Vanslyke Family Group

the Journey

  • 1600s

    Emigrate from the Netherlands to colonial New Amsterdam

  • 1700s

    Settle in and around the Mohawk River Valley

  • 1820s

    Migrate to the Interior Lowlands, buying land in Illinois

  • 1830s

    Travel along the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears to settle briefly in SW Missouri

  • 1840s

    Move into the newly acquired state of Texas

  • 1870s

    Return to Newton County, Missouri

In-Laws

The following families married into the family along the way:

Lewis Family

Rickner Family

Norton Family

Berheyt Family

Stories about the family…

Henrietta Mariah Van Slyke | Orphan

In 1852, Henrietta’s father, Andrew Van Slyke died. In 1857, her mother. Her eldest sister and her husband moved back to Texas to administer the estate and three siblings were sent to lived with three separate guardians. Guardianship was a legal arrangement to manage the property of those considered unable to manage it themselves, either…

James Hamilton | Frontier Regiment

Europeans and Euro-Americans designated the Red River as boundary for a long time. The French and Spanish viewed it as dividing line in the 1700s, the US and Spain continued its use as a border in the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty in conjunction with Mexico. The Republic of Texas used it as a boundary. The Southern…

Rickners | After the War

Southwestern Missouri during the Civil War was burned to the ground by guerrilla warfare. Many civilians left Jasper County after the war due to the intensity of the violence and destruction wrecked by the irregular warfare. When the war was over, “There was not much to return to”, writes Schrantz in his history of the…

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