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- Note on Find a Grave:
One of the first magistrates of New Netherlands, member of the Schepens Court 1653-1654, 1658–1659, 1661 and 1663, Delegate from New Amsterdam to the Convention of 1653, Lieutenant in the Esopus War, signer of the peace treaty 1664 with the Esopus Indians
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- LKH note:
Find a Grave lists a two wives for Pieter.
Hester Simmons Daws
m.1640
Aeltje Sibrants (1630-1669)
m. 1655
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79662578/aeltje-van_kouwenhoven
and a son
Peter Cowenoverm(1668-1704)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75643187/peter-cownover
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- "Anders Stille (#162), Swedish, apparently had just married. Wharton enters the words 'Anna Peterson marryed to Andreas' with no last name given to the husband. The man was Anders Stille (son of Olof Stille), who testified on 17 October 1683 'that he has been 25 or 26 years here in town.' The wife was Annetje Pieters, daughter of Pieter Wolfertsen van Couwenhoven, who had purchased a lot northwest of Beaver Street at Hart Street in 1669. At the time of this census, her father (a brewer) was languishing in debtor's prison in Manhattan, as a result of a lawsuit by Philip Carteret. In 1667, when a resident of Elizabethtown, East Jersey, van Couwenhoven had mortgaged all of his property to Carteret and was unable to pay off the mortgage. After Pieter van Couwenhoven's New Castle property was sold in 1673, Anders Stille and his wife Annetje moved to the Christina River with John Ogle, John Arskin (#153) and Marten Gerritsen (#154). Anders died before 1693, survived by sons Jacob and Johan Stille and at least one daughter. Opposite the brewer Pieter van Couwenhoven's property was an empty lot between Beaver Street and the Mart, for which a patent was given to Jean Paul Jaquet (#101) bearing the date of 1 May 1671. This was soon acquired by the English soldier John Ogle, not listed in Wharton's census, who married by the end of the year Anders Stille's niece, Elisabeth Petersdotter, daughter of Ella Stille and her first husband. Peter Jochimsson (see #19)."
1671 Census of the Delaware. Peter Stebbins Craig.
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- Adopting Aeltje (du Trieux) Pieters.
WikiTree for Pieter (Wolfertszen van Couwenhoven (1614-abt 1699) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wolfertszen-1
(Maria is Wikitree Du_Trieux-45) Transcript of the court document whereby Pieter formally adopts his out-of-wedlock daughter Aeltje (du Trieux) Pieters: I, the undersigned Pieter Wolphersen, hereby acknowledge for myself, my heirs and successors that this day, date underwritten, I have adopted, as I do hereby adopt, Aeltjem Pieters van Couwenhoven, my own daughter, whom I have begotten and procreated by Maria de Truy (du Trieux), promising therefore that from this date I shall do by the above-named, my daughter, as a god fearing father is bound and ought to do by his own legitimate daughter; therefore, I hereby discharge and release Cornelis Volckersen, husband and guardian of the aforesaid Maria de Truy, from all charges and responsibilities incidental to the bringing up of a child till she becomes of age; I, Pieter Wolphersen, promising to look after the child, to let her learn to read and to bring her up according to my means. Furthermore, if I do not beget any children by my present wife, the above named child shall be my rightful heiress and inheritrix, as if she were duly begotten in lawful wedlock, and if it happens that children be begotten by me and my wife, the above named Aeltjen Pieters shall receive, like the legitimate children on my side, a just child's portion of all such goods, means and effects as it shall please the Lord God Almighty to bestow on me. Requesting that this may have effect before all courts, I have signed this without fraud in the presence of the subscribing witnesses hereto invited. Done, the 7th day of January 1642. This is x the mark of Pieter Wolphersen Jacob Couwenhoven Philippe du Trieux
Acknowledged before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary. [8][9]
Pieter was born in 1614. He passed away about 1699.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wolfertszen-1
- Marriages
