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Jan Fransse Van Husum and Volkje Juriens.

The quickest overview of how the family name came to Kansas is this. Jan and Volkje from Husum and the island of Nordstrand in Schleswig and North Friesland to Amsterdam to New Amsterdam. From Beverwyck in upstate New York, ancestors left to briefly join the Quaker communities around Tulpenhocken, Pennsylvania. From there, around 1750, ancestors moved to Rowan County, North Carolina. Then it was to Wythe County Virginia along the Appalachian Mountains. Next, by 1795, was a short hop over the mountains following the Daniel Boone Trail to eastern Tennessee and Carter County. In the 1870's Valentine Worley Van Huss and his five sons found homes in eastern Kansas, mostly in Butler County, Kansas.

Of course there are other Van Husses who stayed or moved on to other states like Kentucky, Texas, Ohio. There are also variations in the spelling of the name such as Vanhooser, Vanhoesen, Van Hoesen, that occurred over the centuries.

1. Jan Fransse VanHoesen (1608 - 1667?)

Jan Fransse VanHoesen was born 1608 in Husum,Schleswig. Read a short bio.

2.  Johannes Van Hoesen -VanHooser

3.  Johannes Van Hoesen -VanHooser (1697 - 1763)

Johannes Van Hoesen was born in Claverack, Albany (now Columbia), New York on land that was purchased from his grandfather, Jan Fransse Van Husen in 1662. He was the son of Johannes Van Hosen and his first wife, Jannitje (Jane) Janse de Ryck. He was christened 1 Aug 1697 at the Dutch Reformed Church at Kingston, Ulster, New York, which is across the Hudson River and down the river a ways. In those days, the people went where the traveling minister was, who happened to be Justus Falckner. The book, The World of Justus Falckner by Delbert Wallace Clark tells about the minister's travels in the early days of New York's settlements; SOURCE: Van Hooser in America, by Joyce Lindstrom, page 7; RESEARCH: Sherry Smith.

4.  Valentine VanHuss (1721 -.1781).

When the Revolutionary War broke out, Valentine was loyal to the British and became a known Tory. He took up arms against the colonists and fought for General Cornwallis, dying in the year 1781 at one of the last two battles Cornwallis fought in--the Guilford Co., North Carolina county court house, or at Yorktown, Virginia, where Cornwallis surrendered. Hence, the reason why there's no will or probate records for Valentine Van Hooser.

Source: "The Van Hoose, Van Hooser, Van Huss Family in the United States", by Joyce Lindstrom

Valentine Van Huss was born about 1721 in Claverack, New York. He moved to Tulpehocken, where he married his wife Maria Barbara Zerbe  in 1746. Their 12 and last child was Valentine Van Huss who was born in 1768 in Rowan county, North Carolina.  TEBBETTS - COURTNEY - JERNIGAN
One posting notes Valentine "Felty" Van Buren Van Huss, changed his name from Van Hooser. Post, bottom of page ten, top of page eleven.

5.  Valentine Van Huss (1768 - 1857).

The post of William Myers from Jan. 2003 lists Valentine Van Huss, born 1768 in Rowan County, N. C., and died 1857 in Johnson County, Tenn. This Valentine married Catherine Worley. They had six children, several of whom were born in Wythe County, Virginia. Posting.


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The 1850 Census of Carter County  lists Valentine Van Huss, then 23, and his other family members.

J. P. Van Huss (1833  - )

Goodspeed's History of Carter County Tennessee, (published 1887) then lists J.P. VanHuss son of Mathias, grandson of Valentine and gives a short bio. J.P. has several children, including James, Daniel and John, all of whom traveled to Kansas in the 1880's to homestead.

New York

Manhattan

Every school child knows the story of how, in 1626, Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the Lenape Indians for $24 in trinkets. Modern scholars now estimate the value considerably higher. (A caution that not everything should be taken at face value.)

Manhattan was part of the larger area of New Netherland (Nieuw-Nederland), a Dutch colony in North America that existed from 1624 until 1664. In that year, the Duke of York sent four English frigates into the port of New Amsterdam and demanded the Dutch surrender.

New Amsterdam became New York City and Fort Orange became Albany.

The area was first explored by Henry Hudson in 1609. And the earliest settlements were built around 1613. Around 1619, Fort Orange, on the Hudson River (Beverwyck on the map) as a center for beaver trade with the Indians. In 1624, New Netherlands became a province of the Netherlands. The port of New Amsterdam was established to protect the beaver trade and transport the beaver pelts to Europe.

