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Personal data Catherine Matthyse Blanchan 

• Alternative names: Catharine Blan√ßon (maiden name, name before first marriage), Catherine Matthyse Blanchan (maiden name, name before first marriage), Catherine Blanshan (maiden name, name before first marriage), Catharine Blanchan (maiden name, name before first marriage), Catherine Blanchan (maiden name, name before first marriage), Trynte Claesen, Catarina Blanchan, Catharine Matthyse Blanchan, Catherine Matthyse DuBois, du Bois, DuBois, Cottin, Catherine (Katryn) Blanchan, du Bois, Catherine Blanshon, Catharine Blanchin, Catharine Blanshan, Catarinen Blanchan, Katryn Blanchan
• She was born on October 17, 1629 in Wicres, Wijker, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

  17-10-1627 ?; 27-10-1629 ?, Wicres; Neuville-Saint-Rémy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais; 27-10-1627 ?, Mannheim, Pfalzen (Palatinate), Baden-Würtemberg, Duitsland; ca 1633, Wicres; ca 1637 ?; before dec 1637, 26-12-1637 ?, Armentières, Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Flandres françaises (Nord))

• She was christened on November 13, 1629 in Lille, Rijssel, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

  Catherine Matthyse; 13-11-1626 ?

• Resident: British Colonial America.
• She died on October 18, 1713 in Kingston, Ulster Co., New York, British Colonial America, she was 84 years old.

  1713; Ulster ?, Kingston; 23-07-1713 ?; British Colonial America; English Province of New York; 10-12-1713 ?, Will ?, Kingston, New York

• She is buried in the year 1713 in Kingston, Ulster Co., Old Dutch Churchyard, New York, British Colonial America.

  Old Dutch Churchyard; British Colonial America

• A child of Matthys Blanchan and Magdalena Brissen Jorisse (Joire)
• This information was last updated on May 6, 2020.

Household of Catherine Matthyse Blanchan

She is married to Louis du Bois.

They got married on October 10, 1655 at Mannheim, Mannheim, Pfalzen (Palatinate), Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland, she was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Abraham du Bois  1657-1731
2. Jacob DuBois  1661-1745 

Notes about Catherine Matthyse Blanchan

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DO YOU HAVE PROOF of this baptism? I believe her parents were married 15 Oct 1633 in Armentieres, France...so the earliest she could have been born was 1634...
Catherine Blanchan was Baptized:
November 13 1626 in the Parish Church at Wicres in Lille, France.

Louis and Catherine were married:
October 10 1655 in the French Protestant Church at Mannheim, in the Pfalz, German Palatinate.

On June 10 1663, Hurley and part of Kingston were burned by the Indians. The wife of Louis DuBois and three of their children were among those who were captured. Three months
after the capture, an expedition under Captain Krieger was sent from New York to recover the captives from the Indian fort near the Hogabergh in Shawangunk.

"The Story", of the rescue of the Indian captives, which is dear to the Huguenot heart of New Paltz says; when Captain Krieger and his company attacked the savages at their place of refuge near the Shawangunk Kill, the Indians were about to burn one or more captives at the stake, the women began singing the 137th Psalm, which so pleased the red men that they deferred the proposed death by torture.

Captain Krieger's band, with Louis DuBois and others, arrived and rescued the captives from a horrible death.

Louis DuBois is reported to have killed with his sword an Indian, who was in advance of the rest, before the alarm could be raised. Captain Krieger's report says nothing of this. However, as the tradition contains nothing irreconcilable with the Captain's report which deals mainly with the fighting done by his soldiers, it is interesting to keep the tradition alive as it deals more upon the condition of the captives.

The papers relating to the Paltz Patent are among the most cherished possessions of the Huguenot Historical Society of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York. They are written in Dutch and present a unique example of fair dealing between red men and white.

