Louis Guion (bef. 1687 - bef. 1731)

Born before 1 Jan 1687 in At Sea

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Died before 4 Dec 1731 at about age 44 in Eastchester, Westchester, New York [uncertain]

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Biography

Louis Guion was born in 1686. He was the son of Lewis Guion and Tomaza Forestiere. Louis or Lewis, Jr. as he called himself later in life, was born at sea on the voyage to America. The ship arrived in the New World just before New Year's Day 1687.^[1]

The Census of 1710 records Lewis's parents and siblings:

1710 Inhabitants of New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York^[2]

Name Aged
Guion, Ammon 20
Guion, Issaacc 25
Guion, Lewis Sr 56
Guion, Mary 54
Guion, Sussanna 25

Lewis is mentioned in the Will of Lewis Guion Sr. of New Rochelle as "eldest son Lewis".^[3]

Lewis married Dinah Deveaux^[4] in 1712. He was by trade a blacksmith. He died in 1731, after having a number of children:

1. Mary b. ?, m John Alberson
2. Leah b. 1713, m. 1st Philip Pinckney, 2nd John O. Brian (Obriant), d about 1785
3. Esther b. 1715, m. Charles Vincent
4. Elizabeth (Isabelle) b. 1717, m Charles Johnston, a schoolmaster, city of New York
5. Margaret Guion b. 1719, m. Elias Chadayne (Chadeugne)
6. Susannah b. 1721, m 1st Joshua Soulice; m. 2nd Charles Morgan
7. John b. 1725; m. Anna Hunt about 1750
8. Lewis b. 1728; m. Martha Hunt^[5]
9. Daniel b. ?

Louis Guion's will dated 28 October 1731 was proved in Westchester, 4 Dec 1731. It mentions wife Dinah, daughter Mary the wife of John Alberson, daughter Leah the wife of Philip Pinkney, daughters Esther, Isabell, Margaret, and Susannah all not of age, and sons Lewis (eldest) and Daniel both unmarried. ^[6]

"From the Weekly Post Boy, Janurary 19, 1737, "TO BE SOLD - A very good Farm and Tract of Land thereunto belonging, containing seventy-three acres thereabouts, lying in New Rochelle, in the County of Westchester, on which is a good brick dwelling house, a well-bearing orchard and good Timber Land; as also three acres of Salt Meadows, in the Township of East Chester, late belonging to Louis Guion of East Chester, deceased. Those that are intended to purchase the same may apply to Charles Johnston of New York, schoolmaster, or Charles Vincent, of East Chester, Blacksmith, and the title thereto sufficiently warranted. "

Louis Guion’s first five children are mentioned in the Will of wife Dinah's father, Frederick Devoose Sr., written Jan. 23, 1741, as are Leah's husband John O'Brian and Esther's husband Charles Vincent.^[7][8]

Sources

1. ↑ Descendants of Louis Guion, Huguenot of La Rochelle, France, and New Rochelle, West Chester County, Province of New York : a Guion family album, 1654 to 1976 compiled by J. Marshall Guion IV; edited by Violet H. Guion.
2. ↑ "The List of the Towne of New Rochelle &c., XBr 9th 1710." O'Callaghan, E. B. The Documentary History of the State of New-York... Albany : Weed, Parsons, 1849, page 3:946.
3. ↑ Pelletreau, William S. Cornell University Library. Making of America. Wills of Early Residents of Westchester Co., N.Y. 1664-1784. Lewis Guion Sr, of New Rochelle, p. 60.
4. ↑ Riker, James. Revised History of Harlem (New Harlem Publishing Company, New York, 1904)
5. ↑ Thomas Farrington Devoe (1811-1892), Genealogy of the De Veaux Family, New York City: Unknown 1885; pp 58-59; FHL # 823591 Item 1; digital on Ancestry.com. Unsourced; several errors have subsequently been found.
6. ↑ Wills and Administrations, New York County, New York, 1680-1804, Vol. 11, pages 195-198, Film 497593, Items 4-5, https://familysearch.org
7. ↑ Pelletreau, William S. Cornell University Library. Making of America. Wills of Early Residents of Westchester Co., N.Y. 1664-1784. Frederick Devoose Sr., pp. 90-1
8. ↑ Early wills of Westchester : Frederick Devoose.

See also:

• Margaret Guion (daughter) and Elias Chadeayne

Acknowledgements

• Sara V Mosher, 2017-2023