I wrote previously that I had a Boice and various spellings) Web site and invited any of you to visit and contact me at claudiarriley@msn.com/. The invitation is still offered. There is a woman who had done extensive work on these three Buys/Boice families and I respect her work. She wrote this statement on my web site and it has really helped me to sort out the families. Maybe it will help some of you:

Buys Genealogy, 101:
For years, various of us banged our head against the brickwall that contained the big spaghetti mess of Buys genealogy in NJ and NY. My own line went back from my gr.gr. gr. gr. grandfather, John Buys who was born in NJ and died in Sodus, Wayne Co. NY. Several of my fellow genealogists in our line gave it up as hopeless and stated that we'd "never find John's parents". I started working with Shirl Boyce Wagner (who wrote a book on the Dutch Buys Line) and we slowly unraveled our two lines. There seem to be three main threads of the Buys genealogy in America. Jan Cornelius Buys came to New Netherland to be near his uncle, Jan Cornelius Damen. His mother, Hendrickje Damen had died and as a young man he went off to the "new world". His sons tended to found lines that spread out from NJ and upper Hudson NY. Jacob Janse Buys (my ancestor) married Marrietje Joris Bauman/Bowman and they lived near New Brunswick, NJ. Cornelius Janse Buys also moved to NJ. Jan Janse Buys went up the Hudson to Albany area.
To complicate it all, Jan Thyssen Buys, who seems to have spent some time in Curacou in the West Indies, came to New Amsterdam. His son, Johannes moved to an area of New Brunswick near the Jacob Janse and Cornelius Janse bunch. This lead to great mix-ups! To complicate it all more, two brothers from Tiel, Gelderland, Arien and Arent Buys came to New Amsterdam. One brother's family seemed to have died out without a line, but Arien Buys (often referred to as "young man of Tiel") went up the Hudson to the Poukeepsie area and tended to get themselves mixt up with Jan Janse's family. Claudia's line and most of the rest of you, are from Jan Thyssen Buys.
I'll try to write a little at a time about each of these lines and hopefully help untangle things. We don't know where in The Netherlands, Jan Thyssen came from. But we know that Jan Cornelius' mother's family was from Beest, not too far from Tiel. Hopefully, someday, we will find that all three families are really closely related by acorss the sea.
Elsie Wilson

Hope this will help someone as it did me. Claudia Redmond Riley, descendant of Jan Thyssen Buys and great granddaughter of Catherine Jane (Boice) Runkel of Indiana.