Col. John Van Dyke, son of Jan Van Dyke and Margaretta Barcolo, was born on 17 April 1747.⁴

     John married Rebecca Van Dyke, daughter of Roelof Van Dyke and Catharine Emans, on 17 November 1761, Rebecca was a first cousin to John.^5,3

     John died on 23 June 1811, at age 64.³

     Col. John Van Dyke left a will;

'Probat. Aug. 8, 1811. Names sons, Rulif and John (deceased) ; daus., Margaret (wife of Abram Houten), Catherine, Anne, Rebecca, Elizabeth (wife of 'Benjamin Gulick), and Sarah; grandch. (children of son, John), John, Alexander, James and Rebecca; granddau., Nancy Ann (dau. of dau. Anne) ; father, Rulif Van Dike (deceased). Executors— son, Rulif, and son-in-law, Abner Houten, and Abraham V. Arsdal, Esq. Witnesses — James Stryker, Martin Voorhees, William Pattison. (A, p. 307).⁶

     Hon. John Van Dyke, son of Abraham Van Dyke and Sarah Honeyman, was born on 3 April 1807 at Lamington, Somerset, New Jersey.^1,3

     John married Mary Dix Strong, daughter of Prof. Theodore Strong LL.D. and Lucy Dix, on 7 October 1841.¹

     John was

'appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey and was seated upon the bench. But he rode and drove everywhere through the length and breadth of the state, in the darkest hours of the war, talking at every village and cross-road, telling the people that we could not fail with Lincoln at the helm. In order to uphold the government credit, then at its lowest ebb, he told another thing to his Jersey constituency, namely: that he had put every penny he could beg or borrow or command into government bonds, so sure was he that the government obligation would be met. It was a well-known man who was speaking, a bank president, and a Supreme Court Justice. His words had some weight in sustaining the drooping credit of the government.'

in 1859.⁴

     John died on 24 December 1878, at Wabasha, Wabasha, Minnesota, at age 71,^1,5,3 and was buried at Riverview Cemetery, Wabasha, Wabasha, Minnesota.³

     John Charles Van Dyke L. H. D., son of Hon. John Van Dyke and Mary Dix Strong, was born on 2 April 1856.¹

     John Franklin Van Dyke, son of John Van Dyke and Margaret Hazelwood, was born on 7 April 1839 at Cumberland, Illinois.²

     John died on 23 August 1851, at Cumberland, Illinois, at age 12,² and was buried at Salem Cemetery, Toledo, Cumberland, Illinois.³

     John Franklin Van Dyke

John Franklin was the oldest child out of 13 of John and Margaret VanDyke of rural Toledo,Illinois. He died at age 12 of cholera from the 1851 outbreak that hit the area. His father was on route to the Californai Gold Rush at his death. As was the belief, he is buried in an isolated spot from the other graves in fear of contamination.⁴

     John Gordon Van Dyke, son of Henry Van Dyke and Ellen M. Nevius, was born in 1821.²