Staats Genealogy and Family History

Abram Staes:
Progenitor of the Staats Family of
Albany
by Timothy B. Staats
and Henry N. Staats IV

  THE STAATS FAMILY name is one of the older surnames dating from New Netherland. Several distinct families bear the name Staats, complicating the genealogies of those with the surname.  This essay on Abram Staes, who arrived at Fort Orange (present-day Albany, New York) in 1642, is intended to resolve some of the myths, correct errors, and elaborate on the known family history of his Staats descendants.

This article was published in the Spring 2010 issue of de Halve Maen and has been published on this website with the permission of the authors. The authors of this article and the maintainers of this website would like to express their sincere gratitude to the Holland Society of New York for helping make this possible.