Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven

Abt 1610 - Abt 1645  (~ 35 years)

• Name	Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven
  Birth	Abt 1610	Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1645	Flatlands, Long Island, New York   [1, 2, 3, 5]
  Person ID	I21166	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Wolfert Gerretse van Couwenhoven,   b. Abt 1584   d. Between 2 Mar 1662 and 24 Jun 1662, New Netherland (Age ~ 78 years)
  Mother	Neeltje Jacobsdochter
  Family ID	F13060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Aeltje Cornelis Cool   d. Bef 21 Jul 1683
  Marriage	Abt 1635	Flatlands, Long Island, New York   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Willem Gerretse van Couwenhoven,   b. 1636, Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland d. Abt 1728, Monmouth County, New Jersey (Age 92 years) + 2. Jan Gerretse van Couwenhoven,   b. 1639, Flatlands, Long Island, New York d. Abt 1724 (Age 85 years) + 3. Neeltje Gerretse van Couwenhoven,   c. 20 Sep 1641   d. Abt 1672 (Age ~ 30 years) + 4. Marretje Van Couwenhoven,   b. Bef 10 Apr 1644   d. Bef 1709 (Age < 64 years)
  Family ID	F10504	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2019

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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. [S7814] W. F. van Kouwenhoven, "Wolfert Gerritse in the Netherlands: Part II: A Search in the Dutch Archives." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 129:109, Apr 1998. [S5934] John Reynolds Totten, "Editorial Iconoclastiana." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 65:12, Jan 1934; 65:122, Apr 1934., year only.