Meerdervoort. Meerdervoort was a municipality and seigneury in the province of South Holland. The municipality and the village of the same name were located directly southwest of Zwijndrecht and existed as an independent administrative unit between 1811 and 1855. After this, the municipality was merged with Zwijndrecht. The village had 389 inhabitants in 1820. The two mayors were from 1811 to 1830 Dirk Willem Nibbelink and from 1830 to 1849 Wouter Dirk Nibbelink. The village existed since the year 1331. Four hundred years later, in 1732, there were 67 houses and the village owned two sawmills. More than a century later, in 1848, the number of houses had fallen to 43, housing a total of 84 families. The population was four hundred, of whom 15 people were Catholic and the rest Reformed. The lordship of Meerdervoort had come into the hands of the Pompe van Meerdervoort family, later included in the Dutch nobility, by purchase in the 16th century; this family would remain lord of Meerdervoort until 1835.