> 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/. Some of the Van Heusen / Hoesen / Huysen entries in the Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs might be useful: <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/nameindex.html> -- Bob Sullivan Schenectady Digital History Archive <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> Schenectady County (NY) Public Library