Second Generation: Johannes Haus

Wheeler

CHILDREN OF JOHANNES HAUS AND SARAH WHEELER

ELISABETH (or Lisabeth) HAUSE, born on 9 April 1747 in Orangetown, Rockland County. Christening: 10 May 1747; Reformed Church, Tappen, Rockland, New York. Parents: Johannis Houys and Sara Willier. Sponsors: Ryndert Houys and wife, Elizabeth. Source: The Baptism Record of the Tappan Reformed Church, Tappan, Rockland County [1694-1899]. Elisabeth married John Decker Robertson and had a daughter: Lisabeth Robertson (Sponsor: John Haus, & wife Sara Wieler, pictured at right), according to the Baptism Record of Linlithgo Reformed Church: Livingston Linlithgo Reformed Church 1722-1889. On 7 Feb 1768, John Haus and his wife, Sara Wiler, stood as sponsors for Lisabeth, daughter of Jan Decker Robertson and Lisabeth Haus.

ANNA MARGARETHA HAUSE, born on 15 Apr 1749 in Kakiat, Rockland, New York. Christening: 13 May 1749 New York. Married Peter Klapper (c. 2 Apr 1743 in Red Hook, Dutchess, New York) Abt 1768 in Columbia Co., New York. They had the following children: Johannes P. (c: 11 Dec 1768 in Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia, New York); Henry Peter (b: Abt 1770 in Columbia, New York); Jacob (b: 2 Feb 1773 c: 1773 in St. Thomas' Lutheran Church, Churchtown, Claverack, Columbia, New York); Petrus (b: 23 Jul 1777 c: 12 Aug 1777 in Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia, New York); Sarah (b: 29 Sep 1779 c: 17 Oct 1779 in Reformed Church, Linlithgo, Livingston, Columbia, New York) Critje (b: 22 Jun 1782 c: 14 Jul 1782 in Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia, New York); Wilhelm Peter (b: 21 Sep 1784 in Clapper Hollow, Albany, New York c: 1784 in West Sand Lake, Rensselaer, New York); Nicholas (b: 16 Jun 1787 c: 8 Jul 1787 in Reformed Dutch Church, Albany, Albany, New York); and Maria (b: 14 Mar 1790 c: 19 Mar 1790 in West Sand Lake, Rensselaer, New York. Margaretha died abt 26 Jan 1833 in Bethlehem, Albany, New York. Her will was proved 26 Feb 1833. Data provided by James Dibble - provided baptism place - Lutheran Church, NYC.

MARRITJE HAUSE, christened 15 Oct. 1750 in Orangetown, Rockland County, with her parents listed as "Johannes Huyser and Sarah Weiler." Sponsors: Poulus Hopper; Maritje Hopper. (Source: Baptisms at Clarkstown. Clarkstown: 1749-1853. Denomination: Reformed).) She married Coenrad Klapper on 29 Mar 1768 at Reformed Church, Linlithgo, Livingston, Columbia, New York, and had: Johannes Conrad (b: 18 Apr 1769, c: 1769 in St. Thomas' Lutheran Church, Churchtown, Claverack, Columbia, New York); Henrich (b: 11 Apr 1771, c: 11 Apr 1772 in St. Thomas' Lutheran Church, Churchtown, Claverack, Columbia, New York); Sara (b: 28 Feb 1773, c: 1773 in St. Thomas' Lutheran Church, Churchtown, Claverack, Columbia, New York) Critje (b: 24 Dec 1776, c: 19 Jan 1777 in Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia, New York); William (b: 8 Jan 1780, c: 20 Feb 1780 in Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia, New York); Elizabeth (b: 11 May 1782, c: 19 May 1782 in Reformed Church, Linlithgo, Livingston, Columbia, New York); George (b: 5 Sep 1784, c: 12 Sep 1784 in Reformed Church, West Copake, Columbia, New York); Catharina (b: 30 Jul 1787, c: 2 Sep 1787 in West Sand Lake, Rensselaer, New York) and Peter Klapper (b: Abt 1791 in , Dutchess, New York). Marritje died abt 1832 in Bethlehem, Albany, New York.

