Nicholas Claeszen DePuy, III

• Nicholas Dupuis(DePuy )(DuPuis)

On 16 April 1671, Nicholas DUPUI was given a patent for 480 acres at Averstrow along the Menisakoungue Creek in New Jersey.

CALENDAR OF NEW JERSEY RECORDS, EAST JERSEY, Liber No.1, p.17

It is said that Nicholas DePUI and his brother, Francois were probably born in Paris, France, and, in 1651, "left a home of wealth and prominence during the night, upon learning through a friend of the family that they were to be made prisoners."

Nicholas DUPUI (1625-1691) of Artois, France, came to America on the "Purmerland Church", 12 October 1662, with his wife, Catryntje de VOS, and their three children: Nicholas, age 6, John, age 5, and Moses, age 3. Nicholas DUPUY settled first on Staten Island

Nicholas DUPUIS, in 1674, was named in a list of the wealthiest citizens and was taxed 600 Florins. The family lived in DeMarkevelt in the rear of the Produce Exchange, according to Hoff, writing in 1939.

Leroy Beck DePUY, DEPUY/DEPUE FAMILY HISTORY (1984), p.5;

Wannetta Roseberry Hoff, HISTORY OF THE DEPUI FAMILY (1939), pp.1-

Alternative spelling is DePuis.

His will was proven in 1691 and it was in Dutch.

He and his family left France because of religious persecution and he was a part of the group known as "Huguenots."

Arrived in 1662 at New Amsterdam (now New York) on the ship "Purmerland Church" (Helen Louise Depoy)

(Full passenger list at [https://www.geni.com/projects/Purmerland-Church-Passengers-1662/15391])

Nicholas and his family seem to have first settled on the "Herren Graft" (Broad Street) of New Amsterdam. Early in the year following their arrival, he and his wife were admitted as members of the Reformed Dutch Church.

He made application, with several friends, for a plantation on State Island, which was granted March 19, 1663.

In 1665 he was appointed "Beer and Weigh-house Porter," a rather important position of the time.

He joined Captain Cornelis Steenwyck's company of militia in 1673.

In 1676 and occasionally during the following seven years he is at Kingston, New York engaged in the fish packing business.

In 1677 he and his family settled in Utrecht and were members of the Dutch Church. Later moved to Bergen, New Jersey and were members of the Dutch Church there as of 1682.

(The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record)

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~celiadon/ps02/ps02_278.htm

NameNicholas DEPUY (DU PUIS) (DU PUY), 8G Grandfather
Birthca 1639, Calais, Artois (now Calais), France
Death1691, Peekskill, Westchester, New York
OccupationBeer And Weigh-House Porter; Fish Packing Business, Weaver
ReligionReformed Dutch Church
FatherJean DEPUY (DEPUI) (ca1590-)
MotherUnknown
Misc. Notes
"The Schoonmaker Family" includes some information on the DePuy family, which it says is from a manuscript written in 1813 by a Cornelius E. DePuy. It goes on to say that Nicholas and Catalina were French Huguenots who left France due to religious persecution, arriving in New Amsterdam in Oct. 1662 with the three boys, and settled on Long Island.188, "The Schoonmaker Family of Ulster Co., N.Y." by Thomas G. Evans, pp 22-26, Jan. 1888

Pg 187 - Passenger list for De Purmerlander Kerck (The Permerland Church), Captain Benjamin Barentsz: Nicolaes Du Pui, from Artois, wife and three children, 6, 5, and 2 years old.

"Leiden, April 1659 was registered for confession in order to become a member of the Walloon parish: Nicolas du Puis, young man, accompanied by his father Adrien

Leiden, April 1649: Nicolas du Puis was accepted as a member.

B-1 John/Jean Dupuy, son of Nicolas du Puis and Catherine le Renard bp 5 Sept 1657 Leiden, Holland

B-2 Moses/Moyse Dupuis, son of Nicholas Du Puis and Catherine le Renard bp 15 Aug 1660 Leiden, Holland"195

Nicholas DePuy (DePui) served in Captain Cornelius Steenwreck’s Co. in 1673 - enrolled for service against the English.

