Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Vancleve Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
Jan VanCleve, who landed in New Netherland(s) in 1620-1664 1
Contemporary Notables of the name Vancleve (post 1700)
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William M. Vancleve, American politician, Member of Missouri State Senate 7th District, 1885-86 2
John W. Vancleve, American politician, Supervisor of Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, 1846-48, 1853-55, 1858-59 2
John M. Vancleve, American politician, Member of New Jersey State House of Assembly from Mercer County, 1846-47 2
Claude VanCleve Parsons (1895-1941), American Democratic Party politician, superintendent of schools; U.S. Representative from Illinois 24th District, 1930-41 3
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)
Vancleve migration to the United States 
Netherlands