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Louis Du Bois was a farmer, tavern keeper, church elder, magistrate, and co-founder of New Paltz, N.Y. He was born in Wicres, Flanders, now Wicres, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France in 1627, and died in Kingston, Ulster, N.Y., in 1696, age 70. He married Catherine Blanchan in Mannheim, Germany on October 10, 1655. She was born in in Armentières, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, in 1637, and died in Kingston in 1713, age 76. She married, second, Jean Cottin.

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Catherine Matthyse DuBois (Blanchan) MP
Gender:Vrouw
Geboren:17 oktober 1629
Wicres, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Frankrijk)
Overleden:18 oktober 1718 (89)
Kingston, Ulster, New York, United States
Begraafplaats:Kingston, Ulster, New York
Naaste familie:
Dochter van Matthew Blanchan en Magdalena Blanchan
Vrouw van Lodewijk ten Bossche, The Patentee en Jean Cottin
Moeder van Elizabeth Marie Mersereau; Abraham Louis DuBois, Sr; Isaac DuBois; Anna Marie du Bois; Jacob Dubois en 9 anderen
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Catherine Blanchan
F, #69398, b. 17 October 1627, d. 18 October 1713
Father Matthys Blanchan b. c 1600, d. 30 Apr 1688
Mother Magdalena Jorrisse Jorrison d. c 1688
Catherine Blanchan was born on 17 October 1627 at Mannheim, Baden, Germany. She married Louis DuBois, son of Christian DuBois and Jeanne Masic Brunel, on 10 October 1655 at Mannheim, Baden, Germany. Catherine Blanchan died on 18 October 1713 at Kingston, Ulster, NY, at age 86.
Family Louis DuBois b. 27 Oct 1627, d. 23 Jun 1696
Child
David DuBois+ b. 13 Mar 1667, d. c 1714
From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2309.htm#i69398
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Catherine Blanchan DuBois
Birth: Oct. 17, 1629 Wicres, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Death: Oct. 18, 1713 Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA
Catherine Blanchan was Baptized: November 13 1626 in the Parish Church at Wicres in Lille, France.
Louis and Catherine were married: October 10 1655 in the French Protestant Church at Mannheim, in the Pfalz, German Palatinate.
On June 10 1663, Hurley and part of Kingston were burned by the Indians. The wife of Louis DuBois and three of their children were among those who were captured. Three months after the capture, an expedition under Captain Krieger was sent from New York to recover the captives from the Indian fort near the Hogabergh in Shawangunk.
"The Story", of the rescue of the Indian captives, which is dear to the Huguenot heart of New Paltz says; when Captain Krieger and his company attacked the savages at their place of refuge near the Shawangunk Kill, the Indians were about to burn one or more captives at the stake, the women began singing the 137th Psalm, which so pleased the red men that they deferred the proposed death by torture.
Captain Krieger's band, with Louis DuBois and others, arrived and rescued the captives from a horrible death.
Louis DuBois is reported to have killed with his sword an Indian, who was in advance of the rest, before the alarm could be raised. Captain Krieger's report says nothing of this. However, as the tradition contains nothing irreconcilable with the Captain's report which deals mainly with the fighting done by his soldiers, it is interesting to keep the tradition alive as it deals more upon the condition of the captives.
The papers relating to the Paltz Patent are among the most cherished possessions of the Huguenot Historical Society of New Paltz, Ulster County, New York. They are written in Dutch and present a unique example of fair dealing between red men and white.
Family links:
Spouse:
Louis DuBois (1626 - 1696)
Children:
Abraham DuBois (1657 - 1731)*
Isaac Dubois (1659 - 1690)*
Isaac DuBois (1660 - 1690)*
Jacob DuBois (1661 - 1745)*
Sarah DuBois Van Meteren (1664 - 1726)*
David DuBois (1667 - 1714)*
Solomon Dubois (1669 - 1759)*
Louis Dubois (1677 - 1729)*
Matheus DuBois (1678 - 1748)*
Burial: Old Dutch Churchyard, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 30587171
From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30587171
