Christian Deyo (abt. 1620 - 1687)

Born about 29 Apr 1620 in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Artois (Pas de Calais), France [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Jeanne (Verbeau) Deyo — married 1643 in Artois, Pas-De-Calais, France

Descendants

Died 1 Feb 1687 at about age 66 in New Paltz, Ulster County, Province of New York

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Controversial Parentage

The parentage of Christian Deyo, the New Netherland immigrant, is controversial. Chretien Des Jous and Jeanne Wibau are linked here as his parents. But the source of this information is unknown, and suspiciously, their names appear to be variants of the names of the New Netherland immigrant and his wife. Information is eagerly sought.

Biography

Doiau, deJoux, Doyau. Christian also spelled Chretien. Christian Deyo, 1620-1686, was a Huguenot who went from France to the Palatinate, then to Kingston, NY by 1676. He was one of the New Paltz patentees, and was called the "Granpere of New Paltz." He married in 1643 Jeanne Wibau, also called Verbeau. In Mutterstadt by 1653, emigrated with Abraham Hasbrouck in 1675. The first record in this country is on the contract of sale with the Esopus Indians of may 26 1677, which is signed "Christian de Yoo x his mark." This may indicate age rather than illiteracy. CHRISTIAN DU JOU OF HORLY" MADE A TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION DATE AUG 10, 1676 AND WRITTEN IN DUTCH

"TO HIS CHILDREN, THREE OF WHOM, VIX. ANNA, PIETER, AND ELIZABETH ARE MARRIED, TWO OF WHOM, VI., MARIA AND MARGRIETA ARE UNMARRIED" "THE UNMARRIED TO RECEIVE AS MUCH AS THE MARRIED CHILDREN RECEIVED, I.E. 1-- RIXDOLLARS" ALSO "50 RIXDOLLARS" WORH OF CLOTHING FOR MARY" , "MARGERIETA BEING THE YOUNGEST" TO RECEIVE DURING HER MINTORY 70 TIX-DOLLARS"---"FOR PIETER'S WEDDING SUIT (BRUILOFTS KLEEDING) 15 RIXDOLLARS." ---RESIDUE TO BE DIVDED AMONG THE CHILDREN. WITNESSED BY LOUYS DU BOIS, CHRISTIAN DU JOU (HIS MARK) HUG FREER (HIS MARK) TESTUS: WM. LA MONTAGNE, S.

Their daughter Margaret married in 1681 in Kingston, Abraham duBois. ^[1]

Arrived in New Amsterdam, along with Abraham Hasbrouck, in 1675. Pierre is also spelled Pieter. ? One of the original founders of New Paltz, Ulster, New York

Name

Christian Deyo ^[2][3][4]

The Huguenot Society of America lists "Christian Deyo" as a Huguenot ancestor.^[5]

Birth

1610 St PolSurTernoise, Artois, France

Calais, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France^[6]

about 1620 in St. Pol, Artois, France

1620, St Pol,Artois,,France

Marriage

Husband of Jeanne (Wibau) Verbeau — married about 1643 in Artois, Pas-De-Calais, France

Husband: Christian Deyo

Wife: Jeanne Verbeau

ABT 1642 St. Paul, Artois, Pas-De-Calais, France^[7][8]

Reference: 50142

Immigration

Christian Deyo emigrated from the Palatinate to Ulster Co., NY in 1675. He was a Huguenot.

1675, New Paltz, Ulster, New York

Church Records

Christiaen Dujoo and Gian Wiboo were sponsors of the baptism of [grandson?] Cristiaen Dujoo Apr. 17 1681 recorded at the Brooklyn First DRC (HSYB p. 153).

