Individual Details
Louis Du Bois
(28 Oct 1626 - Bef 23 Jun 1696)
Louis and Catherine left Mannheim for America in 1660 with her father and sister who was married to Antoine Crespel. They were among other French Huguenots who came to the Dutch settlements in New York. They helped found the town of Hurley near Kingston up the Hudson River. In 1663 when the town of Hurley was raided and burned by the Indians, Catherine and three of her children were taken captive. (The legend of Catherine's rescue is retold under her name.)
Louis was a member of the first court of Sessions at Kingston. He lost his commission for leading a demand to the English Governor and assembly that there should be no taxation without the consent of the people.
Louis, two of his sons, and nine other French Huguenots obtained a land grant for 40,000 acres south of Hurley. They village of New Paltz was settled there in 1675. He was one of the patentees of the town. Louis was the first elder of the church and the first entry into the church registry was written in his handwriting in 1683. He continued to keep the registry for several years. Today, a large bronze marker bears his name. Many of this family still live in the vicinity of New Paltz, New York, where they have restored a number of the original homes on Huguenot Street, among them an old fort built in 1705.
Louis moved to Kingston in 1686 and bought a house on the NW corner of John and Clinton streets. He lived there for the next ten years until his death in 1696.
Events
Families
Spouse | Catherine Blanjean / Blanshan (1634 - 1705) |
Child | Abraham Du Bois (1657 - 1731) |
Child | Isaac Du Bois (1659 - 1690) |
Child | Jacob Du Bois (1661 - ) |
Child | Sara Du Bois (1664 - 1716) |
Father | Chretien Du Bois (1597 - 1628) |
Mother | Cornelia (1600 - ) |
Notes
Will
In his will, Louis gave half of his property to his widow if she remarried. The will did not name his children.Endnotes
1. Family tree downloaded from ancestry.com with Van Meter and Strode ancesters (
2. Pete Ross, compiler, Papers on Van Meter, Holtzclaw, and allied families (Montrose, CO: from Marjorie Olive Tree Rhodes and William W. Henton, Jan 2007).
3. Family tree downloaded from ancestry.com with Van Meter and Strode ancesters (
4. Schoene, Charles E., The Moores of Virginia and Kentucky (Belleair Bluffs, Fla.: B.I. Moore, 1974, 217 pgs. ), p. 90.
5. Family tree downloaded from ancestry.com with Van Meter and Strode ancesters (
6. Smyth, Samuel Gordon, A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents (Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Print Co., 1909, 480 pgs.), p. 15.