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A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family: From Civil, Military ... edited by Samuel Gordon Smyth
https://books.google.com/books?id=JXdIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Chretien+Maximilian+Dubois+de+Fiennes&source=bl&ots=qg7xEVbYyS&sig=5MGylYaW3dZnjZj75yso5hNR97A&hl=en&ei=r9kdS6_jItPTlAfa0KH5Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://archive.org/details/genealogyofdukes02smyt
https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdukes02smyt#page/23/mode/1up
The line of descent from Charles du Bois and Claude de Lannoy was:
1st generation: Eustache, Seigneur des Querder and de Fiennes, m. 1st Gille de Renel ; m. 2d Jeanne St. Ol.
2d generation : Guislain des Fiennes, Count de Clarmont, who m. Jeanne de Longueville.
3d generation : Marc de Fiennes, Seigneur des Querder, m. Madelaine d'Ognies.
4th generation: Maximillian de Fiennes, Seigneur des Querder, m. Catharine Cecil Germand.
5th generation: Maximillian des Fiennes, m. Louise Charlotte d' E'tamps.
6th generation: Chas. Maximillian des Fiennes, m. Henrietta de Reignier de Boisleau.
7th generation : Chrétien Maximillian des Fiennes, m. ____ ____ (not on record, but a Huguenot, as supposed by M. Le Turcq န record erased).
8th generation: Louis du Bois de Fiennes, b. Oct., 1626, who evidently took refuge from religious persecution in Mannheim, Germany, where he m. Catharine Blanchan in 1655. Their two eldest children were born in Mannheim, and in 1660 the family came to America.
The du Bois des Fiennes appear to have been a military family and to have furnished to France some able soldiers. The first Maximillian beside being a Count was "Marischall des camps et des armées du roi." His son Maximillian was lieutenant-general "du armées du roi." Chrétian Maximillian, Marquis des Fiennes, was captain of cavalry in his father's regiment.
The erasure of the record of Chrétien's marriage and family, the Chrétien known to have been the father of Louis du Bois, makes a break in Louis' line of descent and it was done, obviously, to destroy official record of his ancestry because of his being a "heretic"; to prevent him or any of his descendants from ever afterward establishing a claim to the title and estates. But in this connection, continues Mrs. Thompson, "certainly there were not two branches after the resumption of the title of Marquis des Fiennes. It does not seem that Louis could belong to the line des Fiennes, as the writer of 'The Du Bois Family' says he does,
https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdukes02smyt#page/24/mode/1up
and be other than the son of Chrétien Maximillian, Marquis de Fiennes."
Louis du Bois emigrated from Manheim to America with his family circa 1660 and eventually settled at New Village (now Hurley], near Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y., where he rapidly rose to prominence in the civil and religious affairs of the settlement. He was one of the twelve original patentees of New Paltz, a village next to Hurley ; he later became one of the magistrates of the jurisdiction comprising the villages of New Paltz and Hurley. Before this period, however, the settlement had been attacked by Indians who burned Hurley ; they killed and injured many of the inhabitants and carried into captivity all the family of Louis du Bois, the wife and three children of Jan Joosten Van Metern and others, all of whom were carried off to the fastnesses of the Catskill Mountains. This event, which occurred 7th June, 1663, was known in history as the Second Esopus War. Captain Martin Krieger, an old Dutch soldier and a familiar figure in the earlier Dutch settlements on the Delaware, organized, and, with Louis du Bois, headed an expedition to rescue the captives and chastise the Indians. After three months of ineffectual warfare they finally rounded up the savages on September 3, 1663, defeated the Indians and restored the captive women and children to their homes. In connection with these tragic experiences. Professor Obenchain, of Ogden College, Bowling Green, Ky., sends me the following relation :