Death

1 FEB 1685/86

01 FEB 1686 Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA^[9]

after February 1, 1686 in New Paltz, Ulster, New York, United States

1687, New Paltz, Ulster, New York

Sources

1. ↑ Virkus, Immigrant Ancestors
2. ↑ Source: #S397 Page: Tree #0513 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 12, 1999
3. ↑ Source: #S164 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 12, 1999
4. ↑ Source: #S478 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jeanne Verbeau
5. ↑ Huguenot Society of America, Ancestors. Text: Past and current members have joined the Huguenot Society of America by right of descent from the following Huguenot ancestors who qualify under the constitution of the Society.
6. ↑ Source: #S478 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jeanne Verbeau
7. ↑ Source: #S397 Page: Tree #0513 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 12, 1999
8. ↑ Source: #S164 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 12, 1999
9. ↑ Source: #S478 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jeanne Verbeau

• NJGS. "DeYoe: DeYoe, Christian." njgsbc.org. Accessed 06 Jul 2016. http://njgsbc.org/files/BCFamilies/BCFam-DeYoe.pdf PDF

• "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." Ralph LeFever, 1903. Fort Orange Press, Albany, N.Y.[1]

• Source: S145: The Deyo (Deyoe) Family, by Kenneth E. Hasbrouck, New Paltz, New York: 1958 (privately printed). Accessed March 5, 2008 through Ancestry.

• Source: A biography of Christian Deyo is maintained by the Huguenot Historical Society (Historic Huguenot Street) as part of their collection of Deyo Family Papers (1675–1870).

• There is a transcription of the 1676 testamentary deposition of "Christiaen Du Jou of Horly" at Anjou, Ulster County, N. Y., Probate Recs.^[10], 1:31.

• His will, dated 1 Feb 1686/7, proved 30 June [1687], estate settled 24 Oct 1687.

• Source: from: Richard Allan JENNI 815 Plymouth Place Ocean City, NJ 98226 Submission Search: 935764-0711100201604 CD-ROM: Pedigree Resource File - Compact Disc #17 Change Date: 11 MAR 2002

• Source: S397 Brøderbund Software, Inc. Title: World Family Tree Vol. 17, Ed. 1 Publication: Name: Release date: December 11, 1997; NOTESource Medium: Family Archive CD Customer pedigree.

• Source: S478 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8039506/christian-deyo

• Holland Society Year Book (1897)

• Source: S164 Title: Ferree-Becker.FTW NOTESource Medium: Other

Acknowledgements

• Deyo-106 was created by Gail Williams through the import of Carry Case gedcome - Jan 2015.ged on Jan 26, 2015.

Research Notes

Needs Free Space

Note N344New York City Wills, 1744-1758

Page 218.--In the name of God, Amen. I, ROELOFF ELTINGE, of the New Paltz, in Ulster County, being weak and sick. I leave to my son, Noah Eltinge, all and singular my farm, lands, meadows, dwelling house and tan vats and tan mill, and all appurtenances, now in my possession, situate and lying within or near the limits of the Patent of the New Paltz, on the southeast side of the Paltz creek, between the land of Soloman Dubois and the land of Daniel Dubois; Also all those lots on the north west side of the Paltz creek, and the land commonly called the Great piece, lying in two parcels; Also all that the 1/3 of 1/6, and 1/16 part of all the undivided lands within the bounds of the Patent of the New Paltz, except as hereafter given; Also 1/2 of a certain tract of land by me purchased of Cornelius Dubois, the whole containing 528 acres; which 1/2 is the north west part thereof. My son Noah is to furnish my wife Sarah an honorable maintainance, that is of eating and drinking, lodging, apparell, attendance, and all other things necessary, and he is to pay to my daughter Jacomintie, wife of William Credeback, œ100, and to my grandson Roelof, son of my son Abraham, late of Potumack, deceased, œ100, and the same to my daughter Margaret. I leave to my son Josiah all those several lots of land in the Patent of New Paltz, which I have purchased of my brother-in-law, Abraham Dubois, with the dwelling house, and now in his occupation; Also 1/3 of 1/6 and 1/60 part of the undivided lands; Also 1/2 of the land I bought of Cornelius Dubois, and is the southeast part. And he is to pay œ20 yearly to my wife, and œ300 to my other children, and grand child, viz.: to my children, John, Noah, Janettie and Margaret, and my grandchild Roeloff. I leave to my eldest son John, for life, and then to his sons, Peter and Roeloff, 1/2 of all my right in sundry lots in the Patent of New Paltz fronting upon Hudson river, to begin at the distance of 1 1/2 miles from the river, and to extend west so far as the lots extend. I leave to my sons Josiah and Noah all my 2/3 part of 2 lots of wood land lately laid out in the Patent, one of them on the west side of the Paltz river in the Pine woods, "by a spring between the Horpon and the Klyn Bontekoe;" Also all my right in the woodland to the northwest of the lots of Daniel Dubois and Samuel Bevier, near the Hopon; and the other lot is also on the west side of Paltz creek, adjoining south to the land of Isaac Le Fevre, and upon the Bever creek; Also my undivided part of another lot of woodland, "lying between the Hopon and the Spaase See," which said tract was divided to the heirs of Christian Deyo. I leave to my daughter Margaret, wife of Abraham Bevier, my 2/3 of 2 lots of wood land on the west side of Paltz creek and adjoining each other, and known as lots No. 3 and 4, "lying in a piece of land commonly called the Olynueton;" Also all my right in Lot No. 1, lying between Moghoonck and a lot of Jan Le Fevre, "commonly called Fontyntre," which was also divided to the heirs of Christian Deyo. If my wife Sarah shall not be satisfied to live with my son Noah, but shall choose to live with my son Josiah (She being of her natural senses at the time of such change) he shall allow her the same maintainance. I leave to my daughter Janettie, œ40. To my son Noah, my negro man, wagons, oxen plows, etc. To my daughter Margaret a negro girl. To my son John all the money he owes to me. I leave to my grandson, Roeloff Eltinge, œ100, due me from his father. To my son Noah, œ100. I leave to my son John a certain tract of land in Kingston with the Tan vats. All the rest to my children and grand children. If any of my children shall sell their land they shall give the preference to their brothers and sisters at the same price a stranger will pay. I make my sons executors.

