Dennis Relje was born about 1673, possibly in France, and died about 1725 in Ulster County, New York. In 1698, he married Jeanne Elizabeth LeRoy, who was born 28 March 1679 at Saint Joseph, Charlesbourg, Quebec, Canada and died after 1723 at Kingston, Ulster County, New York at 43 years of age, a daughter of Simeon Le Roux (LeRoy) and Claudina D'Eschalets Le Roux (LeRoy). Dennis belonged to the French Huguenot Church, in New Paltz, Ulster County, New York in 1693. First Residence - - New Paltz, Ulster County,
Birth
Also found references indicating birth bef. 1680 in France.
Children
David Relje was born 1699 and died before 1710.
Maria Relje Oosteroom, who was born 21 February 1703 and married Roelof <Jan> Oosteroom.
↑ Roswell Randall Hoes. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York: (formerly Named Wiltwyck, and Often Familiarly Called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from Their Commencement in 1660. New York: De Vinne Press, 1891. https://archive.org/details/cu31924082451307/page/n75/mode/2up ,accessed 20 Aug 2021.
This person was created through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged on 13 September 2010.
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Exerpt from Huguenot Genealogy of the Reille aka Relyea aka Relje Family
Denis aka Dene Areyas Reille aka Relyea aka Relje was born in 1674 or 1680. He resided first in 1690 in Marlboro in Ulster County. He was French Huguenot, later Dutch reformed Church as sponsor in 1693 in New Platz, Ulster County, New York. He resided at Old Man's Kil in 1697. He was on the tax roles in 1724/25 to Marlboro in Ulster County, New York. He died abt 1725 or 1765 in Marlboro, Ulster, New York...
...Denis first appears in May 1693 in records of French Huguenot Church of New Paltz, New York at baptism of Isaac Frere, son of Hugo Frere and Marie Anne LeRoy. He is documented in the Relyea Family by Mary Knight Crane in New York GBR, Jan 1924, pp 62ff. and in the "Dutcher Family Records He settled on the grant of land given to Captain John Evans, patent dated 1695 in Ulster County, New York. He was the first settler of the Town of Marlboro and lived on the stream called Old Man's Kil in 1697. At one time he was supposed to have occupied the stone house on the Hudson just south of Juffrow's Hook, now called Blue Point. He paid taxes in Marlboro and Plattskill in 1714-15, 1718. He was a miller and lived to be very old and was called Old Denis. From him are descended the numerous families of Relyea's who have scattered all over the country.
...and it is quite certain that Dennis Ralje (Relyea), or as he was afterwards called "Old Dennis" was settled on a stream that is now called "Old Man's Kill" at the present village of Marlborough soon after Evans got his Patent (granted c1690). He was the first settler of the town of whom we have knowledge; and the stream or kill there was called after him. There is no record that any white man set foot in what is no the Town of Marlborough previous to 1684. It was originally a part of the "Paltz Patent" granted by the Colonial Governor in 1678. [ History of the town of Marlborough, Ulster Co., New York; C.M.Woolsey; Albany 1908, p.20 ]
The first settler was Dennis Relje, sometimes called "Old Denis" and "The Old Man". His name appears in the precinct of Highland tax rolls as "Denis Relje" in the years 1714, 1715, and 1718. In the tax roll of 1724 adn 1725 it appears as "Old Denis". The Kill or Creek at Marlborough Landing is named after him. [ History of the town of Marlborough, Ulster Co., New York; C.M.Woolsey; Albany 1908, p.81 ]
Denis Relje (Relyea) was located on the Evan's Patent by Capt. John Evans in 1694 or 1695. [ History of the town of Marlborough, Ulster Co., New York; C.M.Woolsey; Albany 1908, p.261 ]
The first mention we find of any Relyea is when the name of Dennis Relji appears as godfather at the baptism of a child of Hugo Freer and his wife Mary LeRoy in 1693. Dennis' wife's name was Joanna (Jannetje) LeRoy. She and Hugo Freer's wife were sisters. Dennis Relji long occupied the house on the Hudson just south of Juffrow's Hook, as the point was caled where the south bounds of the patent struck the river. He and his wife had several children baptized in the Kingston church - David in 1703, Claudina in 1706, and Hester in 1708. [From The History of New Paltz by Ralph LeFevre; 1903: The Relyea Family: pp502, 503 ]"
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