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15 June 2007 update

Joshua Lamoreaux also listed as Josue Lamoureux and Josué Lamoureux with many other spellings married Elizabeth Ogden.

Josué, born 1739; Elizabeth, born 1743 and FamilyLive in Colonial America in along the Hudson River and in New York City

In the American Revolution they associate themselves with the English ToriesAnd were exiled into Canada in 1783- Moved to Toronto 1808 This work covers Lamoreaux Families along the Hudson River, New York from after the death of Jeanne Masse Lamoreaux into the American Revolution

The Lamoreaux Families were probably living along the Hudson by 1730?For more details of the Canada era see “1783LamCanada”

begun July 1996 - april colemanThis section created Feb 2004

“Strangers as yet, for the most part, to the English language – …they nevertheless showed the most favorable disposition towards the lord proprietors, …at the same time, they regarded the colonists as brethren and companions in good and evil fortune, with whom they were always ready to unite for the common defense.” P 346

M. Charles Weiss, History… French Protestant Refuge… Revocation of… Nantes - Our Day, vol 1

"I never had an idea of subduing the Americans; I meant to assist the good Americans subdue the bad."

Gen. James Robertson"...Which is better - to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile

away?"Victorious in defeat, W Brown, H Senior

“On opposing friends in the war, John Adams said, ‘…is the sharpest thorn on which I ever set my foot…"

Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins p 666

THE AMERICAN LOYALISTS"Who were the Loyalist? The whole gamut of society: from ex-slaves... and indentured

servants... to the richest in the Land like Oliver DeLancey, the great Hudson Valley landlord; from the first immigrants, Indians... to scions of ancient families... to recent arrivals... statistically, the typical Loyalist was a yeoman farmer... or a modest artisan." p 10

"... New York though seventh out of 13 in population, contained up to 4 times more Loyalist..."…here were certainly more active rebels than Loyalist, but the largest segment of all was the

grey middle, including quietest Loyalist, apathetic Wigs, and various neutrals... religious pacifist... "p11

"Neutrality and trimming were the order of the day. Samuel Miles,... when asked which side he was on, replied, 'I was for peace.' p 12

"... Washington,... at Valley Forge... complained that a lack of public support was 'infinitely more to be dreaded than the whole (British) force.' p 12

"...loyalism had an Anglican tinge in NJ & NY... most loyalist belonged to a cultural minority' p 14 Victorious in defeat, W Brown & H Senior

JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 1 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

"New York City had remained a British garrison and a Loyalist haven since its capture in September, 1776. During 1782, as it became clear that the war was lost and that the rebels remained antagonistic, refugees flooded in to camps set up on Long Island, Staten Island, and the Jersey Shore. ... a total of perhaps thirty thousand." p 33.

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984 "New York... 1783... 'The spirit of persecution and violence against the unhappy loyalists does

not appear to abate to any degree since the cessation of hostilities. They are not suffered to go into the country even to take a last farewell of their relations."

Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984 p 221The Loyalists landed at Saint John angry, dispirited and vulnerable. They came not as heroic

founders of a new nationality but as sufferers and exiles. They saw themselves as victims-... deserted by the government they had sacrificed their all for... Fleet after fleet was precipitated on shore without so much as a shelter to go under, with no one ready to show them their promised lands. Yet most remained and most survived.

"...startling reality when the Loyalist transports anchored off St John harbour. .. the prospect at the river's mouth was dank and depressing. ...the terrain, rocky and barren, the land fit only for pasture ... very broken, barren and but little cultivated. ...the soil poor, being covered with moss, ...for the first thirty miles, the borders of the river are high, rocky and barren. "

Early Loyalist Saint John, DG Bell, New Ireland Press, 1983, p 46. [This book has a good description of St John 1783.]

Timeline and Document ListLamoreaux Background Data

Date Place Event & Source1700 before “Daniel L’Amoureaux - - Meschers, Saintonge – before 1700 – New York

“Married June 28, 1719 to Jeanne Masse, daughter of Pierre.“Died probably in Putnam County, N.Y.

[Putnam Co was formed from Dutchess Co in 1812.]“Daniel L’Amoreaux was a son of André L’Amoreaux and his wife Suzanne La Tour.

Huguenot Ancestors Represented in The Membership of The Huguenot Society of New Jersey, 1945,compiled by Dorothy W Taylor & 1956, compiled by Sara Morton Koehler; New Jersey

Their sources are listed as: ‘Biographical Sketches-Index of Huguenot Settlers of New Rochelle, 1687-

1776’ 1940 – M.H. Seacord, p 21, 32.”‘Huguenot Emigration to America’ – C.W. Baird, Vol 2, p 37.’

1713 New York City Daniel Lamoureux, apprentice as a cordwainer (boot maker) [age 17] [Who did he serve with?][Why boots?] [See 1720 May 16]"Of the 16 cordwainers who cast ballots [in the 1701 election] 15 were ... Dutch, [only one] was an Englishman."

