Nicasius de Sille

1610 - Aft 1660  (> 51 years)

• Name	Nicasius de Sille  [1]
  Birth	23 Sep 1610	Arnheim, Gelderland, Netherlands   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1660	New Utrecht, Long Island, New York   [5]
  Alternate death	Bef 1674	New Utrecht, Long Island, New York
  Person ID	I16767	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	Laurens de Sille, Burgomeister of Arnheim,   b. 1 Mar 1572, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium d. 2 Jan 1637, The Hague, Netherlands (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Walburg Everwijn,   b. of Arnheim, Netherlands d. 4 Feb 1635, The Hague, Netherlands
  Marriage	Arnheim, Gelderland, Netherlands   [4]
  Family ID	F10479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Cornelia Meulmans   d. Bef 1655
  Marriage	Netherlands   [5]
  Children	+ 1. Gerdientje de Sille,   b. 10 Feb 1642, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  Family ID	F10475	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Dec 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Doctor of Law. Studied first at Leiden and then at Orleans. At Leiden, he belonged to the Gelderland-Overijssel student fraternity. In the Netherlands, he was a court advocate and a captain in the service of the Estates General. Upon emigrating to New Amsterdam he became first counselor to Peter Stuyvesant, 1653-57, and schout fiscaal in 1656-57. He was one of the original proprietors of New Utrecht.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3097] Lincoln C. Cocheu, "The Van Kouwenhoven-Conover Family." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 70:230, 70:353, 1939; 71:69, 71:157, 71:273, 71:365, 1940; 81:123, 81:172, 81:225, 1950; 82:34, 82:89, 82:175, 82:211, 1951. [S1571] Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y. by Teunis G. Bergen. New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881., place only. [S1764] Catharine T. R. Mathews, "The De Sille Family of Holland." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 34:24, Jan 1903. [S1767] William J. Hoffman, "An Armory of American Families of Dutch Descent." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 64:3, January 1933. [S1571] Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y. by Teunis G. Bergen. New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.