WILHELM (WILLIAM) HAUSE, born 24 Feb 1750/51 to parents Johannes Haas and wife Sarah. Witnesses: David Roeter and Anna Huet. See image at right (Sources: Dutch Reformed Church Records from New York and New Jersey. Holland Society of New York, New York; Even More Palatine Families, by Henry Z. Jones, Jr., FASG and Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, CG, 2002). William fought in Gilbert Cooper's Militia and Ann Hawkes Hay's Regiment in the Revolution. William married Martha Wood and had 14 kids, listed later.

RYNERT (RINARD) HAUSE, born 15 Oct 1754. Christening: 3 Dec 1754 Reformed Church, Clarkstown, Rockland, New York. Sponsors were Rynert Hous and Elizabeth Hous. Parents listed as Johannes Hous and Sara Wiler. Rynert married Catharina Schneider and they had a daughter, Maria Hause, b. 10 Nov 1785 in Claverack, Columbia co. Maria's christening was at the Reformed Church of Claverack (sp. George Klapper and Maria Stalkp; Parents listed as Rinard Haus and Catharina Schneider). Maria married Nicholas Klapper (1787-1860), the son of aunt Margaretha Haus-Klapper (1749 Ð 1833). These Haus and Klapper families moved to Onondaga, New York, where Rinard died on 3 Sep 1828.

JOHANNES HAUSE, born 31 Dec 1757; Bapt. Date: 16 Jan 1757; Parents: Johannes Hous; Sara Miller. Source: Baptisms at Clarkstown; Clarkstown: 1749-1853. Location: Town of Orangetown, Rockland County—Denomination: Reformed. "Johannes Huis Jr." married Christina Whitbeek on 3 Oct 1780 at the Reformed Church, Linlithgo, Livingston, Columbia, New York (click on image, at right). They had the following children: Sarah (b: 13 Sep 1781 c: 11 Oct 1781 in Reformed Church, Linlithgo, Livingston, Columbia, New York); and John Haus (b: 21 Dec 1782, c: 1783 in Reformed Church, Linlithgo, Livingston, Columbia, New York).

VOLKGE HAUSE, baptized 17 Jun 1760. St. Thomas' Lutheran Church, Churchtown, Claverack, Columbia, New York; Sponsors were Johannes Eberts and Annatge. Parents listed as Hannes van Huse and Sara. Source: Baptismal Records of St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Churchtown, Claverack, Columbia Co, NY, 1760-1899, Transcribed by Arthur M. Kelly.

EPHRAIM HAUSE, baptized in 1766 (Parents: Johannes Hauss and Sara Wieler; Sponsor: Ephraim Wieler; Anna Cathrina Koen). Source: Baptism Record Linlithgo Reformed Church: Livingston Linlithgo Reformed Church 1722-1889. (SOURCE: Dutch Reformed Church Records from New York and New Jersey. Holland Society of New York, New York, New York)

EPHRAIM HAUSE, born on 24 Dec 1767, was baptized in 1768 (Parents: Johannes Haus and wife Sara. Sponsor: Wilm Schneider, & wife Barbara.) Baptism Record of Churchtown, Columbia, New York. (SOURCE: Dutch Reformed Church Records from New York and New Jersey. Holland Society of New York, New York, New York)

ELISABETH HAUSE (b 30 Sep 1769) was baptized in 1769 (Parents listed as Johannes Haus and Sera). Sponsor: Nickel Wihler and Maria. Baptism Record of Churchtown, Columbia, New York. (SOURCE: Dutch Reformed Church Records from New York and New Jersey. Holland Society of New York, New York, New York).

Book Information Book Image Name: The Palatine Families of New York: Author: Henry Z. Jones, Jr. Chapter: John Christian Haus (Hunter Lists #282) Publisher: Universal City, CA Year: 1985 View Image A Study of the German Immigrants who arrived in Colonial New York in 1710.

