He was married to Elise Thouvnier on 16 Nov 1871.

He was married to Elizabeth Rheinbold in 1850 in Steinbock, Germany. Children were: Mary L Droll.

She was married to Lawrence Hoffman on 22 Feb 1870 in Salem, Marion Co, IL. Children were: Joseph Bassee Hoffman, Ida Hoffman, Carolena Lena Hoffman, Elizabeth Lizzy Hoffman.

She was married to John Wentworth WFT Est. 1388-1408. Children were: Roger Wentworth.

She was married to John Donigan WFT Est. 1852-1901.

She was married to William Martin WFT Est. 1852-1901.

He was married to Mary Ann Cryle WFT Est. 1828-1871. Children were: Hannah Drosden, Elizabeth Drosden.

She was married to Michael Roulois WFT Est. 1674-1706. ⁽⁶⁷⁸⁰⁾ Children were: Catherine Roulois .

He was married to Margery Tripe on 4 Dec 1817.

He was married to Margaret Tripe on 25 Dec 1826.

He was married WFT Est. 1778-1825. Children were: Harriet Druce.

She was married to Alfred Evans on 11 Nov 1830. Children were: George Frederick Evans .

She was married to Walter Randall Pike in 1871. Children were: Florence Druce Pike, Annie Amelia Pike, Albert Henry Pike, Harriet Mary Pike.

She was married to Cornelius Woodruff WFT Est. 1831-1865. ⁽⁶⁷⁸³⁾ Children were: Ann M. Woodruff , Elizabeth Woodruff, John J. Woodruff, George Woodruff, Elvinia Or Elvira Woodruff, Harriet Woodruff .

He was married to Alta Beulah Davis Private. He Seal to Parents Private. Children were: Edith Pansy Drumn.

She was married to William Domdera on 13 Nov 1902 in Frostburg, MD. ⁽⁶⁵⁴³⁾ Children were: William Domdera, Delmar Domdera, Dorothy Domdera, Clarence Domdera, Ruth Domdera, Louise Domdera.

He was married to Elizabeth Taylor WFT Est. 1785-1818.

She was married to Edmond West WFT Est. 1794-1839.

He was married to Ruth L. Loring on 3 Feb 1870.⁽⁶⁷⁸⁸⁾

She was married to Alan Selby Pike Private. She Seal to Parents Private. Children were: Alan Drum Pike, Richard Foster Pike, Catherine Ann Pike.

She was married to John King before 1628 in England. Children were: John King.

He was married to Lydia Rice on 5 Apr 1672 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Mass. He Seal to Parents on 8 May 1946 in Slake.

She was married to William Alden on 21 May 1691 in Boston, Suffolk, MA.

She was married to Ophir Dawes WFT Est. 1804-1847. Children were: Meranda P. Dawes.

He was married to Marared WFT Est. 1145-1173. Children were: Llewellyn Ap Iorwerth.

He was married to Sarah J. McCory on 29 Jul 1861.

He was married to Eunice White about 1731 in Lancaster, Mass.

She was married to Claud** De La Maitre on 24 Apr 1652. Children were: Jacobus* Delamater, Abraham Delamater.

She was married to Renaud De Courtenay Duke WFT Est. 1139-1171. Children were: Reginald De Courtenay, Elizabeth De Courtenay.

He was married to Corbeil WFT Est. 1095-1144. Children were: Daughter Of Guy Du Donjon.

She was married to Pierre Auger WFT Est. 1510-1562. Children were: Henriette Auger.

He Private-Begin Private.⁽⁶⁰⁾ He was divorced from Maclovia Vigil Private. ⁽⁶⁰⁾ Children were: Monte Duarte, Diane Duarte.

He was married to Mary Ann Gibble WFT Est. 1901-1925.⁽⁶⁷⁹¹⁾ Children were: Nathan Dubble, Henry Dubble, Wayne Dubble, Sallie Dubble.

He was married to Virgie Lauch WFT Est. 1907-1919.

He was married to Mary Wenger on 26 Mar 1921. ⁽⁶⁷⁹⁶⁾

He was married to Bessie Frantz Private.

She was married to Philip Gramly WFT Est. 1829-1859.^{(8) (6801)}

He was married to Hazel Mae Ledsworth WFT Est. 1925-1930.^{(8) (6804)} Children were: Donna Dubeau.

