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Steven Coerts VAN VOORHEES (1600-1683/84) to Julia Ann VOORHEES (1858-1941)
For Other Relatives Not In Direct Line See: Steven Coerts VAN VOORHEES (1600-1683/84) aka: Steven Koerten VAN VOORHEES Steven Coerten van Hees Steven Coerte VAN VOORHEES Steven Coerten Date and Place of Birth: 1600 - Hees, Drenthe, Netherlands Date and Place of Death: February 16, 1683 or 1684 at Flatbush, Kings County, New York Exact Parentage Uncertain, but Most Sources Say: Father: Coert Albertse VAN VOORHEES Mother: Mergin Hendrickj First Spouse: Aeltje Wessels (16??-1647?) Children: Coert Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1638-1699?) m. Marretje Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven (1644-1702?) Wessel VAN VOORHEES (1640-1641) Marchien Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1640-1702) m1. Roelof Oostinge m2. Remmelt Willemse Remained in the Netherlands Hendrickje Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1640?-????) m. Jan Kiers (????-1705) Hendrickje was the first of two daughters of Steven named Hendrickje. His youngest child from his second marriage was also Hendrickje. Second Spouse: Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge (1619-1690) Married: 1649 - Hees, Drenthe, Netherlands Children: Lucas Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1650?-1724?) m1. Catherine Hansen Van Noortstrand m2. Jannetje Minnes Note: Lucas was the ancestor of the Voorhees family of New Brunswick, New Jersey and surrounding communities. See Voorhees Line #2 Note that the Americanization of Willemtje's middle name, "Roelofs," is "Ralph" * Jan Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1652-1735) Albert Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1654-1727) m1. Helletje Reinier Wizzelpenning (????-1691?) Sister of Cornelia who married Albert's brother Jan m2. Elena Vander Schure (1667?-????) Albert and Elena had a son Peterus Albertse VAN VOORHEES who married Geesjean ROMEYN. They in turn had a daughter Magadalena who married Albert Hendrickse BANTA. There are living descendants of the SLAYBACK family who also trace their ancestry to the BANTA family. Aeltje Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1656-17??) m. Barent Jurjansen Ryder Jannetje Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1658-????) m. Jan Martense Schenck Hendrickje Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1660?-1692?) m. Albert Albertsz Terhuyne Hendrickje was Steven's second daughter named Hendrickje. His youngest child from his first marriage was also Hendrickje.Detailed Notes Concerning Family's Arrival in America In 1649, in their hometown - Hees, Drenthe, Netherlands - Coerts VAN VOORHEES married Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge. They immigrated with their family from Amsterdam in 1660 to New Amsterdam (New Amersfoort), Kings County, New York, sailing aboard the ship "De Bonte Koe" ["The Spotted Cow"] which departed from Amsterdam April 15, 1660. Captain Pieter Lucasz was master of the ship. Little is known about the ship itself, but, based upon the size of similar ships at the time, it was probably about 170 feet long and 49 feet wide. The family of Steven Coerts VAN VOORHEES and Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge who crossed the ocean with them in 1660 were, based upon most accounts: Steven 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 Flatbush (also known in New Netherlands as Midwout, founded in about 1651) with the house and a house plot in the village of Amersfoort en Bergen (Flatbush) with a brewery, grewing apparatus, kettle house, and casks with 3 appurtenances for 3,000 guilders on 29. Nov. 1660. He was appointed Magistrate in 1664. He and Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge were members of the DRC Flatbush, NY at Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, Kings County, New York, 1670. Many members of the Voorhees family continue to be active in the Dutch Reformed Church today. A commemorative marker in what is now Brooklyn reads: "Steven Coerten, born 1600, migrated with his family in 1660 for the manor of Voor-hees, Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands, to the village of Amesfoort, now Flatbush, Long Island, 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." With regard to the VOORHEES name, note that many names of families of Dutch origin in New York and New Jersey begin with "van", meaning "of" or "from", indicating the native place of the man from whom the family name is derived. The patronymic for daughters was formed regularly by adding to the father's name the letter " s," but often this was omitted and the daughter's surname was precisely that of the father's given name. The VOORHEES name was originally VAN VOORHEES, meaning "from before Hees," a village in the province of Drenthe, from whence the family came. Another way of expressing it would be "from the area before you get to the village of Hees," Hees, as indicated, being in the Province