*from "The Deyo Family in America" by (the late) Kenneth Hasbrouck (1958), typed by Esther Deyo Aldridge, President of the Deyo Family Association.

FOREWORD

The history of the Deyo Family in America begins, fittingly enough, with a grandpere named Christian, an apt title, because the impetus for reaching these shores was religious persecution in Europe. It is a Christian account which begins in the New World with a man named Christian.

The story of this remarkable and durable clan goes back to the tenth century when a chieftain held a fortress in the Jura Mountains, and continues to the 1600's when descendants were forced to flee across Europe to avoid martyrdom for Calvinist beliefs. The succeeding flight to America brought new adventures, a unique form of government, treaties with the Indians, and at last refuge in a tiny settlement on the banks of the Wallkill River in the shadow of the Shawangunks.

The history of the family in America is like a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. Their history in Europe is just as intricate, but one is permitted to draw out only a few random pieces a year.

THE NAME

Research would be much easier if the name had more consonants. In the past century, it has settled down to just a few variations: Deyo, DeYo, Deyoe, DeYoe, and possibly Deye. But in earlier days when literacy was low, before dictionaries were available to ordinary people to set a standard of spelling, phonetic spellings made the records chaotic. In France the ancient form of "de Iou" became "du Joue" and is now "de Joux". In the German records, "d'Oiau", "Doyot", "Doyou" and even "Poyot" refer to the family of grandpere Christian. In the New Paltz Church records from 1683 to 1910 there are 41 variants of the name. Muster rolls of the American Revolution added a few more as far fetched as "Doran" and "Dolliow" both referring to Captain Abraham Deyo of the New Paltz Company, 3rd Ulster County Militia.

FORT DEJOUX

In the 1958 edition of this work, substantial reliance was put on an 1898 study by Edward C. Marshall of New York City. The lengthy title indicates the bulk of his conclusions: "Historic Notes on the Origin of the Family of Deyo in New York State, who are believed to be descended from the Sires de Iou, Mountain Chieftains A.D. 1050, holding at Chateau de Iou the pass from France to Switzerland. Knights of the Crusades, Kinsmen of Coligny, Huguenot Grandees. Their supposed descendant, Chretien du Joux, became in 1677 a founder of New Paltz."

