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Moses Cantine was a French Protestant (Huguenot) who emigrated to America in the latter decades of the 1600s and settled in Ulster County, New York. He passed away at nearly 90 years old on 9 September 1744 in Marbletown, near Kingston, Ulster County, Province of New York, and was buried at the Marbletown Cemetery where an old gravestone, marked "M. C.," has been found. His Find A Grave: Memorial #90772965, based on 1931 research in Ulster County, states he was born in 1651 or 1655 in Royan, Charente-maritime, Saintonge, France. Royan is known as having an active Huguenot community in the 17th Century and is about 120 kilometers from Bordeaux, where Moses sailed from to reach England and then on to America.
Moses Cantine is known to have had 3 wives, being widowed at least twice in his long life. Being born around 1655 would have made him 25 in 1680, before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and he is known to have been married when he fled France around 1685. His first wife's identity has been lost but it's said she passed away during their long trans-Atlantic voyage to New York between 1685-1690.
Once established in Ulster County, up the Hudson River from New York City, Moses Cantine (spelled various ways by local non-French-speaking clerks) married recent-widow Elisabeth (Deyo) Lefevre (abt.1650-bef.1703) in 1691. She was the daughter of Christian Deyo (1620 to 1687) and his wife Jeanne Verbeau (1640 to 1681). Moses and Elizabeth lived in the Lefevre home in New Palz until her sons by her first husband were raised. On 21 May 1693 Moses and Elizabeth had a son baptized: Pieter Kantyn (1693-), the recognized ancestor of the Kantyn, Quintin, Cantine family in the USA.[1]
Pieter was their only known child. Unfortunately, Elizabeth passed away after 1700 and "Moses Cantain" then remarried (his third time) on 20 September 1703 to Marytje (Marie) Dubois, widow of Boudewyn De Witt, as recorded at the church in Kingston, Ulster, New York.[2]
On 3 October 1697 Moses Cantyn was a witness to the baptism in Kingston, New York, of Margriet, daughter of Moses La Conti and Hester la Maeter.[3]
Moise Quntin was recorded as godfather to Salomon, child of Abraham Frere and Achye, his wife, baptized in New Paltz, New York, on 23 October 1698. The child's godmother was Rachel Hasbrouq.[4]
On 1717 January 13th Moses Kantyn witnessed the baptism of his grandson, Moses, as recorded at the church in Kingston.[5]
1717: "...in the third yeare of his Majesties Reigne..." two men named "Contain" of the "Corporation of Kingston" were assessed in the Ulster County tax assessment list of 23 January 1716/7. One of them, Moses (presumably this man), was assessed for £100; the other, Pieter (his son), was assessed for £12.[6]
Little is known of Moses' life after 1717 except that he moved to Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, where he died on 9 September 1744 and was buried at the Marbletown Cemetery, Marbletown, Ulster, New York. It is assumed Mary (DeWitt) Cantine passed away before her husband but the exact date or place of her death is not known.
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