Jan Everts Bout

Jan Evertsz Bout (March 1601 or 1602, Barneveld, Gelderland – 1671 Gowanus),[1][2] was an early and prominent Dutch settler in the 17th century colonial province of New Netherland.

In 1634 one of the first "bouweries", or homesteads, in the colony of New Netherland was built at Communipaw on the west bank of the North River as part of Pavonia, a patroonship of Amsterdam businessman Michiel Reyniersz Pauw.

The spit of land on which the house was built (near contemporary Liberty State Park in Jersey City) was called Jan de Lacher's Hoeck.

It was at Bout's homestead that the Tappan and Wecquaesgeek had taken refuge, and was where they were attacked in 1643, in the incident known as the Pavonia Massacre which led to Kieft's War.

Bout later moved to Brooklyn, where he had acquired land patents including the area around the Gowanus Canal[12] As noted in The Iconography of Manhattan Island's Key to the Castello Plan, Bout owned property on Manhattan Island, specifically Block H, No.