The Chateau de Iou, ancient seat of the Sires de Iou, opened in recent years as a museum as Fort de Joux, is located 4 km. east of Pontarlier, 52 km. from Neuchatel, 63 km. from Lausanne. From Neuchatel, take route N-10 to the French-Swiss border and Les Verrieres, about 41 km. This road joins N-67 from Lausanne. Go 11 km. to La Cluse-et-Mijoux, and then on a by road D-402 up the mountain 1 km. to the Fort.

Larousse's Dictionaire Universal states that the site has been occupied from the time of the Romans, but that nothing wasdocumented for the fortress until the 11th century. Larousse establishes that about 1050 the Sires de Joux were among the most powerful of the mountain lords of Burgundy. Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy from 1419 to 1467, purchased the chateau which later was owned by Philip d'Hochberg, son of the Count of Neufchatel. It was captured by Charles le Temeraire Duke of Burgundy 1467-1477, son of Philip the Good and restored to Nicolas de Joux, Seigneur d'Abbans, who was named governor of the chateau. In 1473 Nicholas delivered it to Louis XI for 14,000 ecus or half-crowns.

The chateau is mentioned in connection with events in 1478 in Paradius' Annals de Bourgogne p.994. The fortress, repeatedly captured and recaptured, became a state prison after the conquest of Burgundy (Franche-Comte) by Louis XIV in 1674. Mirabeau and Toussaint l'Ouverture were imprisoned within its walls.

According to Suchaux's Nobilaire de la Franche-Comte, p.314, , the castle was from the 11th century the chief seat of a seigneurie or lordly manor which comprised four chateau - Joux, la Cluse, Mireval, and Usie. Many of the Seigneurs de Joux went to the Crusades. One of them, Landry, founded the Abbey of Montbenoit in 1100.

Suchaux thought that the de Joux line died out in the 16th century, and that the female lines remained in the Grammont-Fallon families. The Sires de Joux were allied in marriage with the family of Admiral Coligny, French Protestant leader who was killed in the St. Bartholomew's Massacre on August 24, 1572.

The castle is perched on a rocky spur 600 feet above the village of La Cluse-et-Mijoux, at an elevation of 3050 feet. Its high defensive walls were erected as far back as the tenth century.It was transformed by Vauban in 1690 and is now composed of five surrounding walls of different levels, separated by ditches dug in the rock. Its exterior provides afascinating illustration of stonework through the centuries. The triumphal gateway, erected to Louis XIV, is Rennaissance style, the large Italinate windows of the officers' quarters contrast sharply with the narrow slits in the old HorseshoeTower whose walls vary to a thickness of 21 feet. The 212 step spiral staircase to the dungeon is modern metal. The old well, 16 feet across and over 400 feet deep, was dug by prisoners of the old chieftains who levied tolls upon travellers between Switzerland and France.

In the dungeon is a small but solid oak door about 2 x 3 feet, with a narrow grating, behind which one dimly perceives a tiny dark cell, just about 4 x 6 feet. And thereby hangs a legend.

Amauri III, soon after his marriage, left his young wife Berthe, to go on the Third Crusade. As the months and years dragged on while Richard of England confronted Saladin and quarreled with Philip of France, she was forced to assume full responsibility over her husband's domain and every person in it. One day a wounded knight came to the csatle and asked for help. He turned out to be Ame de Montfacon, a childhood playmate of Berthe. They became lovers. When Amauri returned unexpectedly, Berthe was thrown into this tiny cell. Only once a day was she permitted out into the corridor which had a single slit window through the thick stone walls. But even that glimpse of the blue sky was blocked by the body of Ame', swinging in chains at the mercy of the wind.

There is little furniture in the castle now, but in the Lord's Hall the shield of deJoux is deeply carved in the mantel, and there is a good military museum of the Napoleonic era.

COAT OF ARMS

The Sires de Iou of the Franche-Comte were a princely house, and as grandes seigneurs, their coat of arms bore a crown on the helmet and lions on each side of the shield. A heraldic description in Rietstap's Armorial General, Vol. 1, p. 1051, states:

D'or frette d'azur

Cimier: Une tete de cheval

Adage: de Joux"

(A golden field bears a blue fretwork; Crest: a horse's head)

The motto in midieval French is "Lascivite de Joux" which means the "gaiety of the house of Joux"

There are variations. Some branches of the family have the figure of an old man or the head of a bull as the crest. Some use a black fretwork.

