In the grant of 1686 to Sanders and Harmense reference is made to the land of "Sovryn, alias called the Baker," but there is no evidence that he settled here, nor is the name of record as a patentee. The settlements in Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck were nearly, if not quite contemporaneous with those in Fishkill. He is unquestionably the same Peter Lansing, or his son, to whom Arnout Viele sold his land near the mouth of Wappinger Creek. Edmund Piatt is of the opinion that Lasink located in the county as early Emigh. He is supposed to have been a son of Peter (Pieterse) Lassingh, who migrated from Holland about 1658, and settled at Albany, where he died 1695.Ģ. Peter Lasinck is the ancestor of a numerous family In Dutchess County, different branches of which spell their name variously, Lassing, Lossing, Lawson, etc. He evidently did not remain long as his name does not appear in subsequent records.ġ. The next settler near the mouth of the Fishkill, according to Bailey's Historical Sketches, published in 1874, was Peche Dewall who arrived in the Spring of 1688. She received the name of Katrina, and at maturity married a young Hollander named Peter Lasink,1 who located in the county previous to 1700.2 The young couple settled in the town of East Fishkill where four sons and four daughters were born to them. While living at Fishkill, they became the parents of a daughter, the first white child born in the county. He then purchased of the patentees, lands in the Clove district where he subsequently removed. He bargained with the Indians for a large tract of land, only to learn that it had been recently covered by the Rombout Patent. Here they had the misfortune to be drowned out by a Mohawk flood, and young Emigh and his wife removed to the site of Fishkill. Becoming dissatisfied, they went to Fort Orange, intending to settle on an island in the Hudson which constituted a part of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck. On the ocean voyage he courted and married a Dutch lass from Holstein, and the couple remained for a time on the Livingston domain. He came to America with Robert Livingston in 1683. ![]() Authorities differ as to the date of his settlement at the mouth of Fishkill creek, but it is generally conceded that he was here in 1685. Nicholas Emigh is credited in previous County Histories with being the first pioneer. WITH the extinguishment of the native title to lands described in the foregoing chapter, the settlement of Dutchess county began. ![]() PIONEER SETTLEMENTS AND EARLY INHABITANTS. THE HISTORY OF DUTCHESS COUNTY NEW YORK, Edited by FRANK HASBROUCK
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