p 21-22: DE VEAUX

FREDERICK DE VEAUX is said to have been born near La Rochelle in 1645. With his parents and two brothers, Nicholas and David, the family made their escape to Manheim in Germany. Here Frederick grew up and married in about 1673. On February 23, 1675, he obtained a passport from the City of Manheim and, passing by way of England, reached New York where he joined his brothers, who had preceded him and settled at New Harlem, which was quite largely populated by Huguenot refugees. There, in the Dutch Church, on the 24th of June, 1677, O.S., he married secondly Hester Tourneur, daughter of Daniel Tourneur, an early Huguenot settler and one of the foremost men of the village. Through this alliance, De Veaux was enabled to acquire much landed property, both in Harlem, and in Westchester County, at Fordham and Morrisania. The marriage of his daughters, Leah, to Pierre Gendron, Susanna to Andre Naudain, Jr., and Judith to Johannes Barhyte, all of New Rochelle, no doubt directed his attention to that Huguenot settlement, and, in 1718, he purchased two hundred acres of land in New Rochelle in the East Division from his daughter Leah Gendron, who was then a widow. He also purchased one hundred acres more adjoining, in 1719, from Susanna Coutant. These two farms were occupied by his son, Abel De Veaux. Frederick De Veaux moved to New Rochelle before 1728, and is found boarding with his daughter Susanna and Andre Naudain, her husband, until shortly before his death which occurred early in November, 1743, at the home of his son Daniel De Veaux at Morrisania. His will, dated January 23, 1741, was proved December 28, 1743.

ABEL DE VEAUX, his son, was born about 1688, at Morrisania and married about 1717, Magadelena Hunt. After his father purchased the two farms aggregating three hundred acres in New Rochelle, Abel De Veaux was given possession. At the election of April 4, 1721, he was chosen Collector with Pierre Bertin; at the election, April 4, 1738, Overseer of Highways with John Bareit; on April 7, 1747, Assessor with Jacobus Blaiker; re-elected Assessor, April 5, 1748, with Ezekiel Halsted; again re-elected Assessor, April 4, 1749, with Peter Bertin. His will, dated April 22, 1774, was proved August 18, 1774.