In recent years, Richard G. Rider, resident of Paris, and member of the Deyo Family Association, has done extensive research both in that city and in the Jura region attempting to document the connection of our Deyo family with the Sires de Joux. He has been unsuccessful to date, but it is quite consistent with history that a younger son of the family should be sent North to Artois to take over the lands acquired through the Burgundian conquests. There is no proof at all, but as a matter of interest the genealogy of teh deJoux, as contributed by Rider, is included:

NARDUIN (900's)

WARIN

ULDRIC (beginning of 1000)

AMAURI I (1057-1083) "De Jurenis Saltibus"

LANDRI (1086-1110) "Landricus"

AMAURI II (1110-1140)

HUGUES (middle 1100's)

AMAURI III (1166-1189) Ameldricus de Jur m. Berthe

HENRI I (1196-1243) m. Clemence d. 1228

AMAURI IV (1245-1263) m. Huguette, dame de Bonnevaux, d. ca.1292

HENRI II (1265-1295) noble baron, m. Guillemette.... d. ca.1298, dau. of Richard de Scey de Montbeliard, sire de Montrand et de Courachoton, and Isabelle, dame de Montfort et de Chatel-Maillot

...

HUGUENOTS IN EUROPE

Huguenot histories speak of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, the Edict of Nantes and its Revocation, of the princely houses of Conde, Coligny, and Navarre, of the Southern provinces of Gascogne, Saintonge, Languedoc, of the heroism of La Rochelle and the Desert. Actually it all started in the north among a simpler people.

Jean Calvin was born at Noyon in 1509. Jacques leFevre of Etaples translated the Gospels into French in 1620. The clothworkers of Lille, the beorgeios merchants and manufacturers of Artois, Picardy, and French Flanders had brought an end to feudalism and provided fertile ground for the new idea of individual dignity and responsibility, education for all, the Protestant work ethic.

The very term Huguenot is most probably of northern origin.Originally it was used as a term of derision, like Yankee in America, and is not found in France today. Among the many theories concerning its derivation, the most plausible is that it came from the Flemish words "Huis genooten" - the house of brotherhood, the prayer -meeting people, those who met in private homes rather than established churches.

These people are often called Walloons - that means simply the inhabitants of the areas drained by the Waal River and its tributaries of the lower Rhine delta.

There were persecutions from the beginning. Calvin fled to Geneva by 1536. Emigre's organized the French and Walloon Church in Threadneedle Street, London, in 1552. After the Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572, refugees flocked to Canterbury, London and the Midlands. The Edict of Nantes in 1598 provided a respite, but the Thirty Years War brought further troubles, and French Protestants fled to Zeeland, Holland, Sweden as well as England and Switzerland.

By the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Holland achieved independence and complete religious toleration, but Flanders, including the provinces of Artois, Picardy, and French Flanders, was ceded to the Hapsburgs and became part of Spanish Netherlands, thus subject to The Inquisition. At the same time, the hereditary Elector Palatine regained his devastated province of Die Pfalz, with its capitol at Heidelberg. Pfalz means simply "palace" and refers to the richness of the region. The present province, entirely on the West side of the river, is Die Rhein-pfalz. It has nothing whatever to do with the picturesquetollgate in the middle of the river opposite Kaub, some 75 miles downstream from Mannheim.

That commercial city at the junction of the Rhine and the Neckar had suffered so drastically in the war that old accounts report: "In its streetsthere were more wolves than men." The Elector invited the Huguenot merchants and manufacturers to rebuild his city, offering them tax concessions, exemption from military service, and, most importantly, the opportunity to change their minds. Within a 20 year period they could leave with all their money and goods without the usual confiscatory exit tax. So Mannheim, Speyer, Frankenthal, Mutterstadt offered a refuge where they could consolidate their assets, recoup their losses, and make plans for further emigration.

