DU BOIS
                  by Steph Valentine
                      22 May 1990
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I checked Mather's "The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to
Connecticut" [1913] for DuBois:
 
p.340:  A descendant of Col Nicoll Floyd and Gen William Floyd:  John
Gelston m. (1) Julia F. DuBois (mid 1800's, I'd guess)
 
p.342:  A brother of John Gelston, Nicoll Gelston m. Cornelia DuBois
and had Nicoll, a broker living at Garden City, LI, and Marion, m. Dr.
C. L. Lindley.
 
p.279:  "It may be that the Refugees were the family of Samuel Brower,
consisting of himself, wife and six children.  They came from NY City.
On 7/4/1776, they were stopping with Thuris DuBois, near Fishkill
Landing."
 
p.642:  Col Jesse Woodhull, b at Mastic LI, 2/10/1735; m. in 1753,
Hester DuBois of New Platz, NY; d.2/4/1795.  His children where
Nathaniel (b.11/1/1758), Richard (b.9/14/1760), Hannah (b.7/8/1761),
Sarah (b.9/9/1763), Renelike; Jesse; Ebenezer (b.1/23/1772).
 
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Date:   Mon Nov 05 1990  10:17:31
From:   Bob Gleason
To:     Robert Williamson
Subj:   DuBOIS
Attr:   recvd 
genealogy                      -------------------------------
 > DuBois Family Association
 > Huguenot Historical Society
 > P.O. Box 545
 > New Paltz, N.Y.  12561
 >    Good luck with your searches Bob.

Thanks for the information, Bob.  I don't think it will hurt to reiterate 
my
DuBOIS search.

From Riker's History of Harlem, NY, revised and from DeLaMater's Genealogy 
of
the Descendants of Claude Le Maitre all I can ascertain is that Hester Du 
BOIS
(d/o Pierre DuBOIS) m. 24 Apr 1652 Amsterdam, HOLLAND, Claude LeMAISTRE.

I'd like to pin down her place and date of birth and pertinent information 
on
Pierre DuBOIS, her father.  And -- if possible -- ancestry.  The above 
cited
references indicate Huguenot origins.  So it seems I may be on the right 
track
with the DuBOIS Family Association and the Huguenot Historical Society.

Perhaps you, or others reading this, may also be able to shed some light on

Hester and her father, Pierre DuBOIS.  Also, who was her mother???
And her mama's ancestry???

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Date:   Fri Nov 16 1990  15:05:24
From:   Terry Oehler
To:     All
Subj:   DUBOSE / DUBOIS
Attr:   
genealogy                      -------------------------------
Sorry, I'm about out of time, so I can't go back and see who has been 
corresponding about Dubose / Dubois in order to address this properly.
     I am descended from Louis DuBois, a Huguenot refugee who arrived at 
Esopus NY in 1661 with wife Catharine Blanshan (I have her parents).  By 
1662 they had settled in the village of Hurley.  Catharine and others were 
taken prisoners by the Indians; while looking for them, DuBois and others 
found the area where they later founded the town of New Paltz NY, in the 
spring of 1678.  They organized the French Reformed Church in 1683; Louis 
DuBOIS was elected elder.
    Son ABRAHAM DuBOIS married MARGARET DEYO (I have her parents) March 6, 
1681.  The third of their eight children was my ancestor, LEAH DuBOIS, born 
at New Paltz October 16, 1687.  ABRAHAM died October 7, 1731.  LEAH married 
my ancestor PHILIP FERREE, another Huguenot refugee.
     Source:  Bevier, Louis. Genealogy of the French Settlers of New Paltz.  
Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1965.  Available through your local 
library through interlibrary loan.


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