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- Note on Find a Grave:
Gerrit Wolfertszen b. circa 1610, d. circa 1645
Son of Wolfert Gerritszen and Neeltgen Jacobsdr. Gerret's parents were Wolfert Gerretse Van Couwnehoven and Neeltje --
Married Aeltje Cornelis Cool, daughter of Cornelis Lambertszen Cool and a wife (name unknown), before 1636.
Gerrit arrived with his father in New Amsterdam, on his father's second trip in 1630. He settled at New Amersfoot on Long Island. He was a magistrate at Flatlands in 1644.
Witnessed the baptism of Neeltje Couwenhoven, daughter of Jacob Wolfertszen and Hester Jansen, on 25 September 1639 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Gerrit Wolphertszen, David Provoost, Philip Gerritszen, Neeltje Wolpherts, Anneken Jans (hers is the first baptism recorded at the new Dutch Church in New Amsterdam)).
Witnessed the baptism of Margariet Provoost, daughter of David Provoost and Grietje Gillis, on 24 February 1641 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Gerrit Wolphertz, Jacob Van Curlaer en s.h.v. Hester Jans).
Witnessed the baptism of Abraham Lambertszen Moll, son of Lambert Huybertszen, on 23 March 1642 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Jan Snuker, Schoeffm; Gerrit Wolfertszen, Christine Hunen, Hester Jans).
Witnessed the baptism of Willem Hack, son of Roelandt Hack and Janneken Jans, on 31 August 1642 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Huyck Aartszen, Gerrit Wolfertszen, Hester Simons, Maritje Philips).
On 5 January 1644, before Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Aeltjen Brackogne, widow of the late Cornelis Lambersen Cool, of the first part, and Gerrit Wolphersen and Claes Jansen from Emden, each of whom married a daughter of the late Cornelis Lambersen Cool, of the second part, who acknowledge that in love and friendship they had agreed and covenanted respecting the division of the goods and chattels which the aforesaid Cornelis Lambersen left behind, on the following conditions. (The conditions being that the parties acknowledge that they have divided and apportioned the movable and immovable property. That Aeltjen Brackongne pays Gerrit Wolphersen and Claes Jansen and additional 200 guilders, and that Gerrit Wolphersen and Claes Jansen acknowledge that they are fully satisfied and paid. Also that Aeltjen Brackongne shall pay all debts incurred by her deceased husband and that she shall receive all debts due her deceased husband. It is also stipulated that the property at Gowanus shall remain undivided until (through the mercy of God) the lands there may be used, when the parties shall enter upon the partition thereof. Aeltjen Brackongne, Gerrit Wolphersen and Claes Jansen all sign by their mark. Witnessed by Huych Aertsen van Rossom and Willem de Key.
Children by Aeltje Cornelis Cool:
1. Willem Gerritse b. 1636, d. ca. 1728
2. Jan Gerritse b. 1639, d. ca. 1724
3. Neeltje Gerritse b. 20 Sep 1641, d. ca. 1672
4. Marritje Gerritse b. 10 Apr 1644, d. b 1709
Gerrit Wolfertszen died circa 1645 at Flatlands, Long Island.
Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.
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Was a Representative at the Council of Eight in 1643.
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- Conover Genealogy page
4. Gerret Wolfersen3 Van Kouwenhoven (Wolphert2, Gerritt1Couwenhoven) was born circa 1610 at Amersfoort, Ultrecht, Netherlands. He married Aeltje Cornelis Cool, daughter of Cornelius Lambertse Cool and (Unknown) (Unknown), circa 1635 at Flatlands, Long Island, NY. He died circa 1648 at Flatlands, Long Island, NY; Was probably after patent issued.
He was also known as Gerret Wolphertse Van Kouwenhoven. He was also known as Gerret Kouwenhoven. He was also known as Gerret Wolfertse Van Couwenhoven. He was also known as Gerret Wolfersen Couwenhoven. He was also known as Gerret Wolferse Van Couvenhoven. He was also known as Garret Wolfert Van Couwenhoven. 1639. Document (MDC:10).
"This day, date underwritten, before me Cornelis Van Tienhoven, secretary, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, appeared Wolphert Gerritsen and Gerrit Wolphertsen, as guardians of Lambert Cornelissen Cool, and at the request of said Lambert Cool, have permitted him to go with his cattle to his brother-in-law Claes Jansen, in order to take up together some plantation or farm, and we the principals in the capacity aforesaid have consented hereto as we are bound in the place of father and mother to promote the above named Lambert Cool's interest and we cannot perceive that he will earn anything, much less prosper so long as he remains with his father, Cornelis Lambertsen. We have therefore considered it advisable to permit him to do something for himself in company aforesaid. Done at Fort Amsterdam the 22 of August 1639.
