The Early Settlement of Philipsburgh
Grenville C. Mackensie
Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester Historical Society, vol 12, October 1936, p 85-98
viewed by H. DeVoe on 28 Apr 2004 at the Westchester Historical Society, Elmsford, New York

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. . . The settlement before 1700 would seem to have been confined to the shore of the Hudson except for the Sie family who settled inland at Nanegeeken, now Thornwood, and perhaps David Storm at East View. The earliest Dutch, Huguenot and Walloon families were located chiefly in Tarrytown and Irvington with a few to the north.

Isaac Sie, a Huguenot born in France (some say Paris) probably about 1645, accompanied his parents, Isaac and Esther, and his sister Mary to England. He apparently married there and had two sons, Isaac and Peter, born there. The whole family came to New York on the ship which brought over Sir Edmund Andros, arriving November 1, 1674. Isaac and Maria settled in Harlem where their children, Jacobus and Esther, were born. In 1677 they removed to the Fresh Kill on Staten Island next to the Martlings. He and his sons settled in Nanegeeken about 1695. He was still living there in 1716 when he and his second wife, Esther, are recorded as church members.

. . . just north of Sheldon Brook, Abraham Devoe settled about 1703. He was born in Europe in 1667, the son of the Huguenot refugee, Nicholas De Veaux, who came from England with the Sies in 1674. Abraham married Mynno, daughter of Paulus Jurckse and widow of William Hoppe, and lived in Hackensack until he came to Tarrytown. In later years his farm was occupied by William Hunt.