Lewis DuBois
American military commander
Lewis DuBois (1744 – March 4, 1824) was an American Revolutionary War commander. A descendant of Louis Dubois, who founded the early Huguenot settlement of New Paltz, which is preserved today as Historic Huguenot Street (Huguenot Street Historic District). Before the Revolutionary War, DuBois was a carpenter working in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Early life
DuBois is often confused with multiple cousins who share the same name. Louis DuBois was a popular name in the family due to the family's patriarch, Louis Du Bois (1626–1696), who came to the United States after fleeing religious persecution in France. Lewis was born in early 1744, and baptized on September 9, 1744 in Fishkill, New York. His father, Elias, was born in 1722 in Ulster County, New York, and his mother, Susannah Vanderburgh, born in 1725 in Poughkeepsie, New York. At some point, Lewis's father moved from Ulster County to Dutchess County.
Elias's father was Louis DuBois (b. 1697), son of Mattheus DuBois (1679-1748) and his wife, Sara Van Keuren (1678-1748).
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