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LOUIS DUBOIS (b. 27 Oct 1626, d. 23 Jun 1696)

LOUIS DUBOIS (son of CHRESTIEN DUBOIS and JEANNE MASIC BRUNEL) was born 27 Oct 1626 in WICRES, ARTOLA, FRANCE, and died 23 Jun 1696 in KINGSTON, N.Y.. He married CATHERINE BLANCHAN on 10 Oct 1655 in GERMANY, daughter of MATHIEU BLANCHAN and MAGDALENA BRISSEN JORISSE.

Notes for LOUIS DUBOIS:
"Kingston, New York was called Wiltwyck in 1600's".

"Louis was born on a farm in Wiscres, a hamlet in the district of LaBaree, near Lille. While a young man, he fled to avoid religious persecution to Mannheim, in the Paltz, or German Palatinate, now incorporated in Baden, and there married in the French Church, Catherine Blanchan. He is buried in the old Dutch Churchyard at Kingsto on the northwest corner of Clinton and John Street. He and his family came to America on the ship the Gilded Otter in 1660.
Residents of Flanders between the rivers Scheldt and Lys were called Walloons, so Louis was called Louis the Walloon."

"Louis DuBois first appears on record at Wiltwyck, October 1, 1661 when he and his wife were received as members of the Reformed Church by attestation, and the following week they had a child baptized. He was an elder of the church. They were living at Kingston at the time of the Esopus massacre June 7, 1663 at which time Catherine and her three children, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were held in captivity for three months about thirty miles southwest of Esopus. They, with three other women, the wife and child of Anthony Crispell, and two children of Matthew Blanchan, Jr., were resuced by a party of soldiers and their husbands, as they were about to be burned. They had been taken to the Valley of the Wallkill, near New Paltz, and were on the brushwood pile singing the 137th Psalm. After seeing the rich soil in the Wallkill valley, they returned and settled there. Within the valley were founded the towns of New Paltz and Hurley."

"Louis DuBois kept a store in Hurley in 1663. In May 1666 he and his associates purchased from the Indians a tract of land comprosing 36000 acres lying between the Shawangunk mountains and the Hudson river.

On September 29, 1677, Louis and his sons Abraham and Isaac were among the twelve men to whom a patent was granted by Governor Andros. Louis moved to Kingston in 1686 from Hurley, where he was a county judge."

More About LOUIS DUBOIS:
Burial: Unknown, DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, KINGSTON, N.Y..
Emigration: 1660, Ship GILDED OTTER.

More About LOUIS DUBOIS and CATHERINE BLANCHAN:
Marriage 1: 10 Oct 1655, GERMANY.
Marriage 2: Old Protestant Evangelical Church, Palatinate, Mannheim, Baden, Germany.

Children of LOUIS DUBOIS and CATHERINE BLANCHAN are:

+SARAH DU BOIS, b. 14 Sep 1662, KINGSTON, N.Y., d. 13 Jan 1742/43, SALEM, N.J..