References:
(1) Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, Francois Alexandre Aubert de la Chesnaye des
Bois, Published Paris 1770, Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Libraire et l'Autuer.(2) Histoire Genealogique des Pays Bas au Histoire de Cambray, et du Cambresis, by Jean le Carpentier, Historiographe, Published Leide, 1664, Part III.
(3) Nobiliaire des Pays Bays du Comte de Bourgogne, with Nine supplements by M. de Vegiano, Seigneur d'Hovel. Gand, 1865.
(4) Noblesse et Chevalerie du Comte de Flandre d'Artois et de Picardie, by Paul Andre Roger, Amiens, 1843.
(5) The European Ancestry of Chretien du Bois of Wicres, France, 1597-1628.
With Royal Descents, by Matthew Hilt Murphy, Published at Claverack, New
York, 1987. Revised 1990.(6) Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England Between 1623 and
1650, by Frederick Weis, Sixth Edition, 1988.(7) Magna Charta, by John S. Wurts, Reprint 1945.
History & Genealogy of Fenwichs Colony by Shourds
DUBOIS FAMILYLewis DuBois, who emigrated to America was born about the year 1630, and
settled up iteh North River in Ulster County, N.Y., where a number of his
contrymen had also come to escape religious persecution. They were called
Huguenots, being followers of Calvin. The great persecution, amounting almost to extermination of the Protestants, is generally referred to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which took place in 1685, in the reign of Louis XIV, Lewis Dubois married Catherine Blancon; she was born at Manheim, in Germany, where he had gone to escape persecution. It appears, by the record of him after their marriage, they returned to France again, and in that country their son, Abraham DuBois, was born abt. 1660, soon after that event they left Strasburg for this country, and settled in Ulster County. Their son, Jacob DuBois, was born in 1662. About the year 1714 Jacob had heard there was a large quantity of good land for sale in the southern part of New Jersey. He left his native county in New York and moved to this state to view the lands he heard so much of. Jacob and his sister, John and Isaac VanMeter, pruchased 3,000 acres from Danile Cox, in what is now Pittsgrove Twnsp. In 1716 the other three owners conveyed 1,200 acres to Jacob DuBois as his portion.
There is no account of Jacob DuBois ever living in New Jersey, but he
divided the property he bought of Danile Cox among four of his sons, Barrett
Dubois, one of his sons, settled at Pittsgrove soon afger his father had
purchased the land in said township. It appears he was married in the state of New York previous to his coming to Salem County. He had eight children.
Catherine, their daughter, was born in 1716; Jacob in 1719; the latter
married Janette Newkirk in 1747; he was a prominent church member of
Presbyterian Society, and was a Deacon and one of the trustees to whom the deed was given for the ground to erect the church building upon. Lewis, the third son of Jacob DuBois, was born at Hurly, in Ulster Co., N.Y. in 1695. His wife was Margaret Janson; They were married in 1720. He emigrated to West Jersey in company with his brother, Barrett, and soon after became the possessor of Real Estate amounting to 1,091 acres. His first purchase was in 1726 of 350 acres in Alloways Creek township. Lewis and his wife were among teh first members of the large and influential congregation of Pittsgrove in 1742, at the time of the first organization of the Presbyterian Society at that place.
At that time he sold to the trustees of the church, two acres of land for
forty shillings, to erect a church building upon, nad in 1761, he sold fifty
acres of land for a parsonage for seventy five pounds proclamation money.
Jacob DuBois, Mary, their oldest daughter, married William Robinson of
Lower Penn's Neck; they had six children: 1) Benjamin, 2) William, 3) Rebecca, 4) Margaret, 5) Noah, and 6) John. The last two mentioned died single. Benjamin married and left two children, William and his wife left six children - William, Noah, James, Mary, John and Benjamin. Rebecca, the oldest daughter, married, a man by the name of Patterson. Margaret Robinson's husband was Samuel Copner, the son of Joseph Copner, of Penn's Neck.
Benjamin Dubois married Mary Robinson, sister of Wm. Robinson, Sr., and had six sons and two daughters. All of them, after their father's death, removed to one of the Western States, Solomon DuBois, youngest son of Jacob Dubois, was a native of Pittsgrove, Neb. purchased lands in Alloways Creek Township, and married the daugther of Richard Moore; they had five children, four daughters and one son; their names were Martha, Mary, Susan, Rebecca, and Richard DuBois. Martha married Benjamin Ireland; she died young, leaving one daughter Ann, she married a person by the name of Corlis; they had no children. Mary, Second daughter of Solomon, died single. Susan Dubois, daughter of Solomon married Nathaniel, son of David Stretch, Susan died, leaving one daughter, Mary Ann Stretch, Rebecca DuBois died single, Richard DuBois, son of Solomon, married Sarah, daughter of Ephraim Sayre; she died, leaving one daughter-Ann Dubois, she married Joseph Fogg. Richard's second wife was Hannah Ann, daughter of Thomas Sayre; they had four sons, Solomon, Thomas, Richard and Josiah DuBois. Solomon, the eldest, married Kesiah Bowen, they had three children, William, Elizabeth and Ruth DuBois. Solomon the father of the above mentioned children, was killed by a mowing machine while he was mowing. Thomas, the son of Richard DuBois Jr. married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thoasm Mulford, they have four children - Luella, Hannah, Rachel, and Oakford Dubois. Josiah DuBois youngest son of Richard married Hannah, Daughter of Lewis Fox; they have three children - Mary Jane, Anna S. and Thomas S. Dubois. Richard Dubois Sr.'s third wife is Mary Decroy, they have no issue. Solomon Dubois' second wife was widow Hedley, they had one son, Jacob Dubois, who subsequently married Ann Patterson, they had two children - John and Emeline, Jacob's second wife was Charlotte F. Miller; they had two children - Mary and Charles Dubois.
