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SOLDIERS IN CAPT. ABM. DEYO'S COMPANY
An original document giving the names of a portion of Capt. Abraham Deyo's company in the Third Regiment of Ulster County Militia in the Revolutionary war follows :
We whose names are hereunto written do hereby acknowl-
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edge to have received of Captain Abraham Doiau our respec- tive wages and billeting money for one' month's term of duty at the Frontiers (part of months of July and August, 1778), we say received respectively in full by us this 19th day of September, 1778.
Isaac DuBois.
Abraham Ean.
Ezekiel Deyoo.
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Zacharias Hasbrouck.
Martynes Griffin.
John Terwilliger, Jr.
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Josiah Terwilliger, Jr.
Jonathan Van Wagenen.
Henry Pontinear.
Robert Hass.
Aurt Terwilliger.
Wm. Sergeant.
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Nathaniel Wallters.
John York.
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Benjamin Sluyter.
Benjamin Freer.
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Peter Bevier.
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Jacob Krom.
Frederick Hyms
John Nees.
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Wm. Dewitt, Jr.
Johannes Spratt.
Jacobus Dewitt.
Capt. Abm. Deyo's great-great-grandson, Abm. D. Brod- head, has in his possession his sword, epaulets and pistols, which have always remained in the family. Capt. Abraham's tombstone, which stands in the old graveyard in this village, bears this inscription : "Capt. Abraham Deyo, who departed this life Sept. 12th, 1808, aged 69 years, 6 months and 15 days." There is only one other tombstone in the graveyard bearing a military title in its inscription.
When the stone church which preceded the present brick edifice was built in 1771, Capt. Abm. Deyo had charge of the work, and the papers relating to its building, which are in the Dutch language, are in the possession of Mr. Abm. D. Brod-
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head. For a long time after the death of Capt. Deyo the old homestead in this village was occupied by Richard Harden- bergh, father of Senator Jacob Hardenbergh, who was born in this house. Judge Deyo occupied the old house for a time and afterwards lived at Modena. He married Margaret, daughter of his cousin, Abraham Deyo of Ireland Corners, and left two sons, John B. and Abm. A., Jr. Judge Deyo was a prominent citizen, a man of extensive means and Supervisor of the town of Plattekill for a long period. His son, Sheriff Abm. A. Deyo, moved into the old stone house in this village when he married and continued to reside there until he was elected sheriff and went to Kingston. Sheriff Abraham had one son, who was also called Abraham and was the sixth of that name in a direct line. He died at the age of about four- teen, in Kingston, while his father was sheriff, a few months after the family moved from this village in 1858.
DANIEL DEYO
Daniel, the second son of Abm. (2), married Margaret Le- Fevre; after her death he married Catharine Dewitt, of Wa- warsing, who left no children. He located at Ireland Corners, where his father purchased for him, in 1763, a tract of 500 acres, being a part of the Garland Patent. The deed for this tract is in possession of Andrew L. F. Deyo.
According to the tradition in the Deyo family, this land at the time of the purchase was occupied by J. G. Ronk, who had built a house and set out an orchard on the place. Not having a good title, he gave up the property and moved to the New Hurley neighborhood to a tract which he had purchased a dozen years before and where he afterwards resided. During the Revolutionary war Daniel did some service as a teamster, going on one occasion with a load of arms to the patriot army which was stationed near Philadelphia.
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HOUSE OF DANIEL DEYO NEAR IRELAND CORNERS.
