“According to a book I bought at New Paltz, New York, Frederick Hussey was an English soldier who was here when they took over New Netherlands. I guess that when he was released from duty, the English gave him land.232

Then very shortly, he [Thomas Skillman] took to another spell of soldiering, or was one of twenty-five men, sent apparently as a special contingent by the Governor himself, to chastise the Indians who three years previously [ca 1664] had perpetrated the cruel Wiltwyck Massacre. The names of himself and companions (See Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, pp. 418-19) are given, and some of them, the savages having been punished, settled down and made their future homes in that region so recently harried. Among these were Thomas Quinnell, Robt. Peacock, Fred’k Hussey, Jno. Biggs, Henry Pawling (aferwards Captain), Sam’l Oliver, Edward Whittaker, Anthony Addyson, Wm. Fisher, Geo. Hall (Sheriff later on), Cornelis Arson, and others.188, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, April 1906, pg. 23