Coert van Voorhees

This is a Dutch name; the family name is van Voorhees, not Voorhees. Stevense means child of Steven.
Coert Stevense van Voorhees
Born Coert van Voorhees
April 1637
Hees, Drenthe, Netherlands
Died abt. 1702
Flatlands, Brooklyn, New York
Nationality Dutch
Other names Coert Van Voorhuys, Voorhies, Voorhis
Occupation Farmer
Spouse(s) Marretje Gerritse VanCouwenhoven (b. 1644-d.1708)
Children Steven, Aeltie, Gerrit, Albert, Marretje, Neeltje, Cornelis, Annatje, Johannes
Parent(s) Steven van Voorhees

Coert Stevense van Voorhees (1637–1702), a settler of New Netherland is remembered today as progenitor of numerous American families,[1] and as an early settler of Brooklyn.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Biography

He was born around April of 1637 in Hees, near Ruinen, Drenthe, Netherlands,[4] the son of Steven van Voorhees [8] and Aeltje Wessels. Van Voorhees married Marretje Gerritse VanCouwenhoven, daughter of Gerret Wolfertse VanCouwenhoven and Altje Cool.[3] He arrived in New Amsterdam when he was 22 years of age sailing on the de Bonte Koe in 1660. He was a member and deacon of the Dutch Reformed Church in Flatlands in 1677 and captain of the militia in 1689, as well as representative of Flatlands in the Assembly held at city hall in New Amsterdam on 10 April 1664.[9][10] He took his oath of allegiance in September 1687 as Coert Stevense Van Voorhuys, having been in the country twenty seven years. On 8 March 1691 he purchased land from John Tilton of Gravesend and conveyed the property to his son Albert on 20 June 1694. He died sometime around or shortly after 1702.[11]

Legacy

He is known as the previous owner of the property where the Hendrick I. Lott House now stands, he sold the land in 1719 to Johannes Lott. The property and house is now a New York City Landmark.

References

  1. ↑ Townsend, Richard (20 May 2013). "You just can’t make this stuff up". North Jersey Media Group. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Benardo, Leonard (2006). Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names. New York University Press. p. 171. ISBN 0814799469.
  3. 1 2 Lee, Francis Bazley (1910). Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 81.
  4. 1 2 Mackenzie, George Norbury (1917). Colonial Families of the United States of America; vol. 6. Grafton Press. p. 458.
  5. ↑ Society, National American (1922). "Crawford and Allied Families". Americana, American historical magazine (16) (National American Society).
  6. ↑ Bergen, Teunis (1866). The Bergen Family: Or, The Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, One of the Early Settlers of New York and Brooklyn, L. I. Bergen & Tripp. p. 172.
  7. ↑ Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Dutchess and Putnam, New York. J.H. Beers & Co. 1897. p. 878.
  8. ↑ http://www.vanvoorhees.org/
  9. ↑ Van Voorhis, Elias William (1888). Genealogy of the Van Voorhees family in America. New York: Putnam. pp. 10–11.
  10. ↑ https://archive.org/details/commemorativebio00beers
  11. ↑ https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmemo06leef

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