“Should one become interested in the study of this family, they would find the same eccentricities, or variations in nomenclature, as are found in many of the family names of our early settlers. They would discover, whichever way the scribes of colonial times, or decision of the owner, had adorned the spelling of the name, that in tracing back to the fountain-head or source in this country, the line would, if brought within the bounds of Colonial New York, lead them to one of two sturdy Huguenots, who, thinking to improve life’s fortunes, and, no doubt, to exercise religious freedom, packed their belongings and set sail under the flag of Holland to the new Dutch colony so recently established in the New World, and named New Amsterdam. These two emigrants were Nicholas and Francois Dupuis, who came at different times, the former from Artois and the latter from Calais, which may not mean, as the records would infer, that they were from separate places; for when it is understood that Artois was a Province located in the “Department of Calais,” a division of France bordering on the Netherlands, it may be seen how possible it is that both were from the same neighborhood, if not, indeed, of the same family, and if proof was needed of a relationship, good circumstantial evidence would be found in the fact that Francois had a son Nicholas, evidently named for the senior Nicholas, who with his wife, stood as god-parents to the infant when baptized in the Old Dutch Church of New York, October 17, 1686.

“While Nicholas and Francois Dupuis appear to have been the ancestors of the several generations in the Province of New York following the advent in New Amsterdam of those worthy individuals, it seems equally certain that they were not the only emigrants of the name to this country. Rev. Mr. Baird, in his “Huguenot Emigration to America,” Vol. II, discovers among the French settlers of Oxford, Mass., in 1691, the names: Elie (Elias), and Jean (John) Dupuis; the former of whom he conceives to the father of the later, whom he believes id identical with a John he finds in 1705, and again in 1729, as an elder of the French Church in Boston. The will of this John was made January 4, 1734, probated June 9, 1743, naming sons, John, Daniel, Charles, Isaac and Elias.

“In the same volume may be found an item of evident relation to this family that was gleaned from English records by Mr. Baird, whose resarch for Huguenot history has certainly been very exhaustive. He says that: “Elie Dupeux,” seaman, of Port des Barques, on the coast of Saintonge (France), fled to England about 1681, where he was naturalized March 21, 1682, and his family recorded as follows: “Elias DuPus with Mary his wife, and Elias, John, Mary and Susanna, their children.” Then on another page, evidently speaking of the same individual, he says: “He and his wife Elizabeth with their four children, occupied one of the French houses in Oxford.” It would, therefore, appear that Elias, having lost his wife, Mary, married again and came with his family to America, thus becoming the head of a distinct lineage, some branches of which spell the name Dupee.

“Mr. Baird finds yet another Protestant of his family, one who early joined a French colony on the James River, in Virginia. He was Barthelemy Dupuy, a captain of the “Household Guards” of Louis XIV, King of France. Disregarding the advice of the King, who promised him a substantial reward to abjure, he fled with his wife, after the revocation of the “Edict of Nantes,” across the border to Germany, where they remained about fourteen years, going to England in 1699, from which country they soon after came to America.

“The records of the Protestant French Church in New York City* [*published] furnish us with a Jean Du Puy, who, with his wife, Anne, had the following children baptized, viz.: Jeane (Jane), Feb. 15, 1715; Jean, Oct. 27, 1717; Daniel, May 10, 1719; Thomas, Sept. 11, 1720; Francois, Nov. 8, 1721; Paul, July 17, 1723, and Isabelle, Sept. 6, 1727. He became quite prominent as a physician, and died in July, 1744. His will, May 27, 1741 [Surrogate%E2%80%99s Office, New York City], leaving an only child, Anna Sophia. Francis died before 1750 without issue. [Will proved 1750, leaving property to his mother.] According to a series of pedigrees in the “American Ancestry,” the widow (Anne Chardavoine) and son Daniel removed to Philadelphia, where Daniel married and continued his family lineage. The “Series of Pedigrees” claim Doctor John to have been a native of France, born in 1679, coming to New York via the Island of Jamaica, where he lived in childhood. His tombstone is preserved in the wall of the vestry room of Trinity Church.

