Individual Details
Willem Gerretse Couwenhoven
(1636 - )
Conover: Conover Family (p. 15-16): He "resided for a number of years in Brooklyn, where he was magistrate in 1661, 1662 and 1664, and a Deacon of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1663. From Brooklyn he removed to Flatlands, where his name appears in the Assessment Lists of 1675, 1683 and 1693. He was also an elder in the Dutch Reformed Church in Flatlands in 1677.
"In 1690, on November 1st, he sold his farm at Flatlands to his son William, and repaired to Monmouth County, New Jersey, where he passed his remaining years surrounded by ten of his children, dying at an advanced age, as he was still alive in 1727.
"Of his children, thirteen in number, only three, Gerret, William and Altie, remained on Long Island.
" 'April 23, 1701, William Couwenhoven and Jonica, his wife -- with others -- as heirs at law, for 150 pounds sterling, conveyed Jan Monfort's Patent to Garret Couwenhoven, as per deed.'
" 'From proceedings before the public authorities (see Vol. IV., paged 183 and 184, of O'Callaghan's translation of "Duth Manuscripts") on the 6th of July, 1644, in relation to an Englishman name "John Windwodt," (probably Wentworth) a soldier who was accidentally shot in the house of Gerret Wolfersen Couwenhoven, during an affray, by Thomas Mabs, also a soldier, it appears that Gerret resided in a clapboard house, situated on the flats where a garrison was stationed (for protection against the Indians); that his father, Wolfert, had a house near by surrounded by a stockade,
(p. 16)
and that "Ambrosious Lonnen" also had one and there may have been others, forming a hamlet or village.' "
"In 1690, on November 1st, he sold his farm at Flatlands to his son William, and repaired to Monmouth County, New Jersey, where he passed his remaining years surrounded by ten of his children, dying at an advanced age, as he was still alive in 1727.
"Of his children, thirteen in number, only three, Gerret, William and Altie, remained on Long Island.
" 'April 23, 1701, William Couwenhoven and Jonica, his wife -- with others -- as heirs at law, for 150 pounds sterling, conveyed Jan Monfort's Patent to Garret Couwenhoven, as per deed.'
" 'From proceedings before the public authorities (see Vol. IV., paged 183 and 184, of O'Callaghan's translation of "Duth Manuscripts") on the 6th of July, 1644, in relation to an Englishman name "John Windwodt," (probably Wentworth) a soldier who was accidentally shot in the house of Gerret Wolfersen Couwenhoven, during an affray, by Thomas Mabs, also a soldier, it appears that Gerret resided in a clapboard house, situated on the flats where a garrison was stationed (for protection against the Indians); that his father, Wolfert, had a house near by surrounded by a stockade,
(p. 16)
and that "Ambrosious Lonnen" also had one and there may have been others, forming a hamlet or village.' "
Events
| Birth | 1636 | Flatlands, Kings, New York, United States |  | ||
| Marriage | 1660 | Altie Brinkerhoff | | ||
| Marriage | 12 Feb 1665 | Jannetje Pieterse Montfoort | | ||
| Living | 1727 | |
Families
| Spouse | Jannetje Pieterse Montfoort ( - ) |
| Child | Altie Willemse Couwenhoven (1665 - 1691) |
| Child | Neelte Willemse "Nelly" Couwenhoven (1669 - ) |
| Child | Pieter Willemse "Peter" Couwenhoven (1671 - ) |
| Child | Cornelis Willemse "Cornelius" Couwenhoven (1672 - ) |
| Child | Sarah Willemse Couwenhoven (1674 - 1761) |
| Child | Albert Willemse Couwenhoven (1676 - 1748) |
| Child | Jacob Willemse Couwenhoven (1679 - ) |
| Child | Jan Willemse "John" Couwenhoven (1681 - ) |
| Child | Annetie Willemse Couwenhoven (1683 - ) |
| Child | William Willemse Couwenhoven (1686 - ) |
| Child | Jacomina Willemse "Jacquemyntie" Couwenhoven (1689 - ) |
| Spouse | Altie Brinkerhoff ( - 1663) |
| Child | Gerret Willemse Couwenhoven (1662 - ) |
| Child | Joris Willemse "George" Couwenhoven (1663 - ) |
| Father | Gerret Wolfersen Couwenhoven (1610 - 1645) |
| Mother | Altie Cornelius Cool ( - ) |
| Sibling | Jan Couwenhoven (1639 - ) |
| Sibling | Neeltje Gerretsen "Neeltie" Couwenhoven (1641 - 1672) |
| Sibling | Marretje Gerretse Couwenhoven (1643 - 1709) |
Endnotes
1. Charles Hopkins Conover, The Conover Family (Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Martin & Allardyce, 1912), p. 14.
2. Charles Hopkins Conover, The Conover Family (Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Martin & Allardyce, 1912), p. 14.
3. Charles Hopkins Conover, The Conover Family (Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Martin & Allardyce, 1912), p. 14.
4. Charles Hopkins Conover, The Conover Family (Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Martin & Allardyce, 1912), p. 15.