New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change, Archdeacon1719 Jun 28 New York City Daniel Lamoureux married Jeanne Masse'; French Church of NY.

[Andre's children married French. All Daniel's children married English.]“Je (torn page) Daniel Lamoureux este marie anecque Janne Masse le 28 de Jeun 1719” [“anecque” is probably “avecque”]

Daniel's hand made account book says "Janne" not Jeanne[I have a typed copy –I put it on RootsWeb 2005]Also in Records of French Church de Nouvelle york

“Daniel had married Jeanne Massé (or Massee) on June 28, 1719, but there is no mention of this in the published records of the church.”

A.J. Lamoureux, “The Lamoureux Record,” Oct 1919, p 31720 Dutchess Co, NY Daniel Lamoreaux Settled in Duchess Co, NY in 1720

Bard's History of French Huguenots in America as quoted in"The Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux", by Edith I Lamoreaux, p 2

1720 May 18 New York Daniel, 1st child, born to Daniel Lamoureux & Jeanne Masse'“Daniel Lamoureux son of Daniel Lamoureux and of Jane Massie, was born the 18

of May 1720. Was presented for Baptism by Daniel Lamoureux and Susane Lamoureux Godfather & Godmother the 29 of May 1720.


Baptized by Monsieur Moulinar, Minister of New York.Daniel's hand made account book. Found in the "NY Gen & Biographical Record" vol 104 (Oct 1973) as donated by David Kendall Martin. [See NOTE after 1751]

1720 May 29 New York Daniel, 1st child, of Daniel & Jeanne Lamoureux baptized. Daniel Lamoreaux & [Grandmother] Suzanne Latour Lamoreaux were witness. “Monsieur Moulinar, Minister of New York” Jean Moulinars was minister. [Suzanne signed with a shaky “L”]

Daniel's hand made account book- see 1720 May 18. Records of French Church of New York City

"An old Huguenot custom required the presence of numerous relatives and friends, on such occasions [i.e. marriages & baptisms]

History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, C.W. Baird vol II p 99 [Grandfather André was not a witness. Was he gone to sea or already dead?] [This is the last record of Suzanne. When did she die? Where is it recorded? We have no death or burial records of these people for several generations. Huguenots were not big on keeping death records. They must exist! Where are they?]

Daniel Lamoreaux’s hand made account book.[NOTE: 1720-1739Daniel Lamoreaux kept his records in French, but wrote his children's names in English, too.] [The record does not mention a place of birth for the children or a place of residence. It mearly mentions where the ministerwho did the baptizing was from.

[See electronic copy of data in Daniel’s copy book on RootsWeb.com. Entries of his children are in this record.]

"The handwriting is good but the spelling is ... phonetic. ... not uncommon among even 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." "Schools were few, poorly equipped and feebly supported." Family record written in French "... shows that the French immigrants must have preserved their own language with singular tenacity, and also that their association must have been largely restricted to their own people." "they (the Lamoureux family) spoke French for nearly 40 years after their arrival in America."

"The Lamoureux Record, A Study of The Lamoreaux Family in America", AJ Lamoureux

“At the time the spelling of proper names, like the spelling of words in general, was far from being as definitely fixed as it is now. Not only so, but members of the church consisted of ‘Normands, Picards, Rochelers, Poitevins, …Xaintongers, …’ &c., and all these provinces then still retained some of their peculiarities of speech and writing. In identifying the names of persons, too much stress must not, therefore, be laid upon exact correspondence in the spelling.”

Introduction to the “Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths of Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york from 1688 to 1804”; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer,

ed“…indulgent consideration of the difficulty of spelling out of names. Letters, i, m, n, and u,

separately and combined, and also the letters c and t, may have been sometimes blundered, the old style of penmanship not sufficiently distinguishing them. The documents are in Latin, the Christian names have usually the termination of the dative;…” [Latin or Dutch, or French]

David C. A. Agnew, Protestant Exiles From France, Vol 1 & 21721 May 16 New York Daniel Lamoureux is made a Freeman after apprentice, during Mayoralty

of Robert Walker, Esqu.; He was "registered" ie he had served an apprintaceship of prob. 7? years [He was trained, as a cordwainer (boot maker) [age 24.] Apprenticeship seems to have been a 7 year service. Cordwan= long boots made from goats skin]

"The Rolls of Freemen of the City of NY",NY Historical Society Collections 1885, p 101

1721/2 Jan 10 New York Andre', 2nd child, born to Daniel Lamoureux & "Jane Massie" [Andrew md. Elizabeth Covert.] “André Lamoureux fils de Daniel Lamoureux et de Jane Massie est ne le 10 de Jeanvier 172 (torn) Presante au Bapeme par Isaac quantain et Ester Massee parain et Maraine le 17 de Jeanvier 1721-2 Bapize par Monsieur Rouse ministre de La Nouvelle york”

Daniel's hand made account book. [I have a copy, akrc.]JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 3 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

and Westchester Patriots, Norman Davis, p 142“At this period it was still usual to reckon New Years Day in the old style as falling on

25 March and not on 1 January. Entries of temoignage in MS. 20 at first usage the old method but at times indicated the new: …Here the printed date is amended to indicate the contemporary method of showing the ‘old” & ‘new’ style...” e.g. - 1721/2 would be 1722

“French Protestant Refugees Relieved Through The Threadneedle Street Church, London 1861-1687, by Hands & Scouloudi, Huguenot Society of

London, vol XLIX, p 118.1722 Jan 17 New York Andre', 2nd child, of Daniel & Jeanne Lamoureux baptized.

