Gerret Wolphertse VAN KOUWENHOVEN

Abt 1610 - Abt 1645  (~ 35 years)

• Name	Gerret Wolphertse VAN KOUWENHOVEN
  Birth	Abt 1610	Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1645	Flatlands [now Brooklyn], Kings County, NY
  Notes	(1) Cocheu, Lincoln C., "The Van Kouwenhoven-Conover Family," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 70, No. 4 (October 1939), p. 353: GERRET WOLPHERTSE VAN KOUWENHOVEN. Beyond the fact that he arrived in New Amsterdam with his father in 1630 there seem to be very few records of his life as it related to the other colonists. Most authorities list him as the eldest of the sons and state that he made his mark to documents. He settled at New Amersfoort, Long Island, N. Y. (where some of his descendants still reside in 1939) and without doubt spent his life tilling the soil and seems to have taken very little part in any public movements. Stiles, Hist. of the City of Brooklyn, 1:45, states that he and others in 1647 established themselves on either side of the road that led from Flatbush to "The Ferry." The village thus formed was located on the present Fulton Street, in the vicinity of the junction of Hoyt and Smith Streets with Fulton, southeast of the present Borough Hall, and was called Breuckelen after the ancient village in Holland. His descendants spread over the present counties of Kings and Queens, N. Y., and to Monmouth Co., N. J., from the latter emigrating to the South and West. Those descendants who reside on Long Island retain the old manner of spelling the name, Kouwenhoven, while those who settled and moved through New Jersey soon adopted Conover as their patronymic. Gerret Wolphertse Van Kouwenhoven, son of Wolfert Gerretsz Van Kouwenhoven and Neeltje Jans; b. Amersfoort, Holland, abt. 1610 (KCo, 77); came to New Amsterdam with his father in 1630. Resided in Flatlands, L. I., where he was a magistrate 1644. d. Flatlands, L. I., abt. 1645 (KCo, 77; HOT, 437). m. Flatlands, abt. 1635, Aeltje Cornelis Cool, dau. of Cornelis Lambertse Cool of Gowanus. She d. prior 1683. Issue: First American born generation. . . . [i] Willem Gerretse, b. Flatlands, 1636 (KCo, 78); m. (1) 1660, Altje Brinckerhoff, (2) Feb. 12, 1665, Jannetje Monfort (KCo, 80). . . . [ii] Jan Gerretse, b. Flatlands, 1639 (KCo, 78); m. May 18, 1670, Gerardina de Sille. . . . [iii] Neeltje Gerretse, b. Flatlands, bp. Sept. 20, 1641 (BDC, 12), d. abt. 1672 (KCo, 78) , m. 1660, Roelof Martense Schenck of Flatlands (KCo, 78). . . . [iv] Marretje Gerretse, bp. Apr. 10, 1644 (BDC, 17), d. prior 1709; m. prior 1666 Coert Stephense Van Voorhees of Flatlands (KCo, 78). . . . Aeltje Cornelis Cool m. (2) Aug. 27, 1645 (MDC, 13); Capt. Elbert Elbertse Stoothoff, who emigrated in 1637 from Nieukerken, settled in Flatlands. He m. (2) July 21, 1663, Sara Roelofse, wid. of Cornelius Van Bossum (AnN, 86, MDC, 53).
  Person ID	I21312	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Wolfert GERRITSE,   b. Abt 1584, Netherlands d. Between 2 Mar 1662 and 24 Jun 1662 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Mother	Neeltgen JACOBSDOCHTER,   b. Abt 1594, Netherlands
  Marriage	Bef 1610	Netherlands
  Family ID	F9413	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Aeltje Cornelis COOL,   b. Abt 1620, Netherlands d. Bef 21 Jul 1683 (Age ~ 63 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1635	Flatlands [now Brooklyn], Kings County, NY
  Children	1. Willem Gerretse VAN KOUWENHOVEN,   b. Abt 1636, Flatlands [now Brooklyn], Kings County, NY d. Abt 1728 (Age ~ 92 years)   2. Jan Gerretse VAN KOUWENHOVEN,   b. Abt 1639, Flatlands [now Brooklyn], Kings County, NY d. Abt 1724 (Age ~ 85 years)
  Family ID	F9407	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024