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Arrived New York 1677

Daniel Devoor was born in 1660 to Nicholos Deveaux and Suzanne Deveaux .
Nicholos was born in 1620, in Picardy, France.
Suzanne was born in 1620, in France.
Daniel had one sibling.
Daniel married Angeleca Cornelis
Angeleca was born in New York.
They had 9 children: David Devoor, Cornelius Devoor and 7 other children.

Daniel married Hannah Frans on month day 1687, at age 27 at marriage place, New York.
Hannah was born in 1665, in Tappan, Rockland, N.Y..
They had 2 children: Martha Jansen and one other child.
Daniel passed away on month day 1729, at age 69 at death place.

Daniel DeVoor of New Amsterdam

Research Note: A preponderance of information on the early DeVeaux family was gleaned from the "Genealogy of the DeVeaux Family" by Thos. F. DeVoe dtd 1885 and the "Revised History of Harlem" by James Riker dtd 1904.

Daniel DeVoor was born in about 1660, probably in the Palatinate of the Rhine while his family was fleeing the Spanish Netherlands and the Franco-Spanish War; as the DeVoor/DeVaux family were French Huguenots. Something happened to separate brother Nicholas and Daniel from the rest of the family and forced them to flee from Manheim, Palatinate of the Rhine, to England. I purpose there was another of the incessant attacks by the French Army of Louis XIV wherein their parents were killed. And, brothers Nicholas and Daniel are cited as immigrating to New York in 1674. French Huguenots in the Spanish Netherlands]

The next arrival of the DeVaux family here was two of our forefather's brothers, the eldest named Nicholas and a younger brother named Daniel. They came in company with several other French refugee families, many of whom had, at an early period, fled to Manheim, in Germany. This place afterwards was invaded by Louis XIV, when the family of Nicholas and others escaped to England; and in 1674 they accompanied Sir Edmund Andros across the ocean when he became the second Governor of New York. . .The family of Nicholas de Vaux consisted of his wife with one child and his young brother, Daniel, when he settled at Harlem. . . .

DeVoe, Thos. F., "Genealogy of the DeVeaux Family,"1885, p. 33.

Having settled in Harlem, some members of the DeVoor/DeVaux family attended the French Church of Manhattan whose records are non-extant, and some members of the DeVoor/DeVaux family attended the Dutch Reformed Church, also of Manhattan. Therefore, some records are available for some family members depending on which church they attended.

In 1678 Nicholas and Daniel and cousin David crossed the Hudson in the company of David Demarist, Sr. and were founding settlers of the French Patent, the ethnic French colony on the Hackensack River in the Province of East Jersey .

The French Burying Ground, Bergen Co NJ

The history of this cemetery has its roots in the immigrant, David Demarest Sr. David Demarest Sr., being a French Huguenot, had an ambition to form a French Colony and was eventually able to purchase about 2000 acres of land, a tract approximately two miles wide and six miles long, lying between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers, called the French Patent. The land was granted with the understanding that he was to settle 45 families on the site. He failed to secure this number, but he brought with him [from the Bronx] several groups, including the families of Daniel DuVoor, Jean Durie, Jacques Laroe, Andries Tiebout and Nicholas deVaux. . .

The first meeting in the newly erected French church building was in 1682 and this church was known as the French Church of Kinderkamack. . .Services were held here until 1696, conducted by Reverend Pierre Daille, a minister at the French Church of New York. He left the New York parish in 1696 and thereafter the church declined. The French Church members joined with the Hackensack Reformed Dutch Church in 1696.

a. Fled from Beauchamp to Zeeland in 1642 to the French Colony at Mannheim in the Palatinate .
b. Married at the Walloon Church.
c. To New Amsterdam on the "Bonte Koe" 4/16/1663 with wife and 4 children.
d. Settled at Staten Island, Harlem and finally New Jersey .
e. Held 5000 acres on the Hackensack River .
f. 1678 built the house which still stands.
g. A supporter of the French Church at Kindekemach 1682.
h. Family joined at Hackensack in 1697.
i. Will probated 7/30/1697.

Donna Speer Ristenbatt, "On the Trail of Our Ancestors," Genealogy Webpage <http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/frenchcm.htm>; 3 Aug 2008.

Daniel is first found in church records on 4/22/1686 when he was married to Anna Frans b. c. 1667 Tappan, NY at the French Protestant Church of Kinkachgemeck. In the record, Daniel is cited as "Daniel Vooren, j. m. op de Manhatans."

Daniel and Anna had two children before Anna died in about 1692, sometime after the birth of their second child. And on 11/6/1692 at the Dutch Reformed Church of Hackensack, Bergen Co NJ, Daniel married Engeltje Cornelis b. c. 1669 Manhattan NY.

Daniel and Engeltje migrated sometime before 1723 to Amwell Twp, Hunterdon Co NJ, settling near Paulis Kill. At the time, the New Jersey Colony had two administrative divisions, East Jersey and West Jersey; because the lands of New Jersey had been settled from the Hudson River/ Atlantic coast on the east and the Delaware River Valley on the west. And in truth, East and West weren't connected; as there was no infrastructure at the time.

A casual reading of the records could indicate that the DeVoor family migrated from Bergen county in East Jersey to Hunterdon county in West Jersey by simply heading west. But in the 1720s, that wasn't the best option. I propose that the DeVoor family migrated first up the Hudson to the Dutch settlement at Kingston. Possible proof of this migration route comes from the 3/1723 marriage for son Cornelis DeVoor at the Dutch Reformed Church of Kingston.

http://lewis-genealogy.org/genealogy/Weaver/Devore-99.htm