The Kaufmann Family:Information about Steven Coerte Van VOORHEES
Steven Coerte Van VOORHEES (b. Abt. 1600, d. Feb 16, 1684)
Notes for Steven Coerte Van VOORHEES:A commemorative marker in what is now Brooklyn reads:
"Steven Coerten, born 1600, migrated with his family in 1660 from the manor of Voor-hees, Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands, to the village of Amesfoort, now Flatlands, Kings Co., NY, and settled near this site. He served his church as Deacon and Elder, and the comunity as a magistrate, patentee in the Nicills Charter of 1667."
Steven Coerts Van VOORHEES and Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge immigrated in 1660 to Amersfoort, New Amsterdam. They sailed aboard the ship "De Bonte Koe"[The Spotted Cow] Capt. Pieter Lucasz, from Amsterdam Apr 15 1660.
Steven Coerts Van VOORHEES purchased from Cornelis Dicken Hoogland nine morgens of corn land, 7 morgens of woodland, 10 morgen of plain land, and 5 morgens of salt meadow in Flatlands with the house and a house plot in the village of Amersfoort en Bergen (Flatlands) with a brewery, grewing apparatus, kettle house, and casks with 3 appurtenances for 3,000 guilders on November 29, 1660.
Steven Coerts Van VOORHEES was appointed Magistrate in 1664. Steven Coerts Van VOORHEES and Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, Kings Co., NY, 1670.He served his church as Deacon and Elder.He was a patentee in the Nicills Charter of 1667."
Steven was apparently a man with some means as he was able to provide for his family for several months before purchasing several acres of land in the village of Amersfoort in New Amsterdam. He also purchased all of the equipment needed to start a brewing business. He was a respected member of the community entering into the civic and religious affairs. Several tracts of land were passed to his heirs when he died 16 Feb 1684. He left will dated 25 Aug 1677
From Bergen's Register, p.380:
"Stephen Coerte, the common ancestor of the VOORHEES family in this country, emigrated in 1660 with his wife and 7 children from Ruine in DRenthe, and from in front of the hamlet of Hees near said locality, hence the name, settled in Flatlands; b: 1600; m 1st in Europe (wife unknown); m 2d in 1677, Willempie Roelofse Seubring; d. about Feb 16, 1684.FINISH THE REST OF THIS
A commemorative marker in what is now Brooklyn reads:
"Steven Coerten, born 1600, migrated with his family in 1660 from the manor of Voor-hees, Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands, to the village of Amersfoort, now Flatlands, Kings Co., NY, and settled near this site. He served his church as Deacon and Elder, and the community as a magistrate, patentee in the Nicills Charter of 1667."
Steven Coerts Van VOORHEES and Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge immigrated in 1660 to Amersfoort, New Amsterdam. They sailed aboard the ship "De Bonte Koe"[The Spotted Cow] Capt. Pieter Lucasz, from Amsterdam Apr 15 1660.
Steven Coerts Van VOORHEES purchased from Cornelis Dicken Hoogland nine morgens of corn land, 7 morgens of woodland, 10 morgen of plain land, and 5 morgens of salt meadow in Flatlands with the house and a house plot in the village of Amersfoort en Bergen (Flatlands) with a brewery, brewing apparatus, kettle house, and casks with 3 appurtenances for 3,000 guilders on November 29, 1660.
Steven Coerts Van VOORHEES was appointed Magistrate in 1664. Steven Coerts Van VOORHEES and Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, Kings Co., NY, 1670.He served his church as Deacon and Elder.He was a patentee in the Nicills Charter of 1667."
Steven was apparently a man with some means as he was able to provide for his family for several months before purchasing several acres of land in the village of Amersfoort in New Amsterdam. He also purchased all of the equipment needed to start a brewing business. He was a respected member of the community entering into the civic and religious affairs. Several tracts of land were passed to his heirs when he died 16 Feb 1684. He left will dated 25 Aug 1677
From the History of the Eldert Name.(pages 664-670) Families of Historic Lineage,1889.
"Stephen Coerte Van Vorhies, eldest son of Coert Albertse, of "Voor Hies", was born in the family homestead in front of Hies, in 1600.He married and had fifteen children, born in Hies.With his wife and fourteen of his children he emigrated to the New Netherlandss in 1660 as passengers on board the ship "Bontekoe" (Spotted Cow), Pieter Lucassen, Captain.They landed in New Amsterdam and settled at Flatlands, Nassau Island, where on November 29, 1660, he purchased from Cornelis Dircksen Hoogland an estate including nine morgens of uncultivated land, seven morgens of woodland, ten morgens of plain land, and fifteen morgens of salt meadow, and thirty-one morgens of cultivated land, paying for the same three thousand guilders.Like most of the early Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam, this family had no proper surname, and it adopted the name from the locality from which they emigrated, and thus the American family name of Voorhies came into existence.He was a magistrate as early as 1664, and a patentee of lands in 1667.His name appears on the assessment rolls of Flatlands in 1675 and 1683.His will is dated 25 August 1677.In 1675 he signed his name as Steven Koers.Died in Flatlands, Kings Co., NY, February 16, 1684.Married Willemtje Roeloffse, born Drenthe, 1619, died 1690.Issue, all in The Netherlands, no record of two children."
More About Steven Coerte Van VOORHEES:
Emigration: Apr 15, 1660, From Amsterdam Aboard "De Bronte Koe, " Captain Pieter Lucasz Master.305, 306
Relationship: Tenth Great Grandfather of AD Kaufmann.
Religion: 1677, Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands.307
Will Dated: Aug 25, 1677308
More About Steven Coerte Van VOORHEES and Willempie Roeloffse SEUBRING:
Marriage 1: 1649, Hess, Drente, The Netherlands.
Marriage 2: 1648, Netherlands.
Marriage 3: Abt. 1649, Flatlands, Kings Co., NY.309, 310
Record Change: Dec 16, 2000
Children of Steven Coerte Van VOORHEES and Willempie Roeloffse SEUBRING are:
- +Lucas Stevense Van VOORHEES, b. 1650, Hies, Drenthe, The Netherlands311, 312, d. Aft. Dec 28, 1724313.