Steven Coerte Van Voorhees, born 1599 or 1600, at Hees, Drenthe, Netherlands; married first Aeltjen Wessels circa 1625; married second Willempie Roelofse Seubering from Zwiggelte, Drenthe, daughter of Roelof Seubering, circa 1649; died Feb. 16, 1684 at Flatlands, Kings Co., NY. [D.J. Wijmer ("Steven Coerts, His Family and His Dutch Background," in Through a Dutch Door, 20-23) thinks he is probably a son of Coert Alberts te Voorhees (d. ca. 1620), grandson of Albert Coerts (d. 1581), and great-grandson of Coert to Heess (d. 1544) and his wife Gese (d. 1537). See also Elias W. Van Voorhis, A Genealogy of the Van Voorhees Family in America, pg. 10; and Albert L. Stokes, The Van Voorhees Family, pg. 45. A biography of Steven Coert by Daniel Voorhis Grinnell can be found in "de Halve Maen," April-July 1966.]
