Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Vandever Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
Cornelis Jansen Vandever, who arrived in New York, NY in 1659 1
Contemporary Notables of the name Vandever (post 1700)
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William Vandever (1817-1893), American politician and Union Army general, United States Representative from California and Iowa
Ira Vandever (b. 1980), American football player, starting quarterback for the Stuttgart Scorpions in the German Football League
William Vandever (1817-1893), American Republican politician, U.S. Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1859-63; U.S. Representative from California 6th District, 1887-91 2
Benjamin Vandever, American Democratic Party politician, Candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate 19th District, 1884 2
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Vandever migration to the United States 
Netherlands