She Private-Begin Private.⁽⁸⁾ She was divorced from Glen Doan Private.⁽⁸⁾ She was married to Glen Doan Private.

He was married to Maelcorcre WFT Est. 996-1032. Children were: Ragnaillt.

She was married to *Jacob Vernooy on 28 Apr 1728 in Kingston, Ulster Co, NY.⁽⁶⁸⁰⁵⁾ Children were: *Sarah Vernooy, Jacob Vernooy, Cornelia Vernooy, Zamuel Vernooy, Josaphat Vernooy, Maria Vernooy, Wessel Vernooy.

He was married to *Philipotte (duBois) WFT Est. 1525-1581. Children were: *Wallerand duBois.

He was married WFT Est. 1616-1643. Children were: Francoise DuBois, Anne DuBois, *Louis DuBois, Jacques DuBois.

He was married to *Cornelia Vernooy on 8 Mar 1688/89 in Kingston, New York. From "The American Descendants of Chretien DuBois of Wicres, France", part one, pages 21-22:

"David DuBois settled in Rochester patent, Ulster County, New York.

The name of David DuBois appears as Lieutenant in Captain Vernooy's Company for Rochester & Wawarsing 1715. He took Oath of Allegiance in 1689. David was Supervisor of the Town of Rochester from 1717 to 1728. In 1729 he was one of the Overseers of the Poor, Town of Rochester.

4-2-1694: Indenture between John Wood & Hannah, his wife, parties of the first part, and David DuBois of Kingston, son of Louis DuBois one of the Patentees of New Paltz, for the consideration of "2300 schipples of wheat", a conveyance of 10 acres of meadow land. In March 1697 David DuBois conveyed this land back to John Wood. In the will of Louis DuBois pr. 1696: "Payments for the land which my son David bought from Jan Wood to come out of my estate as I promised my son David."

3-15-1709: "Leendard Cool desires a conveyance for the land that lies behind his land, between David DuBois, his land, and the land of Captain Joachim Schoonmaker..."

The name of David DuBois was included on a "Lis of Quit Rent, Rochester from May 28, 1715 to 1729", although there is no amount given." Children were: Catryn DuBois, Hannah DuBois, Catrynje DuBois, *Annaatjen DuBois, Josaphat DuBois, Elizabeth DuBois.

He was married to *Catherine Blanchan on 10 Oct 1655 in Mannheim, Germany. Louis DuBois, bp. at Lille, parish church of Wicres, France, 10-21-1626 (sp. Jacques du Bois & Rogeau); d. at Kingston, N.Y. 6-23-1693; m. at the French Protestant Church at Mannheim, in the Pfalz, German Palatinate, 10-10-1655 CATHERINE BLANCHAN, b. Artois, France c1629, d. at Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y. during the year 1713, dau. of MATTHYS BLANCHAN & MADELINE BRISSEN JORISSE.

Catherine Blanchan DuBois m. 2nd at the age of 63, JEAN COTTIN, merchant of Kingston, who had previously been schoolmaster at New Paltz. The First Dutch Church at Kingston records that Louis DuBois' grave was in the churchyard, but his tombstone has long since disappeared....

It has been generally accepted that Louis DuBois accompanied Matthys Blanchan and Antoine Crispell (from Mannheim to Kingston in 1660], but Riker suggests that he probably came with his brother-in-law Pierre Billious the following year. Blanchan, Crispell, and DuBois all received grants of land in Hurley, near Kingston, obtaining ground briefs on 4-25-1663.

On the 10th of June 1663, Hurley and part of Kingston was burned by the Indians, and the wife of Louis DuBois and three children were among those who were carried away captive. Three months afterward an expedition under Captain Krieger, sent from New York, recovered the captives, by surprising the Indians at their Fort near the Hogabergh in Shawangunk.

From Ralph LeFevre's "History of New Paltz", Fort Orange Press, Albany 1909:

"The story (of the rescue of the Indian captives) which is dear to the Huguenot heart of New Paltz, is that when Captain Krieger and his company directed by an Indian, attacked the savages at their place of refuge near the Shawangunk Kill, they were about to burn one or more captives at the stake, and the women commenced singing the 137th Psalm, which so pleased the red men that they deferred the proposed death by torture. In the meantime Captain Krieger's band, with Louis DuBois and others, arrived and rescued the captives from a horrible death. Louis DuBois is reported to have killed with his sword an Indian, who was in advance of the rest, before the alarm could be raised. Captain Krieger's report says nothing of this. However, as the tradition contains nothing irreconcilable with the Captain's report which deals mainly with the fighting done by his soldiers, it is interesting to keep the tradition alive as it deals more upon the condition of the captives."