The Dutch, through the West India Company, established settlements along the Hudson river to promote trade with the Indians for beaver pelts. Emigrants to the province included Dutch, Danish, Frisian and Schleswigan, and Walloons, as well as African slaves.

In 1639, Jan Franse Van Husum arrived in New Amsterdam along with his new wife Volkie Juriens Van Husum. They settled in Rensselaerswyck, an area surronding Beverwyck, now Albany, New York. Jan Franse was appointed Commissioner of Lands for the Dutch West India Co., and lived at a fur trading post,  Ft. Orange. In 1662 Jan bought from the Indians, for 500 guilders in beavers, land at Claverack and several hundred acres of land along the river where today is the city of Hudson.

Jan and his wife Volkie eventually had thirteen children.Their sixth child, Johannes (John) VanHoesen, born 1655, lived in Claverack (check spelling Clavernack).

His son Johannes, born 1697 lived in Claverack. John Van Hooser, Jr. was a fourth generation VanHooser. He was born in 1723 at Claverack, Albany (now Columbia) Co., New York, the son of Johannes Van Hoesen or John Van Hooser and his wife, Elizabeth Christina Laux.
Image from Wikipedia.

Leaving New York.

Father and son left New York for Tulpehocken, Lancaster (now Berks) Co Pennsylvania, settling in an area of mostly Germans.

Father and younger brothers and sisters then migrated to Anson Co., North Carolina in 1753/4. The son made his will in 1763, signing it John Vanhosen. On deeds there his name appears as John Vanhouser and John Vanhooser.

"[Later]descendants of John Vanhooser retained the spelling, Vanhooser
and settled in Eastern and Central Tennessee. Those from Jackson
Co., Tenn. still spell the name with the small "h".

One branch of the family kept the spelling, VanHuss. They settled in southwest
Virginia and in Carter (later Johnson) Co., Tenn."

In 1845 Valentine W. VanHuss married Lucinda Campbell and raised seven children in Carter county, Tennessee. The children were:

1. VanHuss, James M - 1845
2. VanHuss, Isaac S - 1847
3. VanHuss, Daniel S - 1848
4. VanHuss, Susannah - 1852
5. VanHuss, Matilda - 1853
6. VanHuss, Robert - 1855
7. VanHuss, John - 1859

Later, in the 1880's four brothers, James, Daniel, Robert, and John, homesteaded in and around Beaumont, Kansas.

Jan Fransse Van Husum

This post is a summary of the book VAN HOOSE VAN HOOSER VAN HUSS FAMILY IN AMERICA by Joyce Lindstrom. A second source is Elsie Rohre's book "The Van Huss Family". A third source is the VanHoesen blog, which compiles multiple sources. The reader should be mindful that there are always variations in the telling of a tale. Dates, place names, even facts will change with the retelling of any history.

The First Van Huss to arrive in America was Jan Fransse Van Husum. He was born in 1608 or 1609 in Husum, Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, then a part of Denmark, although today it is the northernmost province of Germany. Husum is on the west coast and faces the North Sea. It is natural that Jan became a sailor and sailed for the Dutch West Indies Company. He lived in Amsterdam, where in April of 1639, he married Volckje Juriaens of Tuijnstraat (Twijnstratt, Utrect). The newly married couple immediately set sail for America and, on July 7, 1639, arrived in Dutch New Amsterdam.

From VAN HOOSE VAN HOOSER VAN HUSS FAMILY IN AMERICA:

"Jan Fransse Van Husum was the emigrant ancestor of all the Van
Hooser's in America as well as some thirty variations of the surname.
Originally he was known only as Jan Fransse, meaning "John, the son
of Francis." In the early days of history before the emergence of
surnames, the patronymic system of naming was used.In this case,
the second name was the father's first given name. Fransse or
Fransssen was a Danish name. The suffix "se" or "sen" meant "Son
of."

Jan Fransse was born in Husum, a city in Schleswig in 1608. Husum
lies in the northern duchy of Schleswig, which was once an
independent duchy ruled by princes of the old Roman empire. A ducal
portion was ruled by the dukes of Holstein and a common portion was
ruled jointly by the kings and dukes."

Jan Fransse was employed as Commissioner of Lands for the Dutch West India Co.. As such, he and his wife settled in the colony of Rensselaerswyck at Fort Orange, now Albany, New York. In 1662 he purchased from the Indians several hundreds acres along the Hudson River at Clavernack, present day Hudson. The purchase price was 500 guilders in beavers pelts.

The couple had thirteen children. See Johannes VanHoesen worldconnect.

Jan died before 1667 in Clavernack. His wife remarried and lived in Clavernack until her death in 1703.