History of New Paltz, New York, and its old families (from 1678 to 1820) including the Huguenot pioneers and others who settled in New Paltz previous to the revolution; with an appendix bringing down the history of certain families and some other matter to 1850 . his cousin Rachel, daughter ofAbraham, the Patentee. They left no sons, but had a familyof four daughters, Catharine, Margaret, Rebecca and Eliza-beth. One of the descendants of Isaac DuBois is Mr. SamuelE. Gross of Chicago, who has shown himself one of the warm-est friends of the New Paltz Huguenot Memorial Society. Solomons son Benj
History of New Paltz, New York, and its old families (from 1678 to 1820) including the Huguenot pioneers and others who settled in New Paltz previous to the revolution; with an appendix bringing down the history of certain families and some other matter to 1850 . his cousin Rachel, daughter ofAbraham, the Patentee. They left no sons, but had a familyof four daughters, Catharine, Margaret, Rebecca and Eliza-beth. One of the descendants of Isaac DuBois is Mr. SamuelE. Gross of Chicago, who has shown himself one of the warm-est friends of the New Paltz Huguenot Memorial Society. Solomons son Benjamin married, in T721, Catharine Suy-lant and settled at Catskill in what was then a portion ofAlbany county about 1727. They had a large famil\- of ciiildren, several of whom wereborn before their location at Catskill. The sons were Petrus,Benjamin, Solomon, Huybartus, Cornelius and Isaac. The DuBois family flourished at Catskill. But we shall notin this portion of the book trace the fortunes of the New Paltzfamilies outside of Ulster county. A carefully-written history of the descendants of BenjaminDuBois of Catskill has been published by one of their num-ber. Rev. Dr. Anson DuBois, who is spending an honored oldage at Newburgh. 308 HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ. REV. DR. ANSON DU BOIS HISTORY or NEW 1.! LTZ 309 The matter of making good the title of DuBois, Jr.,and Solomon DuBois to the tract, on which they resided, asfar as any possible claims by the proprietors of the Paltz patentwere concerned, was perfected in 1729, as shown by an ancientquit claim in possession of the late Edmund Eltinge in whichit is stated that for the sum of sixpence the owners of the Paltzpatent release unto Solomon and Louis DuBois all claimsupon the tract granted unto Louis DuBois, of Kingston, de-ceased, by Thomas Dongan, late Governor, lying on both sidesof the Paltz river and extending from the lands of said Paltzto the lands of James Graham and John Delavoll. (That isthe Guilford Patent.) This d
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