   We now have a strong record of where John III and Sarah lived and the alliances they built with other families. Alliances were important for survival in Colonial America, and neighbors had to be close confidants and friends (in fact, the children were often paired off for marriage, so they became family). Men worked the fields and harvested crops together, and the women also worked in groups. Many domestic tasks could be shared with other women: friendly groups of neighbors would gather to do washing or spinning, or to help in the harvest and preservation of food. Women devoted spare hours to a variety of crafts, including needlework, and rug and quilt-making. The imminent birth of a child was also an occasion for women to gather. Most babies were delivered by neighbors or female midwives, not by male doctors. So sponsoring the child at the church was the obvious next step.
   John and Sarah sponsored many of the children of their neighbors and friends in baptisms at these local churches. (Their family seems to have been strongly allied with the Wheelers—for obvious reasons—and the Klappers.) Here are some baptisms in which Johnnes and Sarah Wheeler were the sponsors:

Baptism Date: 08 Jun 1766 Father: John Decker Robinson Mother: Lisabeth Haus (ELISABETH #1) Item #: 338 Child: John Sponsor: Johannes Haus; Sara Haus Baptism Records of the Gallatin Reformed Church: Gallatinville Gallatin Reformed Church 1748-1899	Baptism Date: - 1769 Father: Conrad Klapper Mother: Maria (John and Sarah's daughter) Item #: 268 Child: Johannes Sponsor: Johannes Haus; Seri Birth Date: 18 Apr 1769 Baptism Record of St. Thomas Lutheran Church: Churchtown, Columbia County St. Thomas Lutheran Church 1760-1899
Baptism Date: - 1773 Father: Conrad Klapper Mother: Maria Item #: 372 Child: Sara Sponsor: Johannes Haus; Sara Birth Date: 28 Feb 1773 Page: 18 Baptism Record of St. Thomas Lutheran Church: Churchtown, Columbia County St. Thomas Lutheran Church 1760-1899	Baptism Date: - 1767 Father: Wilem Tailor Mother: Annatge Item #: 9 Child: Seri Sponsor: Johannes Haus, & wife Seri Birth Date: 21 Jan 1767 Baptismal Record of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church: Manorton St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church 1765 - 1872 (Lutheran Church of Livingston)
Baptism Date: - 1769 Father: Niclas Wiehler (SARAH'S BROTHER) Mother: Maria Item #: 44 Sponsor: Hanes Haus; Sara Birth Date: 07 Mar 1769 Page: 3 Baptismal Record of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church: Manorton St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church 1765 - 1872 (Lutheran Church of Livingston)	Baptism Date: 17 Oct 1779 Father: Peter Clopper Mother: Grietje Howes Item #: 1375 Child: Sarah Sponsor: Johannes Howes; Sarah Howes Birth Date: 29 Sep 1779 Comments: (baptisms #1370-1378 performed at Magare Vlahten) Baptism Record Linlithgo Reformed Church: Livingston Linlithgo Reformed Church 1722-1889
Baptism Date: 11 Oct 1781 Father: Johannes Huis Mother: Christina Whitbeek Item #: 1554 Child: Sarah Sponsor: Joh's Huis; Sarah Huis Birth Date: 13 Sep 1781 Comments: (baptisms #1547-1561 performed at Taconick) Baptism Record Linlithgo Reformed Church: Livingston Linlithgo Reformed Church 1722-1889	Baptism Date: 20 Oct 1782 Father: Peter Clopper Mother: Christina Huis Item #: 1690 Child: Johanes Sponsor: Johanis House; Sarah House Birth Date: 11 Sep 1782 Baptism Record Linlithgo Reformed Church: Livingston Linlithgo Reformed Church 1722-1889