Isaac Quantain & Grandmother Ester Massé witness. " Monsieur Rouse [Louis Rou] Ministre de La Nouvelle york",

Records of French Church of New York CityDaniel's hand made account book see 1721-2 Jan 10.

“Baptesme – Aujourdhuy mecredy 17me de Janvr. 1721/22", Monsieur Rou a baptesme andre’ la Moureux ne le 10me de ce mois fils de daniel la Moureux et Jeane son Espouze presente’ au Sc Baptesme par Isaac quanin et Ester Massé parrian et Marainne

L. Rou min: Daniel LamoureuxIsaac QuantainEster Massé

Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths of Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer, edit.;Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America, vol I& Isabelle Cluff’s notes on André’s son André

1722 Aug 15 NewYork Will of Elias Neau - “In the name of God, Amen. I, ELIAS NEAU, of New York, merchant, being sick. I give and bequeath to …” [See 1700NYC for more details in this will.]

[NOTE: Elias Neau’s will mentions the following churches and ministers: The Church of England, called Trinity ChurchThe French Church, being Refugees, residing in the city of New York - Rev. Mr. Daniel Bondet, the present minister at New RochelleRev. Lewis Row, minister of the French Congregation in New YorkRev. Mr. Thomas Poyer, minister at Jamaica, on Nassau Island,Rev. Mr. Jenny, Chaplain to the Forces at Fort George, in New YorkRev. Mr. William Vesey, Rector of Trinity Church

Isabelle Cluff" <[email protected], Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ancestry.com, Full Context of New York City Wills, 1708-28, Page 329

[If we could find their records we would have a more complete record of our family. akrc]“For over 40 years Rev. Louis Rou was pastor of the French Church. In

this period trouble arose over the absorption of the French Church in New Rochelle by the Episcopalians.”

Fosdick, L. J., The French Blood in America p 2271723 New York City,NY A colonial census is taken population of the city is 7,248

The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes

History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard & Spooner

1723 Dec 31 New York Jean (John), 3rd child, born to Daniel Lamoreaux & "Jane Massee' [John md. 1. Charity Davenport 2. Elizabeth Tice.]“Jean Lamoureux fils de Daniel Lamoureux et de Jane Massee est ne le 31 de

Decembre 172 (torn) Presante au Bapteme par Charle Fouretie et Marice Lambert parain et Maraine le 12 de Jeanvier 1723-4

Baptize par Monsieur Moulinar ministre de la nouvelle york”Daniel's hand made account book. [I have a copy, akrc.]

1723-4 Jan 12 New York Jean (John), 3rd child of Daniel & Jeanne Lamoureux is baptized. Charles Fouretie & Marice Lambort witnesses. (Jean) Moulinars was "Ministre de la nouvelle york".

Daniel's hand made account book see 1723 Dec 31. [I have typed copy.]NOTE: [This birth is not recorded on the Church record at New York or New Rochelle. This may have been because of the difficulties in the New York Church. Also each of the entries in Daniel's book say done by the minister of so


and so church not necessarily done at that church. ] [All French church records are scanty. Very few deaths are recorded.]

1725 Nov 1 New York, NYC "First Newspaper ever published in New York, 'The New- York Gazette,' a weekly"The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes

[Look for the Lamoreaux Name in the papers.]

1726 New Rochelle, NY Daniel Lamoreaux family is attending church in New Rochelle Daniel Lamoreaux' account book in his hand. [I have a copy.]

Daniel Lamoreaux in his copy book lists son Peter’s baptism as…“Baptize par Monsieur Setop Ministre de La nouvelle Rochelle Angelique”

Daniel's hand made account book. [Note the “Angelique”]In 1726, Daniel and his family are recorded as living in New Rochelle. History also proves that as a family, they spoke French for nearly forty years after their arrival in America. Ten years later they were living near Philipsburg, New York.

"The Life History of David B Lamoreaux" Edith Ivans Lamoreaux (This info from “New York French Church Records, Staten Island, New York, 1694-1886, LDS Film #509,193)]

"Daniel Lamoureux … married Jeanne Masse daughter of Pierre and Elizabeth (Mersereau) Masse and moved to New Rochelle by 1726, which he left after 1732 for northern Westchester County and finally the present Putnam County.

Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825), Carl BoyerLamoureux, "Daniel s/o Andre & Suzanne (Latour): b 29 Nov

1695, bpt 1 Dec 1695, Bristol England whither parents had fled, thence to NYC by 1700; m Jeanne d/o Pierre & Elizabeth (Mercereau) Masse; removed to New Rochelle 1726, to northern part of county [Westchester?] in 1732, thence to Putnam Co, NY; Had: Andrew..." p 142

[Putnam Co was formed from Dutchess Co in 1812.][The family may not have moved. They may have only attended church in New Rochelle. The church changed. The two ministers had been living and working together. In 1726, one minister, Moulinars, “eventually built up sufficient friends to meet Rou’s unpleasantness” and broke away from Rou, and “retired to New Rochelle… ministering to the little congregation of dissenters.” The “opposition including Etienne DeLancey of great wealth…” akrc]

New Rochelle"New Rochelle, ... on the Hudson River near the shore of Long Island Sound,. ... in 1709 it (the

church) conformed to the English Church as then established by law in the New York Colony. Then there was a secession by the 'French Protestant Congregation'. Pastor Stouppe was there from 1722 to 1760 ..."

The Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the United States, South Africa and Canada, Reaman

"Shortly after the conformation to the Episcopal Church, [1710? or later?] a schism arose ... 'The seceders erected a meeting-house, styled themselves The French Protestant Congregation, and remained violently opposed to their lawful pastors; ...

Rev Pierre Stouppe ... writes: 'Dutch and Lutheran families generally unite with the church when the service is performed in English, & they bring their children to be baptized by the French Ministers.' New Rochelle, as well as Fordham, was considered within the spiritual jurisdiction of Westchester Village, then the only parish in the country. The French Church was named Trinity, and received, at the time, a charter from George the third, dated 1766."

The French Blood in America, L. J. Fosdick, Baltimore, 1973.Because Rou was, ‘a man of learning but proud, pleasurable and passionate” “In 1726,

Moulinars retired to New Rochelle… ministering to the little congregation of dissenters.” “New York French Church records, Staten Island, New York, 1694-1886 LDS Film #509,193

"The Huguenots of New Rochelle, New York, the only [group of people] still speaking French..." into the 1770's [this may have been why Daniel & Jeanne went there]

Victorious in Defeat, W BrownJosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 5 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

“The French language, which was used in all the services of the church, gradually fell into disuse; and the Huguenots of the second and third generations, understanding and speaking English better than French, naturally drifted into English speaking churches.”

Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york, Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer

"Once English became the vehicular language of the Huguenots, they changed their church affiliation from their French speaking churches to American congregations. Most of them identified themselves with the Establishment Church in the Colonies, the Episcopal Church; a minority became members of the Presbyterian Church which is, like the Huguenots themselves, based on Calvinist Reformation."

A Brief History of the Huguenots, Rev Herbert L Stein-Schneideer"In the 1750's participants in the Livingston-DeLancey dispute in New York City played upon the

hostility between Presbyterians and Anglicans.”New York City, 1664 - 1710 Conquest and Change, Thomas J Archdeacon

Andrew Jackson Lamoureux wrote in The Lamoureux Record #1 1919 p 4:There is “an unfortunate quarrel in the New York City French Church between 1723 and 1725"

over church government. Which “caused the withdrawal of a number of families, some of whom went to New Rochelle. Among these" were Daniel & Jeanne Lamoureux. As shown by Daniel’s account book record of children baptisms by New Rochelle Anglican Church minister.

The Lamoureux Record edited by AJ Lamoureux, Oct 1919, p 4"The Lamoureux apparently sided with the Episcopalian faction."

"Current View of Daniel Lamoreaux" by David Kendall Martin,in Feb 1974, New York.

"This controversy seems to have been over the Dutch Reformed or Episcopalian affiliation of the Huguenot Church."

An Historical Sketch of L'elgise Francoise a Nouvelle York from 1638 to 1804, by Rev. A V Wittmeyer, New York 1886 pp 30-41.

[English government in NY wanted all churches to have a more Anglican church format.] [This seems to be a Dutch/English dispute as well as a church government dispute.][Isabelle's note says, "This church was Referred to in 1753 as Trinity Church and in 1759 as The French Church.]

1726 Sept 3 New Rochelle, NY Pitter, [Peter], Pierre born, 4th child, Daniel Lamoureux & "Jeanne Massee"

"Records of the French Church at New Rochelle Copied by LCH Cole (SLC film #017795)

[Daniel wrote the names in French & English. He was more comfortable with French.][Note the Angelique - “La nouvelle Rochelle Angelique”

Daniel Lamoreaux -“These Lamoreux are not in Dutchess County but rather in Westchester. I am reading LDS Film #0017794 which has some records of the French Church in New Rochelle. I am not researching this name and know nothing beyond this, but here are a couple of Lamoreux entries:

Email from JoAn Schultz, 17 Sept 2000 – Elizabeth’s is also listed in 1730.FHL Film 0017794 From JoAn Schultz, Sept 2000 [Are they also listed on #0017795]

