In a message dated 5/23/2005 6:00:21 PM US Eastern Standard Time, KYMERCER-D-request@rootsweb.com (Carolyn Leonard) writes: > A GATHERING OF DUTCH COUSINS (from Holland ancestry) > Fri-Sat-Sun Sept 23-25, 2005, > > Westerfield, Cozine, Banta, Demaree, Monfort, Smock, VanArsdale, Voris, > Brewer .... are all Low Dutch surnames. If you have very early > connections to Mercer County, you are probably one of our DUTCH > COUSINS Hello Carolyn, Where will this gathering take place? I'm not sure about Monfort, but Cozine, Banta, Demaree, Smock, VanArsdale, Vorheis (Voris), Brewer, Terhune, and Reyniersen are my ancestors' names. My distant Banta ancestor was in New Amsterland in the second half of the 16th century. Mary Rynerson Gillot