Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NamePieter Wolfertse Van Cowenhoven
BirthNetherlands
MotherNeeltje Jans (~1581-)
Misc. Notes
Marr 2 Dec 1640 Hester Symons Daws, wid of Jacques de Vernus
Marr 22 Nov 1655 Aeltje Sibrants. "Kings County, etc.". "Pieter Wolfertse, emigrated with his father; a boy in 1630; m. etc. .....Was a brewer in N.A., residing on Pearl St., and schopen in 1650, '54, '58, '59, '60, 'and '61, and a member of the R.D. Church of that place. In 1655 he was Surveyor-Gen. of the colony, and from 1655 to 1660 Orphan Master. After the conquest in 1664 he removed to his farm at Elizabethtown, NJ and on the reconquest in 1673 he moved back to the city. In 1663, as a lieut., he was engaged in the Indian war as Esopus. Issue:...., his descendants residing in Gloucester Co., NJ; will dated Sept 9, 1700, pro. March 1704. Signed his name 'Pieter Wolfertsen' and Pieter Couwenhoven'".
Spouses
BirthAmsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Misc. Notes
Hester Symons Daws of Amsterdam, widow of Jacques de Vernus. (Kings County, p. 80.)
Marriage2 Dec 1640, New York
ChildrenAltie (~1640-)
 Hester (~1644-)
Marriage22 Nov 1655, New York
ChildrenCornelius Petrus (1669-1700)
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