Exerpt taken from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1939
In 1740 Nicholas Emigh built a stone house in the Clove. This house is still standing. On the chimney are the date, 1740, and the initials, N.E. Tradition has it that he lived in a log house for some time before the stone house was built in 1740.
The records of the Early Lutheran Churches of New York city show that Johan Nicholas Emigh and his wife was Anna Catharine Muller. Peter Lossing said that Nicholas Emigh married Catherine on shipboard.
They came to America in 1710, and their eldest son was born between the first subsistence list of 1710 and the last one, dated September, 1712.
Nine children were born to Nicholas and Catherine:
Philip, Anna Maria, Johannes, Laurence, Johan Nicholas, Hendrick, Eva, Hans Jurry and Catharine