1726 Oct 2 New Rochelle, W, NY“Baptism of Pierre Lamoureux son of Daniel & Jeanne LamoreauxRecords of French Reformed Church of New Rochelle, Westchester, NY p 21726-1758 in French –1759-1765 in English - SLC film #17794 from Isabelle

1726 Dec 2 New Rochelle, NY Pierre (Peter), 4th child, of Daniel Lamoreaux & "Joane, his wife" is christened“Pitter fils de Daniel Lamoureux Jeanne Massee est ne le 3 de Septembre 1726

Presante de Bapteme par Piere Sicar et Mariame Ravos Parain et maraine le 2 doctobre 1726 Baptize par Monsieur Setop [Rev. Pierre Stouppe] Ministre de La nouvelle Rochelle Angelique”

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.and "French Church of New Rochelle" Film # 017795(or 4); SLC FHC

[Daniel's sister Judith and Pierre Chaperon were at this church and had some of the same Godparents for their children. Judith attended the French andalso the Dutch church. Many did – French ministers were not always available at one or the other.]


1727 England George II of Great Britain crowned.1727 Dec 11 New Rochelle, NY “The third minister was Rev. Pierre Stouppe, A.M. He gives some interesting

information in a letter dated Dec 11, 1727, about the early settlement of New Rochelle.He writes: ‘…There are several French families settled within bounds of the settlement, who worship with the congregation. …The Dutch and Lutheran families generally unite with the church when the service is performed in English, & they bring their children to be baptized by the French ministers.’ There was no school in the place, and the parents supplied the deficiency by instructing their children.”

Fosdick, L. J., The French Blood in America, p 2401728 Spring New York John Mongomerie succeeded Gov. Burnet The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes1728 Sep 20 New Rochelle, NY Elizabet, 5th child, of Daniel Lamoreaux & "Jeanne, his wife"

is baptized by Mon. Setoup (Pierre Stouppe) "Minestre de La nouvelle Rochelle Angliquane" .

Daniel's hand made account book- see 1728 Dec 8. New Rochelle Church rec says baptized was 1730.

French Church of New Rochelle , Film # 017795FHL Film 0017794 From JoAn Schultz, Sept 2000 says, baptized on 20 Feb1730?? It says “7bre”

[Note there is a discrepancy on date born and date baptized.Is it 1728 or 1730? [See: 1728 Dec 8 & 1730 Sep 20]

1728 Dec 8 New Rochelle, NY Elizabet, 5th child, born to Daniel Lamoreaux & "Janne Massee” [Elizabeth md. ?? ]

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.1730 Feb 12 Jaque Lamoureux fils de Daniel Lamoureux et de Janne massee

est ne 12 de fervier 1730-31 Presante au Bapteme par Jean Bonnet et Jeanne quantanin Parain et Maraine Le 12 Jour de Septembre 1731 Baptize par Monsieur Setoup (Tetoup?) minestre de la nouvelle Rochelle Angeliquane

Daniel's hand made account book. 1730 Sept 20 Sunday 20 7bre 1730 at the end of evening service was bapt. Elizabeth dau of Daniel

Lamoureux and Jeanne his wife b 8 Dec year 1728 FHL Film #0017794 From JoAn Schultz, Sept 2000 [Is it also on #0017795]Also in Daniel's hand made account book. See 1730 Feb 12

[Note discrepancy on date born and date baptized.Is it 1728 or 1730? [See: 1728 Dec 8 & 1728 Sep 20]

1730/1 Jan 12 According to David Kendall Martin’s records James was born 12 January 1730/1

…and baptized (according to his father’s family record) at the English Church in New Rochelle by ‘Monsieur Setoup’ on Feb 12 1730/1, sponsored by Jean Bannet and Jeanne Quantain.”

[Tthis should read “la nouvelle Rochelle Angeliquane.” This is where the French were attending. “Angeliquane” refers to type of church government not necessarily English speaking.

“He died at Westerlo, Albany, NY, on March 1st 1891, aged 90 years, …About 1754, he married Hannah Clemens.”

David Kendall Martin’s papers from Doug Negus, [email protected]

[A dozen pages of notes on James & family]1731 Feb 12 New Rochelle, NY "Jaque," [Jacques] (James), 5th child, born to Daniel Lamoureux &

Jeanne Masse' [James md. Hannah Clements.]Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.

1731 A colonial census is taken [ find Daniel in this census. That will tell where he was living. ]


Date Place Event & Source1731 Sep 12 New Rochelle, NY Jacques (James), 5th child, of Daniel Lamoreaux & Jeanne Masse'

is christened by Mon. Setoup (Pierre Stouppe) "de La nouvelle RochelleJosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 7 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

mailto:[email protected]

Angliquane" . Witnesses; Jean Bonnet & Jeanne Quantanin.Daniel's hand made account book. French Church of New Rochelle , Film # 017795

1732 Nov 15 New Rochelle, NY Isaac, 6th child, born to Daniel Lamoureux & Jeanne Masse'[Isaac Md. Hannah Conklin.] [There are Conklins in Philipstown.]