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Daniel Deyo's sister, who had married Nathaniel LeFevre, occupied the adjoining farm on the north, known in modern times as the "Sing" LeFevre place. Daniel left a family of three sons, Abm., Nathaniel and Jonathan; also two daugh- ters, Elizabeth, who married Moses DeWitt and moved to Chemung county, and Mary, who married Simon DuBois of Wallkill. Daniel divided his land among his three sons, each taking about an equal part. Abraham, the oldest son, mar- ried Ann Brodhead, sister of Congressman John C. Brodhead. Abraham lived in a frame house still standing on what is now known as the Daniel Bevier place. He left one son, Daniel A., and two daughters, one of whom married Judge Abraham Deyo of Modena, and the other married Andrew Bevier and left a family of four sons-Daniel, Richard, A. Deyo and Dr. Du- Bois. Daniel A. Deyo lived for a time on his father's home- stead and then sold it to Daniel Bevier and moved to Chicago, where he purchased the paw paw grove, near the city. This he afterwards sold and returning to the east purchased a farm near Balmville, three miles north of Newburgh. This prop- erty at Balmville increased greatly in value with the growth of Newburgh, as it commanded a fine view of the river. Part of it was sold after his death for a large sum. Daniel A. Deyo was three times married. His first wife, Elizabeth Elting, left but one son, Abm. D., of Tuthill; his second wife, Nelly LeFevre, left two sons, Johannes and Brodhead, and one daugh- ter, Cornelia; his third wife, Arabella Hallock, left a son, Thomas J. of Wallkill, and two daughters.
Jonathan Deyo, son of Daniel, the first settler at Ireland Corners, married Mary, daughter of John Charles Harden- bergh of Rosendale. He occupied all his days the old stone house of his father, which is still standing. He left a family of five sons, John H., Dr. Nathaniel, Barzillai and Dr. Abra-
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ham, and two daughters, Jane H. and Mary. The latter mar- ried Oscar Noyes. The son, Nathaniel, located at Newburgh, where he practiced medicine and there his son John is still engaged in the same profession. Another son, Robert E., is a prominent lawyer in New York City, his office being at 115 Broadway.
Nathaniel, the third son of Daniel Deyo, owned and occupied the house now the residence of his grandson, Andrew L. F. By his first wife, Leah DeWitt, he had three sons, Daniel, Jonathan N. and John. By his second wife, Catharine Har- denburgh of Marbletown, he had one daughter, who married Thomas K. Jessup of Newburgh. The elder son, Daniel, be- came a doctor, but died a young man and left one son, Alfred. Jonathan N. kept his father's homestead, which he occupied all his days. John located in Shawangunk.
SIMEON DEYO
Simeon, the third son of Abraham (2), was baptized Feb- ruary 13, 1743. He married Antje Low and located about a mile south of the present village of Highland, opposite the old burying ground and just south of the mill pond. Here about 1780 he built a stone house as his residence and had a farm of about 250 acres. Simeon left a family of three sons, Jacob, Abraham and Joseph. The first named, who was born in 1775, married Ruth Smith and lived about half a mile south of the present village of Highland in a house now occupied by Mrs. Lake. This house when built was considered the finest in that section of country. Jacob was at one time colonel of militia and was usually called colonel. His children were Anna, Nathan, Mary Ann, Sarah, Simeon, Eleanor, Anning S., Hiram C. and Oliver Hazard Perry. The last named became a min- ister, living for many years at Asbury Park, N. J. From him
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we have our information concerning this branch of the family. Simeon's son Abraham became a doctor and married Catharine DuBois. He died not long after marriage, leaving one daugh- ter, Electa, who married Philip Elting of Highland. Simeon's son Joseph married Julia Kelsey. They left a large family of sons and daughters as follows: Reuben, Simeon, Abraham, Monroe, Delilah, Eleanor and Rowena. All of these married.
JONATHAN DEYO ,
Jonathan Deyo, fourth son of Abraham (2) married Mary, daughter of Daniel LeFevre of Bontecoe. Jonathan lived a short time on the Paltz Plains. But the lands of his father being divided by lot, Jonathan's share fell on the west side of the Wallkill, and he took the farm now owned by Miss Smedes. His house was of frame and must have been one of the first of that material built at New Paltz. This house was torn down in 1850. Jonathan left a family of three sons, Abraham J., Daniel L. and Peter, and three daughters, Elizabeth, who mar- ried Henry DuBois; Catharine, who married Wilhelmus Du- Bois, and Cornelia, who married Josiah Hasbrouck of Marble- town. Jonathan's son, Abraham J., married Maria Deyo and moved to what is now the Cold Spring Corners neighborhood. He lived for a while in a log house, and about 1812 built the stone house in which he afterwards resided and which was probably the last stone house built in this town.
