette and Mar-

tien. The two eldest were baptized in

the Dutch Reform Church in Brooklyn.

Adrian was born 1695, John 1701, Janette

1704 and Martien in 1716. We have no

record of Martien, Janette married Pike

Vanderbilt of Brooklyn, no record of

children, John married Elizabeth Bo[d]yn

(?) [actually married Elizabeth Sutphen] had seven children. Adrian married

Jacobje Middagh in 1718, from Staten

Island of Huguenot descent. She was

the great grandchild of Sarah de Rapal-

je, who was the first white child born

on Staten Island (1625). In her gilt-edged Bible (still preserved) is recorded her birth and birth of her ten children.

  Among those who purchased land from

Lord Campbell was Adrian Aten, who came

to the section called Campbell’s Brook

from New Brunswick. His father, Thomas,

came with Adrian’s family. The names of

Adrian and Jacobje’s children are as

follows: Autde [Antje], born 1719, married

first Nick Schamp, second John Sutp[h]en,

Dirck born 1721 (more later on this line)

Hendrick born 1723, married Mary Bellos,

Cathalyne born 1726, died in infancy,

Maritje born 1728 married Wm. Van Fleet,

Cathalyntie born 1730 married - - - Insley,

Jan, or John born 1732, married Elizabeth

Stupen [actually married Elizabeth Bodine], Garradins [Gerradus] twin of John born 1732,

no record. Judick born 1735 married

Joseph Morehead, Adrian Jr. born 1737,

no record. [See Moon Twp, Allegheny, PA]

  The Atens living between the branches

of the Raritan, had their children bap-

tized in the log church over the North

branch, just west of its union with the

South branch, which forms the beautiful

river. Some years later the church was

moved two miles farther west, and is now

known as the Church of Readington,

Reading's Town is on Adrian Aten’s farm.

This church has baptismal records of Aten

family. In later years, after the death

of Jacobje, Adrian [her son] came to western Pennsylvania to live with a daughter and is

buried in Montour Presbyterian church-

yard.

  Dirck Aten, second son of Adrian and

Jacobje, born Aug. 22, 172I, married

first, Judity Van Fleet, had one child,

Japia, who married Nicholas Albertson,

second married Adaranche Langstraat, had

three children, Judick, who married

John Butler, Adrian or Aaron, who mar-

ried Martha Beer and settled in Beaver

County, Pa. in 1785 and Christina, who

married Wm. Wilson, third married Cather-

ine Warner and had nine children.

Richard, born 1766 married Nancy Mc-

Murtry, settled in Allegheny Co., Pa. in

1785, Adaline born 1768 married Thomas

Beer, Sarah born 1770 married Joseph

McMurtry [really Jesse Bowman], Mary born 1772 married Jesse Bowman [really Joseph McMurtrie Sr.], Henry born 1773 (more later),

Thomas married, first, Sarah Bellas,

second Susan Shweppenheiser, John married

Susan BeIIas, Peter married Sarah Coatee

and Catherine married John Barnes.

Dirck moved to Northampton Co., Pa.

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from New Jersey. His farm having an ex-

tended water front along the Delaware

river, he established a Ferry in 1760

still known as Aten's Ferry. Nearby he

laid out a family burial ground. This

cemetery is seven miles below Water Gap.

There Dirck and his brother Hendrick,

who owned lhe adjacent farm, and many

of their descendants lie buried. On

the unpretentious stone at the head of

Dirck's grave the letters D.A. and the

figures 1809, although crudely cut, are

easily read. Nearby on another plain

stone the letters --drick point out

the last resting place of Hendrick

Aten.

  Henry Aten, fifth child of Catherine

and Dirck, was born September 23, 1773.

In 1804 he married Mary Morgan of Penn-

sylvania and moved to Wellsville, 0hio

the same year.

  (Elizabeth Morgan, visitinq her sis-

ter, Mary, met and married James Wells,

oldest son of Wellsville’s founder,

William Wells ) .

  Henry bought land from William Wells,

his farm running from 11th St. to 18th

St., known as Section 10, adjoined the

Wells section and comprised 170 acres.