of Drenthe in the Netherlands. The "van," when associated with a location, ordinarily indicated some form of nobility, i.e., land owners who were quite well off financially. -------------------------------------------------------------- Jan Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1652-1735) aka: Jan Stevenson VAN VOORHEES Jan Stevensen van Hees Date and Place of Birth: 1652 - Hees, Drenthe, Netherlands Date and Place of Death: 1735 - Flatbush, Kings County, New York Father: Steven Coerts VAN VOORHEES (1600-1683/84) Mother: Willemtje Roelofs Seuberinge (1619-1690) Arrived 1660 from Amsterdam Aboard Ship "De Bonte Koe" ("The Spotted Cow") - See Above Spouse: Femmetje Aukes VAN NUYSE (1659/60-????) (Second Wife) Married: October 8, 1680 Children: Willemptje Jansen VAN VOORHEES (1683-????) m. Jacobus Wyckoff Jan VAN VOORHEES (1686-1771) m. Neeltje Nevius * Lucas VAN VOORHEES (1692-????) Albert VOORHEES (1691-1784) m. Ariaantje Jan Vandervoort Albert was the Great Great Great Grandfather of Catherine Estella LEIGH (1869-1959) (See Leigh Line #2) Jacobus VAN VOORHEES (1695/96-????) m. Marya (Unknown) First Wife of Jan Stevense VAN VOORHEES: Cornelia Reiniers Wizzelpenning (????-1680) Cornelia was the sister of Helletje who married Jan's brother Albert Child of Jan and Cornelia: Stephen VAN VOORHEES (????-????) m. Catrina Van Duyn -------------------------------------------------------------- Lucas VAN VOORHEES (1692-????) Date and Place of Birth: 1692 - Date and Place of Death: ???? Father: Jan Stevense VAN VOORHEES (1652-1735) Mother: Femmetje Aukes VAN NUYSE (1659/60-????) Spouse: Ida (Unknown) (1704-????) Married: 1724 Resided In: Children: * Abraham VOORHEES (1728-1801) John Voorhees (1725-????) m. Anna Garretson Sarah Voorhees (1730-1813) m. Christopher Hoagland -------------------------------------------------------------- Abraham VOORHEES (1728-1801) Date and Place of Birth: January 13, 1728 - Date and Place of Death: 1801 - Father: Lucas VAN VOORHEES (1692- ) Mother: Ida (Unknown) (1704-????) Spouse: Maria VOORHEES (1728-????) Granddaughter of Lucas Stevense VAN VOORHEES who was born about 1650 in Hees, Drenthe, Netherlands, the Brother of Jan, Arriving with Him and Parents on Ship in 1660 (See Above) Married: 1760 Resided In: Children: * Jaques A. VOORHEES (1765-1833) Minne VOORHEES (????-1809) m. Abigail Vanderveer Jacob A. VOORHEES (1762-1841) m. Lammetje Simonson Ellen VOORHEES (1770-1850) m.John Cortelyou Mary VOORHEES (1772-1834) aka Maria m.William Cortelyou First Wife of Abraham VOORHEES: Geertje LOTT (1732-bef 1761) Married 1732 - Children: Abraham VOORHEES (1735-1806) m. Willempte Wyckoff Lucas VOORHEES (1753-1812) m. Johannah Dumont Isaac VOORHEES (1755-1833) m. Jannetje Vanderveer -------------------------------------------------------------- Jaques A. VOORHEES (1765-1833) Date and Place of Birth: June 27, 1765 - Date and Place of Death: May 18, 1833 - Franklin Township, New Jersey Father: Abraham VOORHEES (1728-1801) Mother: Maria VOORHEES (1728-????) Spouse: Sarah WYCKOFF (1768-1839) Daughter of Simon WYCKOFF (1730-1802) aka Simon WIKOFF and Alche VAN DORN (1735-1828) Married: January 20, 1791 Resided In: Children: Simon VOORHEES (1791-1795) Maria VOORHEES (1792-1875) Simon VOORHEES (1795-1836) Abraham J. VOORHEES (1797-1859) * Peter J. VOORHEES (1799-1851) Letty V. D. VOORHEES (1802-????) Jaques S. VOORHEES (1805-1893) -------------------------------------------------------------- Peter J. VOORHEES (1799-1851) Date and Place of Birth: October 27, 1799 - Date and Place of Death: November 9, 1851 - Father: Jaques A. VOORHEES (1765-1833) Mother: Sarah WYCKOFF (1768-1839) Spouse: Cornelia BERRIEN (1797-1870) Married: June 8, 1822 Resided In: Children: John Berrien VOORHEES (1823-1888) Ancestor of the Wife of Charles Emmett VOORHEES (See Voorhees Line #3)) Jacques W. VOORHEES (1824- 1889) Ann S. VOORHEES (1829-????) Henry Van Dyke VOORHEES (1830-1885) Disbrow Bergen VOORHEES (1833-1918) {Twin Brother of Charles} * Charles Berrien VOORHEES (1833-1893) -------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Berrien VOORHEES (1833-1893) Also Often Listed As: Charles Bailey VOORHEES Date and Place of Birth: January 9, 1833 - Date and Place of Death: 1893 - Father: Peter J. VOORHEES (1799-1851) Mother: Cornelia BERRIEN (1797-1870) Spouse: Rachael Adeline VAN DYKE (1837-1894) {aka Adaline VAN DYKE} Daughter of Jeremiah VAN DYKE (1789-1860) and Anna Susan DRAKE (1797-1885) Married: December 9, 1857 Resided In: Children: * Julia Ann VOORHEES (1858-1941) Charles Emmett VOORHEES (1870-1911) -------------------------------------------------------------- Julia Ann VOORHEES (1858-1941) Date and Place of Birth: December 9, 1858 - Date and Place of Death: June 30, 1941 - Father: Charles Berrien VOORHEES (1833-1893) Mother: Rachael Adeline VAN DYKE (1837-1894) Brother of Charles Emmett VOORHEES (1870-1911) Spouse: Henry ("Harry") Welling BALDWIN (1859-1921) Married: April 7, 1880 Resided In: Children: Frank BALDWIN (1881-1959) Charles BALDWIN (1889-1946) |