Early Harsen Family Ties: Woffert Gerritze Van Kouwenhoven aka Couwenhoven
Nearly twenty-five years before Gerrit Graveraet’s great grandfather, Isaac Graveraet, came to Manhattan Island (aka New Amsterdam/New Netherland) as a “free trader”, Jacob Harsen’s 3rd great grandfather, Wolfert Gerritze Van Kouwenhoven, aka Couwenhoven[2], stepped foot upon the soil of this New World [3]
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