Posted by Vincent M. Van Matre on July 10, 19101 at 13:19:30:
I have researched my ancestors, starting with Jan Joosten Van Meteren & wife Maycke Hendricksen who arrived in New Amsterdam on the ship D/Vos August 31, 1662, sailing from Amsterdam, with five children. The youngest child, Joost Jansen Van Meteren, born ca. 1660, was the ancestor of the Van Meterens, Van Meters, Van Metres, who settled in Ulster Co., New York, later New Jersey, , Virginia & further west.
I have written a book entitled "Van Matre Ancestry" which details the settlement of the Van Meter, etal families as they moved to the western part of the U.S.