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 . of nature that she or her husbandcould live many years. In all probability by the time thenegro girl reached the age of 25 she became a free womanby the act of her mistress. We have said that Louis sons were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,David, Solomon, Louis and Matthew. Of these sons ^Matthew settled in Kingston, where his de-scendants stil
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 . of nature that she or her husbandcould live many years. In all probability by the time thenegro girl reached the age of 25 she became a free womanby the act of her mistress. We have said that Louis sons were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,David, Solomon, Louis and Matthew. Of these sons ^Matthew settled in Kingston, where his de-scendants still reside. David located in the town of Rochester,where he left a line of descendants. Jacob settled on a farmcf his father in old Hurley, where he left a large family, andhis second son, Louis, settled in Monmouth county, N. J., andwas the father of Rev. Benj. DuBois of Revolutionary DuBois of Philadelphia is of Jacobs line. Theother four sons, Abraham, Isaac, Solomon and Louis, Jr.,remained at New Paltz. Although Isaac was only about 18vears of age and his brother Abm. hardly 21, they were bothassociated with their father as members of the 12 patenteesof Xew Paltz in 1677. 288 H I STO R y O r N E W P A L T Z ^4^^ixta^ C^^^^^^^^. !o^.^^if^. DOCUMENT WITH SIGNATURE OF ABRAHAM DU BOIS. THE PATENTEE HISTORY OF NEW 289 CHAPTER XXV Abraham DuBois, the Patkntee Abraham DuBois married Margaret Deyo, daughter ofChristian Deyo, the Patentee. They left a family of children,the eldest of whom, also named Abraham, was baptised in1685. He settled in the County of Somerset, N. J. There wasbut one other son, Joel, who died in 1734 and left no daughter of Abm. DuBois, the Patentee, married RoelifElting, the first of the name at New Paltz; another daughter,Katharine, bom in 1693, married Wm. Donalson and locatedin Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Another daughter, Leah,married Philip Ferrie and moved with him to Lancastercounty, Pa., where her father had obtained
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