This is the mark x of Wolphert Gerritsen
This is the mark x of Gerrit Wolphertsen
Maurits Jan and Frerick Lubbertsen ; witnesses
"Consent of the guardians of Lambert Cornelissen Cool to let Cool remove his cattle and take up a farm with his brother-in-law Claes Jansen" "Copied with slight variations from E.B. O'Callaghan's manuscript translation of the original in the New York Colonial MSS., Vol. I, p. 155, which was destroyed in the Capitol fire of March 29, 1911, Albany, October 4, 1933 ;signed A.J.F. van Laer." on Aug 22, 1639.
On March 11, 1647, Gerrit Wolphertson (Van Kouwenhoven) received a patent for "a certain piece of land, gouat the (Ma) Rechawieck, both the maize and woodland, on the marsh of the Gouwanus Kil, between the land of Jacob Stoffelsen and Frederick Lubbertsen, extending from the aforsaid marsh till into the woods, till to the land of said Frederick, till to the land of Andries Huddle, northeast by north, a little northerly, 148 rods: behind through the woods, till to the land of the aforesaid Jacob Stoffelsen, southeast by east 80 rods next to the land of Jacob Stoffelsen aforesaid, till to the aforsaid marsh, southwest a little westerly 165 rods, along the marsh to the place of beginning 60 rods, with an oblique outpoint: amounting in all to 29 morgens, 341 rods." Pattents, GG, 172
This plot evidently fronted on the main road leading from Flatbush, through the village of Breuckelen, which was located at this point, to "the Ferry," andis inchluded in lands marked as G. Martense's on Butt's map. Wolphertsen sold this property to Nicholas Jans, baker, of New York on Mar 11, 1647.
Children of Gerret Wolfersen3 Van Kouwenhoven and Aeltje Cornelis Cool were as follows:
i. Willem Gerretse4; born 1636 at Flatlands, Kings County, NY; although his father's purchase of land there was not dated until July 26, 1638; married Altie Jorise Brinckeroff, daughter of Joris Dericksen Brinckerhoff and Susannah Dubbels, Mar 21, 1660 at Flatlands, Long Island, NY; married Jannetije Pieterse Monfoort, daughter of Pieter Monfoort and Sarah De Plancken, Feb 12, 1665 at Kings, Flatlands, Brooklyn, NY; died between 1721 and 1723; died circa 1728; died 1728 at Monmouth, NJ.
He was also known as William Kouwenhoven. He was also known as William Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven. He was also known as William Gerretse Couwenhoven. On the earliest survivig list of members of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn, Sep 12, 1660, appear the names of Willem Gerritse Van Couwenhoven, his first wife, and her parents. He was Magistrate of Brooklyn 1661, 1662, and 1664. Willem Gerretse, on behalf of his first wiife, was one of the three heirs to the Brooklyn grant of his father-in-law, Joris Dicksen Brinckerhoff, and joined with the other heirs in selling this property on January 16, 1661. He was Signed a petition on May 25, 1662 in 1662 at schepen of Brooklyn, NY. He was deacon in 1663 at Dutch Reformed Church, Breukelen, Breukelen Province, NY. His name apears on the patent of Flatland, 1667 and he apparently removed there about that time. [He was and Elder of the Reformed Dutch churc at Flatlands in 1677. He signed the oath of allegiance at some time between Sep 26-30, 1687 being called a resident of "fflackland" and native born. The Records of th Brick Church, Marlborough, Monmouth Co., NJ, originally known as the Reformed Church of Freehold of the Navasink, begin in 1709 and show that in that year seven children of Willem Gerretse were already members of that congregation namely, Cornelis, Pieter,Albert, Jan, Jacob, Neeltje (Nelke), and Sara. In 1717, two other children appear as members, Annetje (Autie) and Jacomina (Jockamiinke). It was not until 1721 that the chuch shows as members "Willem Ger Kowvenhoven and his wife," and since the wife, Jannetje (Janneke), appears alone on the list in 1723, it seems possible that Willem Gerretse died between 1721 and 1723. He sold his plantation in Brooklyn to his son William and moved to Monmouth County, NJ in Nov , 1709. The existence of the original Bible of Willem Gerrete, with his own record of his marriages and the births of his children, states that he married "Altieu Yoris" in the year 1660. She was Altje, daughter of Joris Dickerson Brinckerhoff, and was the widow of Cornelis Mattys (Mathiews). Se died on June 3, 1663, and Willem Gerretse married secondly, on Febrary 12, 1665, "Jannetie Peters," who was Jannetje, daughter of Peter Monfort. She was baptized as Jannetje on May 8, 1646, in the D. R. Church of New Amsterdam.
