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- "Annetje, (Ann) the eighth child of above named parents, was baptized December 30, 1711, married 1732, William, son of Jacob Couwenhoven and Saartje Schenck, his wife. Their names appear as communicants on records of the Dutch church in 1741 as follows: "Wilm Couwenhoven and Antje Hendrikze, his wife." They had three children, viz: Saartje (Sarah) born in 1733, married Jacob, (born 1730) son of William Wyckoff and Agnes VanDorn, his wife. Their license was granted January 7, 1754. She died August 25, 1796, and her husband March 5, 1812, according to their headstones in Tennent church yard. Daniel, baptized March 30, 1737, married August 23, 1757, Helena, daughter of George Taylor, and died December 26, 1808, according to inscription on his tombstone in Lippet and Taylor burying ground on the old Daniel J. Hendrickson farm, now owned by the Morfords at east end of Middletown village. An old Bible with name of "Rebecca Covenhoven" written on front leaf, as owner, contains the following family record: "Daniel Covenhoven, born January 27, 1737, Helena Covenhoven, his wife, was born February 10, 1737, married August 23, 1757. Anne Covenhoven, their daughter, was born July 9, 1758, about nine o'clock in the forenoon. Rebecka Covenhoven, born March 27, 1761, about five o'clock in the afternoon. William Covenhoven, born April 7, 1763, about five o'clock in the morning. George Covenhoven, born December 13, 1767, about three o'clock in the afternoon. Daniel G. Conover and Sarah Ann Cooper were married December 16, 1818." Jacob, third child, was baptized October 14, 1739; no other record. William Conover, as name is now spelled, the father of above three children, died intestate in 1742, Letters of administration on his estate were granted October 17, 1742, to his widow, Ann, his brother Ruliph, and his brother-in-law, William Hendrickson. The widow, however, did not remain long in mourning for she married March 17, 1744, William Couwenhoven, (born July 20, 1700; died November 10, 1755) son of Cornelius Couwenhoven and Margaret Schenck, his wife, of Pleasant Valley. He, too, had lost his first wife, Jannetje Wyckoff and buried her by his father in the Schenck-Couwenhoven cemetery. By this second marriage there were two children, a son and daughter, viz: Cornelius, born February 11, baptized April 7, 1746; married January 13, 1767, Mary (born December 6, 1740, died January 3, 1860), daughter of Hendrick Hendrickson and Neeltje Schenck, his wife and heretofore mentioned. He died October 10, 1806, aged 60 years, 7 months, 27 days, according to his headstone in Schenck-Couwenhoven yard. This will is recorded in Book A of Wills at Freehold. By Mary Hendrickson he had following four children: Anne, baptized December 6, 1767 ; married October 13, 1785, Abram VanHorne. Nelly, baptized February 24, 1771 ; married December 14, 1790, Cornelius VanHorne. Lydia, baptized December 20, 1778 ; married January 22, 1807, Daniel Polhemus of Middlesex county, N. J. William Hendrick, baptized June 2, 1782, ied unmarried September 26, 1805, and is buried by his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather in Schenck-Couwenhoven yard. Catharine, the only daughter, was baptized April 16, 1749; married January 15, 1767, Nicholas VanBrunt, son of Nicholas VanBrunt and Geesye Hendrickson, his wife, whose names appear as communicants in records of the Dutch church in 1731. This Geesye Hendrickson was a sister of Daniel and William Hendrickson, the pioneer settlers. Nicholas VanBrunt was Sheriff of Monmouth county in 1778. He removed all the prisoners in our county jail to Morris county before the British army reached Freehold in June, 1778. He and Colonel Daniel Hendrickson were deputies to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey from Shrewsbury township in 1775. He was an active and zealous patriot during the Revolution and a Captain in the militia. By Catharine Couwenhoven, his wife, he had following children: Cornelius, baptized July 23, 1769. Nicholas, baptized August 4, 1771. Antje, baptized May 8, 1774. Mary, baptized June 25, 1775. Hendrick, baptized April 5, 1778. Daniel Covenhoven, baptized April 30, 1780; died young. Sarah Wyckoff, baptized September 28, 1781. Daniel Conover, baptized November 18, 1787. Sheriff Nicholas VanBrunt, a few years after the close of the Revolutionary War, sold his farm near Tinton Falls to Col. Daniel Hendrickson and removed with his family to Cherry Valley, New York, where he lived the rest of his life." Beeckman, George C., Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, Morrau Bros. Publishers Freehold NJ 1901, p.138-139, US/CAN 974.946 D2b.
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Descendants of Hendrick Willemsz
1711 - 1806 (~ 94 years)
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