CHAPTER VIII 

 NEW PALTZ 



THE Huguenot settlement at New Paltz was 1677 

 brought about by the purchase of a tract of land 

 from the Indian owners in the year 1677. In 

 consideration of the rights acquired, the patentees agreed p'^^^^^^^ 

 to pay to the Indians the following articles : 



Forty kettles, ten large, thirty small ; forty axes, forty 

 adzes ; forty shirts ; four hundred fathoms of white net- 

 work ; sixty pairs of stockings, half small sizes ; one hun- 

 dred bars of lead ; one keg of powder ; one hundred 

 knives ; four kegs of wine ; forty oars ; forty pieces of 

 ''duffel " (heavjr woolen cloth); sixty blankets; one 

 hundred needles ; one hundred awls ; one measui-e of 

 tobacco ; two horses — one stallion, one mare. 



The twelve men who thus agreed to collect the above The Twelve 

 assortment of merchandise and put it into the possession 

 of the Esopus Indians were all Huguenots who had come 

 to the New World by way of the Paltz, of Palatinate. 

 Their names, as appended to the deed with all the bliss- 

 ful ignorance of spelling which marked the period, were 

 as follows : Lowies Du Booys, Christian de Yoo, Agra- 

 ham Gaesbroeco, Andrie Lefeber, Jan Broeco, Piere 

 Doyo, Anthony Crespel, Anraham Du Booys, Hugo 

 Freer, Isaack D. Boojs, Symon Lefeber, Louis Baijvier. 

 Previous to their coming to America, these men had 

 taken refuge in and about Mannheim, in the Palatinate, 

 and had there formed the ties of friendship which led to 

 their association in the founding of New Paltz. 



The first of the Mannheim party to arrive in America 



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