The country about Cold Spring Corners or Grahow, as it was formerly called, was almost an unbroken wilderness then, but there were no Indians and few wild animals, though at a later date Mr. Andries Deyo informs us he has seen deer pas- turing on the winter grain. The stone for the house came from the Bear Vly and the mortar used in laying up the wall came from a field near by. The Pang Yang settlement was
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only about a mile to the east, but it was not until a later period, when others moved in, that the Pang Yang people acquired a reputation for thieving. At that time the residents there were poor but honest people living in thatched log houses.
Daniel L., the second son of Jonathan Deyo, married Jane LeFevre. They lived on South street, which was then called Quaker street in the present town of Lloyd, where their sons, Jonathan and John L. afterwards lived.
Peter, the youngest son of Jonathan Deyo, married Cornelia Elting. Peter kept his father's homestead, now the Miss Smedes' place. He afterwards bought of Isaiah Hasbrouck, father of Daniel I. Hasbrouck, the farm adjoining on the north, where his son Ira afterwards lived and his grandson Perry afterwards resided.
PHILIP DEYO
Philip Deyo, the youngest of the five brothers, sons of Abra- ham (2), married Gertrude LeFevre of Kettleborough and lived on the Paltz Plains where is now the Josiah Sprague farm. The house, part frame and part stone, and still standing, was built in the time of the Revolutionary war and it is related that nails were so exceedingly difficult to obtain that a visit was made to Kingston after that place was burned by the British and from the ruins nails were obtained for the new house. Philip Deyo was a man of great intelligence and we have this saying of Josiah DuBois, "Philip Deyo knew enough to be President of the United States." Philip had a family of seven daughters and only one son, Andries, who was the youngest of the family. He married Catharine Elting and kept the homestead. Six of the daughters married as follows: Eliza- beth married Simon LeFevre, Maria married Abraham J. Deyo, Elsie married Andries Bruyn, Catharine married Andries El-
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THE HOUSE OF HENDRICUS DEYO AT BONTECOE.
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ting, Sarah married Solomon LeFevre, Cornelia married Jacob G. DuBois.
THE FAMILY OF HENDRICUS DEYO, SON OF PIERRE, THE PATENTEE
Hendricus Deyo, youngest son of Pierre, the Patentee, was baptized at Kingston, October 12, 1690. He married at Kings- ton, December 31, 1715, Margaret Von Bummel, who was bap- tized at Kingston in 1693. They located at Bontecoe, about four miles north of this village. The house, probably built by Hendricus, but perhaps by his son Benjamin, is still stand- ing on the east bank of the Wallkill and is, we think, the most antique and interesting in appearance of all the old houses of that period. The homestead was bounded by the Freers of the north, and by the LeFevres on the south, and came down in the Deyo family almost to the present day, the last owner of the Deyo name being Ezekiel I. Deyo, son of Abm. W. Deyo.
In the old graveyard in this village stands an ancient tomb- stone which is quite certainly that of Margaret Van Bummel, wife of Hendricus Deyo, son of Pierre, the Patentee. The in- . scription on this tombstone has proved quite as puzzling as the hieroglyphics of Egypt, but the key, when found, unlocks the mysterious inscription quite as satisfactory as does Champol- lion's key the ancient hieroglyphics.
The inscription is as follows :
Anno I747 de 21 FI is M. V. B. M. E. D. H. O. S. H. D. I.