E.M. Ruttenber, the Orange County historian, states his objections to the tradition as follows:

"The story was repudiated as a statement of fact, first, on the authority of Indian customs. We do not recall a single instance where a woman was burned at the stake by the Indians. They killed female prisoners on the march sometimes when they were too feeble to keep up but very rarely after reaching camp. Mrs. DuBois and her companions had been prisoners from June 10th to September 5th, or nearly three months before they were rescued from captivity. During all that time they had been guarded carefully at the castle of the Indians, and held ransom or exchange, to which end negotiations had been opened. The Indians asked especially for the return of some of their chiefs who had been sent to Curacao and sold as slaves by Governor Stuyvesant. Second: Documentary evidence concerning events of that period is entirely against tradition. The written record is, that when the Dutch forces surprised the Indians, the latter were busy in constructing a third angle to their fort for the purpose of strengthening it, instead of being engaged in preparations for burning prisoners. The prisoners were found alive and well, and no complaint is recorded of any ill treatment, not even their heads had been shaved and painted as had been customary. Every night, says the record, they were removed from the castle to the woods, lest the Dutch should recover them before negotiations for their release were consumated."

Among the Huguenot settlers at Kingston, at this time, was Abraham Hasbrouck. He had served with Edmund Andros in the English army. He was a native of Calais, had emigrated to Mannheim, and in 1675 to America, settling finally in Esopus.

The Huguenots, being desirous of forming a settlement of their own, were indebted to some extent to the acquaintanceship of Abraham Hasbrouck with Edmund Andros who was Colonial Governor at this time, having been appointed to that office when the colony of New York passed from the Dutch to the English in 1665.

These French settlers longed for a settlement of their own where they could speak their own language, worship in their own church, and be in a community where they could govern themselves according to their own choice. The traffic with the Indians in furs was becoming less profitable. It was becoming more and more necessary to follow the occupation of cultivating the soil. The fertile lowlands of the Wallkill had undoubtedly been in the mind of Louis DuBois as an ideal place to establish the French community. The mountains and forest lining the valley most certainly must have reminded the Huguenots of their native country in French Flanders, and the Meuse Valley through which they escaped to the Pfalz.

The papers relating to the Paltz Patent are among the most cherished possessions of the Huguenot Historical Society of New Paltz, N.Y., Inc. They are written in Dutch and preserve a unique example of fair dealing between red men and white. LeFevre's History gives the translation as follows:

Contract of Sale
"By approbation of his Excellency Governor Edmond Andros, dated April 28, 1677, an agreement is made on this date, the 26th of May, of the year 1677, for the purchase of certain lands, between the parties herein named and the undersigned Esopus Indians.

"Matsaysay, Nekahakaway, Magakahas, Assinnerakan, Wawawanis, acknowledge to have sold to Lowies du Booys and his partners the land described as follows: Beginning from the high hills at a place named Juffrous Hoock, lying in the Long Reach, named by the Indians Magaatramis, then north up along the river to the island called by the Indians Raphoes, then west toward the high hills to a place called Waratahaes and Tawaentaqui, along the high hills south-west to Moggonck, being described by the four corners with everything included within these boundaries, hills, dales, waters, etc., and a right of way to the Ronduyt kill as directly as it can be found, and also that the Indians shall have the same right to hunt and to fish as the Christians, for which land the Indians have agreed to accept the articles here specified:

"40 kettles, 10 large, 30 small; 40 axes, 40 adzes; 40 shirts, 400 fathoms of white net-work; 300 fathoms of black net-work; 60 pairs of stockings, half small sizes; 100 bars of lead; 1 keg of powder; 100 knives; 4 kegs of wine; 40 oars; 40 pieces of duffel (heavy woolen cloth); 60 blankets; 100 needles; 100 awls; 1 measure of tobacco; 2 horses - stallion, 1 mare.

"Parties on both sides acknowledge to be fully satisfied herewith and have affixed their own signatures ad ut supra.