As Wellsville expanded he laid it out in

]ots.

  In 1811 he erected a fine stone resi-

dence on his property, it being the

first house in Wellsville and the second

in Columbiana County. Henry and Mary had six children.

  Charles, born Aug. 14, 1805, was an

attorney, residing at Lisbon, 0hio, mar-

ried -----Harbaugh. They had four chil-

dren, Louis, Jerome, Henry and Kate.

Richard, born Jan, 10, 1810, married

Valinda ----? They had two children,

Harry and Fannie. James married Margaret

Logan and had five children, Sherwell,

George B., who married Hannah Riggs.

They had three children, James Henry, Willet and Elizabeth. Frances, married John

Chadwick, Henry born 0ct. 3, 1814 (more

later) Catherine, born Aug. 11, 1817,

married Albert Catlett. Two children

were born to Catherine and Albert, John

and Hanson. Catherine was widowed early

and moved with her boys to the old stone

Home with her parents, where they grew

to manhood. John born May 10, 184l, mar-

ried Julia Abbey. Two of their four chil-

dren reached maturity, Fred and Albert.

Albert married Margaret Lindsay and they

had two children, Jack and Emily, who

reside in Cleveland.

  Henry Aten Sr. was an old time Whig in

politics; but on the formation of the

Republican party joined its ranks.

  He was interested in education, and one

of the earliest log school houses was

erected on his farm. Frances Wells Law-

son, mother of Mary and Francea Lawson,

and daughter of James Wells and Eliza-

beth Morgan (sister of Mary Morgan Aten)

went to school there. She often told her

family of being frightened by small herds

of elk as she went throuqh the fields on

her way to the school.

  His wife, Mary, died September 4, 1846,

he died April 28, 1876, having attained

the age of 103. They were life long

members of the Presbyterian Church and

are buried in Springhill Cemetery.

When Henry Sr. was 100 years old, in

1873, he nailed 100 shingles on the roof

of the building being erected by his

grandson, John Catlett, for a furniture

store. The building is standing between

Fourth and Fifth on Main St.

  Henry Jr., youngest son of Henry Sr. and

Mary, inherited the farm and continued

his agricultural pursuits. He was mar-

ried on Jan 8, 1867, to EIiza, daughter

of John and Ann (Russelt) Dever, who mi-

grated in 1855 to Yellow Creek Township,

Columbiana County, from Beaver County, Pa.,

She being born in the latter place April

14, 1843. Five children were born to

this union. George, born Nov.24, 1867,

married Addie Crawford, no children. Car-

rie, born Feb. 2, 1869, died 1887. Henry

III born 1873 died in 1874 Lydia Frances

born Feb. 24, 1877, married Charles Ham-

mond Snediker Apr. 26, l893. Five child-

ren were born to this union. Jean

Snediker born July 27, 1894, married first

Walter A. Zelch, one child died in child-

hood, second married CarI Baker. Harry

Miller Snediker born Nov. 23, 1895, died

JuIy 10, 1908. Frances Snediker born

Oct. 29, 1897, married Herman Dornick

Feb. 13, 1918. They had one son Robert

Francis born Mar. 6, 1920, who married

Betty Jan Piatt June 15, 1941. They

have three children, Judith Ann born

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Nov. 22, 1942, Robert Charles, born June

20, 1946 and Alcinda Jane born June 4,

1951.

  Dorothy Elizabeth Snediker born Septem-

ber 3, 1899 married John Chisholm Aug.

2, 1922, They have one son, Charles

Henry, born May 12, 1924. Kathryn Vir-

ginia Snediker born Sept. 18, 1901, mar-

ried William P. Hanlon May 16, 1922. They

had one daughter, Myra Jacqueline, born

Feb. 21, 1923, married Gene Schmidt, July

10, l948 and live in New York City.

  Mary Catherine Aten, youngest child of

Henry Jr. was born Sept. 26, 1883, died

in 1949, married Wm. H. Gamble of East

Liverpool. They had three children,

Marion, born 1906, died 1907. Helen C.

born 1909, married L. Dan Richards, have

two children, Donna Jean, born 1931

Dan Jr. born 1942; and Dorothy Gamble

born 1911, married Fred McCormick, have

one child, Marci Ann, Born 1937.

