While trying to work through some question on the MESICK/MUSIG and DEDERICK/DIETERICH lines of Palatines in NY I came across this text on archive.org

"The Family of Best In America of Holland Descent (With Copious Biographical Notes 1700-1901"
Charles Benson Best
1909
The Knickerbocker Press, New York

http://www.archive.org/details/familyofbestinam00inbens

It seems strange that it DOESN'T appear to be a source used by BEST family researchers (a rudimentary search of people's work shows the use of Henry Jones' "The Palatine Families of New York", a legitimate source, for sure but THIS source contradicts some of that information - Specifically it states that Jacob BEST (b1680-1690, Schonbach, GERMANY