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TOMBSTONE OF MARGARET VAN BUMMEL, WIFE OF HENDRICUS DEYO
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It must be remembered that the New Paltz people in 1747 used the Dutch language. The first three lines are the date, the fourth line the initials of the person buried. The letters of the fifth line are the initials of the Dutch words "In Den Heeren Ontslapen"-"In the Lord Asleep." The final line gives the initials of the husband's name, Hendricus DeIoo. We have seen the name Deyo written Deloo. This explana- tion of the inscription is corroborated by the following extract from Rev. Dr. Anson DuBois' history of the DuBois family at Catskill, as found on page 62, as follows: "Cornelius (Du- Bois') record of his own wife's death is peculiarly devout : it is thus in Dutch, "Ano 1778, Mert 27, is myne vrow in Den Heeren Ontslapen." We would read it in English, "March 27, 1778, Now is my wife sleeping in the Lord."
In the above record, as given by Rev. Dr. Anson DuBois, it will be noted that the same order is observed as on the tomb- stone: first the date, then the statement as to who is here buried, then the pious epitaph.
Learned persons have puzzled over this inscription. Much credit for its satisfactory solution is due to Mrs. Ralph LeFevre.
Hendricus Deyo (1) left a large family of children as fol- lows: Debora, Peter, Jr., Isaac, Benjamin, Johannes, Chris- toffel, Hagetea, Hendricus, Sara and David. Debora married Peter Ostrander and settled with him near New Hurley. Peter, Jr., born in 1718, married Elizabeth Helm in 1745 and settled near Tuthill, where we find him a large taxpayer in 1765. Isaac, born in 1723, married Agatha Freer. We know nothing · further concerning him except that a son, David, was baptized in 1765. Christoffel, born in 1728, married Debora Van Vliet and located at Springtown. Their son David, baptized in 1758, married Rachel Ean. Rev. Paul T. Deyo is their grandson. Johannes, born in 1726, married Sarah Van Wagenen in 1756
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and located at Springtown. Hendricus (2), born in 1731, mar- ried Elizabeth Beem at Kingston October 13, 1753.
We have no connected genealogy of the family of Hendricus (1) except of the three sons : Peter, Jr., Benjamin (who kept the homestead at Bontecoe) and Hendricus (2). We will take up first the line of Peter, Jr. But we must say that our infor- mation concerning him is not complete.
In a tax list of 1765 we find Peter, Jr., located at what is now Tuthill and one of the original grants of land in the present town of Shawangunk was to Peter Deyo and son. We have not learned as yet who were Peter, Jr.'s children, but Lucas Deyo, who lived in 1820 in the house of Philip LeFevre in the Kettleboro neighborhood, was a son. Lucas' wife was a Van Kleeck of Poughkeepsie. They had a large family of boys as follows: Ezekiel, Peter, Evert, Francis and Tjerck. Lucas Deyo had a brother, who was the father of the late Jacob Deyo of Tuthill. We do not know his name.
Hendricus (2), who married Elizabeth Beem, is buried in the old Presbyterian graveyard at Highland. We do not know where he lived. He had only two children who married, the rest probably dying when young. Those two were Hendricus (3), who was baptized at Shawangunk in 1754, and Joseph, who was baptized at Kingston in 1765. Of Joseph we have no further account. Hendricus (2) must have ended his days with his son, Hendricus (3), at the river, as a tombstone in the old Presbyterian graveyard bears the inscription : "Henry Deyo died Dec. 12, 1805, Æ 74." This is the oldest grave marked by a tombstone having a legible inscription and this graveyard is the oldest in the town of Lloyd.
Hendricus (3) (in English Henry) located in the present town of Lloyd. He married Phebe Woolsey and long carried on the milling business at the Shadagee. His residence, how-
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ever, was not at the Shadagee, but about two miles south of the present village of Highland in a stone house still standing on the west side of the road leading from Highland to Modena, a short distance south of the old Presbyterian graveyard. Henry (3) left a family of six sons and two daughters, all of whom married and left families. The sons were Joseph H., Henry, John W., Thomas, Elijah and Harvey. The daugh- ters were named Clorine and Elizabeth. The former married Elidia Watkins.
Hendricus' (3) large landed estate was divided among his. sons.