Second Generation: Rheinhardt Haus II

   RHEINHARDT HAUS II was baptized on 21 Aug 1733 in Tarrytown, Westchester, New York (listed as "Reindert") with sponsors Johannis Clemens and wife Marritie, according to the Tarrytown Reformed Churchbook. He then married around 1855 (possibly to Margrietje Trumper, b. 1737). In the Haverstraw precinct of Orange County on July 17, 1775, Rheinhardt is listed as having refused to sign a petition to King George III, protesting the conduct of his soldiers at Lexington and Concord (although at least two of his sons did sign).
   Both Rinard House II (now called "Sr.," as his father had passed on) and a Rinard House III ("Jr.") appeared in Gilbert Cooper's Militia here and here, and in Col. Ann Hawkes Hay's Regiment here. Another son, John, subbed for both of them at times, according to his military pension.
   Rheinhardt II was also allied with the Wheelers: He was at the baptism of Reinhart Willers on 11 Sep 1757 at Ramapo Lutheran Church. His wife's name isn't listed; only "Reinhard Hanns [Haus?] and his wife." ("Ramapo Lutheran Church Records, 1750-1817" in Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. VIII, No. 1; April 1913, p. 7.)
   Haverstraw was partitioned in 1791 to form the towns of Clarkstown and Ramapo, where some of his children still lived. Rinard was living in Goshen, Orange County, New York when he wrote his will on 10 Jul 1816 (proved 12 March 1818). He named children Rinard, Thomas, John, Jacob, William Christian, Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth and Christiana. Witnesses: Daniel Poppino, Sopha Poppino and Hulda Poppino." (Orange County Wills, F:200.) We have records of the following children:

CHILDREN OF RHEINHARDT HAUS II

RINARD HAUS III (Usually seen as "Rinert Haus, Jr.") signed a petition at Haverstraw, Orange, New York, in 1775 protesting the conduct of his British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, but he was still loyal at that time to King George III. He then served in Gilbert Cooper's Militia and Ann Hawkes Hay's Regiment during the Revolutionary War. In the 1790 census he's still living in Haverstraw. He then moved to Goshen before the 1800 census, and lived there until 1840, after which he disappeared from the record.

THOMAS HAUS, was in Hillsdale, Columbia, New York, in the 1790 census. In the 1800 census he was living in Warwick, Orange, New York, and was still there in the 1810 census.

JOHN HAUS was born on 14 Jul 1761 in Haverstraw. He served in Gilbert Cooper's Militia and Ann Hawkes Hay's Regiment. He then served with 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Blauvelt, and married Margaret Blauvelt later in life. A "John House" testified in 1833 for a John J Blauvelt, who was applying for a Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant (Application Files Publication Number: M804, page 14), as well as for Rinard Hopper, whom he served with in New Jersey (Page 24). John died at Clarkstown, New York, on 1 Jan, 1845, and is buried at the Clarkstown Reformed Church Cemetery.

JACOB HAUS was living in Goshen, Orange, New York in the 1820 census.

WILLIAM HOUSE was born in 1756, in Ramapo, Rockland, New York. He fought in the Orange County Militia, according to pension records. William then became "a pioneer Baptist minister, who was located in Orange County. He was a man of strong faith and of great force of character, and was a masterful figure in those early days. He passed through many trials usual to pioneer preachers and was peacefully laid to rest, leaving three sons: Henry, Rheinhardt and Bradner, the two former sons of his first wife. He was twice married. His first wife was an Oblenis, of Clarksville Corners... Mrs. O'Blenis, first wife of Rev. William House, of Clarksville Corners, had two sons, Henry and Rheinhardt. Second wife had several sons, only one now living, Bradner, who is a Baptist minister. (From: Historical Record to the Close of the Nineteenth Century of Rockland County, New York, PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL, by Arthur Sidney Tompkins. Van Deusen & Joyce, 1902. Page 22)

CHRISTIAN HAUS, was born between 1756 and 1774. In the 1800 census, he is living in Clarks, Rockland County, New York with a wife and three children. He probably died soon after, as he isn't listed in the 1818 will of his father.

