Phillippe de Maton WILTSIE

Sources:

Ancestry.com - Ancestry World Tree Project
New.familysearch.org, Nov 2009
badgrow.com/wiltsie.htm
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, George Olin Zabriskie, Magazine, pp. 32-36, Jan 1977

Notes:

                   When Philippe was born, Spain ruled Holland.  About 1600 Phillipe fought with the army of Prince William of Orange to drive the Spanish out of Holland.  In 1623 Phillipe was hired by the Dutch East India Company as a military advisor for their planned new colonies in North America.  He sailed with the first group of settlers in the "New Amsterdam" in the spring of 1623.  Upon arriving they sailed up the Hudson River to where it meets the Mohawk.  Here Phillipe supervised the building of Fort Orange.  This site is now the city of Albany.  Phillipe then returned to the mouth of the Hudson and they built Fort New Amsterdam, now New York City, on Manhattan Island.  In 1632 Phillip and two of his sons went to supervise the building of the fort at Swaanendale, now the city of Lewes, Delaware.  While he was there the Indians attacked and Phillipe was killed.