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In the family of Pieter Janse and Femmetje Hermanse who appear to have come from an area of Holland called Haughwout (or other similar spellings, they had two son who were named using the traditional Dutch Patroym convention, thus the sons were Leffert Pieterse and Pieter Pieterse. Leffert Pieterse' children then were know as Jan Lefferts, Pieter Lefferts, etc. In this line the Patronym became in one more generation the surname Lefferts. In the family of Pieter Pieterse one would have expected this family to use the Patronym also and become e.g Jan Pieterse ( becoming in English Pietersen) but for the most part this did not happen. This branch of the family adopted the the locality place name of Houghwout which may have mean't in one interpretation hedgewood as the surname. Pieter Janse and Femmetje came from Holland in the ship De Bonte Koe "Spotted Cow" in the 1600s and settled in Flatbush in what would be Brooklyn. They may have lost two children during the sea voyage. The baby cradle which they brought from Holland may be seen today in the Lefferts House in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. My daughter Therese when she was a baby slept in that ancestral cradle one day while we visited the old home.
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