   Farmers on the New York/New Jersey border like the Haus men formed their own communities and kept to themselves for the most part, until a key religious controversy in the Reformed Church stoked the fires of revolution.
   The Dutch, who had settled the area in the 1600's, had been compassionate towards the poorer Palatines, and allowed their German Reformed churches into the Dutch Reformed Church—which meant they could appeal to the Classis of Amsterdam (Holland) for ministers and money to run the churches. The new German (and Polish) congregations were therefore known as the "Jersey Dutch." But then a period of tremendous religious and emotional upheaval, known as the "Great Awakening," swept through the British colonies in the 1730s, and those churches began to challenge the authority of Europe.
   Their main gripe was the lack of authority within the American churches to ordain and educate ministers. With the proliferation of churches resulting from the Great Awakening revivals, there was a severe shortage of ordained holy men to preach the gospel (which is why you see the Haus family attending different churches, travelling to wherever their minister was preaching at that Sunday). There were only twenty Reformed ministers preaching in the American Colonies during the 1740s.
   The problem was that anybody who aspired to the pulpit at that time was required to embark on a long, arduous, expensive, and often dangerous journey to Amsterdam for training and ordination. So there needed to be some kind of assembly with at least limited powers to educate and ordain ministers for the pulpit. Finally in 1747, the Classis of Amsterdam reluctantly gave its approval for the formation of such a body, which was called a Coetus.
   However, the more conservative ministers in New York and New Jersey opposed this separation, feeling the church was losing touch with Old World tradition and God. Equally alarming to these ministers was the thought that a local classis could intrude into their own affairs much more efficiently than one which governed from Amsterdam. Therefore, they contested any attempt to break formal ties with foreign authority, and organized themselves into the rival Conferentie party.

William Franklin, Royal Governor of New Jersey (left), who signed the charter in 1766 that established Queen's College, named after Charlotte of Meckleberg, the Queen consort (right). The college was created to train clegy for the Reformed Church, and eventually became Rutgers University.

"Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion?"
—Benjamin Franklin

   On November 10, 1766, William Franklin, Provincial Governor of New Jersey (and the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin), granted a charter for Queen's College, named in honor of Charlotte, the Queen Consort. The school (which eventually became Rutgers) was established to train Dutch Reformed clergy, giving more control to the Coetus.
   Severe opposition to the formation of an American classis came from established Conferentie members. But the majority of Reformed parishoners opposed the Conferentie, feeling the movement was overzealous and reactionary, and sided with the Coetus party. These two opposing forces broke apart congregations, friendships and even families. Brothers in neighboring houses refused to look at or talk to each other on the street when leaving for rival churches on a Sunday. One faction would lock out the other from worship and attacks on members of opposing factions were common. Add to these problems a lack of church leadership, because by 1771, only forty-one ministers were available for one hundred churches, leaving the most outspoken and extreme in the congregations to take charge. And because of this, it started to get political.
   Because the Conferentie rejected anything new and outside of tradition and wanted to keep European ties, they sided with the Loyalist British (or Tories), while the more liberal Coetus sided with the Patriots (or Whigs). The quiet, apolitical German population that had kept to itself was now taking sides in a revolution.
   The infighting would become brutal and bloody. Formal armies were barely needed, as the citizens themselves began committing attrocities against each other. In 1774, the courthouse at the county seat in Tappan, Orange County, burned to the ground. The locals all suspected that it was the work of Tories, directed at deputy sherrif Ebenezer Wood. In response, militia campanies were formed, and Tories were exposed. Houses would then be burned, friends and relatives would be betrayed, and many lives would soon be lost.
   At this point in our family history, we'll return to The House Family of the Mohawk, and author Melvin R. Shaver's line, using the original 1933 notes by Melvin Rhodes Shaver and Frank D. Duel, and update the lines that lived in the Hudson River Valley. Then, after I come to grips with the fact that they aren't any clearer than the Johannes and Rheinhardt lines, we'll move on to the Revolution, and the really fun stuff...