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc."New Windsor, Orange Co, New York Presbyterian Church Records 1774-1796" lists

Isaac and Hannah Pringle or Prindle Lamoureux's marriage.”Isabelle Cluff PAF Notes

1732 Dec 31 New Rochelle, NY Isaac, 6th child, of Daniel Lamoreaux & Jeanne Masse' is baptized by Mon. Setopu (Pierre Stouppe) "de La nouvelle Rochelle Aangliquane" .

Daniel's hand made account book. See 1732 Nov 151732-3 "Daniel Lamoureux was the son of Andre' Lamoureux, a native of Meschers in

Saintonge. His mother was Suzanne La Tour. Daniel was born in 1695 in Bristol, England, but the family was in New York City in 1700. Daniel married Jeanne Masse daughter of Pierre and Elizabeth (Mersereau) Masse and moved to New Rochelle by 1726, which he left after1732 for northern Westchester County and finally the present Putnam County.

Ship Passenger Lists, New York and New Jersey (1600-1825), Carl Boyer [David K Martin, in 1973, wrote the following statement. Later he found other proof.

“My theory at the moment is that David never went to what is now Putnam Co., but stayed all his life in Westchester Co. I have looked over the early Dutchess Co tax lists and find no mention of the name from 1717 onward until later generations got there. Dutchess then included Putnam. The marriage of Daniel Lamoreaux to his second wife: Aaltie (Storm) Bunker took place on 9 June 1744 (Sleepy Hollow Church Records) which is in Westchester Co., and she was widow of Frederick Banker of Philipsburg. THE TOWN BOOK OF THE MANNOR OF PHILLIPSBURGH (p16) lists. The ear mark of Daniel Lamppewa (sic) registered 2 Dec 1742, whom I believe is our ancestor. I feel Daniel probably died there between 1751 and 1754 (when the handwriting in the old family record changes.)… (I) wonder if the son who stayed in Westchester Co. …might not have had the family farm and if it’s location might not have a family graveyard.”

Notes of David Kendall Martin in a letter to Isabelle Cluff, 1973 “You might also be interested to note that in checking on our Tory

ancestor’s land in New York, Robert finally ran down the listing about 14 miles from West Point and the adjoining land owner was Benedict Arnold in 1775 or 1776. This was Daniel’s son Josue 1/9/1939 to about 1830. After selling or leaving the piece of land he moved to Canada toa 90 acre parcel which is just north of downtown Toronto. His grandfather, Andre, at one point also owned a piece of land on 42nd Street in New York. It appears to be very close to if not the land on which the U.N. is now standing. Oh, if our relatives only held on to their land another 250 years.”

Duane Lamoreaux “letter written for unmoin(?) in 1978”Sent to April in 1991 with his “300 years…”[Robert is his brother who did much of their research.]

1730 [after] “W.J. Blake in his History of Putnam County says of the settlement of Phillipstown that

the first settler in the region of ‘The Old Highland Church’ on the road from Clod Springs to Fishkill, was David Heustis in 1730. The Andersons, the Haights, the Bloomers, the Wilsons, and the Lamoureux followed soon after. The family homestead was at of near a place known locally as Davenport’s Corners.”

Smith, Carl W, “A Line Of Descent, French Huguenot Émigré, Andre’ Lamoreaux, 1660-1706,”

“Philipstown… formed March 17, 1788. A part of Fishkill…most westerly part of the county… Its surface is broken by numerous steep and rocky mountain ridges separated by deep and narrow valleys. These mountains constitute the most elevated portion of The Highlands. …The greater part of the surface is unfit for agricultural purposes. …Coldspring… Breakneck, …Griffin Corners… Davenport Corners Continental Village… Garrisons, on the Hudson, …first settlement was made about 1715, by Thos. Davenport. …principally settled under Col. Beverly


Robinson, who acquired title by marriage with Susannah, daughter of Frederick Philipse.”French, J.H., Gazetteer State of New York, p ?? Putnam Co.

Daniel Lamoreaux's record says they stayed in the New Rochelle Church till after Isaac was baptized 31 Dec 1732. After that they probably moved to Bedford, a section cut into the south part of Cortlandt Manor.

Looking at places listed in Daniel's hand made account book. 1733 Philipstown, NY Lamoreaux settled in Philipstown, after 1730, Duchess Co, NY (later Putnam Co)

"Removed before the War." [?This would be Elisha and / or ?]History of Putnam Co W J Blake

"I feel this is an error. I have read the tax lists in the Duchess Co Supervisor's Books from 1730 until they cease in 1779; there is no appearance of the name [Lamoureux] until June 1758 (the first entry after Feb 1758) when Daniel's son John, appears in the Southern Precinct."

