In June 2011, I received a message from a gentleman who had inherited 42 ORIGINAL documents relating to the Van Horne surname. He was not a Van Horne descendant, and wanted to donate the document to a place where they would be cared for and publically available. I had him inventory the documents. Based in information in the inventory I had him scan and send to me specific documents from the list. With that information I was able to identify the family as that of Jan Cornelisen van Hoorn. Those of you who research this family will be familiar with the George Olin Zabriskie genealogy in The American Genealogist, The Jan Cornelisen Van Hoorn / Van Horne Family of New York and New Jersey. I believe this is considered the most authoritative genealogy on the family. In spite of that it has holes, where original documents simply were not available to continue the lines of descent. These documents fill in one of those holes. Jan / John Van Hoorn, Zabriskie # 7, had a son, Andries / Andrew Van Horne, # 19, b.1706, d. 1747. The last known documentation for Andrew was his will written in 1742, and a codicil that mentions the possibility of an as yet unborn fourth child. The documents which range in date from 1719 to the 1930s contain Andrew’s original will, deeds, private letters, land descriptions, a plat, an apprenticeship document, and a Bible page. It is apparent from the documents that Andrew Van Horne and his wife, Mary Kearney only had the three children named in the will, James Van Horne, Catherine Van Horne and Sarah Van Horne. If a fourth child was born, it did not survive to adulthood, as it was not mentioned in the deed when Andrew’s land was sold, 1762. The Bible page lists the births of the children of James Van Horne and his wife, Elizabeth LNU. The documents were passed down in the family of their son, John Van Horne, b.1786. John was a shoemaker first in New Brunswick, New Jersey and later in Berks County, Pennsylvania. His descendants still live in Pennsylvania. Last week, the entire document collection was transferred to the New Jersey State Archives. Joseph Klett informed me that the collection is available to researchers who come into the Archives, in Trenton, and will be available on-line in about two months. Marleen Van Horne -- When the people, who made the music of your youth, begin dying of old age, you know that you, too, are old.