Ancestor #263. Pieter Wolfertsen (also Wolphertsen) van Couwenhoven. Brewer. July 11, prior to 1658. Brewer Pieter Wolfertsen van Couwenhoven almost made history. As one of the first schepens in the newly incorporated municipality of New Amsterdam, he and two others were called upon to arrange for the security of the city. But the contract they offered to build a wall at the northern end of the city was priced so low that it attracted no bids. So the Council took over, conscripting “the citizens without exception” to dig a ditch five feet deep and 12 feet wide, and build the wall that lent Wall Street its name. 

(Stokes, V.2)

(descendants from Gerrit)
(descendants from brother) (house and brewhouse)