WikiTree for Pieter (Wolfertszen van Couwenhoven (1614-abt 1699) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wolfertszen-1
Marriages
1. Marriage Dec 2, 1640 Pieter Wolfertszen, j. In. Van Amersfoort, en Hester Simons, Van Amsterdam, Wede. Van Jacques de Vernuis[6] (some mentioned her as Hester Symons Daws, no sources ) [7]
2. Aeltje Sibrants — married November 22, 1665 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam
3. Josyntje Jans Thomas — married May 19, 1699 in New York
- LKH note:
Marriage record
Name Pieter Wolphe Covenhoven
[Pieter Wolphertse van Covenhoven]
[Pieter Wolphertse van Covenhoven]
Gender Male
Birth Place Ho
Birth Year 1614
Spouse Name Hester Symons Daws
Spouse Birth Place NY
Spouse Birth Year 1623
Marriage Year 1640
Marriage State NY
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marriage record
Name Pieter Van Couwenhoven
Spouse Name Aeltje Sibrants
Marriage Date 1665
Marriage Place New York City, New York, New York
Marriage ID 2220320113
Self Comments widower
Spouse Comments widow
Other Comments On microfilm at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Source The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly), 1875, selected extracts
Publisher New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Publication Place New York, NY
Page 147
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- Conover genealogy page
5. Pieter Wolphertse3 Van Kouwenhoven (Wolphert2, Gerritt1Couwenhoven) was born circa 1614 at Amersfoort, Netherlands. He married Hester Daws, daughter of Dawes Symon, on Dec 2, 1640 at Dutch Reformed Church, N. Y. C., New York County, NY. He married Aeltje Sibrants on Nov 22, 1665. He married Josynthe Thomas on May 19, 1699; Not historians agree that this marraige took place .
He was also known as Pieter Wolfertsen Van Kouwenhoven. He was also known as Pieter Kowenhoven. He was also known as Pieter Van Couwenhoven. He was (an unknown value) in 1688 at Brewer, Elizabethtown, NJ.
Children of Pieter Wolphertse3 Van Kouwenhoven and an unknown spouse were:
i. Pos Annetje4 I came across this item in the Fall 1997 Swedish Colonial News. It has a Couwenhoven reference which may be of interest to you.
Anders Stille's Wife by Dr. Peter S. Craig
Deeds by Anders Stille, eldest son of Olof Stille, identify his wife as Annetje, the Dutch form of Anna. In testimony before the New Castle court, Anders stated that he had been familiar with the houses and streets of the town since 1658. In the 1671 English census of the Delaware, Anders was shown as residing in New Castle and married to the owner of his house, named Anna Peterson by the English census taker.
Who was Anna or Annetje "Peterson"? This has long stumped me. However, in working up a pending article on this 1671 census for future publication, I was struck by the fact that Wharton's cenuss was a door-to-door survey of each resident. Comparing his census with records of early patents and deeds disclosed, beyond question, that the house occupied by Anders Stille and his wife was owned by a Dutch brewer by the name of Pieter Wolfertsen van Couwenhoven, who was in prison at Manhattan in 1671 because he had defaulted on a mortgage of property in Elizabethtown, NJ, to Governor Philip Carteret of New Jersey. Pieter was not himself named in the census, perhaps to hide his identity from creditors. But, whatever the reason, the father's financial difficulties now tell us that his daughter, known as Annetje Pieters van Couwenhoven to the Dutch, was the wife of Anders Stille, the Swede. The house in New Castle was sold in 1672 and the Stille family moved to Christiana Bridge to live next door to Anders Stille's niece Elisabeth Petersdotter (Yocum), wife of the English soldier, John Ogle.
Dr. Peter S. Craig
3406 Macomb Street NW
Washington DC 20016
Children of Pieter Wolphertse3 Van Kouwenhoven and Hester Daws were as follows:
i. Altie4; married Ludovicus Cobes; married Dirk Ofmuller; born after 1641.
ii. Hester; born after 1641; married Johannis Martin Feb 22, 1688.
iii. Cornelius; born after 1641. He is said to have settled in New Jersey. .
Children of Pieter Wolphertse3 Van Kouwenhoven and Aeltje Sibrants were:
i. Peter4; born after 1666; born 1668; baptized Feb 27, 1669 at Dutch Reformed Church, N. Y. C., New York County, NY; married Mary (Unknown) after 1670; 1st marriage Mary; died 1705; his estate was probated Mar 21, 1704/5 at Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester County, NJ.
