Jan Pieterse Monfoort was baptized on 23 February 1647/48 at Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, New York County, New York. Jan Pieterse Monfoort was born on 23 February 1647/48. He was baptized after 23 February 1647/48 at Dutch Reformed Church, Wallabout, Kings County, New York. He was the son of
Pierre Montfort and
Sarah De Plancken. Jan Pieterse Monfoort was a farmer in 1678 at Flatlands, Kings County, New York. On 1680 alloted lot.
He married
Gertien Pieters Luyster, daughter of
Pieter Cornelise Luyster and
Aeltje Tyssen, before 1686; 1st marriage Jan, according to SpellTuis Bergen, in Early Settlers of Kings County, assumes that she became the wiofe of Jan Pieterse Montfort of Hempstead, LI, whose only marriage was to Ida Abraham Brinckerhoff, as recorded in the Flatbush Church May 17, 1687 and so entered in the original records as to show no previous marriage. On 3 June 1686 paid for wife's grave.
Jan Pieterse Monfoort He bought 50 acres in the west bounds of Jamaica, which he sold in 1705, and bought 200 acres at Great Neck, for £640. In 1686/87. He married
Ida Joris Brinckerhoff, daughter of
Abraham Jorise Brinckerhoff and
Aeltie Stryker, on 17 May 1687 at Dutch Reformed Church, Flatbush, Kings County, New York. Jan Pieterse Monfoort and
Ida Joris Brinckerhoff were engaged on 17 May 1687; 2nd marriage Jan. Jan Pieterse Monfoort resided at in 1707; The name of John Monfoort appears on the Hempstead records in 1707. He left a will on 29 August 1720
named his wife Ida, also a daughter Sarah who married Peter (Jan) Luyster.
He died in 1737 at Hempstead, Nassau County, New York. His estate was proved on 24 June 1745.