Van den Heuvel was married to Maria Catharina Storm van 's Gravesande (1734–1771), the daughter of
Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande and Lumea Constantia van Bercheyck. • Anna Maria Eleonora van den Heuvel, who married
Pieter van Westrenen (1768–1845), who served as the Dutch Ambassador to Sweden and Portugal. After his first wife's death, he was married to Frederica Henrietta Justina van Baerle (1755–1793), the daughter of Karel van Baerle. In 1792, just one year before her death, she purchased 400 acres from James McEvers in the
Bloomingdale area of upper
Manhattan. They were the parents of: • Isaac Guysbertus Herman van den Heuvel, who lived at
The Hague. • Charlotte Gertrude van den Heuvel (1785–1868), who married Scottish born Colin Macrae (1776–1854), a descendant of
Farquhar Macrae of
Clan Macrae. • Margaret Catharine Eleanora Van den Heuvel (1790–1878), who married
Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789–1872), a
U.S. Representative from
Connecticut who also served as the
U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire under President
James K. Polk. After Frederica's death upon his relation to the United States, he remarried to Charlotte Augusta Apthorp in 1794. Margaret was the daughter of prominent New York landowner
Charles Ward Apthorp and his wife, Mary (née McEvers) Apthorp. Together, they were the parents of: Van den Heuvel died on May 6, 1826, in New York City. In his 1822 will, he gave his wife, "the gift to her of the use of his farm and mansion at Bloomingdale so long as she should remain his widow," however, she died three years before he did and instead of dividing the property, his children sold it in its entirety to Francis Price in 1827. Through his daughter Margaret, he was the grandfather of seven, including John Van den Heuvel Ingersoll (1815–1846), a Yale educated lawyer who edited a political paper in Ohio and served as secretary of the Indian Commission,
Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819–1903), who was a member of Congress from Connecticut from 1851 to 1855 (who married Julia Harriet Pratt, the daughter of U.S. Representative
Zadock Pratt). and
Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1821–1903), who served as
Governor of Connecticut from 1873 to 1877 (who married Virginia Gregory, the daughter of Admiral
Francis Gregory) he was the grandfather of fourteen, including General
Alexander Hamilton (1815–1907), a major general in the
Civil War, Charlotte Augusta Hamilton (1819–1896), John Cornelius Adrian Hamilton (1820–1879),
Schuyler Hamilton (1822–1903), who served in the
Mexican War, Maria Eliza Hamilton (1825–1887), who married Judge Charles A. Peabody (1814–1901) Charles Apthorp Hamilton (1826–1901), a judge of the circuit court for Milwaukee, Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), who married
Henry Wager Halleck in 1855 (and after his death,
George Washington Cullum in 1875), William Gaston Hamilton (1832–1913), a consulting engineer of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Through his daughter Susan, he was the grandfather of
Charlotte Augusta Gibbes (1825–1887), who married
John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890). ==References==