Elsie,
I am related to Thomas Boice (1790) and Patience Province. He is the son of Thomas Bice/Boice and Edith Applegate. When I began to work the line back, there is agreement among researchers with next Frances Boyce and Hanna Phillips until I come to next Johannes Buys and Neetje Claase. One group says next is Andrian Buijs (1650) and Tryntje Hendricks Oosteroom and the next generations Aret Pietersen Boice/Boise.

Other researchers say that Johannes Buys was the son of Jan Thyssen Buys and Jannetje Vandenham and that Johannes was married to Neeltje Claaze De Graaf and she was the daughter of Claus Andriese De Graff and Elizabeth Willemse Brouwer.

The lines fork at Johannes Buys and at this point, researchers go in two different directions.

Could you help me to sort this out? I have not been working on the line very long. Is there any proof? Any resources I could use to assist me. Clues of where to begin? I would appreciate some leads and it could save me years of searching. I would be very grateful. Thanks, Claudia Riley. claudiarriley@msn.com