" About ten weeks after the capture the Indians decided to celebrate their escape from pursuit by burning one of their captives. For their victim they selected Catharine du Bois and her baby, Sara, who afterward married Joost Janse Van Veteren. A cubical pile of logs was arranged and the mother and child were placed upon it ; when the Indians were about to apply the torch, Catharine began to sing a Huguenot hymn she had learned in earlier days in France. The Indians withheld the fire and listened. When she finished they demanded another song and then another. Before the last hymn was finished Dutch Soldiers arrived, the captives were all rescued and the Indians terribly punished."
Again, in 1670, when the Indians were on the warpath, Louis du Bois served in the colonial forces against them. He is credited with being the founder and first elder of the French Reformed Church at New Paltz. He left a family, a widow, who afterward m. Jean Cotton, and ten children, and their descendants are numerous, prominent and influential throughout the country, one of whom was Garrett A. Hobart, Vice-President of the United States during the first term of President McKinley's administration.
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American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, AD 1776, VOL. 1 by Thomas P. Hughes
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https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentInTheMaleLineOfAmericans/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentInTheMaleLineOfAmericansWhoseAncestorsSettledInTheUnitedStatesPreviousToTheDeclarationOfIndependenceAd1776#page/n36/mode/1up
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DUBOIS, HIRAM and LUTHER, Albany; sons of Henry J., d. 1876 (m. Anna Elting); son of Isaac (m. Cornelia Rose) ; son of Henry P., d. 1876 (m. Anna Elting); son of Isaac (m. Rebecca Dego); son of Simon (m. Cathamitge Lefever); son of Daniel (m. Mary Lefever), his first will is written in French; son ot Isaac of New Paltz, d. 1690 (m. Mary Hasbrouck); son of LOUIS DU BOIS (m. Catharine Blanchau in France), was called Louis De Wall "the Patentee," came to America and settled at New Paltz, New York State, a brother of Jacques Du Bois. See 201. [199]
https://archive.org/stream/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentInTheMaleLineOfAmericans/AmericanAncestryGivingTheNameAndDescentInTheMaleLineOfAmericansWhoseAncestorsSettledInTheUnitedStatesPreviousToTheDeclarationOfIndependenceAd1776#page/n37/mode/1up
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DU BOIS, JAMES and JONATHAN, Albany; sons of James of Albany, b. 1810 (?), d. 1884 (m. Margaret Le Fevre); son of Jonas of New Paltz (m. Rachel Le Fevre); son of Louis (m. Catherine Broadhead); son of Jonathan (m. Elizabeth Le Fevre); son of Louis of New Paltz (m. Rachel Hasbrook); son of LOUIS DU BOIS (m. Catharine Blanchau in France); was called Louis De Wall "the Patentee," came to America and settled at New Paltz, New York State, a brother of Jacques Du Bois. See 201. [200]
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Bi-centenary reunion of the descendants of Louis and Jacques Du Bois (emigrants to America, 1660 and 1675), at New Paltz, New York, 1875 .. (1876)
http://www.archive.org/details/bicentenaryreuni00dubo
http://www.archive.org/stream/bicentenaryreuni00dubo#page/17/mode/1up
Louis was married at Manheim, in October, 1655, and Jacques at Leyden, in April, 1663. The marriage record of Jacques, at Leyden, says that he was from the vicinity of LaBassee, which was in the province of Artois.
Jacques, however, did not arrive at Esopus till some fifteen years after Louis was settled there. The letters of church-membership, or letters of dismissal from the church of the Walloons, at Leyden, which he took with him on leaving that city, are dated 15th April, 1675, as is evidenced by the church records still extant. He must have died at Esopus, the same or the succeeding year, as in the old records of Ulster county there is still preserved a document by which it appears that his widow, Pieronne Bentyn, was married again to a John Pietersy, who, as such husband, and for a small consideration to himself personally, in December, 1677, contracts with Matthew Blanshan (who was the father-in-law of Louis DuBois) to pledge to him the lands belonging to Jacques Du Bois, in Ryssel, Flanders, as also the rents which the said lands had earned, for the fulfilment of the conditions of a contract which said Jacques DuBois, in his life-time, had made with said Blanshan. The nature or object of the contract does not in this document appear, but as Pieronne Bentyn is described in her marriage record with Jacques DuBois, at Leyden, as of Lisle (which is the same as Ryssel in Flanders), it may be that the lands referred to were held partly or altogether in right of the wife. Else there would seem to be no good reason why Pietersy should be called upon to confirm DuBois's contract with Blanshan.
