Abraham Van Hovean Or De Haven

  Noted events in his life were:

• Surname History. The first DeHavens in America were Evert (also known as Edward) ten Heuven, his wife and four children. They came from Mülheim on the Rühr, Germany in 1698 and settled near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Edward In den Hoffen and his wife Elizabeth (Shipbower) were still living March 4, 1728 when they deeded their 100-acre tract to Peter Indehoffen. The earliest residence recorded was in old Germantown, in 1698.

Evert is said to have been Ruling Elder at the Skippack German Reformed Church in 1706 but a deed shows that he bought 100 acres of land in Whitpain Township, 1706, the land being bounded by Edward Endehaven's other Land.

In 1710 the names of Evert ten Heuven, his wife and children appear in the old Bensalem history of the Presbyterian Church. Three of his Children: married there in 1711 and1712: Harmon, Peter, and Annaken.

Evert was then Senior Elder of the early church at Wytmess (Whitemarsh), a Township southeast of Whitpain and not far from Germantown.

Evert Indenhoffen had some contact with Francis Pastorius in the early settlement of Germantown. He also assisted in the settlement of the tract along the Skippack River. He lived in the southeastern part of Whitpain Township, which was contiguous with Whitemarsh.

Herman (Harmon) DeHaven was a son of Evert and Elizabeth (Shipbower) ten Heuven. He came to America from Mülheim on the Rühr, Germany in 1698. On February 6 1710 or 1711 he was married, at Wytmess to Anneken Op de Graef. Rev. Van Vlecq performed the ceremony. Anneken was a daughter of Abraham Isaac Op de Graef. Herman took his oath of allegiance with his father and brothers in 1709. He and Gerhart bought 440 acres of land on the Skippack Creek in 1706. Gerhard and his wife Mary,
Herman and his wife Ann conveyed 200 acres at the upper end of their 440-acre tract to Peter Janson on May 2, 1723. Herman and his family then moved to New Providence, where he was living in 1734 on a 200-acre tract. He built a saw mill and gristmill in New Providence. He also kept an ordinary or inn.
He was granted a license for the inn in 1734. Herman died in 1752 and is buried in the Mennonite Cemetary in Shippack. The Dehaven's were Mennonites.

Herman DeHaven and Anneken had a son named Abraham. Abraham's Van DeHaven's family was associated with the old Trappe Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Abraham married Rebeckah Pawling, daughter of Lt. John Pawling and Aefje Dewitt, on 3 Mar 1736 in Mongomery County, Pennsylvania. (Rebeckah Pawling was born in 1715 in Kingston, New York and died on 3 Mar 1776 in Shenadoah Valley, Virginia ³⁷¹.)