Louis Du Bois

1626 -

• Name	Louis Du Bois
  Birth	27 Oct 1626	Wicres, near Lille, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Kingston, Ulster, New York   [1]
  Person ID	I21175	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2017

  
  

  Father	Chretian Du Bois,   b. of Wicres, near Lille, France
  Family ID	F13063	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Planscon
  Marriage	10 Oct 1655	Mannheim, Germany   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Matthew Du Bois,   b. 1679, Kingston, Ulster, New York
  Family ID	F13062	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2017

  
  

• Notes

  He was a Huguenot. Fleeing his native France, he first took refuge in Mannheim, where he married Catherine Planscon. In about 1660 they emigrated to New Amsterdam and settled at what is now Kingston. In the 1663 outbreak of warfare between settlers and natives, Catherine and their three children were kidnapped, but rescued by Capt. Martin Kregier and his command. In 1666 he purchased about 36,000 acres in the Walkill Valley and was among the founders of the town of New Paltz, situated there. He later returned to Kingston, where he died, probably in the late 1670s.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1759] The Brett Genealogy by Lucy G. Belcher Goodenow. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Press of Murray and Emery Co., 1915.