“The records of the same French Church also furnish us with an Andrew Du Puy. He and his wife, Jane Aarchanbeau, had their daughter Janne baptized there July 14, 1706. It was about two years before that this couple were granted license to marry,* [*Libre Wills, Surrogate’s Office, New York City] and in October, 1703, Andrew Dupuy petitioned the Governor of New York [Cal. N.Y. His. MYSS. (English)] for new papers for his sloop Jacob, he having lost the original papers in a shipwreck. Not finding Andrew again, it may be safe to conjecture that he suffered another shipwreck, thereby discontinuing a lineage of the name.

“As but comparatively few of the French inhabitants became Protestants, it is reasonable to suppose that many of the family of Dupuis remained loyal to the Roman faith. Among these we find the very first bearing that name of record in America, and singularly, though a man of position, he appears to us in a part of the country almost unknown to white men, in the land of the Onondagas [Hist. Col. N.Y.S. Brodhead’s New York]. He was Sieur Dupuys, and we locate him, in the year 1656, with a company of Frenchmen, over which he had command, at a place called by the Indians Ganentaa [N.Y. Col. MSS], situate near the head of Lake Onondaga, at or near syracuse, where he had formed a settlement under orders of the French Governor at Quebec, Canada. The Onondaga Indians had been converted a short time previously to the Catholic religion, and promised the new settlemtn protection; but in less than two years Dupuys and his company, learning that they were to be exterminated through the machinations of other Indian tribes, secretly made their escape by water to Lake Ontario, thence down the St. Lawrence to Quebec; thus ending a scrap of history of peculiar interest to a locality that the white man did not again undertake to settle for more than one hundred years. We are not told the given name of this adventurous commander but finding other Dupuys in and around Quebec a few years later, it is natural to presume that they were related, if not, indeed, descentands of Sieur Dupuys. It is interesting, to say the least, that among these Canadian Dupuys we are permitted to find the names of both Nicholas and Francois; then again, Moses and Paul will show a further family resemblance when compared with the family of Nicholas of New York, but where the connection is, this paper will not undertake to solve.

“The next mention of these Canadian Dupuys was of Nicholas. He was also apparently in the employ of the French Government, and one of a company sent out from Quebec to the Western Country in search of copper and other minerals. They were encaped at Sault Ste. marie, then an Indian village in the present State of Michigan, from which place they made a report [N. Y. Col. MSS], bearing date 14th June 1671. It was sixteen years later that Paul Dupuy, “Councillor of the King,” with a company of Frenchmen, having subdued the Indians, took possession of the Seneca country. Their declaration, was “Done at the Village of Totiakton, the largest of the Seneca villages,” on the 19th of July, 1687.

“The Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families gives us, probably, this same Paul Dupuis, who married in 1668 Jeanne Gouillard; also Francois, born 1634, m. 1670 Georgette Richer; Jacques, born 1657, m. 1687 Madelene Prevost; Louis, born 1658, m. 1688 Barbara Debian. These were all recorded as of Quebec except Jacques, who was of Three Rivers. All had children recorded except Paul. Francois had two sons baptized, viz.: Rene, 1671, and Moise (Moses), 1673, the latter of whom came down to Albany for a wife, where, as a matter of fact, he was residing in July, 1697, when he married Annetje Christiaanse of that place. The records of the Reformed Dutch Church there give Canada as his place of birth. They seem to have settled at Champlain, and, according to the Genealogical Dictionary mentioned, had eight children baptized. He seems to have been the parent of two other children, viz.: Jan Baptiste and Johannes, who were baptized in Albany in 1696, the year previous to his marriage to Miss Christiaanse.