Louwies Du Booys Matsaya x his mark
Christian de Yoo x his mark Waehtonck x his mark
Abraham Haesbroecq Seneraken x his mark
Andrie Lefeber Magakahoos x his mark
Jan Broecq Wawateanis x his mark
Piere Doyo
Anthony Crespel
Abraham Du Booys
Hugo Freer
Isaack D. Boojs
Symon Lefeber

...

In 1686, Louis DuBois, who had been the leader of the settlement returned from New Paltz to Kingston, where he purchased a house and lived at this location ten years until his death in 1696.
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From Ulster County Surrogate's Record, Liber BB, p. 323:

Translation of the Will of Catherine Cottin from the French. The will was dated 7-23-1712, pr. 12-10-1713.

"Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth, Amen. I, Catherine Cottin being very sound of mind and memory and having for my husband Jean Cottin, merchant living at Kingston in the County of Ulster, Province of New York, considering that the hour of death is unknown to all human creatures, and having recommended my soul to my creator, the omnipotent God and to my Savior and Redeemer and by the merit of His son Jesus Christ I believe I will be saved and have remission of my sins and hope for the resurrection of the Just by this virtue of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ to attain the Kingdom of Heaven prepared by His Spirit, of my following words it is my Testament and my last Will for that which concerns the temporary goods which it has pleased my God by His Grace and Benediction to give me during all the time I have Lived and resided with my husband Jean Cottin (to the effect) that I would have the third part of the profit which God has given us together by his bounty, with my said husband Jean Cottin since the hour of our marriage up to the first trespass, therefore, I wish and it is my Will, very justly, that the franchise dated September 22, 1702, which I gave to Rachel, which is her name after having been baptized, shall be observed and shall be of full force and virtue from the first word of the page to the last word, and the said Rachel shall have and take after my death, my said third part of the profit, 30 pieces of Eight, and the other things which are stated in the said indenture, and she shall take before my children can divide my third part of the profit and also, I wish and it is my Will, being very just, that the indenture dated August 17, 1709, which I gave to our negress Dina shall be observed and guarded in full force and virtue, and also it is my very just Will that the donations dated March 10, 1697, which I made to my daughter Sarah for all my clothing, one chest, shall be observed and guarded in full force and virtue. Also I give to the Walloon Church of Kingston, 20 pieces of eight which to take after my death in my said third part of the profit and this to aid in assisting the poor, and for all that which concerns my third part of the profit, it shall be to Abraham DuBois and Jacob DuBois and David DuBois and Matthew DuBois, and the two sons of Isaac DuBois, to them together I give them which they take after my death in my said third part of the profit, one fourth part, and to my said daughter I give to take after my death the two other fourth parts of my said third part of the profit to her alone, and for their inheritance of my said third part of the profit, all these children shall take in good merchandise and trade goods, each in proportion to their part, for this effect I have chosen my husband Jean Cottin whom I hereby constitute Executor of my present Testament and last Will who shall be bound by the above conditions and who shall render account six weeks after my death and deliver to each his part as is specified hereabove, and it is my last Will, and I have hereby signed, sealed, and delivered this present in my proper hand in presence of two witnesses, made at Kingston, July 23, 1712.

CATTOLON COTTIN (Seal)
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From "The Early History of Kingston & Ulster County", by Marc Fried:

"In the spring of 1662 a petition for the allotment of farmlands and establishment of a new village at Esopus was received by the director-general from a number of the inhabitants of Beverwyck [Albany], and after consideration it was resolved to lay out a new settlement and accomodate the petitioners as far as possible. The 'New Village' or 'Nieuwe Dorp' probably was settled not long thereafter, on the Esopus Creek, two and one-half miles southwest of Wildwyck. This was the village that later was given the name of Hurley. In addition to the Beverwyck petitioners, a number of the inhabitants of Wildwyck received lots and farmlands at the New Village, as well. Among these were Louis DuBois and Antoine Crispell, later patentees of New Paltz, and Albert Heymans Roosa." (pp. 52-53)

