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The Largest Dutch Family in America
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Steven Coerts, the immigrant ancestor, arrived in New Netherlands in 1660.
Six months after his arrival he bought, in the village of New Amersfoort, a farm
from Cornelis Dircksen Hooglant.
Flatlands is the site of Long Island's first European settlement. Temporary
posts may have existed as early as 1624. Tracts of land conveyed from the
natives would later comprise portions of the Dutch town of Nieuw Amersfoort,
chartered in 1654. When the English captured New Netherlands in 1664, they soon
changed the town's name to Flatlands. For the next two centuries, Dutch was the
main language in the town, and the culture of Holland dominated nearly
every aspect of everyday life.
The History of the Town of Flatlands by Rev. Anson Dubois, D.D., 1884
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History of Flatlands
