Louis Dubois 
Louis was born on October 27th, 1626 in Pasora de Calais, Artois, Wicres, France and his baptism took place in Wicres, Artois, Pasora de Calais, France. Louis' father was Chretien Maxmilian Dubois and his mother was Jeanne Masic Brunel. His paternal grandparents were Jacques Louis DuBois and Madeline Renee De Croy. He was an only child. He died at the age of 69 on June 23rd, 1696 in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY.General Notes
Du Bois Motto:"Tiens ta foy" (Hold to thy faith).
"Kingston,New York was called Wiltwyck in 1600's."
"Louis was born on a farm in Wiscres, a hamlet in the district of LaBaree, near Lille. While a young man, he fled to avoid religious persecution to Mannheim, in the Paltz, or German Palatinate, now incorporated in Baden, and there married in the French Church, Catherine Blanchan. He is buried in the Old Dutch Churchyard at Kingston on the northwest corner of Clinton and John Streets. He and his family came to America on the ship the Gilded Otter in 1660. Residents of Flanders between the rivers Scheldt and Lys were called Walloons, so Louis was called Louis the Walloon."
"Louis Du Bois first appears on record at Wiltwyck, October 1, 1661 when he and his wife were received as members of the Reformed Church by attestation, and the following week they had a child baptized. He was an elder of the church. They were living at Kingston at the time of the Esopus massacre June 7, 1663 at which time Catherine and her three children, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were held in captivity for three months about thirty miles southwest of Esopus. They, with three other women, the wife and child of Anthony Crispell, and two children of Matthew Blanchan, Jr., were rescued by a party of soldiers and their husbands, as they were about to be burned. They had been taken to the Valley of the Wallkill, near New Paltz, and were on the brushwood pile singing the 137th Psalm. After seeing the rich soil in the Wallkill valley, they returned and settled there. Within the valley were founded the towns of New Paltz and Hurley."
"Louis Du Bois kept a store in Hurley in 1663. In May 1666 he and his associates purchased from the Indians a tract of land comprising 36000 acres lying between the Shawangunk mountains and the Hudson river. On September 29, 1677, Louis and his sons Abraham and Isaac were among the twelve men to whom a patent was granted by Governor Andros. Louis moved to Kingston in 1686 from Hurley, where he was a county judge."
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SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File # 8XGW-NS (familysearch.org)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1482 d.1548
- b.1512 in Herzau, Lille, France
- b.~ 1485
- b.1536 in Herzau, Lille, France d.1607
- b.~ 1515
- b.1560 in Wicres, La Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France d.1620 in Leyden, Holland
- b.1546
- b.1597 in Wicres, La Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France d.<10 Oct 1655 in Wicres, La Bassa, Duchy of Normandy, France
- b.1565 in Angers, Anjou, France d.1625
- b.27 Oct 1626 in Pasora de Calais, Artois, Wicres, France d.23 Jun 1696 in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY
- b.26 Mar 1599 in Main-et-Loire, Chenille-Change, St. Pierre, France d. in Wicres, La Bassa, Lilli, Artois, France
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‌Louis and Catherine were married in a religious ceremony on October 10th, 1655 in Old Protestant Evangelical Church, Palatinate, Mannheim, Baden, Germany. They had a son and a daughter, named Louis and Sarah.
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Children
Sarah Dubois
Sarah was born on September 14th, 1662 in Hurley, Ulster Co., NY and her baptism took place in 1st Dutch Church, Kingston, Ulster, NY. She died in Salem, NY.