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From: "Christopher H. Wynkoop" <>
Subject: Re: Will for Cornelis Willemse VAN KOUWENHOVEN?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 23:50:20 -0700


wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/1/99 1:33:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> << I was wondering if either of you have run across a will for Cornelis
> Willemse VAN KOUWENHOVEN and/or his wife Margrietje Roelofs SCHENCK?
>
> Cornelis Willemse VAN KOUWENHOVEN b. 29 Sep 1672 in Flatlands, NY,
> m. abt. 3 Sep 1700, Margrietje Roelofs SCHENCK, d. 16 May 1736 in 1733.

> Sorry that is the best I can do. And I have searched every inch of those
> Wills that Pat has been posting and did not find any Will of Cornelis or
> Margrietje. They very well may have been Wills, but were not recorded in
> Monmouth Co., NJ.
> Wayne
> Pleasant Valley, NJ.
>
> Margrietje Roelofs SCHENCK b. 16 Jan 1678, d. 16 Dec 1751.
>
> I'm still looking for some formal documentation for the marriage of
> Philip WYNKOOP and Margaret Covenhoven, m. March 9, 1735, presumably in
> Middletown, NJ.
>
> Hoping you folks can help.
> >>

> Chris the only reference I could find of Cornelis Willemse Van Kouwenhoven,
> was when he witnessed his son-in-law's Will. That was of Abraham Vandeventer
> >From page 101 of Unrecorded Wills and Inventories Monmouth County, New
> Jersey: "WILL of abram VAN DEVENTER, of Mon. Co., "being Sick and weak In
> Body." Dated Apr. 25, 1733. Proved by oath of Roelef Covenhoven and John
> Bowne, wits., that Jacob Vandeventer, the other wit., was present; before
> Lawrence Smyth, Surrogate, Dec. 11, 1733.
>
> Gives: "to my wife Alche Van Deventer by [?] browne horfe and all the
> Houfsill goods and things belonging to her before "her marrige to me to her
> owne proper ufe ...."; "the remainder of my Estate shall be Sold to the best
> advantage "and after .... Debts be paid .... the ufe of It to my wife During
> her widowhood for her maintainance "and the bringing up my Son Peter and
> after that to my son to him and his heirs ...."; "unto my wifes Doughter
> "Mary Van Dorn and my Son Peter all the Intrest money becoming Due to me from
> Crisyon Van Dorn Equally to be "Divided between them Never the lefs Subject
> to the Rest of my Estate for the ufe of my wife During her widow"hood...."
>
> Nominates "my father In Law Cornelius Cownover and my Brother Isack Van
> Deventer Executors ...."
>
> Wits.:
> Jacob Vandeventer A
> BRAHAM VANDEVENTER
> Rowliff Couenhoven
> John Bowne
>
> Oath of Executors, Cornelius Covenhoven and Isaac Vandeventer, before
> Lawrence Smyth, Surrogate, Dec. 11, 1733.
>
> "Recorded Lib. B., fo. 479."

Wayne,

Many thanks for the lookup. I think we may be getting closer. Mick
Burdge at NJMONMOU-L came up with the following information which seems
to dovetail very neatly into Cornelis Willemse VAN KOUWENHOVEN's date of
death in 1736:

New Jersey Index of Wills reports the following in Monmouth Co, NJ:

Covenhoven, Cornelius, 663-666M. B. C, p.107. W. 1736

Now if I can only find a copy of this will to see if my Margaret
Covenhoven and her husband Philip WYNKOOP are listed there. (This may
be my Wynkoop-Covenhoven Holy Grail.)

Thanks to both of you for your splendid help.

Best wishes,

Chris

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