He was also known as Peter Peterse Van Couwenhoven. He was also known as Peter Cownover. He was also known as Peter Covenover. He was also known as Petrus Van Kouwenhoven. On Nov. 29, 1695, he purchased 250 acres of land along Patconk Creek in Great Egg Harbor Twp. from Thomas Budd, merchant of Philadelphia, "under ye yearly quit rent of one ear of Indian Corne to be paid ye said Thomas Budd or hs heirs, if lawfully demanded." On jan 30, 1698, he bought an additional 150 acres there from Daniel Leeds. There is some confusion about the date of the will of Peter "Cownover" of Waymouth Township, Gloucester County, NJ. The date was either Nov 10, 1700 or Nov 30, 1702. The inventory of his estate was taken on Mar 17, 1704/05.
There were no children of Pieter Wolphertse3 Van Kouwenhoven and Josynthe Thomas.
6. Jacob Wolphertse3 Van Kouwenhoven (Wolphert2, Gerritt1Couwenhoven) was born in 1615 at Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands. He married Hester Jansen, daughter of Lijsbet Setten, on Dec 1, 1636 at New church, Amsterdam, Holland; Married by Domine Gelldorpus (Bible). He married Magdaleentje Jacobs Van Amsterdam on Sep 26, 1655. He died before Apr 21, 1670. He died either 1673 or 1674 at New Amsterdam, Kings, Long Island, NY.
He was also known as Jacob Van Couwenhoven. He was also known as Jacob Worlfertsen Van Kouwenhoven. He was also known as Jacob Van Kouwenhoven. He and Hester Jansen were intended in Marriage Jacobus Couwenhoven of Amersfoort residing in the Jonge Roelen Alley, 22 years old, asseisted by his uncle Rutgert Jansz, parents still living, marries Hester Jans of Haarlem, 22 years old, living on the Princes' Canal with her mother Lijsbert Setten.
He signes: Jacobus Couwenhoven on Nov 14, 1637 at Amsterdam, Netherlands. Inventory of his estate was on Apr 21, 1670.
Children of Jacob Wolphertse3 Van Kouwenhoven and Hester Jansen were as follows:
i. Neeltje Jacobse4; born Sep 18, 1639 at NY; baptized Sep 25, 1639; First baptism recorded in the New York Dutch Church ; married Cornelis Pluvier Jan 6, 1662 at NY; Cornelius was a widower.
ii. Johannes Jacobse; born May 11, 1641 at NY; baptized May 19, 1641; married Saartje Frans Apr 11, 1664; his estate was probated Nov 18, 1690 at Brooklyn, Kings County, NY.
He was also known as Johannes Jacobse Van Couwenhoven. He was also known as Jan Van Kouwenhoven. He was also known as Jan Jacobse Van Couwenhoven. In 1689, he was a member of the Court of Exchequer; secretary between "ye Limits of Harlem and Bowery." He resided on High St., New York City with his father with whom he was a successful brewer. In 1689, he was a member of Gov. Leisler's Council. He left a will on Jun 17, 1690.
iii. Lysbeth; born Aug 30, 1643 at NY; baptized Sep 6, 1643; married Samuel Gerretzen circa 1666.
iv. Aeltje Jacobse; born Aug 20, 1645 at NY; baptized Aug 27, 1645; baptized Aug 28, 1645; married Bernardus Hassen Jul 7, 1669.
She was also known as Aeltje Van Kouwenhoven. She was admitted to the Dutch Reformed Church, New York City, Apr 12, 1665.
v. (Unknown); born Mar 6, 1647; died Mar 7, 1647; baptized Mar 7, 1647.
vi. Petronella Jacobse; born May 7, 1648 at NY; baptized May 10, 1648; married Isaac Van Vleck, son of Tielman Van Vleck and Magdalena De Herlin, circa 1669; died before 1674 at NY, NY.
She was also known as Petronelletje Van Kouwenhoven. She was also known as Petronella Van Kouwenhoven. She was also known as Pietnellitje Jacobse Van Couwenhoven. She was also known as Petronella Van Couwenhoven. She was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, New York City, on Jan 11, 1665.
There were no children of Jacob Wolphertse3 Van Kouwenhoven and Magdaleentje Jacobs Van Amsterdam.