“So much for the outside lines of this family, which, being disposed of, do not appear to affect or confuse the main purpose of this paper, viz.: the Hudson River Depews.”189, January

“Whether Nicholas and Francois Dupuis were refugees driven from their mother country, because of the religious persecutions of their times, may not be known. They came too early to be influenced by the “Revocation of the Edict of Nantes” (1685), which caused so much terror and destruction among the French Protestants. However, they were clearly Protestants, or they would not so readily have associated themselves with the reformed religion opened to them in the Dutch province, where they arrived but a short time before New Netherland fell into the hands of the English, and New Amsterdam became the city of New York.

“Colonel Henry D. Teetor, a reputable genealogist, who has delved deeply among the ancient Norman records of historic France, has discovered a very desirable ancestry for the family of Dupuis. While not perfecting a lineage down to either Nicholas or Francois, he makes their descent from noble blood seem very plausible* [*In this paper, published in the April number, of “The spirit of ‘76”, he does not mention Francois Dupuis, but claims that Nicholas, the emmigrant of 1652, was of the lineage of a Nicholas DuPuy, “Chevalier de Malti,” who was killed at the “Battle of Faragosse” in 1625. He also gives him as the Protestant Huguenot of record bearing the family name, “General Charles DuPuy, Seigneur de Montbrun, called “le Brave Montbrun,” a brave and distinguished officer, who was taken prisoner and beheaded August 12, 1575, a martyr to his religious convictions.”]. He starts off with Raphael DuPuy an officer of high rank to Emperor Conrad in 1033, who afterwards appointed him Governor over vast estates. His son, Hughes DuPuy, for brilliant military service at the Crusades in the Holy Lands, was granted the sovereighnty of the Villa d’Acre. He was accompanied to the Crusades by his wife and three sons, from which the Colonel finds lineal descendants among “Chevaliers, Seigneurs, Genrals, Barons, Knights, Cardinals, Archbishops, and Statesmen.” He mentions the Nicholas Depuis of the article as the original American ancestor of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. On this point, the writer feels it his privilege to take issue with the Cononel, nothwithstanding the meritorius work he has done, in uncovering such a glorious ancestry of the old world.

“Francois, though probably the younger of the two, was the first to reach the shores of America. The earliest record, but one, we find of him is the publication of his bans, 26th August 1651, in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam. This announcement of his coming marriage was a requirement of the times, and is valuable from the fact that the record is the only one found giving the place of his birth. As translated it reads:—”Francoys Dupuis, young man of Cales, France, and Geertje Willems, young daughter of Amsterdam.” Just one month later they were married in Breuckelen, their marriage being the fifth of record in the Dutch church there, and is as follows:—”26th September, 1661, Francois duPuis and Geertje Willems, with certificate from Manhattans” [Holland Society year Bok, 1897] (New York). It is the belief of Bergen, the renowned historian of King’s County, that the bride was the daughter of Willem Jacobse Van Boerum* [*Willem Jacobse van Boerum was born in 1617, and died prior to 1698. His wife was Geertje Hendrickse. They lived at New Lotts, L. I. He was magistrate of the Town of Flatbush for several years. His children were:—Hendrick, Jacxob, Geertje, and Hillegond. “Geertje Willems from Amsterdam,” who was a passenger of the “Beaver,” a vessel arrived in New Amsterdam during May, 1661, was probably the daughter of Willem Jacobse, and later the wife of Francois Dupuis.] of Flatbush, who came with his family, in 1649, from Amsterdam, Holland, where the register of bans tells us Geertje was born.

