The immegration of VanHousen into Prattsburgh, Steuben, NY in 1700's. I'm looking for when & how they arrived here. Fran

Hi Fran, To find out more about your Van Housen family you should go back to when the early settlers lived in Albany County. There is a reference to a number of Van Housen family members listed in Jonathan Pearson's "Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany from 1630 to 1800." There is some information about the family on my website at www.angelfire.com/ga4/myhayes_family/. Many members of this family belonged to the Lutheran Church. I have a number of family members who moved to Steuben County. Richard