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Steven Van Voorhees : ウィキペディア英語版 | Steven Van Voorhees
Steven Van Voorhees (1600 – 16 February 1684) was an early Dutch settler and the patriarch of the Voorhees family line and namesakes. In 1664, he was a magistrate〔''The Daughters'', pg. 100.〕 and founder of the Dutch Reformed Church in present day Flatlands, Brooklyn. ==Early life== Steven Van Voorhees was born in 1600 in Hees, a village in Drenthe, The Netherlands.〔Aitken, pg. 103.〕 He was the son of Coert Alberts Van Voorhees, of Hees,〔 and the eldest of seven children.〔Baughman, pg. 553.〕 He married his first wife circa 1645.〔''Van Voorhees Association'', pg. 1.〕 Van Voorhees left the Netherlands in April, 1660,〔Lewis, pg. 209.〕 along with his wife and eight of his ten children. Records indicate that the family emigrated the Netherlands on either the ship "Borelekre," or translated, the "Spotted Cone,"〔 or the "Bonte Koe," which means the "Spotted Cow."〔 The two children, both daughters,〔 who stayed behind would later come to America.〔 Some sources indicate that the name of his first wive is unknown,〔Beers, pg. 878.〕 though others have specified that it was Aaltjen Wessels,〔 who died circa 1675.〔Harvey, pg. 83.〕 The name "Voorhees" is the anglicised form of "van voor Hees" which means "before" or "in front of" Hees,〔Aitken, pg. 104.〕 a small village a quarter or a mile south of Ruinen of about nine houses and fifty inhabitants.〔Lee, pg. 244.〕 Steven Van Voorhees' paternal grandfather Coert van voor Hees resided near the front of the village of Hees.〔〔Baughman, pg. 550.〕
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