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first of the family born in America, be- 

 ing baptised at Kingston. Ulster county. 

 New York, October 9, 1661, when but 

 a few days old. He married at New 

 Palz about 1690, Gerrite Van Niuwkirk, 

 daughter of Gerrit and grand-daughter 

 of Cornelius Van Nieuwkirk, one of the 

 earliest emigrants from Holland, and 

 with those other descendants later gen- 

 erations of the DuBois family married 

 in New Jersey. Solomon, fifth son of 

 Louis, married Trintje, another daugh- 

 ter of Gerrit, and his eldest daughter 

 Jacomyntje became the wife of Barent, 

 the eldest son of Jacob, her double first 

 cousin, and they were the parents of 

 the Rev. Jonathan DuBois, who became 

 pastor of the Dutch Reformed church 

 of North and Southampton in 174S, mar- 

 ried Eleanor Wynkoop, and has left 

 numerous descendants in Bucks county. 

 Jacob DuBois settled on a farm of his 

 father's at Hurley, Ulster county, New- 

 York, and spent his whole life there, 

 dying in June, 1745. By his Dutch wife 

 Gerritje, otherwise Margaret Van New- 

 kirk, he had eleven children: Magdalena,. 

 Barent, Louis, Isaac, Sarah, who mar- 

 ried Conrad Ermendorf; Gerritje, Gerrit,. 

 ■Catharine, who married Petreus Smedesr 

 Rebecca, Neeltje. and John. Jacob- 

 DuBois purchased in 1714 1,200 acres in 

 Salem county. New Jersey, upon which 

 three of his sons settled on arriving at, 

 manhood, viz.: Barent, Louis, and Ger- 

 rit, though the latter returned to Ulster 

 county on the death of his father. Bar- 

 ent was an elder of Pittsgrove Presby- 

 terian church, and a prominent man in 

 Salem county: he died there January 22, 

 1750, leaving eight children. The' other 

 children of Jacob DuBois remained in 

 Ulster eounty. New York. 



Louis DuBois, second son and third 

 child of Jacob and Gerritje. was borrt 

 in Hurley, Ulster county. New York,. 

 January 6. 1695. He married. May 20,. 

 1720. Margaret Jansen, and settled in 

 Pittsgrove township, Salem county. 

 New Jersey, where he became the own- 

 er of 1,091 acres of land. He and his 

 wife were among the first members of 

 Pittsgrove Presbyterian church, of 

 which he was an elder and trustee. He 

 ^died in 1784. He had eleven children, 

 Viz.; Jacob, born 1720, died 1768; Mat- 

 hew, born 1722; Anna, born 1724, mar- 

 ried Rev. Marenus. of New York, later 

 pastor of Freehold church; Gerritje, 

 born 1726; John, born 1728. died at New 

 London, Chester county, Pennsylvania, 

 while a student for the ministry with 

 his cousin. Jonathan, in July. 1746; Eli- 

 zabeth, born 1739. died 1785. married 

 Gai-ret Newkirk; Cornelius, born 1732; 

 Peter, born 1734; Joseph, died young; 

 Benjamin, born 1739. an eminent minis- 

 ter of the Gospel, pastor of Freehold 

 Presbyterian chmxh for sixty-three 

 years. 1764 to 1827; Samuel, born 1741, 

 died 181 1. All except two of these have 

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left descendants who are now scattered 

 over the United States. 



Peter DuBois, eighth child of Louis 

 and Margaret, was born in Pittsgrove, 

 Salem county. New Jersey, April 10, 

 1734. He was an intelligent and thrifty 

 farmer and a pious and consistent Chris- 

 tian gentleman. He was a lieutenant 

 in the company of his cousin, Jacob Du- 

 Bois, and later a captain during the rev- 

 olution. He died August 21, 1795. He 

 married in 1758 Amey, daughter of Jere- 

 miah and Sarah (Blackman) Greenman, 

 and sister to Rev. Nehemiah Greenman, 

 pastor of the Pittsgrove church. She 

 was born October 24. 1727, and died 

 June 2, 1807. They had five sons and two 

 daughters, viz.: i. Joel, born October 

 22, 1759. died June 29, 1805. Jeremiah, 

 born November 22, 1760, died December 

 29. 1844, an eminent justice and legis- 

 lator for many years; Sarah; Thomas; 

 Samuel; Uriah; and Amey. 



URIAH DUBOIS, ymmgest son of 

 Peter and Amey (Greenman) DuBois, 

 born in Pittsgrove township, February, 

 1768, became one of the most promi- 

 nent preachers and educators in Bucks 

 county. He received his academic edu- 

 cation near the home of his ancestors 

 in Orange county. New York, entered 

 the University of Pennsylvania in 1787, 

 and graduated in 1790. While a student 

 there he boarded in the family of Rob- 

 ert Patterson, professor of mathematics 

 and natural philosophy at the Universi- 

 ty, whose daughter Martha he later 

 married. On his graduation he accepted 

 a position as teacher in an academy at 

 Charleston, South Carolina, where he 

 spent one year. Returning to New Jer- 

 sey he taught at Woodbury and Bor- 

 dentown for three years, and then re- 

 turned to Philadelphia to pursue his 

 studies for the ministry under the Rev. 

 Ashbel Green, D. D., afterwards presi- 

 dent of Princeton. He was licensed 

 to preach in 1796 and preached as a 

 licentiate at Allentown, and at Deep 

 Run and Red Hill in Bucks county. The 

 Presbj^terians of the latter two churches 

 were pleased with him and he was elect- 

 ed their pastor in 1798. On June 20, 1798, 

 he married Martha Patterson, and in De- 

 cember of the same 3'ear took up his' 

 pastoral labors in Bucks county, resid- 

 ing for one year at Dublin, and then 

 removing to the parsonage farm near 

 the Deep Run church, and preaching 

 alternately at Red Hill and Deep Run. 

 In 1804 the inhabitants of the growing 

 village of Doylestown built an academy 

 and invited Rev DuBois to become its 

 principal instructor. The con,gregations 

 at both churches had decreased by the 

 removal of the English settlers from 

 that locality, and he decided to accept 

 the offer and removed to Doylestown, 

 meanwhile continuin.g his pastorate. He 

 built a house, still standing at the north 



