[1] Lucas sold his half of the ancestral property in the village of Couze to his brother Jean on 22 July 1685.

[citation needed] Three children and a grandson of Amsterdam newspaper editor Charles Boissevain (1842–1927) emigrated to North America.

In 1947 Gideon Walrave Boissevain (1897–1985), minister plenipotentiary in Greece, Chile, Israel, then Dutch ambassador to Cuba, married Maria, granddaughter of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, in Paris[3].

The family coat of arms features a silver shield with three green trees.

Prior to the 20th century, these trees were represented in many different variations; in 1935 the family decided they would be box trees in all future uses,[4] The Boissevain motto is in French: "Ni regret du passé, ni peur de l'avenir" (Neither regret for the past, nor fear of the future).