Van Houten existed ca. 1870-1956. It was originally called the Willow Coal Mine Camp. It was one of the oldest coal mining camps in Colfax County, New Mexico.

Gerrit Hendricksen (1620-1683/1684), probably a son of Hendrick Gerryts and his wife Geertje or Grietje, immigrated in 1637 from Holland to New Amsterdam, New York, and went up river to Rensselaerwick as an employee. By 1646 he was back in New Amsterdam, where he married twice, and was known as Gerrit Hendricksen de blau boer (probably referring to his farm land). His children and later descendants used Blauvelt as a surname. Descendants and relatives...

Marten Reÿersen (d.1687) emigrated in 1646 from The Netherlands to Long Island, New York, and married Annetje Rapalje in 1663. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Ryerson) and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, New England, Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New Brunswick and elsewhere in Canada.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Paulus Bandstra and Geertje Spoelstra. Paulus was born 24 October 1843 in Anjum, Friesland, Netherlands. He married twice and was the father of eight children. Rikstje Meinderts Klopstra (his second wife) died 13 May 1800 and Paulus married Geertje Spoelstra. Geertje was born 26 November 1849 in Burum, Friesland, Netherlands. They immigrated to America 20 March 1899 and settled in...

Samuel Bass (1600-1694) and his family immigrated in 1632 from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts, and in 1640 moved to Braintree, Massachusetts. Thomas Jones (1602-1680/1681) married twice, and immigrated in 1638 from England to Boston, Massachusetts, moving shortly to Hingham, Massachusetts. The two families intermarried when Jacob Henry Bass married Sarepta Cordelia Jones in 1847 in Canton, Illinois; they were the parents of the author. Descendants...

Hendrik Jan te Gantvoort was born in Aalten, The Netherlands on July 28, 1794. He married Theodora Prins on December 22, 1814. They had nine children. The family immigrated to America in 1854.

Gerrit Hendricksen (1723-1683/1684), son of Hendrick Gerryts and Geestje, immigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam, New York, and married twice. The surname Blauvelt used by the second generation was apparently derived from a farm owned by Gerrit Hendricksen on Manhattan. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere. Includes Ackerman, Bogert, De Baum, Demarest, Eckerson, Haring, Talman, Van Houten, Westervelt and related...

Gerrit Gettitse (ca.1632-1703) married Annetje Hermanse, and in 1660 the family immigrated from Wageningen in Gelderland Province, Holland to New Amsterdam (later New York City), New York. Like many Dutch immigrants, their children used "of Wageningen" as the basis for their surname, which became Van Wagonen or Van Wagoner. Descendants and relativews lived in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere. Some descendants became converts to The Church of Jesus...

Barent Jacobsen Kool (b.ca.1605) immigrated about 1635 from Holland to New Amsterdam, New York, although his name first appears in civil records in 1633. Isaac Cole (1740-1800) was a direct descendant in the fifth generation. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, New England and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and genealogical data in The Netherlands. Includes indexes (including Servijn as a variant spelling of Serven). Includes...