Notes for: Nicholas de Veaux, Jr.
He supposedly died at around 69 years of age.
From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/De_Veaux-5:
In about 1658, Nicolas and his family left Festubert and French-ruled Artois, most-likely following local fellow-Huguenots, the "Sy" (aka "See") family and others. They fled increasing anti-Protestant persecution by the "dragoons" (royal soldier) of King Louis XIV who wanted France to have one religion, his own Roman Catholic faith. They likely stopped in Friesenheim, now part of Ludwigshafen, The Palatinate, Germany, ruled by a Protestant prince, rejoining the Sy family who had been there since 1657. Then, after 1666, they joined the French (Reformed - Protestant) Church in neighboring Mannheim, across the Rhine River. In 1667, the year a Black Plague was halted there, "Nicolas de Veau" (father) appeared in the church "Registry of Fathers." His oldest son, "Nicolas de Vaux," (son) married Marie Sy, the widow of Jacques Petilion, in the Mannheim French Church that year.
Young Nicolas de Vaux disappears from the Mannheim French Church registers after 1673. Apparently he and his wife's Sy/See family migrated to Harlem, NY via England, aboard the English ship Diamond with Sir Edmund Andros in 1674. They arrived at Harlem, now in the English colony of New York (since 1664 and definitively since 1673), where they had a farm.
From https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~hdevoe/FamHist/p10.htm:
Nicolas de Vaux married Marie Sy on 10 July 1667 at the French Church, Mannheim, Germany. A translation of the church record reads Nicholas de Vaus, young man, native of Festubert, province of Artois, and Marie Sy, widow of Jaques Petilion, resident at Mannheim, have been married in this Church the 10 July, 1667.7,8 Mannheim and the surrounding Palatinate was invaded and devastated by the armies of Louis XIV under Marshal Tureme. Nicholas and his family escaped to England.9