Sharing old information I've collected over the years on the du Bois family. I have a problem with people changing the name of Leah du Bois. They are posting inaccurate genealogy information from old sources. This is information I had in my old genealogy file which is from Rootsweb before Ancestry took over.
BIOGRAPHY: Sources:
BIOGRAPHY: 1. Title: American Descendants of Chretien du Bois of Wicres, France
Author: Heidgerd, William
Publication: Du Bois Family Association, Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, New York, 1968
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Re-edited by the Du Bois Family Association, 1998.
Page: p. 18
Date: 8/19/02
2. Title: American Descendants of Chretien du Bois of Wicres, France
Author: Heidgerd, William
Publication: Du Bois Family Association, Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, New York, 1968
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Note:
Re-edited by the Du Bois Family Association, 1998.
It might be of interest to know there are only two known partial tracings of the Ferree family, one an address by Judge Landis to the Lancaster County Historical Society in 1917, and the other a family tracing by a contemporary Ferree living in California. But neither attempts a genealogical tracing of the family. A Ferree Family Tree record, a fairly well detailed family recording, by Major George Bennett Ferree (1963) may be found in the Philip Schaff Library of the Evangelical and Reformed Church Historical Society at 555 West James Street, Lancaster, Pa. Young Philip Ferree, brother of Daniel, must have liked what he saw while living in New Paltz, for after the family had moved to Pennsylvania in 1712, he returned to New Paltz where he worked for Abraham DuBois until he had won the hand and heart of their daughter Leah. They were married in Kingston Reformed Church, and then he brought her to Lancaster County for the remainder of their lives. Soon after, in 1717, father Abraham DuBois journeyed to Lancaster County where he purchased 1000 acres of land adjacent to the Ferree-LeFevre tract. After the death of the Dubois parents, the land was divided among their children: Leah, who had married Philip Ferree; Abraham; Joel; Sarah, who married Rolf Elting; Catherine, who married William Donaldson; and Rachel. Philip Ferree and wife Leah produced the following children: Abraham, who married Elizabeth; Isaac; Jacob; Philip, Jr., wheelwright whose marriage to Mary Carpenter was recorded in 1739; Joel, gunsmith, who helped appraise his uncle Philip LeFevre's gunsmith estate after his death in 1766; Rachel who married James Gardner; Magdalena,who married William Buffington; and Elizabeth who married a Zurker. First son of Philip, Abraham and Elizabeth Ferree had the following children: Cornelius, who married Elizabeth; Israel; Rebecca, who married David Schriver; Rachel, who married David Miskimmons; Elizabeth, who married William Miller; and Mary, who married George Graff. It might be of interest to know Abraham Ferree deeded 99 perches of land (less than an acre) for a school house for 999 years to John Carpenter, Jacob Ferree, Joel Ferree, Philip Ferree, Sam LeFevre and Isaac Ferree. There were not many church references found in church records to the Ferree family, but those that were found are here recorded. It might be noted that many of the Ferrees moved to York County, Maryland, and to Virginia which probably explains why they are so sparse in these local church records. See APPENDIX E <Appendix_E.html>.
DuBois Family History
Deed: 27 May 1732; All the Children of Abraham duBois released thier land shares in Conestogoe Pennsylvania to their sister Leah Fierre and her husband Philippe Fierre.
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