“The time of arrival of Nicholas Dupuis to this country can be very closely calculated. He shipped in October, 1662, in the vessel “Purmerland Church,” and reached New Amsterdam probably during that or the following month. A passenger list [Doc. Hist. N.Y.S., Vol. III. Hol. Society Year Book, 1896.] furnished by O’Callaghan has him and his family thus:—”Nicholas Du Pui from Artois, and wife and three children.” Another list gives the ages of these children as six, five, and two years [N.Y. Gen. and Biog. Record, Vol. XV]. Two of these were undoubtedly John and Moses, who, after growing to man’s estate, settled in Richmond and Ulster Counties respectively. The wife of Nicholas Dupuis, and no doubt the mother of all of his children, was Catharina de Vos. An interpretation of the latter name is “The Fox.” Those who are familiar with the satirical epic entitled: “Reynard the Fox,” [Johnson%E2%80%99s Cyclopaedia] or as published in the Low German dialect in the sixteenth century: “Reynke de Vos,” will appreciate the adaptable manner of the Dutch clergyman, who only followed the familiar custom of the people of his country, in entering upon his baptismal register (Doop-Book) the nickname “Reynarts” or “Reynards” as a substitute for deVos, all of which names were variously given her.

“Nicholas and his family seem to have first settled on the “Herren Graft” (Broad Street) of New Amsterdam [Valentine%E2%80%99s Manual, N.Y.C., 1861]. Early in the year following their arrival, he and his wife were admitted as members of the Reformed Dutch Church. The spring had hardly opened when he made application, with several of his friends, for a plantation on Staten Island, which was granted March 19, 1663 [O%E2%80%99Callaghan%E2%80%99s New Netherland, Vol. II, p. 592]. This plantation appears to have continued in the family for some years after the death of both Nicholas and his wife, probably falling to John, who was a resident of Staten Island, and administered upon the estate of his mother, at her death in 1705 [Surrogate%E2%80%99s Office, N.Y.C., libre 7], she having survived her husband by some fourteen years.

“It is uncertain whether Nicholas ever himself occupied the Staten Island grant, if he did, it must have been but for a brief period, as his foot-marks seem continually turned in other directions. He was yet a resident of New Amsterdam, just changed to New York, when, in October, 1664, Nicholas swore allegiance [Valentine%E2%80%99s Manual, 1854] to the King of Great Britain. The following year he was appointed “Beer and Weigh-house Porter,” [Records of new Amsterdam] a rather important position of the time, from which office he may have realized sufficient to aid him in paying for a lot he had purchased on Prince Street in 1667 [Valentine%E2%80%99s Manuals]. He joined Captain Cornelis Steenwyck’s company of militia in 1673 [Valentine%E2%80%99s Manuals, 1850], and in 1674 paid taxes on his Broad Street residence at a valuation of $2.500 [Hol. Soc. Year Book, 1896]. The assessor, probably an Englishman, made the mistake of entering Nicholas on his liast as a “Dutchman.” In further proof of his error, “Nicolas Dupuis and Catalina de Vos his wife,” are entered on the membership register of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York as having been transferred to the French Church there. No date is given, but it was probably in the eighties, when the Protestant French were strong enough to establish a church of their own in the city. Within the next three years Nicholas and his family crossed over to Long Island and settled at New Utrecht, where, in 1677, he and his wife were members of the Dutch Church [Bergen%E2%80%99s King County], but later were entered as having removed to Bergen, New Jersey, the Dutch Church of which place admitted them to membership in 1682.

“Nicholas was unquestionably a stirring fellow, clearly a success from a business standpoint at least. We find him in 1676 and occasionally during the following seven years at Kingston, N. Y. He is mentioned among the court records [Versteg%E2%80%99s translations] of that place as being engaged in the fish packing business. The Hudson river probably affording him the most profitable field for a good catch, thus accounting for his frequent visits to Kingston, which place became the home of his son Moses, about 1680 [Kingston Church Records].

