File:Steven Coerte van Voorhees (1600-1684) biography in Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, page 75.png

Steven Coerte van Voorhees was born about 1600, in or near Hees, Holland, and died at Flatlands, Long Island, February 16, 1684. In April, 1660, he emigrated from Hees, which was in the province of Drenthe, Holland, in the ship "Bonte Cou" or "Spotted Cow," Captain Pieter Lucassen, master, with his wife and all of his children except his daughters Hendrickjen and Merghin. November 29, 1660, he purchased of Cornelius Dircksen Hoogland nine morgens of cornland, seven morgens of woodland, ten morgens of plainland, and five morgens of salt meadows, in Flatlands, for 3000 guilders, and also a house and house plot in "Amesfoort en Bergen (i. e., Flatlands) with the brewery and all the brewing apparatus, kettle house and casks with the appurtenances thereof as per page 37, Liber B of the Flatlands Records." In 1677 he and his second wife were members of the Dutch Reformed church in Flatlands, in 1675 and in 1683 his name is on the assessment rolls of the town, in 1667 on a patent, and in 1664 he was one of the magistrates. His will is dated August 25, 1677. By his first wife, whose name is unfortunately lost, he had ten children, all born in Holland:

• 01. Hendrickjen Stevense van Voorhees, married Jan Kiers and emigrated to America several years later than her father.
• 02. Merghin Stevense van Voorhees, died October 28, 1702; married (first) a Roelofsen and (second) Remmelt Willemse and also came after her father to America.
• 03. Coert Stevense van Voorhees, born 1637, died after 1702; married before 1664 Marytje Gerritse van Couwenhoven, the daughter of Gerrit Wolfertse van Couwenhoven.
• 04. Lucas Stevense van Voorhees, referred to below.
• 05. Jan Stevense van Voorhees, born 1652, whose will was probated November 20, 1735; married (first) March 17, 1678, Cornelia Reiniers Wizzelpenning; married (second) October 8, 1680, Femmentje Auke van Nuyse, who was baptized March 12, 1662.
• 06. Albert Stevense van Voorhees, of Flatlands and Hackensack, New Jersey, who married (first) Barentje Willemse, and (second) Tilletje Reiniers Wizzelpenning.
• 07. Altje Stevense van Voorhees, born 1656, married, 1673, Barent Jurianz Ryder.
• 08. Jannetje Stevense van Voorhees, married (first) Jan Martense Schenck, who died 1689, and married (second) February 29, 1690, Alexander Sympson.
• 09. Hendrickje Stevense van Voorhees, married (first) Jan Kiersted, and (second) Albert Albertse Terhune, of Flatlands and Hackensack, New Jersey, who was baptized August 13, 1651, and whose will was proved February 3, 1704.
• 10. Abraham Stevense van Voorhees of Flatbush and Princeton, New Jersey, who married Janette Kershaw.

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