Excerpt from Genealogy of the Van Voorhees Family in America, Vol. 1: Or the Descendants of Steven Coerte Van Voorhees, Holland, and Flatlands, L. I

Soon aft ter the publication 11) the miter 111 1881 of his Notes on the Ancest of Majoi ill11.u1 l\0t. \an -001h1s of Fishkill, its 10111111111111 111 the various Historical Societies and Public. Libraries throughout the l._ nited States, he began to receive, from members of different branches of the Van Voorhees 1ann1y \\itu 111111 seen the work in the aforesaid Societies and Libraries, letters giving the names of their parents and grandparents and where they had resided, and asking if it was not possible to connect them with someone of the grandchildren of the emigrant ancestor, Stephen Coorte Van vouillccs. Lttctttitfnitcd 111 the Notes. These letters, being answered by the writer, gave rise to correspondences bringing to him considerable genea logical information respecting the various branches of the family, so that at the close of the year 1883 he found that he had collected over two thousand additional names of the descendants of the emigrant ancestor, and he then conceived the idea of devoting a number of years to the collection of material for 11 genealogy of the entire Van Voorhees family 111 this country, the result of which has been the present work. The writer does not claim the work to be comp! Ete - fe\x 1'eltc1lof'les 1e. - but having exhausted all the known sources of information, and having written for family records to all the 111embers of the family whose addresses he has been able to obtain. He has thougi't it advisable to publish what he has collected, 111 the hope that some other mem ber of the family mav some time 111 the future take it up where he has left it and bring it to a fuller completion for the benefit of the Van Vooriel ees pos terity Had more of the write1s letters to members of the lamilv been 1111s11.e1ed, he 11 ould have been able to present a more complete 11 01k, but he would here return his thanks to those members of the familr, ' a; 1d 0111 e1s, 11110 hate so kindly assisted him by fu111ishing names. Dates, church recoids, etc etc., and assure them that it is by their cooperation alone that he is ena'rler' to give to the descendants of Steven Coerte Van Voorhees this gene logy of the family.

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