VAN VECHTEN literally "From Vegten (or Veghten)", a village in Holland; ergo, one from Veghten. The name was later corrupted to Van Vacter and Van Vactor.

The earliest record of this family name in America is of Teunis Dirckse Van Vechten who arrived here prior to 1628 and from this line came James Brown Van Vechten who married Hannah Elizabeth Hamill, #1174.

James Brown Van Vechten, son of Peter, above, married Hannah Elizabeth Hamill.

From: "Immigrants to the Middle Colonies", Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1978:

Page 5: "Van Vechten (Vechte, Veghte), Claes Arentse, from Drenthe province to New Amsterdam, 1660; settled in Brooklyn."

"Van Vechten, Teunis Dirckse, settled at Greenbush, opposite Beverwyck, 1638;=of Vechte, river in Oldenburg."

Page 12: "Van Vechten, Teunis Cornelissen, prob. from Vechten, near Utrecht (2) (38)."
"Van Vechten (Vecht, Vechte), Klaes Arentse, from Norg, Drenthe (11).:
Page 51: "Van Vechten, Teunis Cornelissen, 1637."

"Van Vechten, Teunis Dircksen, 1638."

See:

Van Vechten Genealogy, by James Brown Van Vechten, Detroit, 1954.

Oren David Van Vachter: A Family Book of Records, by William A. Van Vacter, Kansas City, KS, 1978.

Van Vechten Family Records, by William A. Van Vacter, 1986.

Du Mont de Soumagne and Allied Families, by John Sanderson Du Mont, Greenfield, Mass., 1960.