Ca 1660 Anna Lamberts married Zacharias Sickels. Born ca 1630 in Vienna, Austria. Zacharias died aft 1702.
From Harlem (City of New York), James Riker. New Harlem Publ, New York, 1904:
“Zacharias Sickels, the common ancestor and father of Zacharias aforesaid, was from Vienna, in Austria. Finding his way to Holland, he went out to Curacao, and served in the military rank of adelborst or cadet. When Stuyvesant returned from a visit to that Island in 1655, Sickels came with him, being soon after attached to the garrison at Fort Orange. In 1658 he was a tapster. He remained at Albany after the surrender in 1664, and worked as a carpenter, having m. Anna, dr. of Lambert van Valkenburgh, by whom he had sons, Robert, Lambert, Zacharias, and Thomas, and drs., Anna, Elizabeth, Maria, Margaret and Leah. Anna m. Abraham Isaacs, and Elizabeth m. William Peelen. In 1670 to ‘72, and 1681 to ‘83, Sickels was town herder, and had 18 gl. a head for the season. He next held the responsible place of rattel watch, so called from the rattle, used to give warning, in making his nightly rounds. He was also town cryer, to call the people together on needed occasions; and porter, or keeper of the city gates, to close and lock them at night, and to open them in the morning. His sons Robert and Lambert removing to N. Y., he, with his other sons, etc., followed them in 1693, his vacated office being given to his son-in-law Isaacs. In 1698 he was admitted a freeman of N. Y., and in 1702 was living in the East Ward. Robert, his son, m. 1656, Geertie, dr. of Abel Reddenhaus, and moved to Bergen co., N. J., where he d. in 1729; Lambert, b. 1666, m., 1690, Maria Jansen, from Albany, settled at Bedford, Brooklyn, and d. 1722; and Thomas, m., 1702, Jannetie, dr. of Jan Hendricks Brevoort, and remained in N.Y. All these left desc. See Winfeld’s Land Titles, the Bergen Gen., and N.Y. C. & B. Rec., 1876, 60.
“Zacharias Sickels, blacksmith, and referred to in the text, was b. in 1670, at Albany, and after coming to Harlem, m., Aug. 23, 1693, Mary, dr. of the aforesaid Brevoort. On Feb. 20, 1705, he bought of his father-in-law, who had then left Harlem, the lands he still held there. See Brevoort. Of these, Sickels sold, Apl. 9, 1705, a meadow, once Pierre Cresson’s, and lying at the head of Sherman’s Creek, and northerly of the Kortright farm, to Jan Kiersen (with whose lands it was sold to James Carroll, in 1763), and on Jan. 23, 1706, he sold to Samson Benson, No. I New Lots, with “a garden” (originally two erven of Cresson and Tourneur), lying next west of the churchyard. He drew land in 1712, in 1st and 2d Divisions, having sold his 3d and 4th to Jan Kiersen, but obtaining in exchange Kiersen’s lot in Ist Division. See Appendix 7. For these drawn lands he received a patentee deed Dec. 24, 1712. Later, he sold his 1st Division to Joh. Meyer. He m., July 19, 1717, a second w., Wyntie Dyckman, wid. of Joh. Kortright. Being sick, he sold his property, Jan. 15, 1729, to his step-son, Nicholas Kortright. This consisted of lot No. 5, Jochem Pieters, a lot on Montagne’s Flat, rated at 6 morgen or 12 acres (but in reality 20 acres), and No. 12, in 2d Division, 18 acres; in all, as rated, 43 acres. Zacharias Sickels d. Jan. 20, 1729, at age 59 yrs.”