See Europèaisch Stammtafeln Bund I tafel 10.
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Burke says he was Conrad I, le Pacifique, Roi de Bourgogne Transjurane
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On June 10, 1663 Hurley and part of Kingston were burned by the Indians and Catherine DuBoi s and three of her children, including Sarah were among those carried away captive. Mrs. DuB ois was tied to a stake to be burned alive, at which point she began singing from the psalms. This somehow impressed her captives who decided not to put her to death. She and her three children were alive three mon ths later when an expedition under captain Crieger recovered the captives, surprizing the Ind ians at their fort, near Hogabergh, in Shawangunk. ABBR The Van Meterens of Holland and America by Amelia TITL The Van Meterens of Holland and America by Amelia ABBR The History of New Paltz TITL The History of New Paltz On June 10, 1663 Hurley and part of Kingston were burned by the Indians and Catherine DuBoi s and three of her children, including Sarah were among those carried away captive. Mrs. DuB ois was tied to a stake to be burned alive, at which point she began singing from the psalms. This somehow impressed her captives who decided not to put her to death. She and her three children were alive three mon ths later when an expedition under captain Crieger recovered the captives, surprizing the Ind ians at their fort, near Hogabergh, in Shawangunk. ABBR The Van Meterens of Holland and America by Amelia TITL The Van Meterens of Holland and America by Amelia ABBR The History of New Paltz TITL The History of New Paltz
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The Huguenots were French Protestants who were members of the Reformed
Church which was established in 1550 byJohn Calvin. The origi n of the name
Huguenot is uncertain, but dates fromapproximately 1550 when i t was used in
court cases against "heretics" (dissentersfrom the Roman Catho lic Church).
As nickname and even abusive name it's usewas banned in the re gulations of
the Edict of Nantes which Henry IV (Henryof Navarre, who himse lf earlier
was a Huguenot) issued in 1559. The FrenchProtestants themselv es preferred
to refer to themselves as "râeformees"(reformers) rather than " Huguenots".
Matthew, his wife, their son-in-law, Anthony Crispel, with his wife, Maria,
and Matthew's three younger children, sailed on the 'Gilded Otter' on 27
April 1660, arriving at Wiltwyck before 7 December 1660. Riker's History of
Harlem, New York, 1881 states: "Governor Stuyvesant welcomed them and gave
Blanchan a letter to Sergeant Romp at Esopus directing him to provide
accommodations for them. They arrived there and Domine Blom, also having
arrived, it was a solace to pious Blanchan, for all that he had suffered
with the loss of his property in his native place and at Armentiers in
Flanders as well as elsewhere, to sit down with his family at the Lord's
Supper on the ensuing December 25th."Return to Mattheus BLANCHAN