http://www.archive.org/stream/bicentenaryreuni00dubo#page/29/mode/1up
The father of Louis Du Bois, as before remarked, was Chretien Du Bois. He is designated in the record of his son's marriage, at Manheim, October 10th, 1655, as the deceased Chretien Du Bois, resident of Wicres.
The records of this latter place have been examined, and I regret to say that, from age and bad ink and mutilation, the register is almost illegible.
The baptismal record shows that Chretien Du Bois had three children baptized at Wicres. The dates made out are the 18th June, 1622, the 13th November, 1625, and the 21st October, 1626. The names are illegible, and seem to have been intentionally obliterated. These researches were made by archivists under the direction of the consul for the United States at Lille, Mons. C. DuBois Gregoire. In his letter of 15th July, 1875, he writes that he had visited the canton of La Bassee several times, where there are very old records, but could make nothing out, as, where the Christian names occurred, the paper was torn or cut out. He further states that the registers in the village of Wicres were also in many places illegible from age, bad ink, and from being torn and worm-eaten. He says Wicres has a population of three hundred inhabitants, and that many farmers in the vicinity had pointed out to him the farm which the tradition of the country recognizes to have belonged to the Du Bois.
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Colonial Men and Times: Containing the Journal of Col. Daniel Trabue, Some ... By Daniel Trabue
https://books.google.com/books?id=a-xDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA561&lpg=PA561&dq=cornelius+nieukirk+1715&source=bl&ots=HIrHKHL4K_&sig=a2-LOTbQaara_AiC-XIC_VDs8cY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEgQ6AEwCWoVChMIzL6fy43oyAIVQ-RjCh2uQgww#v=onepage&q=cornelius%20nieukirk%201715&f=false
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"Biographical History of the First Congressional District of New Jersey" Bol. 1. p. 32.
"Louis Du Bois married, Katryn, written Catryn and Catherine Blanshan. Katryn was daughter of Matthys and Madeline Jorisen, of Artois, France. Louis and Katryn were married at Mannheim, Germany Oct. 10, 1655. They and their children came to America in 1660, in the "Gilded Otter," and settled at Esopus, Ulster Co., New York. Louis and Catherine had ten children. Louis Du Bois Died in 1696.
"DU BOIS," FRENCH HUGUENOTS.
Chrétien or Christian Du Bois, of Artois, France, had
Louis Du Bois, "The Walloon," born 28th. of October 1626. Married Sun, Oct. 10th. 1655 Catherin Blancon, daughter of Matthe Blanshan.
Chrétien Du Bois is deceased at the time of his son Louis' marriage at Manheim. He has after his name "resident of Wicres," a place of 300 inhabitants in 1875.
"Louis du Bois and his 2 sons Isaac and Abraham were Patentees for the town of New Paltz in New York opposite Poughkeepsie, in 1677."
.... etc.
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Louis Du Bois, or in French Louys du bois, was born October 28, 1626. Married Catherine Blancon, who was born and married at Manheim, Germany, They were married Sunday Oct. 10th, 1655. It was a Huguenot custom to be married on Sunday, after the communion service.
Catherine Blancon lived about ten years longer than her husband Louis Du Bois.
.... etc.
1st Gen. Louis Du Bois died aged about 66 yrs. and no doubt was buried in the ground of the Dutch church at Kingston, N. Y. His will was proved 23rd of June 1696.
.... etc.