Grave of Nicholas House (1760-1829)

CHAPTER FIVE: JOHANN JURRIAN (GEORGE) HAUSS, also spelled Jurry, Jarrie and a million other ways, but he's the same person (we think).

TOP ILLUSTRATION: Philipsburg Manor is a historic house, water mill, and trading site located on US 9 in Sleepy Hollow, New York, near the home of Rheinhardt. It is now operated as a non-profit museum by Historic Hudson Valley; an admission fee is charged. The manor dates from 1693 when Frederick Philipse of Yonkers was granted a charter for 52,000 acres (210 km2) along the Hudson River by William and Mary of England. He built Philipsburg Manor at the confluence of the Pocantico and Hudson Rivers, creating it as a provisioning plantation for the Atlantic sea trade and as headquarters for a world-wide shipping operation. For more than thirty years, Frederick and his son Adolph shipped hundreds of African men, women, and children as slaves across the Atlantic. Now a National Historic Landmark (as of 1961), the farm features a stone manor house filled with a good collection of 17th-and 18th century period furnishings, a working water-powered grist mill and millpond, an 18th century barn, a slave garden, and a reconstructed tenant farm house. Costumed interpreters re-enact life in pre-Revolutionary times, doing chores, milking the cows, and grinding grain in the grist mill.

¹—One biproduct from this dispersion of Hauss men is how the spelling of the surname changed: Johann generally shows up in the records as "Hauss" while records of his children generally drop an "s" and spell it "Haus" or "Hous." Those who remained in the Hudson River Valley eventually began spelling their last name as "House;" Meanwhile, the descendants who grew up farther south, in Orange County and in New Jersey, began spelling it "Hause," and several generations later (in some cases), as "Hawes."

²—Because of family interactions, their descendants being neighbors, and baptism sponsors and comrades fighting in the same "Dutch" divisions of the Continental army, we can be sure we're connected to a son of Johann Christian Hauß. I'd love to tell you which son—but I can't with any certainty. Still, does it really matter? We can argue about the lineage all day. Whether John III's dad is actually Johannes or Johannes Rheinhardt, it still proves our lineage to past generations. And it leads us to the next link in our heritage.

SOURCES FOR THIS PAGE:

• Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York, by Philip L. Otterness. Ph.D. Cornell University Press, 2004
• The Mohawk Dutch and the Palatines, by Milo Nellis. 1951.
• History of 18th Century Germantown, by Walter Miller.
• The Mohawk, by Codman Hislop. Syracuse University Press. 1948, 1989.
• A Brief Sketch of the First Settlement of the County of Schoharie by the Germans, by John M. Brown
• White Cargo. the Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America, by Jordan, Don And Walsh, Michael. Publisher: New York Univ. Press Date Published: 2007.
• Palatines, Liberty and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America, by A.G. Roeber. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1998.
• So. Schraalenburgh Baptisms; Tappan Ref Ch (Tappan, Rockland Co., NY) Baptisms in Cole's History of Rockland County
• THE AMERICAN YEOMAN: AN HISTORICAL ECOLOGY OF PRODUCTION IN COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA, by Michael David Scholl; A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Anthropology. Chapel Hill 2008.
• The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley: the Jersy Dutch and Neutral Ground, by Leiby, Adrian C. Published by Rutgers University Press. 1962
• The Reformed Church In America, "Struggle For Eccesiastical Independence" (1708-1792). Pages 102-117
• Baptismal Record of the Tappan Reformed Church, Regular Congregation, Tappen, Rockland, New York. FHL Microfilm #1016876. Microfilm of Cole Transcript of Tappan & Clarkstown, Reformed Church. One more possibility: Catharina Haus. b. 24 Dec 1751; Christening: 19 Jan 1752 Reformed Church, Tappen, Rockland, New York; Baptism: Baptism of Catharina Haus 19 Jan 1752 Reformed Church, Tappen, Rockland, New York. Sponsors were Jan Smit and Rachel [Compiler - Wheeler], his wife. Parents listed as Johannes Haas and Sara Wilkissen
• History of Montgomery Classis, by W.N.P. Dailey, 1916. "While the Holland Dutch first came to the New World in 1609, and at once established their church and school, it is noteworthy that all elements of the Reformed Churches of the American continent-from France and Switzerland, and the German Palatinate-the churches of the Reformed faith established in Virginia (at times meaning the Atlantic coast lands), and Maryland, and Pennsylvania-all turned to the Classis of Amsterdam (Holland) for men and money."
• Historical Record to the Close of the Nineteenth Century of Rockland County, New York, by Arthur Sidney Tompkins. Van Deusen & Joyce, 1902. 769 pages. Page 22: "THE HOUSE FAMILY in Rockland county are descendants of Rev. William House, a pioneer Baptist minister, who was located in Orange County. He was a man of strong faith and of great force of character, and was a masterful figure in those early days. He passed through many trials usual to pioneer preachers and was peacefully laid to rest, leaving three sons: Henry, Rheinhardt and Bradner, the two former sons of his first wife. He was twice married. His first wife was an Oblenis, of Clarksville Corners. Henry House, the eldest son, carried on a grocery store in Nyack for a time. He afterwards removed to Paskak, near the old church, where he died at the age of eighty. He was twice married, first to Elizabeth Smith and after her death to Martha Serven (widow). He left a family of four children, William S., who died young; Peter S., who died of the cholera, and at the same time his young wife and babe also died of this epidemic. The two remaining sons, John and Garret Oblenis, became well and favorably known throughout the State. Garret Oblenis House was a captain for many years upon the Smith line of steamboats. His chief commands were the Isaac P. Smith and the Adelphi. Captain House is still living in Ulster county at the age of eighty-nine. He has been twice married, first to Anna Elizabeth Hasbrouck, of Saddle River. His second wife was Elizabeth DuBois and his children were: Wm. Saunders House, MD., who died in January, 1900; Henry Hasbrouck House, M.D., and Mary DeWitt House. His first wife was Martha Griffin, his second was Eleanor D. Robinson. He left a family of three children, two sons and one daughter: Garret O'Blenis, Jr., DeWitt Hasbrouck and Elizabeth Burgess. Henry Hasbrouck House, M.D., the second son,married Parmelia Ver Valen, a daughter of a well-known banker and capitalist of Haverstraw, Richard Ver Valen. Dr. Henry Hasbrouck House died in April, 1896. He is survived by his wife and two sons: William Stetson, the present Postmaster and druggist of Rockland Lake, and Clarence Ver Valen, employed as cashier by a well known New York house. Mary DeWitt, the third child of Captain House and the only daughter, married W.D. Smith, and died in April, 1890. She was the mother of one child, Florence, who died very young. Mrs. O'Blenis, first wife of Rev. William House, of Clarksville Corners, had two sons, Henry and Rheinhardt. Second wife had several sons, only one now living, Bradner, who is a Baptist minister."
• Charles R. Hause- 532 Lange Court- Libertyville, IL. 60048, or: 1216 Charles Dr. , Shawnee, OK. 74801 Dec. 18,1981

FOREWARDS: BY MELVIN RHODES SHAVER AND JEFF HAUSE CHAPTER 1: THE HAUß FAMILY IN THE DUCHY OF SOLMS CHAPTER 2: JOHANN CHRISTIAN HAUß CHAPTER 3: THE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 4: FROM HAUSS TO HOUSE CHAPTER 5: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION APPENDIX #1: JOHANN RHEINHARDT HAUSS GENEALOGY APPENDIX #2: JOHANN JURRIAN (GEORGE) HAUSS GENEALOGY APPENDIX #3: HOUSE LINES IN CANADA APPENDIX #4: HAUß HERALDRY APPENDIX #5: HAUß FAMILY TIMELINE APPENDIX #6: LINKS TO OTHER SITES