ii. Jan Gerretse; He was born in 1639, perhaps at Flatlands, L.I., NY; married Gerardina de Sille, daughter of Nicasius de Sille and Cornelia Meulmans, May 18, 1670; married Gerardina de Sille, daughter of Nicasius de Sille and Cornelia Meulmans, May 19, 1670; died circa 1714 at Brooklyn, Kings, Long Island, NY; died circa 1724.
He was also known as Jan Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven. He was also known as Jan Gerretse Kowenhoven. He was also known as Jan Gerretsen Van Couwenhoven. In 1665 he was licensed to trade in Albany. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Brooklyn in 1677 and 1685. He resided at Brooklyn Ferry. He was a commissioner of Brooklyn, 1690, by act of Court of General Sessions of which he was at that time a grand juryman.
iii. Neeltje Gerretse; born Sep 20, 1641; christened Sep 20, 1641 at Flatlands, Long Island, NY; married Roelof Martense Schenck, son of Martin Van Nydeck Schenck and Maria Margretha Bockhurst, circa 1660 at Flatlands, Kings County, NY; died circa 1672.
She was also known as Neeltje Garetse Kowenhoven. She was also known as Neeltje Gerretse Van Couwehnoven. She was also known as Neeltje Van Couvenhoven.
iv. Marretje Gerretse; born Apr 10, 1644; baptized Apr 10, 1644 at Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, Kings, Long Island, NY; christened Sep 10, 1644; married Coert Stevense Van Voorhees, son of Steven Coerts Van Voorhees and Aeltje Wessels, before 1664; died between 1702 and 1709.
She was also known as Marretje Kowenhoven. She was also known as Marretje Van Couvenhoven. She was also known as Marytje Van Couwenhoven.
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- He settled at New Amersfoort, Long Island, N.Y. . . . 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, I: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.
Genealogies of Long Island Families, v.2
page 511.
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- 1646
Nov.28. Settlement of the estate of Gerrit Wolphertsen (van Couwenhoven) deceased, by Wolpher Gerritsen, his father, and Jacob and Peter Wolphertsen, his brothers, and Elbert Elbertsen who married Aeltje Cornelissen, said Gerrit’s widow, and the portions of his children named William, Jan, Neeltje, and Marritje Gerritsen; Jan gets more than his brother William, “because he has not the use of his legs,” …. Page 152
Keskachauge v.2, page 130
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- Gerret Wolferien, son of Wolfert Gerretse, had issue: Willem Gerretse, born 1636, living as late as 1727, m. (1st), 1660, Aide, dau. of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff, widow of Mattys, who died June 3d, 1663, m. (2d), Feb. 12th, 1665, Jannetie, dau. of Pieter Monfoort, resided at first in Brooklyn, afterwards on a farm in Flatlands, which he conveyed in July, 1727, to his son William, when he probably removed to Monmouth county. New Jersey, where, with the exception of those of his son William, most of his descendants reside. From proceedings before the public authorities (see vol. iv, pp. 183 and 184, of O’Callaghan*s translation of Dutch Manuscripts), on the 6th of July, 1644, in relation to an Englishman named “John Windwodt” (probably Wentworth), a soldier, who was accidentally shot in the house of Gerret Wolfersen during an affray, by Thomas Mabs, also a soldier, it appears that Gerret resided in a clapboard house, situated on the Flats (plains or prairie), where a garrison was stationed (for protection against the Indians), that his father, Wolfert, had a house near by, surrounded by a stockade, and that “Ambrosius Lonnen” also had one, and there may have been others, forming hamlet or village. Jan Gerretse, of Brooklyn ferry, born 1639, m. Gerdientje, dau. of Nicaaius De Sille. fiscael of New Netherland; in consequence of his being lame, Jan received more than his brothers of his father's estate : Neeltie Gerretse, bapt. Sept. 20th, 1641, died about 167a, m. 1660, Roelof Martense Schenck, of Flatlands : and Marritje Gerretse, born 1643, bapt. April 10th, 1644, m. Coert Stephense Van Voorhees, and died prior to 1709.
from The Bergen Family, 1876 edition
page 328-329
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