Elisabeth (Deyo) Lefevre (abt. 1655 - bef. 1703)

Born about 1655 in Mutterstadt, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Simon Lefevre — married Apr 1678 in Hurley, Ulster Co., Province of New York

Wife of Moses Cantine — married 1691 in Ulster Co., Province of New York

Descendants

Died before 20 Sep 1703 before about age 48 in New Paltz, Ulster County, New York Province

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Biography

Note: There is more than one year given for marriage to Simon LeFevre.

Birth

Elisabeth (Deyo) Lefevre was a wife of a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Birth Date: Between1651 and1655 in Mutterstadt, Mannheim, Electorate of the Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire, now Germany.

Death

Before 20 Sept 1703 in New Paltz, Ulster, New York Province.

According to her memorial plaque situated in the Old Huguenot Cemetery in New Paltz, New York, Elizabeth was born about 1655. General research has not discovered her birthplace, but it was either France or Mannheim, Palatinate, now Germany. No birth records have been located for Elizabeth.

Fleeing France, her family removed to the Palatinate after the Thirty Years War, and then to the New World where her father, Christian Deyo/Doyo, brother, Pierre Deyo, and first husband, Simeon/Simon Lefevre became three of twelve "patentees" establishing the New Paltz settlement in what is now the state of New York.^[1]

Elizabeth reportedly arrived in Wiltwyck (present day Kingston), NY with her parents, Christian Deyo and Jeanne Verbeau, in 1665.^[2][3]

She married 1) Simeon Lefevre (aka Simon Lefever), reportedly abt. 1678, while living in Hurley, Ulster, New York (no marriage record located). ^[3]. They lived on the original Lefevre patent along with Simon's brother, Andre, farming and raising their family.

Elizabeth and Simon had five known children:^[2]

1. Andries, b. unknown
2. Abraham, b.1679
3. Isaac, b.1683
4. Jan, b.1685
5. Maritje. b.1689

When her father died in 1686, Elizabeth inherited one-fifth of the Deyo patent, the estate equally divided between his five children.^[4]

On 01 Aug 1689, Elizabeth donated a small house and lot to be used by schoolmaster John Cottin. She signed with a mark, her initials "ED."^[3][5]

Simon may have died (or was very ill) before the baptism of their last-born child on 13 Oct 1689 as he was not in attendance; nonetheless, it is commonly reported he died in 1690.^[5]

She married 2) Moses Cantine, before 1693. No marriage record has been located.

Elizabeth and Moses had one child:

1. Peter Kantyn (Cantine), b. 21 May 1693.

Elizabeth and Moses lived on the Lefevre patent until abt. 1700 when they moved to Ponckhockie (Kingston), N.Y.. The Lefevre children remained on the patent with their bachelor uncle, Simon's brother, Andre (aka Andries). When Andre died with no direct heirs, the patent (including the 1/5th Deyo inheritance) was divided among the Lefevre children. Her oldest son, Andries, inherited the home lot and raised his family there.^[3]

It seems clear that Elizabeth passed away before 20 Sept 1703 when her 2nd husband, Moses Cantine, married his 3rd wife, Mary de Witt^[6] (also identified as Marytje Dubois, widow of Boudewyn De Witt in various record transcriptions.)^[5][7]

No vital records for Elizabeth's death have been located.

Research Notes

Although it is most likely she died in Ponckhockie, Elizabeth's final resting site has never been identified. She is memorialized with a cenotaph at New Paltz's Old Huguenot Cemetery.Find A Grave: Memorial #40755176-Elizabeth Deyo Lefevre^[8] A monument is also erected for the LeFevres in Wiltwyck Cemetery: The FindAGrave contributor notes Elizabeth's death date as 27 March 1741; however, the cenotaph has no dates of birth or death.^[9]-Kc 13 May 2019

While 1903 author Ralph Le Fevre reports the Deyo family arrived in 1675, immigration records now available indicate Elizabeth, ae 10 [9 years old], arrived in 1665.^[10] -Kc 13 May 2019

Sources

1. ↑ For an in-depth discussion regarding early migration of the Deyo family and other New Paltz patentees, see Shefsiek, Kenneth. Set in Stone: Creating and Commemorating a Hudson Valley Culture. NY: SUNY Press, 2017. Ch. 1. Pdf. [1]; Print view[2]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Hasbrouck, Kenneth E., and Ruth P. Heidgerd. The Deyo (Deyoe) Family. New Paltz NY: Privately published, 1958. pdf, p 37. archive.org.[3]
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Le Fevre, Ralph. 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; with an appendix bringing down the history of certain families and some other matter to 1850. Albany, NY: Brandow Printing Co., 1909, p. 410. archive.org. [4]
4. ↑ Christian Deyo/Doyo profile
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} "Simon LeFevre and Elizabeth Deyo." weblog, n.d. [5]
6. ↑ Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and marriage registers of the old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York. NY: Kingston. 1891. archive.org
7. ↑ Simon Lefevre headstone notes. billiongraves.com.[6]
8. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40755176/elizabeth-lefevre: accessed 13 May 2019), memorial page for Elizabeth Deyo LeFevre (1655–unknown), Find A Grave: Memorial #40755176, citing Huguenot Cemetery, New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, USA ; Maintained by L Ferree (contributor 47116659)
9. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104475705/elizabeth-lefevre : accessed 13 May 2019), memorial page for Elizabeth Deyo Lefevre (1655–27 Mar 1741), Find A Grave: Memorial #104475705, citing Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Donna (contributor 46910450) .
10. ↑ Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. P. William Filby, compiler. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1981. Print. p.8.

See Also:

• Billiongraves.com gravestone [7]
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40755176/elizabeth-lefevre: accessed 13 May 2019), memorial page for Elizabeth Deyo LeFevre (1655–unknown), Find A Grave: Memorial #40755176, citing Huguenot Cemetery, New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, USA ; Maintained by L Ferree (contributor 47116659) .
• Hasbrouck, Kenneth E., and Ruth P. Heidgerd. The Deyo (Deyoe) Family. New Paltz NY: Privately published, 1958. pdf, p 37. archive.org.[8]
• Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and marriage registers of the old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York. NY: Kingston. 1891. archive.org
• LDS: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM) June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998. Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
• Le Fevre, Ralph. 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 (Albany, N.Y.: Fort Orange Press 1903). archive.org. [9] ; Jean Cottin deed, p22 [10]
• Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. P. William Filby, compiler. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1981. Print. p.8.
• Shefsiek, Kenneth. Set in Stone: Creating and Commemorating a Hudson Valley Culture. NY: SUNY Press, 2017. Ch. 1. Pdf. [11]; Print view[12]
• "Simon LeFevre and Elizabeth Deyo." weblog, n.d. [13]

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree Profile created by Scott Bilyou, 2014.
• WikiTree Profile created by J.W. Jones, n.d.
• WikiTree Profile created and biography written by Kc, 2018.
• Biography for Deyo-233: revised and edited for merge by Kc, 13 May 2019.