The Dolson Family Heritage: A Research-Based Narrative

This genealogical sketch of the Dolson (also Dolsen, Dalsen, Dalfsen, Dolsan, Dalson, and Dollson) family history follows a branch of the family from its origins in the village of Dalsen, Overijssel Province, Netherlands to Sacramento, CA, USA. The time span covered is approximately 1600 to the present. The narrative describes the family’s sojourns in the Dutch North American colony of Nieuw Netherlandts, the British colonial province of New York, as well as its migrations to Westchester, Dutchess, and Orange counties in the state of New York before reaching he Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Sacramaneto Valley of California. Collateral families noticed in the volume include: Austin, Brouwer, Buys, Cabral, Carpenter, Cray, Cregier, Delong, Fields, Foster, Gardner, Harding, Hathaway, Hathorn, Hegeman, Howell, Hussey, Kiersen, Lassing, Lossee, Lorenco, Meeker, Meyer, Mills, Moore, Oosterum, O'Connor, Slot, Sullivan, Ter Bos, Vail, Valentine, Van Campan, Van Duzer, Van Ness, Vermilyea, Waldron, and Wickham