Peter Couwenhoven b. 1669 d. Mar 1704 Gloucester County, New Jersey: Hedges Genealogy

1669 - 1704 (35 years)

Name	Peter Couwenhoven
Birth	1669 [1]
Gender	Male
Baptism	27 Feb 1669	New York, New York County, New York [2]
	New York Dutch Church
Death	Mar 1704	Gloucester County, New Jersey [1, 2]
	his estate was probated Mar 21, 1704/5 at Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester County, NJ. [1]
Person ID	I5776	Hedges
Last Modified	28 Jun 2025

Father	Lt. Pieter Wolfertsen van Couwenhoven, b. 1614, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands d. 1699, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey (Age 85 years)
Mother	Aeltje Sibrants
Marriage	22 Nov 1665	New Amsterdam [3, 4]
	Reformed Dutch Church
Family ID	F2527	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Mary Unknown d. 1705

Marriage Aft 1670 [1]

Children

	1. Peter Couwenhoven
	2. John Couwenhoven
	3. David Couwenhoven
	4. Hester Couwenhoven
	5. Mary Couwenhoven

Family ID F2528 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 17 Jun 2025

Event Map

	Baptism - New York Dutch Church - 27 Feb 1669 - New York, New York County, New York
	Death - Mar 1704 - Gloucester County, New Jersey

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Notes

Conover genealogy page:
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.

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~conover/genealogy/Pages/newinfor.htm
[1]
Peter Covenhoven was baptized Feb.27, 1669, in the New York Dutch Church (BCD:94), and was probably the first of the family to settle in Old Gloucester County, New Jersey. On ov.29, 1695, he purchased 250 acres of land along Patconk Creek in Great Egg Harbor Township 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 his heirs, if lawfully demanded"; and on Jan.30, 1698, he bought an additional 150 acres there from Daniel Leeds. He married, as her first husband, Mary ____, whose surname has not been determined. In his will, proved Mar.21, 1704, Peter signed his name Cownover . His widow later married Samuel Gale of Great Egg Harbor; her will was proved Jan.26, 1731.
Genealogies of Long Island Families, v.2, page 600. [2]

Sources

[S140] David Kipp Conover, Conover Genealogy Page, https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~conover/genealogy/Pages/newinfor.htm.
[S142] Henry B. Hoff, The genealogies of Long Island Families, v.2, page 600, from the library of Linda Hedges.
[S138] Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, v.1, page 31, https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/132136-collections-of-the-new-york-genealogical-and-biographical.
[S142] Henry B. Hoff, The genealogies of Long Island Families, v.2, page 599, from the library of Linda Hedges.

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