Individual Details

Conover: Conover Family (p. 12): “ 'In the year 1643, Gerret Wolfersen Couwenhoven, with others, signed a petition to Governor Kneift, of New Amsterdam, for leave to attack the Mareckkawich, or Brooklyn Indians, a branch of the Canarisie tribe. The Director, however, in consequence of the Indians having become peaceable, wisely refused to grant their request, but gave permission that "in case they evince a hostile disposition, every man must do his best to defend himself." ’
" 'The Patent to Gerret Wolfersen Couwenhoven, of March 11, 1647, describes land lying at Recheweck--the Indian name of Brooklyn--both the Maize and the Woodland on the marsh of the Gowanus Kill, between the land of Stoffelsen and Frederick Lubbertsen, extending from the aforesaid Marsh till into the woods next the lands of said Frederick Lubbertsen till to the land of Andries Hudden; northeast by north a little northerly one hundred and forty-eight rods; behind through the woods till to the land of the aforesaid Jacob Stoffelsen, southeast by east eighty rods, next the land of Jacob Stoffelsen aforesaid, till to the aforesaid marsh southwest a little westerly, one hundred and sixty-five rods; along the valley to the place of beginning sixty rods, with a small projecting point, amounting in all to nineteen morgens and three hundred and forty-one rods.'
“ 'This plot evidently pointed on the main road leading from Flatbush and the village of Brooklyn to the Ferry, extending back to the Gowanus Creek, and is included in the plot designated as land of G. Martense on Butt’s map of Brooklyn.' ”

p. 13
"The following disposition was made of the estate of Gerret Wolfersen Couwenhoven:--
“ 'In 1646, after his marriage to the widow of Gerret Wolfertse
Van Couwenhoven, by an agreement with the guardian of Gerret Wolfertse’s children, Elbert Elbertse Stoothoof took the whole of Gerret’s estate, consisting of one hundred and twenty-three morgens of land on the southerly end of the "Westernmost of the three flats known by the Indian name of Kaskutew," on condition of paying the debts, and bringing up and educating Gerret’s children to read and write.'
“ 'When of age or married, Elbert was to pay said children as follows:--
" 'Willem Gerretse, 200 Carolus Guilders.
" 'Jan Gerretse, 300 Carolus Guilders, he being allowed 100 more than his brother, because of not being in good health and weak in the limbs.
" 'Neeltjie Gerretse, 200 Carolus Guilders.
" 'Marretje Gerretse, 200 Carolus Guilders.”

p. 14
" 'From an entry in Elbert's books it appears that on the 14th of June, 1683, after the death of his second wife, Altie Cornelis or Cornelius, he agreed to pay on the following 21st of December, to said Jan Gerretse, the sum of 2,000 guilders, in full for his share of the said Altie, his mother's estate.' "

Birth	Abt 1610	Holland
Emigration	1630	to the United States, Holland
Marriage		Altie Cornelius Cool
Death	1645

Spouse	Altie Cornelius Cool ( - )
Child	Willem Gerretse Couwenhoven (1636 - )
Child	Jan Couwenhoven (1639 - )
Child	Neeltje Gerretsen "Neeltie" Couwenhoven (1641 - 1672)
Child	Marretje Gerretse Couwenhoven (1643 - 1709)

Father	Wolfert Gerretsen Van Couwenhoven ( - 1662)
Sibling	Jacob Wolfersen Couwenhoven (1612 - )
Sibling	Derick Wolfersen Couwenhoven (1613 - )
Sibling	Peter Wolfersen Couwenhoven (1614 - )
Sibling	Jan Wolfersen Couwenhoven (1616 - )