Daniel Lamoreaux Sr. (1695 - 1769)

Born 29 Nov 1695 in Bristol, Avon, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Husband of Jeanne Marguerite (Masse) Lamoreaux — married 28 Jun 1719 in New York

Husband of Aaltie Storms — married 9 Jun 1744 in New York

Descendants

Died 28 Jun 1769 at age 73 in Phillipsburg, , Putnam, New York

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Biography

Daniel Lamoreaux Sr. was a Son of a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Daniel Lamoreux was born to Andre Lamoreux and his wife Susanne Latour in Bristol, England, on 29 November 1695, and christened on 1 December 1695. He was the second son named Daniel, the first having been born in 1693, christened in January 1694 and presumably died as a very young infant.^[1] He was christened on the first of December the same year.^[1] The family was in New York as early as 1700.^[1][2] They appear in the 1703 New York State Census.^[1]
He married Jeanne Masse on 28 June 1719 in the French Chapel in New York City. Daniel and Jeanne lived in New York: at New Rochelle; at Philipstown (near Cold Springs in what is now Putnam County); in Orange County.
Daniel and Jeanne had 9 children. He was a cordwainer (bootmaker).^[1]
Note that the name Lamoreux has many variations:^[3]

Lamoreux (Early records)

Lamoreaux

Lamoree

L'Amoreux

LaMoree

Lamouree

LaMoure

LaMora

Lumoree

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Thomas Davenport Philipstown Pioneer. Section X, page 355.
2. ↑ Baird, The Huguenot Emigration. V2, p. 37.
3. ↑ The Lamoreux Record, Issue 1. page 10.

See also:

• Bristol Parish Records, England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996, FamilySearch.org.
• Lamoreux, A, J., "Andre Lamoreux, The Huguenot Emigrant, and Family". The Lamoreux Record, Issue 1. Published 1919.
• Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, vol. 20, page 9.
• Baird, C.W., The Huguenot Emigration to America, Baltimore, Maryland : Regional Pub. Co., 1966. Volume II, p. 37.
• The Lamoureux family in America : records and information
• Compiled by Dorothy Giles and Irma Franklin, Thomas Davenport Philipstown Pioneer 1682-1759 and his Descendants, (Cold Springs, New York, Putnam County Historical Society, October 1962), Book, in personal possession, Pg 355.
• L'Amoureux, Harold Dane, "The Lamoureux family in America : records and information", Yesteryears - v. 7 (1963-1964) - v. 7, no. 26 (Dec. 1963). p. 80-89.

Researcher Patricia Wardell ("Early Bergen County Families") has an extensive file on the "Lamoreaux" family, citing 9 children for Daniel & Jeanne:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Early_Bergen_County_Families

Notes

Account of Daniel's Christening

The entry of Daniel's christening in the register of the French Church of Bristol, as given in the Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, vol. 20, page 9 is as follows (translated, the year 1695 being no part of the entry, as it appears at the top of the page):

1695 Lamoureux--1st December. Daniel son of Andre' Lamoureux, shipmaster, formerly of Me'che', in Saintonge, pilot , and of Suzann Latour, wife.

Witnesses: Daniel Reynaud, serge weaver, Mme. Liaude Badeau, Saint George, in Saintonge. Born 29th November last.

Excerpt from The Lamoreux Record, Issue 1, 1919

The material below appears to be an extract from a genealogy or book - possibly from The Lamoureux Record, Issue 1, pages 4-9.

Daniel Lamoureux and Jeanne Masse, Founders of the American Family.