Compiler:
David Kipp Conover
9068 Crystal Vista Lane, West Jordan, Utah 84088
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~conover/genealogy/Pages/newinfor.htm
- LKH note:
Go here for info
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~conover/genealogy/Pages/newinfor.htm
- 17th Century Hollanders - Wiki
http://17thcenturyhollanders.pbworks.com/w/page/742573/FrontPage
Huybert Hendricksen
NOTES on Pieter Wolferts Couwenhoven, relating to Huybert Hendricks:
In 1659 in New Amsterdam, Pieter van Couwenhoven had been a baptismal witness for one of the children of Huybert Hendrickzen "van Rodenkerchen." Pieter van Couwenhoven's wife Hester Simons (recorded as "Hester Couwenhoven") had been a baptismal witness for the second child of Huybert Hendrickzen "van Rodenkerchen" in 1657.
Pieter van Couwenhoven also had property in New Castle, obtained before 1669. In 1669, Pieter van Couwenhoven was granted a New Castle lot in 1669, adjacent to one he already owned:
(195) A Confirmation graunted to Pieter Cowenhoven for a small hooke or corner of land at New Castle in Delaware Ryver.
Francis Lovelace, Esqr. &c. Whereas there is a certaine hooke or small corner of land at New Castle in Delaware Ryver lyeing behinde Pieter Cowenhovens lott by which it is bounded on ye one syde and is on all ye other surrounded with ye meadow ground or valley, and swamp or creupell, conteyning between two or three Morgen or five or six acres at most ye which ye officers at Delaware who have had comision to dispose of land there not improved or belonging to no perticular properietor have graunted to Pieter Cowenhoven; for a confirmation to ye sd Pieter Cowenhoven &c. The Quitt rent one bushell, the patent is dated ye first of October 1669. Fo 36. [Original land titles in Delaware Commonly Known as the Duke of York Record , pp. 142-143]
By 1671, Pieter van Couwenhoven, then of Elizabethtown, NJ was in jail at Manhattan after defaulting on a large mortgage of his NJ properties, made in 1667 to Governor Philip Carteret of New Jersey. At the time of the 1671 census of the Delaware, Pieter Couwenhoven's daughter Antje Pieters, the child he fathered out of wedlock with Maria Truax, was living on his New Castle property with her husband, Anders Stille. After the sale of this property, Anders Stille and Antje Pieters Couwenhoven removed to Christiana Bridge, a settlement at the head of navigation several miles west of New Castle.
http://17thcenturyhollanders.pbworks.com/w/page/25268719/Huybert%20Hendricksen
- Contract of sale from Pieter Wolphersen van Couwenhoven to Arnoldus van Hardenbergh of his house and lot on Manhattan Island.
[152d] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Piter Wolphersen, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses acknowledges that he has sold to Mr. Arnoldus van Hardenbergh his house and lot standing and situated on the Graft on the island of Manhatans, with all that is fast by earth and nail, expect the furniture, for the sum of once sixteen hundred guilders, to be paid by Hardenbergh to Piter Wolphersen [as follows]: six hundred guilders cash in current seawan; and the remaining thousand guilders Mr. hardenbergh aforesaid promeses to pay ot Piter Wolphersen in such goods as he, Hardenbergh, now has or is now expecting frm Holland and as may suit the aforsaid Piter Wolphersen, and that at the market price. And in case Mr. Hardenbergh has no goods now, or should not receive any from Holland after this date that are serviceable to Piter Wolphersen, Hardenbergh may pay the vendor in current seawan. It is stipulated that Pieter Wolphersen shall tongue and groove the garret [floor boards] at his own expense; in the fore part of the house [yoorhuys{ erect the partition right through, with two small doors in it, and in the back room [build] a bedstead. Which house and lot the aforesaid Piter Wolphersen transfers and conveys in full, ture and free ownership {according the groud brief granted to Pieter Wolphersen by the honorable director and council of New Netherland, dated the 2d of April 1645) to the above mentioned Mr. Arnoldus van Hardenbergh, who also acknowledges that he has this day received and accepted the aforesaid house and lot at his charge and risk. And it is further agreed that Piter Wolphersen may remain in the aforesaid house until next May; and it it happen, which God Almighty forbid, that during the time Pieter Wolphersen remains in said house with his family and boarders there should occur any accident of fire through the carelessness of any of his household, boarders or himself personally, Piter Wolphersen remains bound to repair the damage, be it great or small, to the house. For all of which the parties bind their persons and properties, moveable and immovable, present and future, submitting the same to the control of all courts and judges. In witness whereof this is signed by the parties and the witnesses hereto invited, the 24th of November 1646, in New Amsterdam in New Netherlands.