CHRISTIAN DEYO IN EUROPE AND AMERICA

A marriage entry for 1605 at the church on Threadneedle Street appears in the Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, Vol. IX, p. 6

“June 9, Roque du Joue, fils de feu Pierre, natif de St. Paul en

Artois, et marie, fille de George Terronenne de Londres.”

It is believed that this might refer to an uncle and grandfather to the émigré¢ Christian.  :” St. Paul en Artois” would refer to St. Pol-sur-Ternoise, about 48 km. South of Hazebrouck, 34 km. West of Arras, 57 km. North of Amiens at the junction of Routes N-16 and N-30. This would place the Deyos squarely in the small territory from which the other Patentees of New Paltz came. Matthew Blanchan came from Nouvelle-au-Corne, a tiny suburb of St. Pol. The DuBois family Wicres, the Crispells of Sainghin were only a few miles off. And this would tally with the tradition that a “cadet” of younger branch of the deJoux family of Franche-Conte went northward to take up lands in Artois gained in the Burgundian conquests.

One can speculate that Pierre du Joue of St. Pol-sur-Ternoise, who died before 1605, had a son Roque who went to London and probably another son, whose son Christian was born about 1610-1620. The erroneous date in Baird should be discarded. Christian’s children were born between 1644 and about 1660. He is still definitely “Grandpere” to New Paltz, but he was under 65 when he emigrated.

Kimmel’s Huguenot in der Pfalz, pp. 84-85 states:

In 1650, after the Thirty Years War, the once flourishing community of Mutterstadt was still utterly empty and uninhabited. The surviving citizens were staying in Speyer and Frankenthal. Resettlement probably started around 1651. It seems that arrangements were made in Mannheim and Frankenthal for Flemish-Walloon and French immigrants to move to the village…..The Palatine Electorate’s treasury list of 1655 shows that a settlement of newcomers from French-speaking areas began soon after 1650. While this list was destroyed, along with the treasury book No. 44 in the state archives of Speyer, we have a copy which was made by Dr. Heinrich Eyselein decades ago; from his papers he compiled a list of the “welsch” (strangers) for us.

On that list is “Christian d’Oiau” assessed at 200 fl. And “Jean Brougk (or Brouyk)” assessed at 125 fl. (note: on the contract of sale with the Esopus Indians, Jean Hasbrouck, Jr. signed his name as “Jan Broecq”.) Another name on the list of 1655 is that of Andre le Blanc. Perhaps he was the father-in-law of Louis Bevier.

Mutterstadt was only six miles southwest of Mannheim, though it was on the west side of the Rhine. In Mannheim gathered the DuBoises, the Crispells, the Blanchans, and the Freers. Jean Hasbrouck, Sr. and Jr. were listed as members of the congregation of Mannheim in 1667. No indication has been found that Grandpere Christian resided there at any time, but two of his daughters appear in the church records.:

“Jean Langottin and Catherine Plaret have had baptized their son

Jean Jacques Langottin the 14th of August 1667, born the 7th of the said month and has had For Godfather Jean Jacques Favre and For Godmother Anne Doyot wife of Jean Hasbrouck.”

“Jean Hasbrouck, bourgeois at Mannheim, and Anne Poyau have had baptized their daughter Ether the 14th 9bre (November) Born the 12th ditto 1669, has had for godfather Hugues Frere and for God-

mother Marie Michaud wife of Jacob Harnier. Andre Canon, Bourgeois of this city, and Jeanne Pluquet, have had baptized their son Abraham, the 27th of February, born the 23rd of the said month 1670, who has had for godfather Abraham Gambier and for godmother Elisabeth Doyau.”

Why did they leave Die Pfalz? Louis XIV, no longer under the mildly restraining influence of Mazarin, became implacable against heretics. The rights guaranteed by the Edict of Nantes were subject to constant erosion. Names of Huguenots were cut out of public records, even the baptismal registers. Louis was determined no Huguenot should prove his ownership of land. He demanded the return of the émigré¢s from England and his agents pursued those who fled eastward. Military action threatened Die Pfalz.