Of Daniel Lamoureux, Andre's only surviving son, we have but scanty information, though it is probable that a more thorough research in New York and the neighboring counties of WestChester and Dutchess would give additional material. Education in those days was of difficult acquisition, for the schools were few, poorly equipped and feebly supported, while the poverty of the people made it burden- some for them to meet the expense and to dispense with the assistance of their half-grown children.
We have Daniel's family record still preserved, kept in an old account book and written in French by himself. The hand- writing is good, but the spelling is what we today would call phonetic. A peculiarity not uncommon even among the educated in those days. The accounts and other entries show that he had as good an education as the average man of today, which may be considered a creditable attainment for those times.
That his family record was written in French from 1720 to 1739, shows that the French immigrants must have preserved their own language with singular tenacity, and also that their associations must have been largely restricted to their own people. How little Daniel knew of English (and it must be remembered that he was born in the English city of Bristol and had lived all his life he was then 31 years of age among English people) may be seen in his record of the christening of his fourth son, Peter, in 1726. He first tried to write the child's name in English, and the result was "Fitter," and then to make the record clear he wrote above it the French equivalent Pierre. His way of spelling Peter is not so bad when it is recalled that the letter "i" has the sound of long "e" in French; his P-i-t-t-e-r, therefore, would have the sound of Peter, though it was unnecessarily strong in its "t's."
Concerning the trade or occupation of Daniel Lamoureux, I had no information whatever until the present month of October, 1919, when a casual inspection of a volume of the New York Historical Society's Collections (1885, p. 101) gave me the clue. In a list of freemen created under the mayoralty of Robert Walker, Esq., It is in the possession of Miss Helen DuBarry, of Fort Montgomery. N. Y., who is a descendant of Andrew Lamoureux (Daniel's second son) through her grandmother, Ann Adelia Lamoureux Bratt. a granddaughter of Elisha Lamoureux, of Albany Co. THE LAMOUREUX RECORD found his name and trade, which was that of a "cordwainer," or boot maker. In those days long boots were worn, made from goat skins, called corduan, or cordwan, which gave the name to the trade. It was the custom then to apprentice all boys to some trade or occupation, and it was impossible that Andre would disregard it.
Daniel moved to New Rochelle some time between 1724 and 1726, but in 1736 the record makes him a resident of Bedford, while the last entry, 1739, implies a removal to the western part of Westchester Co., or the southern part of Dutchess Co. (now Putnam Co.) where the family resided for the succeeding thirty years and more.
In those early days the upper end of Manhattan Island was on the frontier, and the counties of Westchester, Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster were backwoods districts. In moving out into Westchester Co. as he had done, Daniel was pushing out into a new country just as his descendants did two generations later when they moved west into Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Dakota.
Daniel's final location was the Philipses Precinct, Dutchess Co., on lands belonging to the Philipse Manor. In 1788 the name of the precinct was changed to Philipstown, and still later Dutchess Co. was divided and the smaller southern part was named Putnam Co.
W. J. Blake in his History of Putnam Co. says of the settlement of Philipstown that the first settler in the vicinity of the "Old Highland Church" on the road from Cold Spring to Fishkill was David Heustis in 1730. A man named Anderson followed, who built a house. "A short time afterwards, the Haights, Bloomers, and Wilsons came and settled in the vicinity. ... A man of the name of Lamoreaux settled there about the same time. Anderson was of Dutch descent, and Lamoreaux French. Both removed before the Revolution."
As one of his sons, James, was elected a "fence-viewer" in 1772, the removal must have been after that date. As near as I can determine from the scanty descriptions thus far found, the old family homestead was at or near a place locally known as Davenport's Corners, and near the place where stood the Old Highland Church (called St. Philip's chapel), an off- shoot of St. Peter's Church (Episcopalian) of Peekskill. It is about four miles north of Cold Spring.
Daniel's family consisted of seven sons and two daughters, the youngest, Joshua, born in 1739. His wife, Jeanne Masse, also spelled Massee and Marze, the latter probably a mistake because of the long "s" for the double "s" which Daniel used, died soon after the birth of Joshua, and is probably buried at Philipstown. She was born May 22, 1696, in New York, the registry of her christening in the records of the French Church being as follows the peculiar orthography of the time being retained:

Bapteme Aujourdhuy 5e Juillet 1696 apres le preche du soir a Este presente au St. bateme Jeanne masse fille de Pierre masse et de Elizabet mersereau ne le 22e May passe et presente au St. bateme par daniel Lanbert et marie Suzanne dousinet parin et marine et batise par monsr. payret ministre. pierre Masse daniel Lanbert, Pieret, ministre

(Translation) Baptism Today, 5th July, 1696, after the evening sermon was presented for holy baptism Jeanne Masse, daughter of Pierre Masse and Elizabeth Mersereau, born the 22d May past, and presented by Daniel Lanbert and Marie Suzanne Dousinet, godfather and godmother, and baptised by Monsieur Payret (or Pieret) minister. (Signatures)

THE LAMOUREUX RECORD
On June 9, 1744, Daniel married again, his second wife being Aaltie Storms, widow of Frederick Bancker, of Phillips Burgh, Westchester Co. There is no record of any issue from this marriage, nor have I any record of Daniel's death and place of burial. The names and birth dates of the nine children of Daniel Lamoureux and Jeanne Masse, according to his own record now in the possession of Miss Helen DuBarry, are as follows:

Daniel, b. May 10, 1720, in New York.

Andre, (Andrew), b. January 10, 1722, in New York.

Jean, (John), b. December 31, 1723, in New York.

Pierre, (Peter), b. September 3, 1726, in New Rochelle.

Elizabeth, b. December 8, 1728, in New Rochelle.

Jacques, (James), b. February 12, 1731, in New Rochelle.

Isaac, b. November 15, 1732, in New Rochelle.

Susanne, b. December 26, 1736, and christened by Mr. Stourgine, (Sturgeon) a Presbyterian minister at Bedford, March 5, 1737.

Josue, (Joshua), b. January 9, 1739, probably at Philipstown, the record being unfinished and incomplete. The godfather named was Francois Lent.
(According to Bolton's History of Westchester, Francis Lent was a militia officer in Cortland Manor previous to 1775.)

From these seven sons sprang the many widely-scattered branches of the Lamoureux family. Two of the sons and one grandson, Daniel, Joshua, and Jesse, were loyalists and left New York for New Brunswick when that city was evacuated by the British. This defection is probably due to the circumstance that they married into strong loyalist families. Daniel was the oldest of the family and is said to have settled in Carleton, N. B.

Data from the original gedcom upload

The following data was included in the uploaded gedcom.

• Christening: 1 Dec 1695. French Church, Bristol, Avon, England
• Ancestral File Number: 2671-39
• LDS Baptism: 29 Jan 1918
• LDS Endowment: 17 May 1918
• LDS Sealing Child: 7 May 1918. LS Temple: 8
• Prior to import, this record was last changed 18:06 15 Feb 2010.
• Submitter: Delbert Jay DowDell, 18421 E. Sordello St,. Rowland Heights, CA 91745.

Information received from Mrs. Iletta Reid, Panguitch, Utah.

Family records in the possession of Lloyd D. Lamoreaux, 306 Redondo, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Acknowledgments

This person was created through the import of Ella Lamoreaux.ged on 28 April 2011.