284 THE FRENCH BLOOD IN AMERICA 



The First wiis Mattliew Blanshau and bis wife, Maddeleeu Jorisse, 



together with his son-iii-law, Antliony Clu^ispel. They 

 sailed in the Gilded Otter in April, 1660, and by Deceui- 



wiitwyck ber of the same year were settled in the village of Wilt- 

 . wyck, now called Hurley. The following year Louis 

 Du Bois and his wife Catherine Blanshan, with their two 

 sons, Abraham and Isaac, took up their residence there 

 also. Simon and Andre Le Fevre were in Wiltwyck by 

 April 23, 1665, on which day they united with the 

 church. Owing to the disturbed condition of the prov- 

 ince at that time, no more members of the grouj) left 

 Mannheim until the year 1672, when Jean Hasbrouck 

 and his wife, Anna, daughter of Christian Deyo, joined 

 their friends. Louis Beviere and his wife, Maria La 

 Blau, came to New York in 1673, where they remained 

 until the founding of New Paltz, four years later. In 

 1675 Abraham Hasbrouck came to Boston, and shortly 

 afterwards made his way to the banks of the Hudson. 

 Hugh Frere and his wife, Mary Haye, with their three 

 children, came over about 1676 ; as did Christian Deyo, 

 with his son Pierre, and his daughter-in-law, Agatha 

 Nickol, and his three unmarried daughters. Thus slowly 

 the little group was reunited, and when the circle was 

 complete the project was formed whereby its members 

 might dwell together in peace and amity. 



Harmony and The life of the Settlement was harmonious from the first. 

 The colonists lived on the friendliest terms with their 

 Indian neighbours, who always considered that they had 

 been treated with fairness in the matter of the purchase 

 of the land ; and among themselves they acted as brothers 

 ■ in Arcadia. At the commencement of the colony the 

 patentees and their families all laboured together in 

 clearing the land, in erecting their log dwellings, and in 

 planting their first crops. Afterwards, they met together 

 and portioned out the lands among themselves by word 

 of mouth, dispensing with the formality of deeds. 



A form of town government wiis inaugurated that is 



