Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven
Abt 1610 - Abt 1645 (~ 35 years)-
Name Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven Born Abt 1610 Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Died Abt 1645 Flatlands, Long Island, New York [1, 2, 3] Person ID I21166 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TWK Last Modified 4 Feb 2019
Father Wolfert Gerretse van Couwenhoven, b. Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands , d. Between 2 Mar 1662 and 24 Jun 1662, New Netherland Mother Neeltje Family ID F13060 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Aeltje Cornelis Cool, d. Bef 1683 Married Abt 1635 Flatlands, Long Island, New York [3] Children + 1. Neeltje Gerretse van Couwenhoven, b. Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland , d. Abt 1672+ 2. Willem Gerretse van Couwenhoven, b. 1636, Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland , d. Abt 1728, Monmouth County, New Jersey (Age 92 years)+ 3. Jan Gerretse van Couwenhoven, b. 1639, Flatlands, Long Island, New York , d. Abt 1724 (Age 85 years)+ 4. Marretje Van Couwenhoven, b. Bef 10 Apr 1644, d. Bef 1709 (Age < 64 years) Last Modified 9 Feb 2019 Family ID F10504 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - He was a member of the Council of Eight in 1643.
Although most of the American descendants of the Kouwenhoven/Couwenhoven family eventually changed their surname to Conover, there were descendants of Garret Wolfertse van Kouwenhoven in Brooklyn calling themselves Kouwenhoven as late as 1939, and possibly more recently.
- He was a member of the Council of Eight in 1643.
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Sources - [S1571] Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y. by Teunis G. Bergen. New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.
- [S1765] The Conover Family by Charles Hopkins Conover. Frankford, Philadelphia: Martin & Allardyce, 1912.
- [S3097] Lincoln C. Cocheu, "The Van Kouwenhoven-Conover Family." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 70:230, 70:353, 1939; 71:69, 71:157, 71:273, 71:365, 1940; 81:123, 81:172, 81:225, 1950; 82:34, 82:89, 82:175, 82:211, 1951.
- [S1571] Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y. by Teunis G. Bergen. New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.