Marie Sy

(about 1640 - )
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=13 Oct 2014
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Ancestors of Frank Kenneth DeVoe (1908 - 1998)
Descendants of Nicolas de Vaux (b. about 1642)
Marie Sy was also known as "Maria." She was born about 1640 in Calais, France.1 She was the daughter of Jean Sy.2

James Riker3 and Grenville Mackenzie4 show Mary (or Maria), husband of Nicholas de Vaux, to have been the daughter of Isaac and Esther See. However, in an article published in 1979 in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Glenna See Hill wrote The Manheim records make clear that Marie, wife of Nicholas De Vaux, was a widow at time of her marriage. It would appear she was the sister of Isaac See, Sr., and not his daughter as stated by Riker.2

Marie Sy married Jaques Petilion.2

Marie Sy married Nicolas de Vaux, son of Nicolas de Veau and Susanne François, on 10 July 1667 at the French Church, Mannheim, Germany.2,5 Marie Sy and Nicolas de Vaux joined the church on 13 December 1674 at Harlem, City of New York, New York.6

Marie Sy and Nicolas de Vaux moved to Bergen County, New Jersey, in about 1679.7,8 They were drawn there by David Demarest (ca 1620-1693), an acquaintance of theirs in Harlem. Demarest (sometimes written des Marest or de Maree, etc.) had purchased about 2000 acres of land between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers in 1677 from the Tappan Indians, on which he hoped to establish a French colony; it was commonly known as the "French Patent."9,10,11 Marie Sy and Nicolas de Vaux joined the First Reformed Dutch Church at Bergen Village (now Jersey City)12,11 on 5 April, 1679.8

Marie Sy was probably buried in the French Burying Ground, New Milford, Bergen County, New Jersey.7 This cemetery is located on Patrolman Ray Woods Drive, and in 2004 was reported to be surrounded by a chain-link fence and locked up.13 When the gravestone inscriptions were copied in 1902, the oldest date that might be a death was 1734; so no stone remains intact for Nicholas or Maria.11

Children of Marie Sy and Nicolas de Vaux

Citations

  1. [S917] "Ancestry of Clifton Lionel See," family tree at ancestry.com, link sent 12 October 2014 by Rena Forinash to Howard DeVoe.
  2. [S347] Glenna See Hill, "See and De Vaux Families", 101.
  3. [S208] Riker, Revised History of Harlem, 331.
  4. [S346] Mackenzie, Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh, Vol. 2, p 621.
  5. [S348] Cort R. DeVoe, "Origins of the DeVoe Family", 50.
  6. [S208] Riker, Revised History of Harlem, 327.
  7. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 33.
  8. [S208] Riker, Revised History of Harlem, 347.
  9. [S208] Riker, Revised History of Harlem, 349.
  10. [S209] Demarest, The Huguenots on the Hackensack, 9.
  11. [S211] The French Burying Ground, online at http://www.ristenblatt.com/genealogy/frenchcm.htm
  12. [S210] Jersey City history, online at http://www.jerseycityonline.com/history_of_jersey_city.htm
  13. [S212] French Burying Ground, online at http://www.lostinjersey.com/graveyard/french.html
  14. [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family.

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