  Henry Aten Jr. died Jan, 23, 1903.

Eliza died Feb. 6, 1926,

  In the stone home built in 1811 at

what is now 15th & Buckeye Avenue, on

the second floor bedrooms, near the stone

chimneys were huge cupboards, extra wide

and deep, where Eliza stored her quilts

and other bedding; when company came and

extra sleeping space was needed, the

children were put to bed in the cupboards.

  Eliza was visiting her sister in Pitts-

burgh and attended a W.C.T.U. meeting,

there she met Frances Willard and becarne

so enthused for the cause that she in-

vited her to Wellsville to organize a W.

C.T.U. Frances Willard, with her

seeretary, Anna Gordon, made several

visits to the Aten home. Lydia Frances

Snediker (Mrs. Charles) is named for her.

  The story is told of Eliza wakening one

night, hearing a burglar. She ran out

in the hall and saw him on the stairway.

Thinking to scare him, she called, "Hen-

ry, give me that gun quick." Henry, not

seeing the burglar, called, "Now Lyz, you

know we haven’t had a load in that gun

in years." In desperation she threw a

chair down the stairs, frightening the

burglar away.

  Some branches of the Aten family in New

Jersey spell the name Auten, and it is

said a few spell it Eaton.

  Three of Adrian’s sons, John, Hendrick

and Dirck, served in the Revolutionary

War. This line has been cleared for mem-

bership in the Daughters of the American

Revolution, Daughters of 1812 and the

Huguenot Society. For Atens who first

settled in New Jersey, see History of

Somerset and Hunterdon County, page

489-569 by Snell.

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HUGUENOT ANCESTRY OF ATEN FAMILY

By Mrs. D.T. O’Hara

  Handressen de Trico born around 1580

was a woolen merchant in Paris, France.

In 1603 his daughter Catalyntje was born

and married Joris Jansen de Rapalje.

They emigrated to America in 1624 and

settled on Staten Island. In 1625 Sarah

de Rapalje was born, the first white

child on Staten Island. Her name is in

most every large encyclopedia.

  On a pillar on the west side of the Hu-

guenot church at Staten Island, N.Y. is

the following inscription:

“Joris Jansen de Rapalje

and his wife Catalyntie Trico

Left Amsterdam March 1624

Reached Manhatten May 1624

Sailed.up the Hudson River to Albany

    (Fort Drguge) [Fort Orange]

Returned to New York 1626

Settled at Brooklyn (Wallabout) 1637

    and died there.

Joris Jansen de Rapalje was one of the

‘Twelve Men’ in 1641 and Magis-

trate 1655-1660.”

  In 1951, the New York Historical So-

ciety had picture post cards made of the

de Rapalje children from a painting made

by John Durant in 1728. Given in memory

of John Jay Watson the post card picture

shows Sarah and three brothers, Jeroni-

mus, Jacob and Daniel. An early paint-

ing hangs in Metropolitan Art Museum,

New York City.

  Sarah married, first, Jon Hans Bergen,

second, Teunis Guysbert Bogaert. Her

daughter Brietze (Rebecca) Bergen mar-

riod Aert Middagh, Their son Dirck Mid-

dagh born 1676, married Kathlyn Van

Neste, Their daughter Jacobje Middagh

married Adrian Aten, their son Dirck At-

en, married Catherine Warner, their son

Henry Aten married Mary Morgan, their

son Henry Jr., married Eliza Dever, their

daughter Lydia Frances married Charles

Snediker, their daughter Frances married

Herman Dornick, their son Robert married

Betty Jane Piatt, their daughter Judith

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Ann, born in 1942, is the twelfth gen-

eration in the United States and thir-

teen generations, including the mer-

chant of Paris.

  The story is told that Peter Stuyva-

stant, Dutch Governor, gave Sarah a

large tract of land and a cow to make

amends for going into her house in her ab-

sence and eating her apple dumplings. To

this day streets in Brooklyn are called

Middagh and De Rapalje for these early

settlers.