12. Steven Koerten (Van) Voorhees (Garret Koeret (Coert) Steven (Van) , Steven Coerte Koerets (Van) ) was born about 1667 in Flatlands, Long Island, New York. He died on 16 Feb 1723/1724 in Gravesend, Long Island, New York.
Mr Voorhees was closely associated with the well known American Revoluntionary, Jacob Leisler.
Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion that came to bear his name, Jacob Leisler was one of late seventeenth-century New York's most prominent merchants, land developers, and foremost exponent of Reformed religious fundamentalism and Orangist political ideology. He was intimately bound to the social, economic, and political development of New Netherland and New York from 1659, when he was employed as a nineteen-year-old in the Dutch West India Company's Amsterdam office, until his execution for treason in New York City in May 1691.
In the New World, Leisler catapulted to fame in 1689 when, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution, he assumed the role of King William III's governor of New York. He thereupon implemented a program based on direct popular representation that had, as contemporaries noted, wide impact from the Chesapeake to New England.
The following year he called for and hosted English America's first intercolonial congress and organized the first intercolonial military action independent of British authority. Leisler's administration of New York split the province into two distinct camps that were closely aligned with the Regent and Orangist factions in the United Provinces and the Whig and Tory factions in England, the legacy of which, according to some historians, is America's unique two-party system.
Other historians see in Leisler's assumption of the New York government a forerunner of the American Revolution.
Steven married Eva Janse Van Dyck daughter of Jan Jans Van Dyck and Teuntje Thyse Van Pelt.
They had the following children:
+ 14 M i Koert Voorhees was born on 15 Nov 1694. He died on 24 Jul 1750.
13. Karret Coert (Van) Voorhees (Garret Koeret (Coert) Steven (Van) , Steven Coerte Koerets (Van) ) was born about 1669 in Flatlands, Kings, NY. He died on 23 Sep 1704 in Flatlands, Kings, NY.
Book Van Voorhees Family, Vol 1, by Albert Stokes Genealogist Pub 1984, pg 62-63, shows marriage of Garret and Willemptie Pieters. # 101 Pg 97
Karret married Willemptie Pieters (Luyster) on 26 Apr 1685 in Amersfort, Long Island, NY. Willemptie was born about 1670 in Flatlands, Kings, NY.
They had the following children:
+ 15 M i Stephen Voorhees was born in 1687/1694. He died on 20 Jan 1756.