His sons, Joseph and Henry, occupied adjoining farms, on what is now the Highland and Modena turnpike. Joseph mar- ried Jane Deyo, daughter of Wm. Deyo of Bontecoe. Joseph's property passed to his son, Wm. H. Deyo, who rebuilt and greatly enlarged the house. The place is now occupied by Geo. C. Brown, who married Wm. H. Deyo's daughter. Jos. Deyo's other sons were Noah and George, who settled in Illi- nois, and Ennis, who settled near Clintondale.
Henry Deyo's farm adjoined that of his brother Joseph on the north. Henry married Elizabeth L. Bevier. They had a large family of ten children, as follows: Caroline, Luther, Phebe, Alvah, Elmira, Delia Ann, Emily, Julia, Theora, Eliza- beth. All of them married. Caroline married Dewitt Ran- som and after his death Alden J. Pratt; Luther married Fran- ces E. Pratt; Phebe married Abm. Deyo; Alvah married Lydia Chambers; Elmira married Philip D. LeFevre; Julia married Philip LeRoy; Delia Ann married Andrew LeFevre; Emily married Josiah Elting; Elizabeth married Abm. E. Hasbrouck.
Hendricus' son, John W., married Annie Beesmer. He owned what has been of late years George W. Pratt's mill and here he carried on the milling business for a long, long time.
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His children were Phebe Ann, Henry, Woolsey, Emeretta and Livingston. Phebe Ann married - Goodrich; Emeretta married Barton Weed; Livingston married Saxton.
Thomas, son of Hendricus, married Elting, daughter of John Elting. He was never engaged in farming. For a time he attended to his father's mill at Shadegee. At one time he was engaged in the brick manufacturing business and like- wise had a store at Pell's dock in partnership, we believe, with his brother-in-law, Daniel Woolsey. By his first wife Thomas Deyo had one son, Maurice W., from whom we have a great portion of the information contained in this sketch. By his second wife, Deborah Brown, Thomas Deyo had several chil- dren, as follows: Samuel, Margaret, Mary Ann, George and Heckaliah.
Elijah, son of Hendricus (3), was born at Highland in 1798 and died in 1831. He lived, we believe, in the town of Platte- kill. Elijah married Patty Thomas. Their children were Henry, who lived at Clintondale; Theron, who also lived at Clintondale and afterwards at Highland, and Philip T., who has lived for nearly thirty years at Binghamton and from whom we have this information concerning his family.
Harvey, the last son of Hendricus, married Ellen Tooker and had three children, Charles, Anna and Maria.
Going back now to the homestead at Bontecoe, Benjamin, son of Hendricus (I), kept the homestead. He left four sons, William, Abram, Benjamin and John (called Hons in Dutch).
William lived in what has been of late years the Oscar Tschirkey place. He married Sarah, daughter of Roelif J. Elting of this village, and left a large family of sons and daughters, as follows: William W., Abm. W., Cornelius, Ezekiel, Roelif, Maria, Jane, Sarah, Bridget, Catharine and Rebecca. All of these married.
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Benjamin lived near Springtown. He was the father of DeWitt Deyo of Springtown, and Tjerck and David of Mid- dletown. Abram lived on what is now the Evert Schoonmaker place. He married his cousin, a Freer, and had but one child, who left no children. John lived part of the time on the Abm. W. Deyo place; part of the time on the Evert Schoonmaker place and also in the stone house east of the Bontecoe school- house. His wife was Catrina Kritsinger. His sons were Stephen, Benjamin I., John, Levi, Moses and Christian of Rochester.
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CHAPTER XXIV
THE DUBOIS FAMILY AT NEW PALTZ
Louis DuBois, the leader of the Huguenot settlers at New Paltz, was born at Wicres, near Lille, in the province of Artois (in French Flanders), October 27, 1626. The farm of his father Cretien is still pointed out.
Louis moved to Manheim, on the Rhine, the capital of the Palatinate or Paltz, a little principality, now incorporated in Baden, and there he married Catharine Blanshan, the daughter of Matthew Blanshan, a burgher residing there.
