Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Ensign Elias Couwenhoven
1706 - 1750 (44 years)1. Ensign Elias Couwenhoven was born on 12 Sep 1706 (son of Pieter Willemse van Couwenhoven and Patience Daws); died on 25 Dec 1750. Ensign married Williamsee Wall in 1729. Williamsee (daughter of John Wall and Mary Hubbard) was born on 24 Mar 1709; was christened on 22 May 1758; died on 24 Mar 1759; was buried in Schenck-Covenhoven Cemetery, Holmdel, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Lydia Couwenhoven was born on 11 Mar 1738; died on 16 Mar 1805.
2. Pieter Willemse van Couwenhoven was born on 12 Feb 1671 (son of Willem Gerretse van Couwenhoven and Jannetje Peters); died about Feb 1755 in near Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey. Pieter married Patience Daws about 1694. Patience (daughter of Elias Daws) was born about 1672 in Flatlands, Long Island, New York; was christened on 18 Sep 1681 in Amersfoort, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Patience Daws was born about 1672 in Flatlands, Long Island, New York; was christened on 18 Sep 1681 in Amersfoort, Kings, New York (daughter of Elias Daws). Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate birth: Abt 1674
Children:
- 1. Ensign Elias Couwenhoven was born on 12 Sep 1706; died on 25 Dec 1750.
- Anne Covenhoven was born on 29 Sep 1714; was christened on 19 Nov 1714 in Freetown-Middleton Dutch Church, Monmouth, New Jersey.
Generation: 3
4. Willem Gerretse van Couwenhoven was born in 1636 in Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland (son of Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven and Aeltje Cornelis Cool); died about 1728 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Notes:
A magistrate of Brooklyn in 1661, 1662, and 1664. A deacon of the Brooklyn Dutch church in 1663. Removed to Flatlands around 1677. Appears to have moved to Monmouth, New Jersey around 1709.
Willem married Jannetje Peters on 12 Feb 1665. Jannetje (daughter of Peter Monfoort and Sarah de Plancken) was born before 8 May 1646; was christened on 8 May 1646 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, New Netherland; died in 1723; was buried in Old Brick Reformed Church Cemetery, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Jannetje Peters was born before 8 May 1646; was christened on 8 May 1646 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, New Netherland (daughter of Peter Monfoort and Sarah de Plancken); died in 1723; was buried in Old Brick Reformed Church Cemetery, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey. Other Events and Attributes:
- Baptised: 12 May 1646
Children:
- 2. Pieter Willemse van Couwenhoven was born on 12 Feb 1671; died about Feb 1755 in near Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey.
6. Elias Daws was born in of Gravesend, Long Island; died after 18 Sep 1681. Notes:
His last recorded appearance is at the baptism of his daughters Rebecca, Patience, and Anna.
Children:
- 3. Patience Daws was born about 1672 in Flatlands, Long Island, New York; was christened on 18 Sep 1681 in Amersfoort, Kings, New York.
Generation: 4
8. Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven was born about 1610 in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands (son of Wolfert Gerretse van Couwenhoven and Neeltje); died about 1645 in Flatlands, Long Island, New York. 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.Garret married Aeltje Cornelis Cool about 1635 in Flatlands, Long Island, New York. Aeltje (daughter of Cornelis Lambertse Cool and (Unknown first wife of Cornelis Lambertse Cool)) died before 21 Jul 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Aeltje Cornelis Cool (daughter of Cornelis Lambertse Cool and (Unknown first wife of Cornelis Lambertse Cool)); died before 21 Jul 1683. Children:
- 4. Willem Gerretse van Couwenhoven was born in 1636 in Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland; died about 1728 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
- Jan Gerretse van Couwenhoven was born in 1639 in Flatlands, Long Island, New York; died about 1724.
- Neeltje Gerretse van Couwenhoven was born in Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland; was christened on 20 Sep 1641; died about 1672.
- Marretje Van Couwenhoven was born before 10 Apr 1644; was christened on 10 Apr 1644; died before 1709.
10. Peter Monfoort died on 4 Jan 1661 in Wallabout, Brooklyn, New Netherland. Peter married Sarah de Plancken in Jan 1630 in Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Sarah died after 1 Jan 1663. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. Sarah de Plancken died after 1 Jan 1663. Children:
- 5. Jannetje Peters was born before 8 May 1646; was christened on 8 May 1646 in Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, New Netherland; died in 1723; was buried in Old Brick Reformed Church Cemetery, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey.
Generation: 5
16. Wolfert Gerretse van Couwenhoven was born in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands; died between 2 Mar 1662 and 24 Jun 1662 in New Netherland. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate death: Aft 1660, New Netherland
- Alternate death: Bef 27 Apr 1662
Notes:
Also known as Wolfert or Wolphert Gerretse; also van Kouwenhoven; also "Van Amersfoort", etc.
Possibly a son of Gerrit Wolferts Suype of Nijkerk, in the Dutch province of Gelderland, and his wife Styne Roberts. Gerrit Wolferts Suype was buried in the chancel of the church at Nijkerk on 12 Dec 1604. Suype was a common surname in sixteenth-century Gelderland, along with its variants Sube, Zuben, Supen, etc.
Wolfert is first seen circa 1630 as a superintendent of farms at Rensellaerswyck, near what is now Albany. From about 1632 to 1636 he leased and farmed a bouwerie on Manhattan, running roughly from today's Chatham Square down to Pearl Street. In 1636 he was granted several hundred acres on Long Island, where he named his plantation "Achervelt." This settlement was later named New Amersfoort, in honor of his birthplace. It is now known as the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn.
In 1654 he served as a schepen (roughly, alderman) of New Amsterdam, and in 1657 he was made a burgher. He served on the Council of Eight Men. Gerritsen Beach is named for him.Wolfert married Neeltje. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
17. Neeltje Children:
- 8. Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven was born about 1610 in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands; died about 1645 in Flatlands, Long Island, New York.
18. Cornelis Lambertse Cool died before Sep 1644 in Gowanus, New Netherland. Cornelis married (Unknown first wife of Cornelis Lambertse Cool). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
19. (Unknown first wife of Cornelis Lambertse Cool) Children:
- 9. Aeltje Cornelis Cool died before 21 Jul 1683.