Descendants of Garret Stoffelse VAN ZANDT/SANDT Generation No. 1 1. GARRET STOFFELSE3 VAN ZANDT/SANDT (* CHRISTOFFEL2 VAN ZANDT, *1 VANSANT) was born Bef. 1651 in Amsterdam or Zandberg, Holland,The Netherlands, and died Bef. 5 June 1706 in Bensalem Twp., Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He married LYSBETH GERRITZ about 1668 in New Utrecht, Long Island, New York, daughter of CORNELIS GARRITZ. She was born about 1649 in Holland, The Netherlands. "History of Bucks county Pennsylvania" by William W. H. DAVIS, 1905, volume III, page 24: THE VANSANT FAMILY. The VANSANTS of Bucks county are descendants of a common ancestor, Gerret Stoffelse VAN SANDT or VAN ZANDT,* (otherwise Garret VAN SANDT, son of Stoffel or Christopher), who emigrated from the Netherlands, probably from Zaandam in North Holland, or Zandberg in Drentlie, in or about the year 1651, and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island, on the records of which town he is frequently mentioned as Gerret Stoffellse. He was one of the fourteen patentees mentioned in the patent from Governor Thomas DONGAN, May 13, 1686, for the Commons of New Utrecht, "on behalf of themselves and their associates, the present freeholders and inhabitants of the said towne." His land was located at Yellow Hook, "under the jurisdiction of the town of New Utrecht." He was a magistrate of New Utrecht in 1681. By deed dated July 31, 1695, he conveyed his Yellow Hook plantation to Derick Janse VAN ZUTPHEN, and removed to Bucks county, where Joseph GROWDEN on 12 mo. 10, 1698-9, conveys to him 150 acres in Bensalem township and on the same date conveys a like tract adjoining to his son Cornelius. lt is probable that he was located for a time in New York, as he had two children baptized at the Dutch Reformed church there in 1674 and 1676, respectively. It is generally conceded that he was twice married, as the record of the baptisms above mentioned gives the name of his wife as Lysbeth Gerritz, while the later baptisms at New Utrecht and Flatbush churches give it as Lysbeth Cornelis. It is, however, possible that in one instance her father's surname is used and in the other his first name as was common on the Dutch records. Cornelius Gerrets was a a member of the Dutch church at New Utrecht. Garret VANSANT died intestate in Bensalem township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, prior to June 5, 1706, the date upon which his ten children make a conveyance of his land purchased as before stated in February, 1698-9. The record of baptism of seven of his ten children appears at the Dutch church of New Netherlands, and will be given in connection with a sketch of each child, taken in regular order of birth, later in this article. The names of the ten children were: 1. Stoffell; 2. Cornelius; 3. Josias; 4. Harman; 5. Albert; 6. Johannes; 7. Jacobus; 8. George; 9. Jesina, and l0. Garret. (Harman was really the third child in order of birth, and Josias fourth ). * For much of the information contained in this sketch, more especially that pertaining to the early generations of the family, we are indebted to R. Winder JOHNSON of Philadelphia, who has made extensive researches covering nearly twenty-five years pertaining to the ancestry of the VANSANTS and other Holland families from whom he descended. He is himself a descendant of Garret VAN SANDT through his son, Jacobus (7), and his fourth son, Isaiah VANSANT, who married Charity VAN HORN, and their daughter, Sarah who married Christian VAN HORN, the descent being shown more in detail in the article in this volume on the VAN HORN Family.