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- Philippe Casier of Calais France, is first mentioned in the Huguenot settlement of Martinique in the French West Indies. In 1635 a party of old and experienced settlers had gone to Martinique from the neighboring island of St. Christopher, which had been settled by French Huguenots in 1627. Philippe and Marie (Taine) Casier's first two children, Jean and Marie, were born on Martinique. In 1645, Philippe Casier and others left the island and returned to Europe. Casier went first to Calais, then to Sluis, Flanders where his daughter Hester was born. Many French and Walloon exiles from England and from the Dutch seaboard were fleeing to Mannheim, drawn there by assurances of freedom and protection under the government of the Protestant Elector, Charles Lewis who held out strong inducements to the refugees to settle there. Some time after 1652, Philippe and his family moved to Mannheim in the Lower Palatinate of Germany, along with other Huguenots and Walloon Protestants.
By 1652, David Demarest and others of the Huguenot refugees were found here and joined in forming a French church. Philippe Casier and his family came here, as did Simeon Cornier, Meynard Journee from Mardyck, Flanders, Joost Van Oblinus with his son Joost from Walloon Flanders and Pierre Parmentier also from Walslant, i.e. - Walloon country. All of these men eventually settled at Harlem, New York.
Casier was not content at Mannheim. His wife's brother, Isaac Tayne, called also Le Pere, the Father, had gone to the New World earlier and had been made a burgher of New Amsterdam. The Casier family, Uzilles included, followed. Returning to the Netherlands, they sailed directly for the Manhattans in the Dutch ship Vergulde Otter or the Gilded Otter , which left the Texel 27 April 1660. This ship also carryied Mattheus Blanchan and others from Mannheim including a band of soldiers, among whom were Jacob Leisler and Joost Kockuyt.
Philippe Casier and David Uzille and their families settled in Harlem on Manhattan Island in 1660. By the end of 1661, there were over 30 adult males resident in Harlem (or about 30 families). Philippe Casier and wife Marie Taine, united with the church Oct. 2 of that year. On 16 November, he was made a magistrate, but near the close of the ensuing winter, he died.
(© Lorine McGinnis Schulze 1996, Olive Tree Genealogy)
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Abt 1614 - Aft 1663 (~ 49 years)