Piter Woeluersen
Arnoldus van Hardenberch
Jacob Kip, witness
J. Roden[ugh], idem
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary
New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch
Volume 2: Register of the Provincial Secetary, 1642-1647.
translated and annotated by Arnold J.F. Van Laer
page 363-364
https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/application/files/5816/8372/4907/Volume_II_-_Register_of_the_Provincial_Secretary_1642-1647.pdf
- I, the undersigned Pieter Wolphersen, hereby acknowledge for myself, my heirs and successors that this day, date underwritten, I have adopted, as I do hereby adopt, Aeltjem Pieters van Couwenhoven, my own daughter, whom I have begotten and procreated by Maria de Truy, promising therefore that from this date I shall do by the above-named, my daughter, as a god fearing father is bound and ought to do by his own legitimate daughter; therefore, I hereby discharge and release Cornelis Volckersen, husband and guardian of the aforesaid Maria de Truy, from all charges and responsibilities incidental to the bringing up of a child till she becomes of age; I, Pieter Wolphersen, promising to look after the child, to let her learn to read and to bring her up according to my means. Furthermore, if I do not beget any children by my present wife, the above named child shall be my rightful heiress and inheritrix, as if she were duly begotten in lawful wedlock, and if it happen that children be begotten by me and my wife, the above named Aeltjen Pieters shall receive, like the legitimate children on my side, a just child's portion of all such goods, means and effects as it shall please the Lord God Almighty to bestow on me. Requesting that this may have effect before all courts, I have signed this without fraud in the presence of the subscribing witnesses hereto invited. Done, the 7th day of January 1642.
This is x the mark of
Pieter Wolphersen
Jacob Couwenhoven
Philippe du Trieux
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary
- The interval upon the north side of Stone Street between the Van Cortlandt house and the present Broad Street is now occupied by buildings fronting upon the latter street, but it was not so occupied originally. In the spring of 1645, Peter Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven, one of several members of a family who came from Amersfoort, only a few miles away from Oloff van Cortlandt’s last dwelling-place in the Netherlands, obtained a grant from Director Kieft of a plot of ground, nearly fifty by one hundred and twenty-five feet in area, at the corner of Stone Street and the present Broad Street, the latter being at this point, and at the time mentioned, a mere narrow road or lane about twenty-five or thirty feet in width, and with an artificial ditch or channel skirting its east side. Here Van Couwenhoven built near the corner of the streets a modest house — one story and a garret only — which in the next year, 1646, he sold to Arnoldus van Hardenbergh. He then immediately acquired from the Director-General the grant of another parcel of about the same size, lying between the first and Van Cortlandt’s garden, and proceeded to build another house here. This he held for several years, until 1652, when he sold it to Pieter Hartgers, who was the owner at the period of our survey. Hartgers, who had married one of the step-daughters of Dominie Bogardus, was engaged much of his time in trading with the Indians, and occupied this house very irregularly. Finally, he appears to have taken up his residence in Fort Orange, or Albany, where he received grants of land, and where he was one of the magistrates in 1658. He acquired the reputation of a great expert as to the values of the Indian wampum, or shell money, and was appointed in 1659 a commissioner at Albany to estimate the same. His intimate acquaintance with the Indians led him to make long expeditions into the forests to drum up trade with them, a course of business which excited great jealousy among his less enterprising rivals. He retained the Stone Street house, but whether as a storehouse in his business, or in the occupation of tenants is not known. At the time of the surrender to the English in 1664, Hartgers became obnoxious to the new government from some cause or other, — possibly from a refusal to take the oath of allegiance, — and his property was confiscated. A curious circumstance, showing the scarcity of money in the Colony, is that so late as 1659 this house was the subject of a mortgage to secure “ three hundred and thirteen whole beaver-skins. ”
New Amsterdam and its people. page 79-80
https://archive.org/details/newamsterdamitsp1902inne/page/80/mode/2up
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