Descendants of Steven Coerte Koerets (Van) Voorhees

Sixth Generation


18. Koert G Voorhees (Garret , Koert , Steven Koerten (Van) , Garret Koeret (Coert) Steven (Van) , Steven Coerte Koerets (Van) ) was born on 14 Sep 1761 in Harlingen, New Jersey. He died on 21 Sep 1815.

Koert married Jane Hogeland. Jane was born in 1769.

They had the following children:

+ 21 M i John Voorhees was born on 3 Jan 1798. He died on 3 Oct 1873.

19. Roelof Voorhees (Garret , Koert , Steven Koerten (Van) , Garret Koeret (Coert) Steven (Van) , Steven Coerte Koerets (Van) ) was born on 11 Oct 1768. He died on 3 Feb 1847.

Roelof Voorhees b 10-11-1768 d 2-3- 1847 married Gertude Covert and later Anna A. Covert. He resided near Millstone, Somerset, NJ but moved to Ovid, Seneca, NY after his second marriage about 1801. His only child by Gertude, Tunis Voorhees bapt 9-4-1791, was born in Montgomery Township, Somerset Co, NJ.

Roelof married (1) Gertude Covert about 1791.

They had the following children:

  22 M i Tunis Voorhees was born on 4 Sep 1791 in Montgomery Township, Somerset Cty, NJ.

Tunis was a veteran of the War of 1812, serving in Captain Tunis Swick's company of the NY Militia: Survivor's Certificate number 7938. After he married Sarah Rosenkranz on 2-14-1820, he farmed in Ovid, Seneca Co then in Chenango County about 1833 until the death of his father- in-law Alexander when he moved 3 miles north of Havana, Shuyler, NY which is near Watkins Glen. He moved with his family in 1845 from Havana to a 160 acre farm in the NE quadrant of section 33, Burnett twp, Dodge Co, WI, one mile south of the Cliffords.
        Tunis married Sarah Rosenkranz on 14 Feb 1820.

Roelof married (2) Anna A Covert about 1801.

20. Garret Voorhees (Garret , Koert , Steven Koerten (Van) , Garret Koeret (Coert) Steven (Van) , Steven Coerte Koerets (Van) ) was born about 21 Sep 1759 in South Amboy Township, Middlesex, NJ. He died on 12 Jan 1830 in South Amboy Township, Middlesex, NJ.

Garret married Elizabeth Gordon on 19 Oct 1780 in Middlesex, New Jersey. Elizabeth was born in 1759. She died after 1 Apr 1799.

Indenture shows 1830 Garret Deceased, Elizabeth still living on 1 Apr 1799, page 275, probably Van Voorhees Family History.

Garret and Elizabeth had the following children:

+ 23 F i Anna Voorhees was born about 1793. She died in 1828.

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