According to the Rockland County Data Book: In 1609. Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson and dropped anchor (it is now believed) in Tappan Zee. off the spot that was later called Piermont. * * * David Pietersen DeVries was a Dutch navigator and an official in the Dutch East India Company. who. around 1640. bought a tract of land from the Indians in the area of what is now Tappan. and called it Vriesendael. Here he hoped. with emigrants from New Amsterdam. to found a permanent settlement where the inhabitants could trade peacefully with the Indians and get a living from the soil for themselves. their families. and their animals. His dream was shattered three years later when the Indians. enraged at being constantly defrauded by some of the settlers. attacked the settlement and reduced it to ruins * * * Two or three other settlements were founded after that. but it was not until 1675 that permanent colonization of the land began. In that year a young Dutch immigrant. Harmon Dowsa (whose family name of Talma has been variously spelled Talman. Taulman. and Tallman) established a home in Nyack.
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