These are the notes I have under the name of his only son Jan Harmens Coerte

 

The following notes seem to have come from a combination of sources

 

 "Jan Coerte the only son of Harmen Coerten, was known in his early years as Jan Harmens, following the customs of the Dutch, but fortunately for this genealogy, in later years, following the English custom, he stuck to the family name of Coerten,but he and the two following generations spelled the name "Coert" or "Koerte". Jan Coerte, as we have seen, came to New Netherlands with his father, mother and four other children on the Ship "De Trouw" on th 12 Feb. 1659.  His age at that time was given as seventeen." The age should have been five according to and article in the NY Gen Biog Coll, 1925 under an  article written by Harold Randolph, p 267.
"The first mention of him by name is in the Records of New Amsterdam, Court Minutes, Vol. 4 pp 10, 17, 23, 67, and 87 where in an action brought in 1662 by Siex von der Stighelen Vs Jan Jansen the younger, there is a record of a note give to "Jan Corten or Johannes Cortten for 350 gilders."
"Other references to a Jan Harmensen are found in the Records of three other actions found in Records of New Amsterdam Court Minutes, Vol 5 p 332, and Vol 6 pp 210, 212, 218, 221, and 304. In Vol 2 Doc Hist. of NY p. 471, the list of his property liable to assessment is given: 20 Sept 1676 as follows:  Jan Coerten, Middlewout:  4 poll, 3 hogs and 95 Pounds."
"His marriage is recorded in NJ Archives Vol. 22, p. 538."

 

1671
 5 Feb 1671 (NJA-XXX-558).  In Guert's will he annuls testament made with his wife Geertje Jacobs Duenaers who he married on 15 Jan. 1657. because she had been unfaithful to him.  He, also, annuls testament of March 24, 1664.

 

"In his will he mentions Pieter Hesselse, the son of his sister;
Thomas Jurianses, oldest son of Ryckje Hermans (his niece);
Henricksen Smack, oldest son of Guertje Harmens, his brother's daughter Jan Harmensen, his brother's son;
and makes his universal heir his brother Harem Coerten."

 

Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. II 1730-1750. Part II
Appendix

 

Page: 558
Name: Guert Coerten
Date: 05 Feb 1671
Location: from Voorthuysen in Guelderlant, now living at Bergen

 

Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. II 1730-1750. Part II
Appendix

 

will of (in Dutch). Made before Claes Arentsen Toers, constable of Bergen. Annuls testament made with his wife Geertje Jacobs Dueunaers January 15, 1657, because she has been unfaithful; also testament of March 24, 1664; and names as legatees the son of his sister, Pieter Hesselse, brother Thomas Jurianses, oldest son Ryckje Harmens, Mathys Hendricksen Smack, oldest son of Guertje Harmens, his brother's daughter, Jan Harmensen, brother's son, Christyntje Claes, dau. of Claes Christiansen, universal heir brother Harmen Coerten.

 

   We next here of him in the neighborhood of Hackensack and Aquackenock, NJ where he probably located soon after the death of his uncle and father.  The records of the Hackensack Dutch Ref Church commence with the date of 1686.  Under the date 26 Jan 1686 they contain the entry of the baptism of Jan son of Jan Koerte and Neeltie Beus. (Holland Soc. Yearbook, Hackensack Records)."
"Jan Coerte died before 1696, as appears from the entry of the marriage of his widow, the record of which also appears in the record of the same church, as follows: married 25 March 1699 Diaque Vigoor, widower of Catryn Pisiaer and Neeltie Buys, widow of Jan Koerte. (Holland Soc Yearbook, Hackensack Records and NY Gen and Biol Rec. Vol 7 p. 134."
Children
The Hackensack DRC p 74 give the name of a child named Jan.
The Bergen records p 155, 235 give the names of two girls with the name Aertje. 

 

Greener states the names of children as Jan, Harme and Guert.

The NY Geol and Biog Coll, July, 1977 p 157 lists him as one of the people requesting a minister for the Township of Acquackanonk and New Barbadoes, Essex County, NJ on 14 March 1693.

 

Jan Harmens Courter had two sons including the following Jan Courter. 

 

Notes and Sources - 22 Dec 2001

Jan Coerte
Birth1: At Hackensack, Jan Koerte bp Jan 1686, parents Jan Koerte and Nelltie Beus, witnesses at the baptisms were Cornelis and Hendriktie Verwery.

 

1711

 

NJ Colonial Documents, Hackensack Church Records, p. 491
8 Apr 1811, at Hackensack, Jan Koerte, ym, and Marytie Ariaense, yd, both b & l Ackuuiggenonck

 

1712  His son, Johannis, is born.
1714  His son, Hendrick, is born.
1716  His daughter, Neeltje, is born.
1718  His son, Peter, is born.

 

1719

 

Joseph Kirkbride of Bucks County, Pa and John Job of Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ sold
1250 acres of land to John Koarta
The lands were west of Pompton Plains eastward to the Bog Valley.
This land adjoined the 1,000 acre tract on which present day Boonton lies.
"Alex Fowler's book on Morris County houses, describes the tract as running from present day Montville toward present-day Lake Valhalla and east from there toward Changebridge Rd."
This land was purchased by Kirkbride and Job from the West Jersey Proprietors in 1715.

 

1720  His son, Harmanus, is born.

 

1722  John Koarta sold 288 acres to Jacob Demounth in the Rockaway Valley.
His son, Ayre, is born.

 

1726/7  He was appointed overseer of the Highways in Hanover.  Hanover covered a large area that was known as Hunterdon County.  This area included Pequanock.

 

SOURCES
1.  Greener, J. H, The Courter Family Manuscript, written 1911-1917. p 95-96.
2.  Ibid.  p 95-96.
3.  Hackensack Baptisms; "Tryntie Jacobs and her Four Husbands," NYG&B Record, July, 1925 p 269;
Bergen Baptisms; Bergen Marriages;
Flatbush Dutch Church Records in Holland Society Yearbook, 1898, p 91.
4.  Munsell, W. W., History of Morris County, NJ, 1739-1882.

 

and Harme Coerte

 

1715  He was a sponsor of a child at the Hackensack Dutch Ref Church on 8 Jan 1715.  The child's name is Trinte, daughter of Jan Van Scuyven and Geertie Marus.  Witnesses were Harme Koerten and Trintie, his wife.
1744  His wife died 10 Aug 1744. (Holland Soc. Yearbook for 1899)
1749  In the Minutes of Common Council, NYC Vol 5, p 280 there is an entry of a resolution on 23 Nov 1749, directing payment to Harme Courten of Four Pounds for two boat loads of stone containing eight cartloads, delivered at the ferry for the use of the corporation.
Information on his death is recorded in the NY Dutch Ref Church. (Holland Society Year Book for 1890).

 

From these two sons all Courters descend but the only way to prove this is thru dna test of male Courter line.

 

Judy Ullman