Individual Details

Peter Monfoort

(Abt 1616 - 4 Jan 1661)



A register of the ancestors of Dorr Eugene Felt and Agnes (McNulty) Felt; North American Family Histories on Ancestry.com. "Felt and Allied Families", p.201
"Pieter Monfoort emigrated from Holland to the New Netherlands at a early date, the first reference to him on the Colonial records being Dec 15, 1639. On May 29, 1641, he obtained a patent for land at the Wallabout and at later dates acquired additional land. He married at Amsterdam, Holland, Jan. 12 1630, Sarah De Plancken (sometimes written as Blanck). He died Jan 4, 1661, and his widow married again.
Pieter & Sarah Monfoort had several children, one of them being a daughter Jennetje Pieters, baptized May 12, 1646, who married Feb. 12, 1665, Willem Gerretse Van Couwenhoven.
...from NYG & B Record, 7-152; Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings Co., 1881, p.210.

Netherlands, Select Marriages, Ancestry.com
23 March 1636, Sara De Plancque married Pierre Montfort, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.


FindAGrave Memorial# 138971582 states that he came on the Beaver in 1625, but returned to Holland to marry, returing with Sarah on the Love.

Children with wife Sarah de Plancken were;
Janica bp 12 May 1646 w/o William van Cowenhoven
Jan h/o 1)Geertje Pieters Luyster 2)Ida Abraham Brinckerhoff
Pieter h/o Marretje Pieters Luyster
Sarah bp 2 Apr 1656 w/o Claes Peterse Wyckoff

Another child suggested is Maria Pieterse who was born 1638 in Holland, d. in 1716 in Westchester Co, NY; and was married to Dirck Goris Storm.

Events

BirthAbt 1616
Marriage23 Mar 1636Amsterdam, Holland - Sarah De Plancken
Death4 Jan 1661

Families

SpouseSarah De Plancken (1615 - 1684)
ChildJannetje Pieterse Monfoort (1646 - 1723)
ChildSarah Monfoort (1656 - 1704)