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From the footnote, starting on p. 31:
“ *Neeltje Gerritse van Couwenhoven was descended from WOLFERT GARRETSEN VAN COUWENHOVEN, the common ancestor of the Couwenhoven, Kouwenhoven or Conover family in this country, who immigrated from Amersfoort, in the province of Utrecht, Holland, in 1630, with the colonists who settled Rensselaerwick, near Albany, where he was employed by the Patroon as superintendent of farms. He afterwards resided on Manhattan Island, where he cultivated the companies’ bowery or farm No. 6, and in 1657, was enrolled among the small burghers of Nieu Amsterdam. On the 16th June, 1636, Wolfert Garretsen and Andries Hudde, bought of the Indians and obtained from Governor wan Twiller, a patent for the westernmost of the three flats on Long Island (small prairies), commonly known as the little flats, and called by them Castuteenew or Kaktenew, which patent was ratified on the 22d of August, 1658, to which premises he appears to have removed, on which they immediately commenced a settlement, and where he died in 1662.
August 2, 1639, he purchased of Hudde his interest in a house, barrack or barn and garden on said patent called “Achtervelt,” and 16 September, 1641, he purchased of Hudde all his interest, not previously disposed of, in the original patent.
Wolfert’s heirs, in 1666, conveyed the main portion of these premises to Elbert Elbertse Stoothoff. This settlement was at first named Nieu Amersfoort, in honor of the place of Wolferts’ nativity, was afterwards commonly known as the Baai or Bay, and since as Flatlands.
Woflert’s children, who all came over soon after their father, in 1633, were:
- JACOB WOLPHERTSE, d. abt. 1670, m. 1st Hester Jansen, m. 2d 26 Sept., 1655, Magdalentje Jacobs, settled in Nieu Amsterdam, where he carried on a brewery; was one of the “nine men” who from 1647 to ’50 represented the principal classes of the community, and in 1649, one of the agents on the part of the community to Holland;
- GERRET WOLPHERTSE, d. abt. 1645, m. Altjie Cornelis, dau. of Cornelis Bambertse Cool, of Gowanus, who, after the death of Gerrt, m. Elbert Elbertse Stoothoff; he settled on a farm in Flatlands, of which town he was a magistrate in 1664;
- PETER WOLPHERTSE, m. 1st, 2 Dec., 1640, Hester Symons Daws, m. 2d, 22 Nov., 1665, Altje Sybrants, m. 3d, 19 May 1699, Josyntie Thomas, was also a brewer on the corner of the present Whitehall and Pearl streets, Nieu Amsterdam, where, among other office, he held that of Schepen for many years.
GERRET WOLPHERTSE, son of Wofert Gerretsen, had issue:
- WILLEM GERRETSE, b. 1636, living as late as 1727, m. 1st, 1660 Altie, dau. of Joris Brinckerhoff, m. 2d, 1665, Jannetje, dau. of Pieter Monfoort, resided at first in Brooklyn, and afterwards in Flatlands;
- JAN GERRETSE, of Brooklyn, b. 1639, m. Gerdientje, dau. of Nicasius de Sille, Fiscal of Nieu Netherlands;
- NEELTJE GERRETSE, m. Roelof Martense Schenck;
- MARRETJE GARRETSEN, bap. 10 April, 1643, m. Coert Stephense van Voorhees, and d. prior to 1709.
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https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2B1-56L7
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https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG5F-CMWJ
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Pg. 78 says, "Mary or Marretje Gerretse, bp. Apr. 10, 1644 in N. A., m. prior to 1666 Coert Stevense Van Voorhies." She is listed as a child of Gerret Wolfertse Couwenhoven and Altie Cool.
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