Isabella Cowenhoven was also known as Isabel Crownover. She was also known as Isabella Covenhoven. Isabella Cowenhoven was born on 11. Sep. 1767 at Monmouth County, New Jersey. She was the daughter of
Albert Covenhoven and
Sarah Wyckoff. Isabella Cowenhoven married
William Wyckoff, son of
Peter Wyckoff and
Jane Cornell, on 17. Jan. 1786 at Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Isabella Cowenhoven died on 15. Oct. 1837 at Hopewell Twp., Ontario County, New York, at age 70. Last name could be spelled Conover or Couvenhoven or Crownover Also See Records Conover Family Association Otzinachson: A History of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna: Its first Settlement, Privations Endured by the Early Pioneers, Indian Wars, Predatory Incursions, Abductions and Massacres, Together with an Account of the Fair Play System; and the Trying Scenes of the Big Runaway; by J. F. Meginness, (John of Lancaster) 1889 Edition (reprinted in 1991; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore 1991 Page 538: "The original form of this name was Kouwenhoven. A branch of the family in New
Brunswick, N.J., still write their names Cowenhoven. Colloquially, the "Jersey Dutch" were in the habit of changing final "n" to "r", and pronouncing the word Kou-wen-ho-ver, with the accent on the first, syllable. from this, the transition was easy to Cownover, which in Pennsylvania became Crownover, and in New Jersey, Conover, the form now used almost universally in that state. All the branches of this family are descended from Wolfert Gerrisse Van Kouwenhoven, who immigrated to the New Netherlands in 1630. His son, Gerrit, was known as Gerrit Wolfertsen, and his son, William, as William Gerritsen. They all lived on Long Island, in the state of New York. William Gerritsen had six sons; William, Peter, Cornelius, Albert, Jacob and John. These all removed to Monmouth County, N. J., except William, whose sons, however, followed their uncles thither; and thence Robert Covenhoven's father came to the West Branch, bringing with him at least his three sons above mentioned, and his daughter, Isabella." In the records of William Wickoff's Bible: "Isabella Conover Wickoff, wife of William Wickoff, Departed this Life on the 15 th of October A.D. 1837 aged 70 years one month. His Bible was in the possession of Mrs. Ida Carter, of Canandaigua, New York, who is a descendant of William and Isabella Wyckoff. This Bible is large, very much worn, and on the fly leaf is inscribed in William Wyckoff handwriting (I have a letter written by him for comparison --Mrs. Florence Spencer Whelan Tecumseh, Mich.) "William Wickoff's Bible. Bought in Canandaigua in 1813. Price six dollars. History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 1892, Meginness P. June 17, 1786 Isabella, married William Wychoff. Isabella, was then nineteen years of age. William was nearly twenty-five. They settled near Canandaigua, New York, on land whose value he had learned during his six months' membership of th Seneca family. There he died April 2, 1847, and there his descendants still live.