Steven Coerte Van Voorhees

Abt 1599 -

• Name	Steven Coerte Van Voorhees  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1599	Netherlands
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	16 Apr 1660	New York, New York, United States
  	Ship Bonetekoe, Captain Pieter Lucasz.
  FSID	945L-S7R  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Death	Flatlands, Kings, New York, United States
  Burial	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
  	Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery
  Person ID	I45466	footsteps | Bunker
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Aaltjen Wessels,   b. Abt 1604, Netherlands d. Aft 1642, Netherlands (Age > 39 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1625	Netherlands
  Children	+ 1. Coert Stevense Van Voorhees,   b. Abt 1638, Netherlands d. Aft 20 Jun 1699, Flatlands, Kings, New York, United States (Age > 61 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
  Family ID	F25057	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  The Van Voorhees Family Association found at http://www.vanvoorhees.org/ has published three volumes of documented family history. The first volume is titled, “The Van Voorhees Family in America, The First Six Generations.” The next two volumes are titled “The Van Voorhees Family in America, The Seventh and Eighth Generations, Volume I and II. On line they have an index to the 9th generation. The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has a copy of the three volumes, and they can be purchased on Amazon. Excerpt from 'The Van Voorhees Family, Vol 1', 1984 Captain Pieter Lucasz sailed his little ship "De Bonte Koe" (the Spotted Cow) between Holland and Nieuw Amsterdam regularly, but the arrival on April 15, 1660 is of special interest, as among the passengers were: "Steven Koorts From Drenthe, wife and seven children aged 22, 10, 8, 6,4, 2. Jan Kiers, farmer and wife from Drenthe" (Holland Society Yearbook, 1902, p. 13) Steven Koerts was the ancestor of the Van Voorhees family in the New World, regardless of later variations in spelling. Even he sometimes signed his name Steven Koerten. Steven Coerten has often been used in genealogical writings; today he is by tradition referred to as Steven Coerte. Aged sixty at the time of arrival in Nieuw Amsterdam, he was born near Hees in the Province of Drenthe in 1600. Having arrived in Nieuw Amsterdam, Steven Koerts took time to look around and apparently had the means to do so and to maintain his family in the interim. It was not until November 29, 1660, seven months after his arrival, that he purchased from Cornelis Dircksen Hoogland nine morgens of corn land, seven morgens of wood land, ten morgens of plain land and five morgens of salt meadow in Flatlands, with the house and house plotin the village of Amersfoort en Bergen (Flatlands) with a brewery, brewing apparatus, kettle house and casks with appurtenances for three thousand guilders (Flatbush Records, Lib. B. p. 37). (A morgen is about two acres of land.) Since he acquired all the equipment it is assumed that he followed the brewing business. That he entered into the religious and civic affairs ofhis community is without question. He was appointed a magistrate in 1664and on March 19, 1664 with Elbert Elbertse (Stoothoff), represented NieuwAmersfoort in the Provincial Assembly. (Brodhead's History of New York,p. 67). In October 1667 Steven Coertes with others, patented the town of Flatlands.

  
  

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