Sixth Generation (Continued) Family of Abraham Buckalew (123) & Kate (Elizabeth ?) Binnum
326. Jane Buckalew.
Jane married Josiah Sharman.
327. John Buckalew. Born on 9 February 1756.
John married Caterine / Catrine Conover / Covenhoven, daughter of Garret Covenhoven & Neeltje Van Meter. Born on 26 June 1763.
Name may have been "Catherine."
She told her family that her grandmother was Kate Benham (Binnum?). Whether that was her mother's mother or her father's is not known.
The name Conover was originally a Dutch name that has had many spellings: Kowenhoven, Cowenhowen, Covenhoven, Cownowr, Conover, and others. The first immigrant of that family, and most likely Catrine's five time great-grandfather, was Wolphert Gerretsen Van Kouwenhoven who was born in the Province of Utrecht in the netherlands about 1585. He married Neeltje Jans in January 1605. In 1624 they and their children left the Netherlands and came to New Amsterdam, now New York City. In 1636 he acquired 3600 acres in what is now Brooklyn. He died there in 1662.
Wohlpert's son Gerret Wohlpertsen Van Kouwenhoven was born in the Netherlands about 1605. In 1635 in New Amsterdam he married Aeltje Kool. He died in 1645.
The son of Wohlpertsen, Willem Gerretsen Van Kouwenhoven was born in 1636. This man's second marriage was to Jannetje Pieters Monfort. They had a large family and many of the children moved to Monmouth in New Jersey about 1709: Pieter Willemse, 1671-1755 Cornelis Willemse, 1672-1736 Albert Willemse, 1676-1748 Jacob Willemse, 1679- Jan Willemse, 1681- William Willemse, 1686-1769
From one of the above was a son William and his son John was the father of Catrine.
According to a story passed down over the centuries, "Catie," as Catrine was called, hid the family's cows in the woods to protect them from Knyphauser's soldiers who fought with the British at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778. Her Grandfather William was an old man and hid in the milk house during the battle. In the book "The Battle of Monmouth" there is a picture of William Conover's house that sat on the western edge of Freehold near Freehold Road and Smithburg Road. The house was General Clinton's headquarters on June 26, 1778, Catie's birthday.
Cf. 1801, 4 Jul, Monmouth Co., NJ, Marriage: Allace Buckalew to Benjamin Conover by John Fountain, Minister of the Meth. Church. Wit. Samuel Pitney & John Morgen, Sr..