To Louis DuBois and his wife there were born a numerous family of children, as follows: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, David, Solomon, Louis, Matthew. Other children died before reaching mature years. Of these children Abraham and Isaac were born at Manheim and the rest in Ulster county. Man- heim was at that time a refuge for the Protestants from the neighboring parts of France, and Baird in his "Huguenot Emigration," says that the LeFevres, Hasbroucks, Crispells, etc., were associated with Louis DuBois at Manheim. The exact date of the emigration to America and the name of the ship are not known, but the time was certainly between 1658 and 1651. At the latter date he was residing at Hurley, and his third son, Jacob, was presented for baptism at the church at Kingston, as still shown by the church register, that being one of the earliest entries. In 1663, June 10, Hurley and part of Kingston were burned by the Indians, and the wife of Louis DuBois, with three children, were among those carried away captive. Three months afterwards an expedition under Cap-
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tain Crieger recovered the captives, surprising the Indians at their fort, near the Hogabergh, in Shawangunk. According to the tradition the discovery of the lowlands along the Wallkill during this expedition led to the settlement at New Paltz in 1678.
Louis DuBois was the first elder of the church here, and the first entry in the church register commencing in 1683, still in existence, is in his hand writing. In 1686 Louis DuBois returned from New Paltz to Kingston, where he bought a house and resided ten years, until his death in 1696. This house stood at the north-west corner of John street and Clinton avenue, near the late residence of F. L. Westbrook.
About two years before Louis DuBois moved from Kings- ton to New Paltz his brother Jacques came to America. He died soon after, in 1676. His descendants located in Dutchess county.
Not long before his death Louis deeded to his youngest son, Matthew, a certain tract of land in Kingston. The orig- inal document is in the possession of Mr. Julius Schoonmaker and is as follows :
To all Christian people To whom this Shall or May Come Lowies dubois of Kingston in ye County of ulster and Catharina his wife Sendeth greeting.
Whereas the said Lowies duboys and Catharine his Wife for Divers good Causes and Considerations them thereunto moving but more & Especially for and Inconsideration of a Certaine Summe or quantity of One thousand and five hundred Schuyp- ples of Wheat to them in hand payd before the Ensealing and Delivery of these presents by Matthew duboys Jongest Sunn of them the said Lowies duboys & Catharina his Wife have Bargained, Sold, alienated enfeofed, assigned and Sett-
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over, and by these presents doe Bargain, Sell, alienate Enfeofé assign and Settover unto the Said Matthew Duboys the Right halfe of ye Certaine tract or parcell of Land Situate, Lying & being uppon hooly peece betwixt the Land of Hyman & Jan Roos and the Land of Lammert huylandss and now in the possession of Jacob duboys. Likewise a house, barne & lot of ground in ye towne of Kingstowne betwixt the housing & ground of Coll. Henricus Beekman & Saloman Duboys. Likewise a small piece of pasture Land to ye east side of the towne of Kings- towne afous'd betwizt ye ground of sd Henricus Beekman and Wessel Ten Broeck; To have and to hold the said tract or Parcel of Land, house and lot of ground and pasture Land unto the Said Matthew Duboys his heirs and assigns and to the Only proper use benefit and behoofs of him the Said Matthew Du- boys his heirs and assigns for ever, and the Said Matthew Duboys to Enter in peaceable possession of ye Said Land When hee shall Come to ye age of one & twenty years, and the house, pasture Land, &c., O-after the Decease of them the Said Lowies Duboys and Catharina his Wife have hereunto Sett their hands and Affixed their seals.
In Kingstowne this 22d day of February, 1695-6.
Lowies du boys, (seal) Catharina duboys. (seal)
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of
Jan Burhans, Marttys Slecht, W. D. Myer.
In the presence of Me
Jacob Rutsen.
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The last will of Louis DuBois, as recorded in the Surrogate's office of the County of New York, is in Dutch, dated March 26, 1694, and was proved July 13, 1697. A previous will is as follows, made at the time of his removal from New Paltz to Kingston :
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