COVERT HOUSE 1410 Flushing Avenue

The house at 1410 Flushing Avenue is owned and occupied by two Polish brothers who cultivate its farm. It is on the land which was sold by Tunis and Mary TITUS to Johannis SCHENCK, 17 September 1711 and was probably part of the Nicholas WYCKOFF property for it was deeded to Peter WYCKOFF in 1814. It passed from the WYCKOFF family prior to 1864 but was sold to the last Peter Wyckoff of Bushwick 23 September 1867. The house was not standing in 1769 when the arbitration line between Bushwick and Newtown was laid, but it had been built hy 18 August 1795 when John COVERT, member of the Brooklyn Church, was living in it. John COVERT or COEVERT of Newtown married Rebecca, daughter of Mighiel STRYCKER of Flatbush. Either he or his son John on 24 September 1799, following the instructions in the Act for the Abolition of Slavery that was passed 29 March 1799, registered the negro child Dine, who was born to his slave Bett on 27 August 1799, and "abandoned" (freed) her. Later he registered Bett's other children. John COVERT Sr. had at least three sons: William, Michael S. and John. His father was Luke COVERT who died previous to 19 March 1778. Nothing is known about Luke except that he had two sons, Teunis and John, and a daughter Margaret and that his father was Teunis COVERT. Teunis COVERT, Luke's father, was baptized in the Dutch Church in New York 16 April 1693. He settled in Jamaica, Long Island, where he made his will 19 March 1778. He was the son of Jan COEVERT who signed his name Yan Teunise COEVERT. Jan or Yan married Jannetje BOKA (BRAGAW). He was a member of the Brooklyn Church in 1677 and 1685 and took the oath of allegiance in Brooklyn in 1687. In 1696 he bought land in Newtown to which he moved but later went to New Jersey where his will was probated 13 April 1723. . Teunis Jansz COEVERT was the father of Jan. He married Barbara Janse LUCAS and lived in New Amsterdam where they attended church prior to 1660. Later they moved to Brooklyn where he was an elder of its church and where he took the oath of allegiance in 1687. He emigrated from Heernstedt in North Holland in 1651. The name COEVERT (COVERT, COEVERS) may mean from Coevorden or Koevorde, a little fortified town in Drenthe. He died prior to 1700. His sons were : Jan, Teunis and Lucas. Next Chapter..WOODARD - SCHOONMAKER HOUSE DUTCH Houses..Index Main Return to TOWN Index Main Return to BROOKLYN Index Main