Date:   Mon Oct 29 1990  14:24:05
From:   John Rhodes
To:     Douglas Smith
Subj:   BURLEW
Attr:   
genealogy                      -------------------------------
Doug,
Last Saturday I was at the New York Genealogical and
Biographical Society library at 122 East 58th St., NYC 
(my first visit).  It is a first class library and I
expect to use it quite a lot in the future.  While there
I found the following book which gives a great review of
the original "BURLEW" immigrants.
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Justice, Alfred Rudulph, Compiler. (1452 N. 53rd St.,
Philadelphia) Wilson and Allied Families.  Billew, Britton,
DuBois, Longshore, Polhemus, Stillwell, Suebering.  
Philadelphia, 1929
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I copied about 20 pages and could mail them to you if
you are interested.  The first few paragraphs follow:
"The family of Billew (variously spelled in the ancient
Dutch records Billieu, Billjouw, Biljou, Belew, Belue,
Bellue, Bellew, etc.) is one of the most ancient of the
nobel houses of Normandy.  In the "roll of Battel Abbey"
will be found a "catalogue of such noblemen, Lords and
Gentlemen of name as came into the land with William the
Conqueror taken from the chronicles of Normandy," and in
this list will be found the surnames of Billew and Bois.
     Pierre Billew was a native of Artois, an old province
in the north of France, which for many centuries was a part
of Flanders and Burgundy, but ceded to France in 1659.  It
was the great battlefield of the World War.
     Like many of the better educated classes, he became a
Huguenot, as the dissenters from the Roman Catholic Church
were called.  Driven by persecution, the Huguenots were
obliged to leave their native homes and seek refuge in
foreign lands.
     Pierre Billew fled to Leyden, Holland, and the first 
record we have of him is his marriage at the Walloon Church
of Leyden, Holland, April 20, 1649, to Francoise du Bois,
daughter of Chretian du Bois of Wicre, of the distinguished
family of du Bois of Lille, province of Artois, and sister
of Louis du Bois, founder of New Paltz, Ulster Co., NY. From 
the same church records we have the baptism of two of their
children - Marie, March 2, 1650, and Martha, Feb 8, 1652.
     Pierre Billew emigrated from Walslant Pays de Baud,
Holland May 9, 1661, in the ship "St. Jan Baptiste", Capt.
Jan Bergen, accompanied by his wife Francoise and four children,
aged, respectively, 9, 7, 6, 2 1/2 years (Year Book, Holland
Society, 1902, p. 18).  A fifth child, not mentioned in the
ship's log, was born at sea, and was baptized Aug 10, 1661,
at the Dutch Reformed Church of New York, four days after their
arrival.  This child was their son Isaac." 

John Rhodes  P.O. Box 21, Bear Creek, PA 18602 
h: 717-472-9248    w:201-581-6789

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Date:   Sun May 10 1992  22:14:42
From:   John Rhodes
To:     All
Subj:   BURLEW - UPSTATE NY 1800
Attr:   
GENEALOGY                      -------------------------------
I seek help with the family of Abram BURLEW born 1 Feb 1794 in Raritan,
Somerset Co., NJ, died 5 May 1865? Scippio Twp., Cayuga Co., NY, mar.
Elizabeth Ann COMBS 14 April 1814 in Scipio Twp., Cayuga Co., NY.  Children

Mary Ann b. 27 May 1815, twins Margaret and Lucinda born 16 Dec 1816, and
Charles.  Did they have other children?

Researching: BILLIOU  BILLEW  POLHEMUS  VAN WERVEN  SUEBERING DU BOIS 
BRITTAIN  RAMBOUT all ca. 1650 - 1700 Holland to Staten Island
John Rhodes, P.O. Box 21, Bear Creek, PA 18602  717-472-9248
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