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Coert "Coerte" Alberts aka van Voorhees, Van Voorhees, te Voorhees.

  • When Albert Coertse Van Voorhees was born on 1 August 1716, in Flatlands, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Coert Stevense Van.
  • 1702 (aged 64–65).
  • Biography.
  • Hilbert Coerte van Voorhees, born in 1634, was twice married, and had by his first wife two sons and one daughter, and by his second wife five.

    • 1702 (aged 64–65)..

    Coert van Voorhees

    Dutch migrant to New Amsterdam (1637–1702)

    In this Dutch name, the surname is van Voorhees, not Voorhees. Stevense means child of Steven.

    Coert Stevense van Voorhees (1637–1702), a settler of New Netherland is remembered today as progenitor of numerous American families,[1] and as an early settler of Brooklyn.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

    Early life

    He was born around April 1637 in Hees, near Ruinen, Drenthe, Netherlands,[4] the son of Steven van Voorhees[8] and Aeltje Wessels.

    Van Voorhees arrived in New Amsterdam when he was 22 years of age sailing on the de Bonte Koe in 1660.

    Career

    He was a member and deacon of the Dutch Reformed Church in Flatlands in 1677 and captain of the militia in 1689, as well as representative of Flatlands in the Assembly held at city hall in New Amsterdam on 10 April 1664.[9][10]

    He took his oath of allegiance in S