Gerret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven
Abt 1610 - Abt 1645 (35 years)-
Name Gerret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven [1, 2] Birth Abt 1610 Netherlands 
Gender Male Arrival 1625 FSID KHR1-BZZ Death Abt 1645 New York, New York, United States [2] Burial Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States [1, 2]
Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery
Person ID I45464 footsteps | Bunker Last Modified 30 Jul 2025
Family Aeltje Cornelis Stoothoff, b. Abt 1615, Netherlands d. 1683, Flatlands, Kings, New York, United States (Age 68 years) Marriage Abt 1635 Flatlands, Kings, New York, United States Children + 1. Jan Gerritsen Van Couwenhoven, b. Abt 1639, New York, New York, United States d. Abt 1724, New York, New York, United States (Age 85 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. Marritje Gerritse van Couwenhoven, b. Bef 10 Apr 1644, New York, New York, United States d. Between 1702 and 1709, Flatlands, Kings, New York, United States (Age > 57 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: unknown]Family ID F25040 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Jul 2025
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Notes
Came to New Amsterdam with his parents in 1625; settled at New Amsterdam; bought a land patent next to his father in 1638, and thus became a freeholder of Nieuw Amsterdam; wounded trying to drive Indians from t Lange Eylandt about 1643; later that year Iroquois Indians laid waste Dutch settlements there except for the palisaded brick homes of Gerret and his father.
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Sources - [S288] Find a Grave Index, "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www./ark:/61903/1:1:QV2K-VK9L : 12 December 2022), Gerrit Wolfersen Van Kouwenhoven, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 79660943, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2K-VK9L - [S288] Find a Grave Index, "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www./ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BB-JFVF : Fri Apr 04 17:50:10 UTC 2025), Entry for Gerrit Wolfertszen Van Couwenhoven.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BB-JFVF
- [S288] Find a Grave Index, "Find a Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www./ark:/61903/1:1:QV2K-VK9L : 12 December 2022), Gerrit Wolfersen Van Kouwenhoven, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 79660943, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.