"On Thursday, June 7, 1663, between eleven and twelve o'clock, when nearly all the men were at work in the fields, a large number of Indians began entering Wildwyck from different points, in bands, dispersing among the dwellings in a seemingly friendly manner, under pretense of bartering a little maize and some beans. The visitors had been in Wildwyck about a quarter of an hour when some people on horseback rushed through the mill gate crying out 'The Indians have destroyed the New Village!'. The Indians at Wildwyck then commenced a general attack on the bewildered inhabitants, murdering them in their houses with axes and tomahawks and firing on them with guns.... In the meantime, the New Village had suffered a similar fate. The entire settlement was burned to the ground, except for a new unroofed barn, a rick, and a small stack of reed. Here, according to the official report, there were three men killed. There were no wounded, but a man and thirty-four women and children were carried off by the Indians. In Wildwyck twelve men (including three soldiers), four women, and two children were reported dead, with ten women and children taken prisoner. Eight men were injured, one of whom died nine days later of his wounds. Twelve houses were burned. Hendrick Jochemsen (Schoonmaker) was 'very severely wounded in his house [in Wildwyck] by two shots at an early hour.' A child of Schoonmaker was among those taken prisoner from the New Village. Also taken captive from the New Village were the wife and three children of Lambert Huybertsen (Brink), two children of Albert Heymans Roosa, the wife and child of Antoine Crispell, and the wife and three children of Louis DuBois...." (pp. 61-62)

"Another tradition has it that as the whites neared the fort, 'Lewis DuBois, whose ardor in the pursuit could not be excelled, moved on at the head of the party, more agile and strong than the others, thus rendering him the most noticeable of their number. An Indian secreted behind a tree, just at the moment he was discovered by DuBois, let go his arrow upon him. Luckily, however, it missed its mark and DuBois with the power of a lion immediately sprang upon him and with his sword killed him on the spot.' Another story has DuBois killing a sleeping Indian scout somewhere in the vicinity of Nescotack (the present Libertyville). Let it suffice to say that it is highly unlikely that Captain Cregier would have allowed any of his party to go sneaking out ahead without authorization, at the possible endangerment of the entire army, or that he would have failed to mention a significant incident that occurred en route. Yet another story is that, as the surprise attack on the Indians at their fort commenced, Louis DuBois's wife Catherine (a captive of the Indians), in a moment of confusion, began running with the Indians and was recalled by the voice of her husband, who cried to her 'Stop, 'trene, or I'll shoot you.' This story could conceivably be true; it does not seem subject to proof or disproof." (pp. 92-93)

"On October 10 [1663], while Louis DuBois was fetching his oxen which had gone back of Juriaen Westphaelen's land, three Indians who lay hidden in the bushes leaped forth, with the intention of taking DuBois prisoner. One of the Indians wounded him slightly with an arrow, whereupon Louis, having a piece of palisade in his hand, struck him a heavy blow so that the Indian staggered back. Louis then escaped through the kill to the village and reported the incident. A force was immediately sent to attack these Indians, but the latter had taken flight and retreated into the forest. Brink (IV,301-2) suggested that this incident, described in Cregier's journal, may be the source of the legends concerning DuBois killing an Indian near or en route to the Indian fort in Sepbember." (pp. 103-104)

"On April 25-27 [1667] a special court was held at Wildwyck by three persons commissioned and sent there by Governor Nicolls. The court heard evidence from Brodhead and the soldiers concerning the 'mutiny', and also heard the complaints of the inhabitants against the military. Among the latter are recorded the following: Tjerck Claesen de Witt was beaten by Captain Brodhead and imprisoned because de Witt would observe Christmas on the day customary with the Dutch, and not on the day accorded by English custom; Albert Heymans Roosa, waiting for the smith to repair for him a broken coulter or plow iron, was assaulted and wounded outside the house of Louis DuBois, by five soldiers, and was afterward imprisoned; Roeloff Swartwout was assaulted one day in the street by a soldier; Hendrick Cornelissen Lyndraejer was wounded in the belly by the soldier William Fisher on February 16/26 and died five days later of the wound. Coming to the house of Louis DuBois, Captain Brodhead took an ancker of brandy and threw it upon the ground because DuBois had refused him free brandy; DuBois was forced by Brodhead to give him brandy, and when DuBois's wife came to Brodhead's house to demand payment, the captain drove her out of the house with a knife, calling her many bad names, and told her that were she not with child he would cut her." (p. 121) Children were: Abraham DuBois, Abraham DuBois, Isaac DuBois, Jacob DuBois, Sara DuBois, *David DuBois, Solomon DuBois, Rebecca DuBois, Rachel DuBois, Louis DuBois, Mattheus DuBois, Magdalena DuBois.

He was married to *Madeleine deCroix in 1583 in France. Children were: *Chretien DuBois.

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