For Christian’s voyage to America, no passenger list exists, but one may rely on the Abraham Hasbrouck Diary, kept by the grandson and namesake of the Patentee of whom he says:

“…. he with several in company, of his acquaintances & descendants

or as followers of Peter Waldus & they came from the Palatinate and

went to Rotterdam and from thence to Amsterdam, and they embarked

for England in April 1675, and from England they sailed to America

and arrived in the town of Boston, and from Boston they sailed to New

York and from New York to Esopus in Ulster County and arrived there

in July, 1675, and there he found his brother John Hasbroucq, who

had gone before him two years, and likewise several old acquaintances;

and the next year he marryed in Hurleytown, to a young woman,

named Marie Duou, with whom he had been acquainted in the Palatinate,

& was one of the passengers who came over with him to America. She

was a native of the Palatinate in Germany.”

Obviously, the family of Christian Deyo were on the same ship.

Indications are that the New Paltz Patentees were well prepared financially for the trip to the New World. But none placed the name of his father or other in the family Bible – evidence that the government of France was feared. Since England and France were vying for control of American colonies, the wary Huguenots left pedigrees blank, choosing to begin a new life.

The émigrés who later settled New Paltz move up the Hudson River to Esopus – Wiltwyck – finally Kingston between 1660 and 1677. Most of them settled about three miles south of Kingston at Nieuw Dorp (the New Village, now Hurley). Records in Kingston show that Abraham Hasbrouck married Maria Deyo at Hurley in 16767. Abraham Deyo, son of Pierre the Patentee, was born in Hurley, and in 1678 Simon leFevr4e, the Patentee transferred a house and lot at Hurley for his father-in-law Christian Deyo.

The Kingston church records name Christian’s wife as Jeanne Verbeau. In the Brooklyn records it is spelled “Gian Wiboo”. Ruth Heidgerd is convinced that she belonged to the Wibau or Wibaut family, which was prominent in Mannheim. The second wife of Hugo Freer, the daughter of Toussaint Wibau of Bruyelle, was probably her niece and namesake.

The Deyos, even though they had less money in America than they had in Europe, nevertheless passed down the generations through his son Pierre and four daughters.

“The Deyos were quiet hard-working people, determined to ask no

favors. They were and are usually able to take care of themselves. Characterized by their civic awareness and good neighborliness, the descendants of Christian Deyo are noted for their ability as good farmers, silence until asked for an opinion, determination, and good common sense. Most of the descendants of Christian have not been afraid of work. They toil with the hands and labor is shouldered like a wreath of honor.” (The Huguenot with Emphasis upon the Huguenots of New Paltz. Kenneth E. Hasbrouck, 1970.)

THE FOUNDING OF NEW PALTZ

The move across the Shawangunk Mountains to the Wallkill Valley was triggered by several events and includes an intriguing legend. The land acquisitions by the Dutch and their fur trade with the Indians produced frictions which exploded into the First and Second Esopus Wars in 1659 and 1663. The French, who wanted to farm in peace, were caught up in the fracas.

On June 7, 1663, while men were working the fields, a band of Indians swooped in, burned Nieuw Dorp, and captured 29 women and children. Among the captives were the wife and three sons of Louis DuBois and the wife and child of Antoine Crispell.

After a three-month search, Louis DuBois, in the company of Captain martin Cregier (who was dispatched by Stuyvesant), came upon the captives at a palisaded fort near the Shawankunk Kill in the Hogaburg area behind Wallkill. Tradition has it that Catherine Blanchan DuBois was tied to a stake with faggots being piled around her. She began to sing the 137th Psalm, and her voice led the rescuers to her. Documentary evidence denies that last bit, but the sentimental legend persists.

At any rate, it is fairly certain that during his search for his family, Louis DuBois had ample opportunity to see that the Wallkill Valley was both broad and fertile and, as yet, unoccupied by white men.

At one time, Hasbrouck had served in the English army with Edmund Andros, who was later appointed governor New York. Hasbrouck spoke to Governor Andros in behalf of the Huguenot band, and in April 1677 was given permission to settle along the Wallkill River.