After the fifteen years that he had spent in New Palz he returned to Kingston, N. Y. The will of Louis Du Bois was proved 23rd June 1696 and was divided into eight equal parts. It mentions son 1. Abraham Du Bois, 2. Jacob Du Bois, 3. David Du Bois, 4. Solomon Du Bois, 5. Louis Du Bois, 6. Matthew Du Bois, 7 children of Isaac, deceased, 8. children of Sarah, deceased.
Louis Du Bois had 1. Abraham Du Bois, b. 1661. b. Artois, France, 2. Isaac Du Bois b. 1658. Died 1690. b. Manheim, Germany 3. Jacob Du Bois, b. Ulster Co. N. Y. 1661. 4 Sarah Du Bois, 5. David Du Bois, (married 1689) 6. Solomon Du Bois, b. 1669. D. 1759. 7. Rabecca Du Bois, b. 1671. 8, Rachel Du Bois, b.1675. 9. Louis Du Bois, b. 1677. 10. Matthew Du Bois, b. 1679.
.... etc.
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The New York genealogical and biographical record by Greene, Richard Henry
https://archive.org/details/newyorkgenealogi1897gree
https://archive.org/stream/newyorkgenealogi1897gree#page/13/mode/1up
(Continued from Vol. XXVII., p. 194, of THE RECORD.)
Louis Du Bois remained in New Paltz during the first ten years of its existence, returning to Kingston with his wife in 1686, where he purchased a residence on what is now the northwest corner of East Front and John Streets, and here, surrounded by old neighbors and friends, he passed the closing years of his life. He died in June, 1696, his last will being dated on the 23d of that month. He left a considerable estate, which he divided equally among his children after making a liberal provision for his widow, who survived him ten years. From the time of his arrival in Esopus to his death, Louis Du Bois was the chief of the Huguenot settlers, in all their trials they looked to him as their adviser and head, and among them his word was law. During his residence at Hurley he was an overseer and a justice of the peace, and he, with Cornelis Barents Slecht and Albert Heymans Roosa, was prominent in the "mutiny at Esopus" against the tyranny of Captain Brodhead, which resulted in the suspension of that doughty warrior from his command.
The descendants of Louis Du Bois far outnumber those of Jacques, as he left seven sons to perpetuate his name, while Jacques had but three, and only two of those are known with certainty to have been married. The names and fortunes of those families are inseparably welded with the making of New York, and no history of that commonwealth can be complete, that omits mention of the early influences for piety, industry, and valor, and the later sacrifices on the altar of patriotism, of Louis and Jacques Du Bois and their descendants.
Louis Du Bois and Catharine Blanchan, his wife, had the following children :
2. i. Abraham2, born at Mannheim, in the Palatinate, December 26, 1657 ; married at Kingston, March 6, 1681, Margriet, the youngest of the five children of Christian Deyo.
3. ii. Isaac, born Mannheim, 1659; married at Kingston in June, 1683, Maria Hasbrouck. He settled at New Paltz, and died June 28, 1690.
4. iii. Jacob2, baptized October 9, 1661 ; married, March 8, 1689, Lysbeth Varnoye ; died 1745.
5. iv. Sarah2, baptized September 14, 1664 ; married, December 12, 1682, Joost Janz, of Marbletown.
6. v. David2, baptized March 13, 1667 ; married, March 8, 1689, Cornelia Varnoye.
7. vi. Solomon2, born at Hurley, 1670; married, 1692, Trintje Gerritsen.
8. vii. Rebecca2, baptized June 18, 1671 ; died young.
9. viii. Ragel2 , baptized April, 1675 ; died young.
10. ix. Louis2, born 1677 ; married, January 19, 1701, Rachael Hasbrouck.
11. x. Matthew2, born January 3, 1679, at Hurley; married, January 17, 1697, Sara Matthyssen.
.... etc.
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The Rev. William Schenck, His Ancestry and His Descendants ...
https://books.google.com/books?id=8x9PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=cornelius+nieukirk+1715&source=bl&ots=wo8sSjWGvw&sig=ChXlIz4y8mG1nLKP4FbzAPzIRqk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAjgUahUKEwihtLauo-jIAhUC9GMKHUbvCIk#v=onepage&q=cornelius%20nieukirk%201715&f=false
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History of the Old Tennent church : .... by Symmes, Frank Rosebrook
https://archive.org/details/historyofoldten00symm
https://archive.org/stream/historyofoldten00symm#page/405/mode/1up
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One of the captives of the Indians at the burning of Hurley.