Wicre is near Lille, France, also died near Kingstowne, N.Y. according to
charts sent by Betty Holmes.
Information on birth and death from Rev. Lowell Barker. Our records
stated 27 Oct 1627 Birth and Feb 1696 for Death. Larry Anderson.
Catherine (Blanchard) BLANSHAM
References:
(1) Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, Francois Alexandre Aubert de la Chesnaye des
Bois, Published Paris 1770, Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Libraire et l'Autuer.(2) Histoire Genealogique des Pays Bas au Histoire de Cambray, et du Cambresis, by Jean le Carpentier, Historiographe, Published Leide, 1664, Part III.
(3) Nobiliaire des Pays Bays du Comte de Bourgogne, with Nine supplements by M. de Vegiano, Seigneur d'Hovel. Gand, 1865.
(4) Noblesse et Chevalerie du Comte de Flandre d'Artois et de Picardie, by Paul Andre Roger, Amiens, 1843.
(5) The European Ancestry of Chretien du Bois of Wicres, France, 1597-1628.
With Royal Descents, by Matthew Hilt Murphy, Published at Claverack, New
York, 1987. Revised 1990.(6) Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England Between 1623 and
1650, by Frederick Weis, Sixth Edition, 1988.(7) Magna Charta, by John S. Wurts, Reprint 1945.
We had birth Abt 1631 Manheim, Germany, died 1661.
Gerrit Cornelisse VAN NIEUWKIRK
Will was filed 3 Feb. 1686, probated 4 March 1695/6. He was married to
Chieltje in Holland.
Suspect that Chieltje and Jacomyntje are sisters.
Catherine (Blanchard) BLANSHAM
References:
(1) Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, Francois Alexandre Aubert de la Chesnaye des
Bois, Published Paris 1770, Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Libraire et l'Autuer.(2) Histoire Genealogique des Pays Bas au Histoire de Cambray, et du Cambresis, by Jean le Carpentier, Historiographe, Published Leide, 1664, Part III.
(3) Nobiliaire des Pays Bays du Comte de Bourgogne, with Nine supplements by M. de Vegiano, Seigneur d'Hovel. Gand, 1865.
(4) Noblesse et Chevalerie du Comte de Flandre d'Artois et de Picardie, by Paul Andre Roger, Amiens, 1843.
(5) The European Ancestry of Chretien du Bois of Wicres, France, 1597-1628.
With Royal Descents, by Matthew Hilt Murphy, Published at Claverack, New
York, 1987. Revised 1990.(6) Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England Between 1623 and
1650, by Frederick Weis, Sixth Edition, 1988.(7) Magna Charta, by John S. Wurts, Reprint 1945.
We had birth Abt 1631 Manheim, Germany, died 1661.
Mathias (Matthys) (Blanchard) BLANSHAM
References:
(1) Colonial Families of the United States, page 472.
(2) Wills of Ulster County, New York, page 30, 31, 183.
(3) Genealogies and Family History of New York, vol. 1, page 237.
(4) Genealogies and Family Histories of Jefferson County, New York, page 115.
(5) Information supplied by Jacob L. Van Orden, Rt. # 2, Blackfoot, Idaho.
Historical Notes:
Matthys Blanshan embarked in the "Gilded Otter," 27th April 1660; he had one
of the first cases in Ulster County before the Schepens in 1661; he was in the Colonial service with his son-in-law, Louis du Bois and Antoine Crespell; he signed the petition to Governor General in 1684; he signed a pledge to support their Representatives with Jan Elting, Mattys Sleght, and Antoine Crespell.
Magdalena (Joris) Jorisse JORISSE
Also found Raddeleen Jorisse.
Gerrit Cornelissen Focken ELTING
Rev. Lowell Barker.
1) Colonel Families of the US. Page 471, 473.
2) Historical Notes:
Gerrit (Janet) (Jan), Elting (Jan Elting) signed as a witness to Indian signatures in
the purchase of New Platz, N.Y. by Louis Du Bois and his partners in 1677. Jan with others held a Court of Sessions, conmissioned in 1675.References:
(1) Colonial Families of the United States, page 471, 473.
Married three times, was she a sister to Chieltje?
References:
(1) Colonial Families of the United States, page 471.