Although William Penn usually gets the credit for fair negotiations with the Indians, the Huguenot settlers of New Paltz were equally successful five years earlier. On May 26, 1677, five chiefs of the Esopus tribe, a branch of the Delawares – Maysaysay, Magakahas, Nekahakaway, Assineraken and Wawanis – made their marks on a contract for the sale of land to 11 Huguenots, including Christian and Pierre Deyo.

The purchase price was fair:

“40 kettles, 40 axes, 40 adzes, 40 shirts, 400 fathoms of white

and 300 fathoms of black network, 60 pairs of stockings, 100

bars of lead, one keg of powder, 100 knives, four kegs of wine,

40 oars, 40 pieces of duffle cloth, 60 blankets, 100 needles, one

measure of tobacco, and two horses.”

Even though the settlers built a fort required by the governor, their relations with the Indians remained so friendly that the refuse was never used. The red men were so cooperative that they warned the West Bank of the Wallkill was prone to flooding, so the white men built their log cabins on the east bank. According to a survey map of 1709, the patent covers 39,683 acres.

A confirmation deed signed by 19 braves and 2 squaws preceded the royal grant given by Governor Andros on September 29, 1677. All three documents are in the possession of the Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, NY.

In spring, 1678, the Twelve Patentees and their families traveled from Hurley to their new homesite, with all their worldly goods piled into three ox carts. The settlement was named New Paltz in honor of their previous refuse in Die Pfalz.

The people owned the land in common, in a unique system of government based on sharing. The Patentees and their children tilled the land and divided the produce equally. The Duzine (Old French for dozen) had complete civil, military, and religious power. Membership at first was hereditary, but after 1728, it became elective. New Paltz was incorporated as a township of New York State in 1785, but the Duzine continued to function until 1823. House lots were set off in the minute books of the Duzine as earl as 1689. Partition of the farm lands proceeded gradually throughout the 18th century, and old wills were apt to mention something like “my just 1/147th of the undivided 1/12th portion of the New Paltz Patent.”

THE CHURCH

The church was primary to the Huguenots who were forced to flee their homeland because of religious beliefs. When the patentees first reached the banks of the Wallkill and alighted from the ox carts, they read a psalm. One of the first structures was a log church, which stood at the north end of the present Old Huguenot Cemetery and also served as a school.

In 1717 a stone church replaced the original building. It was completed in 1720. Among those who assisted in its construction were Abraham, Christian, and Henry Deyo. Church records list several Deyos as pew holders: Christian Deyo had a place at the right of the pulpit on the East Side. Abraham Deyo had a place in the fourth pew and two in the fifth, while henry Deyo had two spots in the sixth pews. In a corner near a small door, Christian Deyo had one set and Henry Deyo “owned” a seat in front of the fifth pew. Family size could often be judged by pew rentals.

The first church was called the Walloons or French Church and was unique in that it owed no authority higher than its own memberships. Records were kept in French for the first 50 years, in Dutch for 70 years, and in English since 1800. These records still exist, from the date of the organization of the church on January 22, 1683 by Rev. Pierre Daille. He traveled from New York City to serve French congregations in New Jersey and the Hudson Valley. Rev. David bonrepos visited the community from 1696 to 1700. When they could not obtain French ministers, they sought Swiss. Much of the time, marriages and baptisms were performed by Kingston ministers. However, during the long Coetus-Conferentie dispute they took the liberal side and asserted their independence. It was only in 1772 that they formally affiliated with the Reformed Dutch Church in America.

The 1717 church was used until 1772, when a larger edifice was built a short distance northward on the Street. In 1738 the first public road in the township enabled people to travel to church at Kingston 16 miles away. A brick church was built on Huguenot Street in 1839, enlarged in 1872 to its present style, and regularly improved since then.

The old 1717 church was reconstructed in 1972 as a project of the Crispell Family Association. After ten years of planning and documentary research, it was built of stone with a hip roof and cupola on a site about 60 feet south of the original location.

DEYOS IN THE REVOLUTION

A majority of Deyos sided with the patriots in the American Revolution, putting themselves on the line by signing the Articles of Association and by fighting in the ensuing war.

Among those inking the Articles of Association on April 29, 1775 at the inn of Ann DuBois in New Paltz were: Abraham Deyo, Sr. and Jr., Ben