"I believe John is the Lamoureux Referred to by Blake;" 1758"Current View of Daniel Lamoreaux" David Kendall Martin, 2/1974, New York

“Andrew Jackson Lamoureux wrote in 1919 that ‘Daniel’s final location was in Philipses Precinct, Dutchess Co, on lands belonging to the Philipse Manor,” evidently basing his opinion on WJ Blake’s “History of Putnam Co, which states that “a man of the name of Lamoreaux settled thereabouts the same time” – that is after David Heusistis in 1730. In 1939, when H D L’Amoureux republished A J Lamoureux’s work, he saw no reason to change this statement, but I feel this is an error. I have read the tax lists in the Duchess Co Supervisor's Books from 1730 until they cease in 1779; there is no appearance of the name until June 1758 (the first entry after Feb 1758) when Daniel's son John, appears in the Southern Precinct which later became Putnam Co .I believe John is the Lamoureux referred to by Blake: although Blake may have had in mind Daniel’s son Isaac, the longest resident of Dutchess (ie Putnam) Co. of the family. Isaac arrived in 1761."

"Current View of Daniel Lamoreaux" David Kendall Martin, 2/1974, New York

1736 Bedford, NY Daniel Lamoureux family were living near Philipsburg"The Life History of David B Lamoreaux, Edith I. Lamoreaux

Daniel Lamoureux family in Bedford, NY. [Bedford is a section cut into the south part of the Cortland Manor. See Maps.]

"A L'Amoureux Family History as we Approach 300 Years In America," Duane L'Amoureux in a letter to akrc, 1991

“It is possible that the family moved again between Dec 1732 and Jan 1737 for the next child listed in the family record was baptized by the minister of the Bedford, Westchester Co., Presbyterian Church; although it is possible that they did not move but simply used the minister of a different church. By 1742 it is possible that Daniel had moved to the Manor of Philipsburgh in what is now Yonkers; “The Town Book of the Manor of Philipsburgh (p 16) shows an earmark of Daniel Lamppewa, who just might be Daniel Lamoureux in one of the exotic spellings of the name at the hand of a non-French-speaking clerks, registered on Dec 2nd 1742. By June of 1744 he had moved to the North part of Westchester Co. on the Manor of Cortlandt, as shown by his second marriage recorded above, where I feel he lived in what is now the Town of Yorktown.”


1736 Dec 26 Bedford, NY Susanne, 7th child, born to Daniel Lamoureux & "Jeanne Massee" [Susanne Md. ???]“Susanne Lamoureux filles de Daniel Lamoureux et de Janne Massee est ne le 26

Jour de Decembre 1736 et presante au Bapteme par Daniel Lamoureux et de Janne Massee la famme les parain et maraine et Baptize le 5 jour de mar 1736-7 par monsieur Soungind (faded) minestre de Bedford Presipiteirian”

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.1737 A colonial census is taken


New York Population of New York City and County was 10,664, the bulk o f the population still lived below Wall Street.

The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909 , StokesJosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 9 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

1737 Jan 5 Bedford, NY Susanne, 7th child, of Daniel Lamoreaux & Jeanne Masse' is baptized By Robert Sturgeon "minestre de Bedfort Presipiteirian" . "Daniel Lamoreaux& Janne Lamoreaux la famme, les parain et maraine ..."[Witnesses] Isaac Quantanin & Susane Quantanin.

Daniel's hand made account book. See 1736 Dec 26"..baptized by Rev. Sturgin, Episcopalian minister of Cortlandt Manor"

Isabelle L Cluff"Bedford, ... the only one of the first settlements having an inland location, and the

only... with no associations or relations binding it to other Westchester settlements of early origin... it was regarded as a purely New England village accidentally absorbed by New York."

"The house-lots adjoined one another on the village street, it being deemed advisable for the settlers to live close together as a precaution in case of Indian attack." p 220-1

History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement to the Year 1900,Shonnard, Frederic, & Spooner, W W, 1900.

[Contains good descriptions of each area in Co.]"Once English became the vehicular language of the Huguenots, they changed their

church affiliation from their French speaking churches to American congregations. Most of them identified themselves with the Establishment Church in the Colonies, the Episcopal Church; a minority became members of the Presbyterian Church which is, like the Huguenots themselves, based on Calvinist Reformation."

A Brief History of the Huguenots, Rev Herbert L Stein-Schneideer, 1737 Dec 16 South Precinct, In an Act passed by the Colonial Assembly, Putnam Co. "was styled South Precinct."

New York (Putnam Co was formed in 1812)Early Settlers of Putnam CoFC Haacker, 1946. Film #529,189

1738 about Duchess Co, NY Elizabeth Ogden is born, Duchess Co, NYArchive Rec [See also 1743.]

