My Palatine Germans had a trading post in what is now Herkimer County New York
and I had other ancestors in Albany and Schenectady
One early family was on the Neuiw Nederlandt in 1623..Phillip Du Trieux and Susannah Du Chesne..
and I have Groot, De Forest, Van Antwerpen, Van Woert in that area..
I got Van Loon and maybe some Van Woert too.