Should our lake be called "Sixbury Lake" or "Sixberry Lake"?

And here is a download from a genealogy site elaborating on the confusion:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.sixberry/2Robert Sixberry/Sixbury
Author: Cheryl SigsbeeDate: 27 Mar 2001 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: Sigsbee, Sixberry, Sixbury, Sixby, Sixbee, Sixbey, Siksby, Seksby, Sigsby, Sigsbey

Classification: Biography Robert Sixbury/Sixberry, b. 1763, of Jefferson Co., NY, Evans Mills, and Montgomery County, NY, was from the same general area of New York as some descendants of Manasseh Sixberry, but he has not at this writing been linked to the Manasseh Sixberry family.

A number of old newspaper articles and genealogical records on this family give varied accounts of the origins of Robert/Sixbury/Sixberry.

According to the newspaper articles, which are based on family accounts, he was born on a ship in the Atlantic, and the family's last name was Sixby (or it was "Six" in another article). One account has the family coming from Denmark.

One, printed on July 30, 1942, states as follows: "According to family records and traditions, Robert Sixburry, famed hunter of Indian days in the north country was actually Robert Sixby.
 Mrs. Avis Parker Carragher, a teacher in the Theresa High school system, has been looking up the history of the Sixbury family and has made drawings of the route that Robert Sixbury traveled when he came from the Hudson valley into northern New York...."

further in this article: "His parents were en route from Denmark to locate in America. They landed in New York and traveled north to locate in the Hudson valley not far from Kingston...."

"A few months ago, Mrs. Carragher visited the Hudson valley and sought to learn more about the Sixby and Bury families to get what she could, but the records of the very early times seemed to be missing...."

Family stories tell of his parents dying when he was around two, and that he was adopted by a family with the last name of Bury. The stories relate that the Bury family already had a son named Robert, so they added "Six" to "Bury" and he became Robert Sixbury. As he became older, he became unhappy, and ran away, living with the Mohawk Indians of the region for a time, and became a famed hunter.

In early newspaper articles regarding his exploits, his name is written as Robert Sixberry. Sixberry Lake in New York is named after him. I would be a difficult, if not impossible, task to sort out the fact from fiction in the varied accounts of his origin.

He married Elizabeth Huber (Hoover). He died October 1873 at the age of 110 years.

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