Generation No. 2 2. STOFFEL GERRITSE4 VAN SANDT (GARRET STOFFELSE3 VAN ZANDT/SANDT, * CHRISTOFFEL2 VAN ZANDT, *1 VANSANT) was born about 1670 in New Utrecht, Long Island, New York, and died 1749 in Middletown Twp., Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He married (1) ANNETJE STOFFELS Bef. 1693 in New York. She died Bef. 1699. He married (2) RACHEL CORSON Aft. 1695, daughter of HENDRICK CORSON. "History of Bucks county Pennsylvania" by William W. H. DAVIS, 1905, volume III, page 24: Stoffel VAN SANDT was listed as a deacon of the Southampton Dutch Reformed church (Neshaminy), Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on 30 Joly, 1710, when his wife, Rachel (CORSEN) was listed as a sponsor at a wedding. Stoffel VAN SANDT, eldest son of Garret, was born in the province of New York about the year 1670, and took the oath of allegiance at New Utrecht, Long Island, as a native of New Netherlands, in 1687. He probably removed to Bucks county at the same time as his father, in 1699. He was a member of the Bensalem Dutch Reformed church, with wife Rachel COURSON; having joined by certificate in 1710. He seems, however, to have become a member of Abington Presbyterian church at its organization in 1714. and was made one of its elders. He purchased of Henry PAULIN, on May 23, 1706, 300 acres of land in Middletown, 200 acres of which he conveyed to his sons Garret and John,, and died seized of the balance in 1749. He was a justice of Bucks county. 1715-18, 1723-27, and a member of colonial assembly, 1710, 1712, 1714. I719. His children were: 1. Jannetje, baptized at Brooklyn, September 3, 1693, married November 3, 1711, William RENBERG. 2. Garret, baptized at Brooklyn, May 4, 1695, probably died young, as the son Gerret, mentioned later, was certainly a younger man. (these children above were by Stoffel's first marriage with Annetje STOFFELS, who probably died prior to the removal to Bucks county.) The children of Stoffel by his second marriage with Rachel Corson, daughter of Hendrick Courson, were eight in number and as follows: 3. Joshua, married February 20, 1728 Catharine JOHNSTON, and settled in Kent county, Maryland, on land conveyed to him by his father, October 28, 1728. 4. John, who married Rebecca COX, of Philadelphia, August 19, 1728, and settled in Middletown, on land conveyed to him by his father in 1738, and died there in 1750, leaving daughters Ann, Elizabeth, Catharine, Rebecca and Mary and one son, John. 5. James, who was baptized at Abington as an adult September 16, 1716, and had children,.1. Rebecca, 2. Flora, 3, John, 4. Jacobus, baptized there 1719-1733. 6. Garret purchased land of his father in Middletown in 1742, died there in 1789, leaving a large family of children. 7. Elizabeth who married John ENOCH in 1718, and left a large family. 8. Alice or Alshe, married Samuel RUE and left a number of children. 9 Rachel, married Lewis RUE, March 24, 1736, and left children. 10. Jesina, who never married. Children of STOFFEL VAN SANDT and ANNETJE STOFFELS are: i. JANNETJE (JANE)5 VAN SANT, b. 3 September 1693, (baptized date) Brooklyn, New York; m. WILLIAM RENBERG, 3 November 1711, New York. ii. GARRET VAN SANDT, b. 4 May 1695, (baptized date) Brooklyn, New York; d. (probably died young). Children of STOFFEL VAN SANDT and RACHEL CORSON are: iii. ELIZABETH5 VAN SANT, b. Bucks county, Pennsylvania; m. JOHN ENOCH, 1718. iv. JACOBUS (JAMES) VAN SANT, SR., b. baptized as an adult on 16 Nov 1716 at Abington, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. v. JOSHUA VAN SANT, b. Bucks county, Pennsylvania; m. CATHERINE JOHNSTON, 20 February 1727/28, (license date) New Jersey. Notes for JOSHUA VAN SANT: Joshua and Catherine settled in Kent county, Maryland, on land conveyed to him by his father, 28 October, 1728. vi. JOHN VAN SANT, SR., b. about 1700, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; d. 1750, Middletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; m. REBECCA COX, 19 August 1728; b. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Notes for JOHN VAN SANT, SR.: John and Rebecca settled in Middletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on land conveyed to him by his father in 1738 and died there in 1750. vii. STOFFEL VAN SANT, b. 22 December 1701, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. viii. CORNELIUS VAN SANT, b. 7 June 1708, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. ix. JESSINAH VAN SANT, b. 14 January 1710/11, date baptized at Southampton Dutch Reformed church, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; d. (unmarried). x. JOSHUA VAN SANT, b. 14 January 1711/12, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; d. 1 February 1711/12. xi. GARRET VAN SANT, SR., b. 1718, Bensalem Twp., Bucks county, Pennsylvania; d. 17 March 1789, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; m. ________ ________. Notes for GARRET VAN SANT, SR.: "History of Bucks county Pennsylvania" by William W. H. DAVIS, 1905, volume III, page 28: Garret VAN SANT, of Middletown, son of Stophel, received by deed of gift from his Father on October 21, 1742, 95 1/2 acres of land, part of 300 acres purchased by Stophel of Henry PAULIN in 1706, and on January 10, 1748, purchased 214 acres in Middletown of Charles and Ann PLUMLY. On June 25, 1789, he conveys the last mentioned tract in about equal parts to his sons, Garret, Jr., and John and on July 31, 1789 he conveyed to his son George the 95 ½ acres conveyed to him by his father. No record appears of the name of his wife. A Garret. VANSANT married Leah NIXON at Churchville April 15, 1747, which was probably this Garret, although it may have been his cousin Garret, of Wrightstown. The will of Garret VANSANT is dated July 7, 1789 and was proved August 7, 1789 , only a week after the conveyance of his land. It mentions the children of his son Jacob, and their mother Mary VASTINE; daughters Rachel Harrison, Keziah SWEETMAN, Vashti VANSANT and Sarah HISE; sons John, Garret and George, and grandson James VANSANT. Jacob, the eldest son, married Mary RICHARDSON, daughter of Joseph RICHARDSON, and settled in Falls township, Bucks county, where he died in April, 1785, leaving children: Elizabeth, James, Catharine and Garret. His widow married Benjamin VASTINE prior to 1789. George VANSANT married Sarah JOHNSON, December 24, 1783. He sold the old homestead to Joshua WOOLSTON in 1794, and removed to Bristol township. John married Letitia LEAW and died in Middletown in 1812, leaving a son John, and daughters Ann Leah LOVETT and Amelia BOOZ. Garret VANSANT, Jr., remained on the homestead purchased of his father in 1789 until 1822, when he conveyed it to his sons James and John, and soon after removed to Newtown, where he died in 1842 at an advanced age. His wife Mary had died many years previously. The children of Garret and Mary VANSANT were John, James, Martha; Jane. Wife of Isaac RANDALL; Rachel, wife of Eber RANDALL and Mary, wife of Jonathan HUNTER. James died in Middletown in 1833, leaving a widow Amy and two children, Elizabeth, born March 11, 1821, and James born May 1, 1826. xii. RACHEL VAN SANT, b. 5 June 1719, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; d. 1783; m. LEWIS RUE, 24 March 1735/36, (license date) New Jersey. More About LEWIS RUE and RACHEL VAN SANT: Marriage: 24 March 1735/36, (license date) New Jersey xiii. JESINAH VAN SANT, b. 7 September 1721, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; d. 1766, (unmarried). xiv. ALSHE (ALICE) VAN SANT, b. 1727, Bensalem Twp., Bucks county, Pennsylvania; m. SAMUEL RUE; b. 3 October 1725, Bensalem Twp., Bucks county, Pennsylvania.