Pieter Wolphertsen VAN COUWENHOVEN
Birth:
1614
of Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
Death:
Abt 1675
New York
Marriage:
22 Nov 1665
Mother:
Sources:
1998 Ancestral File
Ancestry World Tree Project
www.conovergenealogy.com/Pages/vkf.htm
Ancestry World Tree Project
www.conovergenealogy.com/Pages/vkf.htm
Notes:
In 1688 he was at Brewer, Elizabethtown, NJ
Anders Stille's Wife by Dr. Peter S. Craig
Deeds by Anders Stille, eldest son of Olof Stille, identify his wife as Annetje, the Dutch form of Anna. In testimony before the New Castle court, Anders stated that he had been familiar with the houses and streets of the town since 1658. In the 1671 English census of the Delaware, Anders was shown as residing in New Castle and married to the owner of his house, named Anna Peterson by the English census taker.
Who was Anna or Annetje "Peterson"? This has long stumped me. However, in working up a pending article on this 1671 census for future publication, I was struck by the fact that Wharton's cenuss was a door-to-door survey of each resident. Comparing his census with records of early patents and deeds disclosed, beyond question, that the house occupied by Anders Stille and his wife was owned by a Dutch brewer by the name of Pieter Wolfertsen van Couwenhoven, who was in prison at Manhattan in 1671 because he had defaulted on a mortgage of property in Elizabethtown, NJ, to Governor Philip Carteret of New Jersey. Pieter was not himself named in the census, perhaps to hide his identity from creditors. But, whatever the reason, the father's financial difficulties now tell us that his daughter, known as Annetje Pieters van Couwenhoven to the Dutch, was the wife of Anders Stille, the Swede. The house in New Castle was sold in 1672 and the Stille family moved to Christiana Bridge to live next door to Anders Stille's niece Elisabeth Petersdotter (Yocum), wife of the English soldier, John Ogle.
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Aeltje SYBRANT
Birth:
Abt 1637
New York City, New York, New York
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Children
Marriage
1
Birth:
27 Feb 1669
Long Island, New York
Death:
4 Mar 1704
New Jersey
Notes:
Historical information included in notes. Peter was descended from original dutch settlers of New Amsterdam (New York). Much information about this dutch immigrant family at http://www.conovergenealogy.com/Pages/vkf.htm Name is sometimes given as Conover.
Peter4; born after 1666; born 1668; baptized Feb 27, 1669 at Dutch Reformed Church, N. Y. C., New York County, NY; married Mary (Unknown) after 1670; 1st marriage Mary; died 1705; his estate was probated Mar 21, 1704/5 at Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester County, NJ. He was also known as Peter Peterse Van Couwenhoven. He was also known as Peter Cownover. He was also known as Peter Covenover. He was also known as Petrus Van Kouwenhoven. On Nov. 29, 1695, he purchased 250 acres of land along Patconk Creek in Great Egg Harbor Twp. from Thomas Budd, merchant of Philadelphia, "under ye yearly quit rent of one ear of Indian Corne to be paid ye said Thomas Budd or hs heirs, if lawfully demanded." On jan 30, 1698, he bought an additional 150 acres there from Daniel Leeds. There is some confusion about the date of the will of Peter "Cownover" of Waymouth Township, Gloucester County, NJ. The date was either Nov 10, 1700 or Nov 30, 1702. The inventory of his estate was taken on Mar 17, 1704/05.
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Pieter Wolphertsen Van Couwenhoven - Aeltje Sybrant
Pieter Wolphertsen Van Couwenhoven
was born at of Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands 1614.
His parents were Wolfert Gerretson Van Couwenhoven and Neeltje Janse.
He married Aeltje Sybrant 22 Nov 1665 . Aeltje Sybrant was born at New York City, New York, New York Abt 1637 .
They were the parents of 1
child:
Peter Van Couwenhoven
born 27 Feb 1669.
Pieter Wolphertsen Van Couwenhoven died Abt 1675 at New York .