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COERT ALBERTS of Voor-Hees who resided in front of the village of Hees near the town of Ruinen, Province of Drenthe, in the Netherlands. The name is derived from voor, before or in front of, and Hees, the village above mentioned.
STEVEN COERTE VAN VOOR HEES of Voor Hees, Drenthe, Holland; b. there I600; d. 6th February, 1684, at Flat Lands, Long Island; emigrated from Holland in April, i66o, in the ship Bontekoe ("Spotted Cow") with his wife and children; pur- chased a farm at Flat Lands, 29th November, 1660; was a Magistrate of Flat Lands in 1604, and on a patent, 1607; m. (orstly) in Holland, name unknown; m. (secondly) on Long Island, Willempie Roelofise SEUBERING, 6. I619, d. 16go, dau. of Reolof SEUBERING.

Steven Coerten emigrated from before the village of Hees in the province of Drenthe, Holland, in April, 1660, in the ship "Bonte Koe" (Spotted Cow), Captain Pieter Lucassen, with his wife and all his children except his two daughters, Hendrickjen and Merghin. He purchased, November 29, 1660, from Cornelis Dircksen Hoogland, "9 *morgens of cornland, 7 morgens of woodland, 10 morgens of plainland and 5 morgens of salt meadow," in the Flatlands of Long Island, for three thousand guilders. Also the house and house plot lying in the village of "Amersfoort in Bergen" (Flatlands), with the brewery and all the brewing apparatus, kettle house and casks, with the appurtenances, as per page 37 of Liber B of Flatbush records. He married, in Holland, Aaltjen Wessels who was the mother of four his children. He married (second), abt.1649 in the Netherlands Willempie Roelofse Seubering.
In Oct. 1667 Steven with others, patented the town of Flatlands. He was appointed magistrate and he and his wife were members of the church in Flatbush in 1677. His name appears as magistrate in 1664. His will is dated August 25, 1677.