Helena CORTELYOU

Abt 1666 - Aft 1726  (> 60 years)

• Name	Helena CORTELYOU
  Birth	Abt 1666	Najack, New Utrecht, Kings, Yorkshire, New York   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 27 Oct 1726	Middletown Point, Monmouth, New Jersey   [2]
  Person ID	I50	HHDHA
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2013

  
  

  Marriage	12 Apr 1685	New Utrecht, Kings, New York, USA
  Children	1. Tunis DENISE,   b. 1 Jun 1704, Brooklyn, Kings, New York d. 17 Dec 1797, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 93 years)
  Family ID	F33	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Hendrick HENDRICKSON,   b. Abt 1674, New Albany, Albany, New York d. Bef 3 Jun 1734, Middletown Point, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA (Age < 60 years)
  Marriage	Abt 4 Apr 1708	Flatbush Dutch Reformed Ch., Midwout, Kings, Long Island, NY
  Family ID	F31	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S19] Cortelyou, John Van Zandt, The Cortelyou Genealogy, (Brown Printing Service Lincoln Nebraska 1942.), Jaques the First, pp. 16-22., FHL US/CAN Film 897113 It. 1. And so Jaques launched the New Utrecht settlement, running the lines necssary to lay out the tract in lots, and for his own home choosing the Najack location, with the house on the bluff that commanded a sweeping view across the Narrows to Staten Island and over the Lower Bay to the Navesink Highlands, Sandy Hook and the open gateway to the Atlantic. [S20] Internet History and Family History sites., http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofo00bangiala/reminiscencesofo00bangiala_djvu.tx. Reminiscences of old New Utrecht and Gowanus p.39. April 4th, 1708. Helena Hendrickson writes a paper in which she states that her son Jacques Denyse and her son-in-law, Hendrick Van Louwres, shall take the administration of her personal estate which properly belonged to her, pursuant to the agreement made between her and her then husband, Hendrick Hendrickson. She decrees that all her children shall have equal portion, also her son Nicholas Van Brunt, deceased, whose heirs shall have one equal share of her personal estate. Signed the 27th day of October, 1726. By HELENA HENDRICKSON, her mark H. (This is Helena, daughter of Jacques Corteljau, who married first, Nicholas Van Brunt ; second, Denyse Denyse ; third, Hendrick Hendrickson.) By Mrs. Bleecker Bangs.