. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. esse de Forest and Marie du Cloux tookplace on Sunday, September 23, 1601, at theCatechism, and the Sieur du Tilloy (evidently theProtestant minister) blessed their marriage. The next year, July 7,1602, the same pastor bap-tized their daughter, Marie, and this baptism wasfollowed by others: Jean (later called Jan or Jehan),July 22, 1604; Henry (known to us, however, asHendrick), March 7, 1606; Elizabeth, November i,1607 ; and David, December 11,1608. After this lastrecord there is a gap of eight years in the Sedanchu
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. esse de Forest and Marie du Cloux tookplace on Sunday, September 23, 1601, at theCatechism, and the Sieur du Tilloy (evidently theProtestant minister) blessed their marriage. The next year, July 7,1602, the same pastor bap-tized their daughter, Marie, and this baptism wasfollowed by others: Jean (later called Jan or Jehan),July 22, 1604; Henry (known to us, however, asHendrick), March 7, 1606; Elizabeth, November i,1607 ; and David, December 11,1608. After this lastrecord there is a gap of eight years in the Sedanchurch register, and so the birth date of the nextchild, Rachel, is lost, but it probably was in 1609,the year when Henry Hudson discovered the greatriver which bears his name, on the shores of whichRachel was later to make her home. When Jesses father went to Holland in 1602,he must have left his mercantile business in Se-dan to Jesse, for in that year we first find the latterspoken of as merchant, undoubtedly a merchant inwoolen cloth. Jesse probably stayed in Sedan in [ H]. •id _c-a -c; a: J3 h u o CQ >j u uX E C H o hj [X, o « M V) a 4J (J rj -o ^H c ^ ^ QZ > >< en IE JJ c c c :i E o c 3 J3 Q (J S. pq Ë en c 3J3 hJ -Q -a I-) u < o 4^ CO o a. S .iî CO -a « o U h 3 CO M c U S Ç .J c u U Q rs J3 i The Petitioner for Freedom this capacity until 1607, when we find him, for a few Le-^ienyears, at a place not far off called Montcornet ; it wasthere that he was first called merchant-dyer. Hethen followed the rest of his family to Holland,where his name appears in the Walloon registers ofLeyden in 1615. His brothers, who had preceded him to Holland,were already established there. Melchior, the eldestbrother, in 1611 had become a member of the Pro-testant church in Amsterdam and there he had mar-ried. Gerard, Jesses younger brother, of whom weshall have a good deal to tell in the course of ourstory, was in Leyden as early as 1605, and in 1606,having already obtaine
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