“In 1685, Nicholas sold his portion of a tract of land, located in the present County of Rockland [Green%E2%80%99s Rockland County. Ruttenberg’s Orange County. Cole’s Rockland County has the name Nicholas Du Poins. In this transaction he is mentioned as a weaver.], which he had previously purchased in company with Pieter Jacobse Marius. October 13th of this year he made his will [Sur. Office. N. Y. C. Probated Sept. 15, 1691.], in which he claimed New York City as his residence. He left his estate to his widow’s management, and mentioned children, John, Moses, Aaron, Susanna and Nicholas, in the order as given. In 1686 Nicholas was living on Beaver Street, when the records of the Dutch Church, New York, mention “Catalina de Vos,” his wife (so named), as a member. Her church relationship with the Dutch probably being more congenial than with the French, which latter church probably returned her letter within a year from the time she joined. Nicholas died in 1691, and his remains were probably buried from the Beaver Street home. His children are more particularly given as follows. The baptisms noted are all from the records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York, as published in this periodical.189, April

From Walloon Church records at Leiden: “Niclaes de Puwy” camletworker young man from near Atrecht (Artois) living at the Minnebroedergraft assisted by Jean de Puwy his father at Langegrtf. Married 6 October 1656 at the Waalse Kerk (Walloon Church), Leiden. Cathalijna Renard, widow of Maerten Piertersz living in the Veruwerstreet assisted by Marija Reijniers her sister at the Oude Chingel.

A notation in the churchbooks at Leiden, reads: “Membre de l’Eglise de Leide/NICOLAS DE PUIS ET SA FEMME/parti avec temoinage le 27 Septembre 1662”

Translation: on the day mentioned, Nicholas and his wife gave notice to the church that they were going to leave Leiden. As the custom was back then, they received a document stating that they came from Leiden. When settling in another city, they would be able to prove that they belonged to the reformed church.

De Purmerlander Kerck (The Permerland Church) sailed from Amsterdam on 12 October 1662 and arrived at New Amsterdam 18 February 1663. Listed as passengers were Nicolaes Du Pui from Artois, wife and three children 6, 5, and 2. These children would be Catherine, Jean and Moyse.196

Information on children is included in each individual child’s record as appropriate.
Research
The following references for this family are found:

De Puy Family History, Nicholas & Francois..., by R. Heidgerd and others
History of the Family of Nicholas DePui,..., by W. R. Hoff
The Huguenots and Early French in New Jersey, by A. F. Koehler
The Hugnenot Bartholomew Dupuy & His Descendants, by B. H. Dupuy
Depuy/Depue Family History, by L. B. DePuy76
Spouses
1Catherine LE RENARD DEVOS (DEVAUX), 8G Grandmother
Birthca 1630, ?, ?, France
Death1705
FatherUnknown LE RENARD DEVOS (DEVAUX)
Misc. Notes
Notes by Peter Bush - 6/D/4924 in the New York Genalogical and Biographical Library:

The first member of the deVeaux or de Vos family who emigrated to America was found in New Amsterdam (New York) as early as the year 1653, named “Matheus DeVos (as it was then spelled), and his wife.

He appeared to be a man of considerable intelligence, as he was early engaged exercising the office of public notary, and frequently appeared in the court of Burgomasters and Schepens as the attorney for litigant parties.

His wife died soon after his arrival, and in 1656 he married the widow of Philip Geraerdz, whose maiden name was Maria Pollet, and who was in possession of considerable property in Stone Street, where they resided.

Some two years later Henry DeVos, with a young sister named Anna, were also found here. Henry soon after married, and had a daughter named Mary, born in 1659; afterwards had another named Catalina, who married, in 1686 [Celia%E2%80%99s note: must be 1656], Nicholas Depuy. The sister Anna had previously married (1665) to Christian Lyerson.

These early settlers, when pronouncing their original name—if it was deVeaux—no doubt called and wrote it De Vos; afterwards the name was found differently spelled both in the records and the press.197, pg 17
Marriage6 Oct 1656, ?, ?, The Netherlands
Children

1. John (Jan) (1657-1732)
2. Moses (1660-1752)
3. Nicholas (1662-)
4. Joseph (<1663-)
5. Aaron (<1664-)
6. Magdelena (<1667-)
7. Susanna (<1669-)
8. Nicholas (<1670-)
9. Paulus (<1675-)

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