Data Conflict:

First Name: Catherine or Catharine

Last Name: Du Bois or Blanshan

Maiden name: Blanchan or Blanshan

Birth Date: 10/17/1627 or 1629

Birth Place: Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany or Pas-de-Calaise, Artois, France

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Catarinen [Catherine] Blanchan [Blanjean] was apparently born in the Province of Artois, France, the oldest child of Mattheu Blanchan and Magdalena Jorisse, who left France to escape persecution of Huguenots before 1647. Catarinen died 1713 in Kingston, Ulster County, N.Y. She married Louis du Bois 10 Oct. 1655 in Mannheim, Germany. They had 12 children. Catarinen was captured by Esopus Indians on 7 June 1663, along with three of her children, her sister Maria, Maria's child and other women and children of New Village (now Hurley, N.Y.). They were rescued three months later. Catarinen married second about 1698 to Jean Cottin. She moved to Kingston after second marriage.

from: http://home.earthlink.net/~kseitz/hugim.html

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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ilenemc&id=I2249

http://www.dbfa.org/family_history.htm

The DuBoises, and other Huguenot families of New Paltz, were slave owners. Louis purchased two slaves at public auction in Kingston 1674. The 1755 census shows Solomon DuBois as owning seven slaves.

The DuBois family takes some small comfort that Catherine DuBois Cottin (Louis DuBois widow) made specific mention in her 1712 will that a manumission letter written for her slave girl Rachel in 1709 shall "remain in force and be properly observed".
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http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/a/n/Dennis-L-Maness/GENE39-0021.html Notes for Catherine Blanchan: On 7 June, 1663, Louis du Bois headed an expedition against the Minnisink Indians. This was latter known as the Eusopus War. "It was organized at the time the settlement was attacked by the Minnisinks, who burned Hurley, killed and injured some of the settlers, and carried away as prisoners, the wife of Louis du Bois, his three children, and at least two of Jan Joosten van Meterens'. These were taken to the fastnesses of the Catskill Mountains and there remained in captivity for months, but were rescued on the eve of torture by du Bois and Captain Martin Kreiger's company of Manhattan soldiers; the trainband finally rounded up the Indians and defeated them on September 3, 1663. In connection with this tragic experience the following statement is quoted: "About ten weeks after the capture of the women and children, the Indians decided to celebrate their own escape from pursuit by burning some of their victims and the ones selected were Catherine du Bois, and her baby Sara, who afterward married her companion in captivity, John Van Metre. A cubical pile of logs was arranged and the mother and child placed thereon; when the Indians were about to apply the torch, Catherine began to sing the 137th Psalm as a death chant. The Indians withheld the fire and gave her respite while they listened; when she had finished they demanded more, and before she had finished the last one her husband and the Dutch soldiers from New Amsterdam arrived and surrounded the savages, killed and captured some, and otherwise inflicted terrible punishment upon them, and released the prisoners." "Some time after her husband's death, and when she was about 63 years of age, Louis' widow married Jean Cottin, a very worthy Huguenot, who kept a store at Kingston and had been previously the schoolmaster at New Paltz. In the year 1703 we find recorded in the church book at Kingston the following interesting entry in the list of baptisms, under date of September 5th: "Rachel - after profession of her faith she received the sacrament of holy baptism, aged 17 years. Besides the points required of her in the formula of baptism she also promised the congregation to serve her mistress Catharine Cottyn faithfully and diligently until the death of her mistress and after that to serve her master Jan Cottyn and after that she shall be at liberty and free." The old Dutch dominie, who recorded all this in the church book, performed a valuable deed for history and for the descendants of Louis DuBois, the Patentee. Usually the church record contained simply the name of the child baptized, the parents, and sponsors; but here we have the evidence that the woman who, in her early married years, saved her life by singing a psalm, while the savages were preparing to burn her at the stake, now in her old age manumitted her negro woman. This is perhaps the very first recorded instance in this country of the freeing of a slave." From [IT:History of New Paltz:IT] by Ralph Le Fevre.

Other sources show her born 1633 in Artois, France http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~walkersj/Blanchan.html

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