Marie Maritje Devoe

MARRIAGE: Maria [ ] and Isaac See, Jr.

Name also appears as See and Sie.

Life Sketch

The third child of Jean and Marie Sy, Marie Sy was born about 1640 in Mannheim, Germany.

Marie married Jacques Petilion on 14 May 1661 in Mannheim. They had their daughter Marie baptized 25 Mar 1662 in Mannheim, Germany. Jacques died young.

Marie then married again on 10 Jul 1667 in The French Church of Mannheim, Germany to Nicolas De Veaux . About 1673, when they deemed that Mannheim was no longer safe for the protestant Huguenots, the De Veaux - Marie, Nicolas and their children decided to leave Germany with Marie’s brother Isaac See and his family and move to America in 1673/4.

The route of the family’s emigration from Mannheim to England and the details of their sojourn in London are not known. It has been suggested that Isaac Sy (about 40) and Marie De Veaux (about 34) and their families (including Marie Petilion about 12) may have returned to Calais and crossed the English Channel to Dover where there was a French Colony. Isaac would have been familiar with traveling conditions in the area of his birth and probably was given assistance along the way. An elaborate Spy System was in effect warning travelers and residents of towns where trouble was brewing.

James Riker writes that Isaac See and his family were known as French refugees in England as early as 1674, and on October 22nd that year, they arrived in New York Harbour, in the same ship that brought Sir Edmund Andros, the English Governor who was taking over New Netherlands from Dutch rule.

The See family managed to bring with them some household goods, and a few choice treasures – among them the Holy Scriptures in French, the French psalm book and the highly prized Book of the Martyrs.

The Isaac See family settled first at Harlem to be near Mannheim friends. Soon a tract of 94 acres was laid out to Isaac on Staten Island. Several years later the family moved up the Hudson River to Philipse Manor in Westchester County. Isaac and Esther Sie appear as members of Sleepy Hollow Church.

Marie and Nicholas De Veaux appear to have had five children born in Mannheim and two more born in New York.

Nicholas De Veaux, his wife, Marie, their oldest child, Abraham, and Daniel De Veaux, his younger brother, " accompanied Sir Edmund Andros, the second Governor of New York, across the ocean in 1674.

" In 1675, Nicholas was found in the 'Night Watch', in Ha(a)rlem, having been called upon by the govenor to assist in protecting the inhabitants against the attack from Indians. Two years after, he was again enrolled by the Governor to assist in cutting 5,000 trees to erect a 'Palisade Wall' on the line of the present 'Wal Street' (New York), to guard against an expected attack of the Indians. This fact gave this prominent buisness street its name.

"Nicholas had previously obtained some land at Ha(a)rlem, as he was taxed for property therein 1677. He remained here but for a few years. “ Then they moved to New Jersey, where he and his wife joined the church at Bergen in 1679. Several of his wife's relatives had moved to New Barbadoes Neck (Hackensack), which induced him to change his residence to that place.

On 7 April 1679, about five years after their arrival, the fifteen year old Marie Petilion married Abraham Rutemps in the Walloon Protestant Church in New Paltz. In 1689, Abraham bought land in the New Barbadoes Neck (now Hackensack, Bergen Co., NJ.)

Marie (Sy) DeVeaux died sometime before 1706. That was the year her husband remarried to Margaret Jans/Sans. They had a daughter.

Both Marie and Nicholas are buried in the 'The Old French Burying-ground', by 'The French Church' at New Barbadoes Neck (Hackensack), New Jersey.

1) All work submitted by Mrs. Lucetta Buttars Archibald of Dayton, ID 2) Sleepy Hollow Church records by Cole. Mss., by Rev. Grenville Mackenzie, located in White Plains, NY library 3) The See Family of Calais, France and the Manor of Philpsburgh by Glenna See Hill, located in the New York Geneological Biographical Library, Vol 114, Pgs. 93 to 213, 1983

GEDCOM Note

Maria See Petilion, De Vaux https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175936055/maria-petilion,_de_vaux

BURIAL French Burying Ground New Milford, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA Daughter of Jean Sy. Glenna (See) Hill, "The See Family