1738 New York Doctors visit ships in the Harbor to prevent epidemics of small-pox, etc. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes1739 Jan 9 prob. Bedford?, Josue' Lamoureux is Born to Daniel Lamoreaux & Jeanne

or Philipstown? "Jausue Lamoureux, "fils de Daniel Lamoureux et de Jeanne New York Massee est ... Presente au Baptisme par Francois Lent et Parain et

maraine. [God parents/ witnesses] [This record seems to be incomplete,

not torn. no place of baptism is given as for the other children.] [This Josue' Md Elizabeth Ogden.]

Daniel's hand made account book.

[This record seems to be incomplete, not torn. no place of baptism is given as for the other children. Who were the witnesses?] [Archive Rec says, Joshue was born in Philipstown, NY] [Isabelle says we know where Francios Lent was. Philipstown comes from 1919 Record? Ask her where.]

“Grenville C Mackenzie (of Westport, Conn) in his manuscript, ‘Families of Old Phillipsburgh’ (pages unnumbered, copy in Westchester Co Historical Society Library) states; ‘Joshua Lamoureux, son of Daniel and grandson of Andre, was born at Yorktown on Jan 9, 1739, enlisted in Capt Haight’s Co of militia out of Capt Rogers’ company 1760. He married Elizabeth Ogden, resided in Yorktown until 1783 when he went with his family to New Brunswick, Canada, and later lived in York Co near Scarborough.’ I have never paid too much attention to Mr Mackenzie’s statement That Joshua was born in Yorktown since I am quite sure that Joshua was not residing in Yorktown, Westchester Co in 1783 when he left for New Brunswick. … I am caused to reconsider…”

“If Joshua was born in Westchester Co, which is certainly a possibility, my next question is; When did he remove to Dutchess Co? The answer to this question might shed a new hope on finding the marriage date and place of Joshua to ‘Elizabeth Ogden.” Letter to David Kendall Martin from Isabelle Cluff, 1974[Josue didn’t have a mom to teach him how to read and write.]From a letter of minister of La Rochelle’ There was no school in the place, and the parents supplied the deficiency by


instructing their children.”Fosdick, L. J., The French Blood in America, p 240

[Daniel and Jeanne Lamoreaux's children were baptized at the French Church of NY, the New Rochelle Angelican Church and the Bedford Presbyterian Church. HINT; look for Josue's children in one of these churches in his areas. But his mother died early. He didn't have her influence. Where would Elizabeth have her children christened? Where were the other Lamoreauxs? Look in Sleepy Hollow and Kingston Records. Many from the New York Dutch Reform church went to Sleepy Hollow Church.]

1735-45 Great Awakenings - Itinerant preachers - religious reforms1739-44 Westchester Co, Jeanne Lamoureax died between 1739 & 1744, age about 43- 48 buried in Westchester

New York. Co Aaltie Storm's husband died in 1739[Isabelle says in Phillipsburgh]

[This left Daniel, 43, with children ages 19?, 17, 15, 12, 10?, 8, 6, 2?, and a newborn if all were still alive. Daniel stays single till 1744. Daniel's Andrew married in 1743. Joshua was very close to Andrew's sons.]

Jeanne had grand daughters named for her born in 1745 & 1749.[Note: God parents may have had some care of the children.]

1739 Philipstown, NY Daniel Lamoureux family in Philipstown, Duchess Co, NY. (later Putnam Co) Duane LaMoreaux Letter 1991 [?This may be confused]

The old (Lamoreaux) homestead was near the Old Highland Church, where the family lived from 1740 to the beginning of the Revolution."

Andrew Jackson L'Amoureux [from Isabelle]NOTE: [There is a Philipsburgh & a Philipstown. Cortlandt Manor is between them. Philipsburgh is south; Philipstown is north. This may be Philipsburgh instead?]

The Philipse Patent and Cortlandt ManorPhilipse, pronounced PHILLIPS, from Dutch Flypse: Philip's son, anglicized to Philipse. p 158"Frederick Philipse,... a series of land buying transactions..., made him owner of the country from

Spuyten Duyvil to the Croton River and from the Hudson to the Bronx... additional lands ... the territory around Tarrytown... Irvington; Dobbs Ferry;... north Yonkers to between Sawmill and Bronx Rivers..." p 156

"Frederick Philipse delt in ... slave trade & illegal trade..” [Much smuggling was carried on to offset the extremely strict British maritime trade laws... it was expected.] p 159

"Although the lands of Philipse reached as far north as Croton Bay, their limits in the interior were considerably farther south, not being above the headwaters of the Bronx River.. the northern boundary of ... the Manor of Philipseburgh. [1693 was made a manor & authorized a bridge & fares at Spuyten Duyvil Creek at Papirinemen] At it's northwest corner it touched ...Cortlandt Manor" p157

[Son in law, Van Cortlandt, bought part in Lower Yonkers/Bronx.]"... Stephannus Van Cortlandt became the proprietor of nearly the whole of Westchester Co. along the

Hudson from Croton Bay to the Highlands." p 166 The Manor of Cortlandt was established in 1697.”... The first settlements were in the neighborhood of

Croton & Peekskill. The Indians continued numerous, though for the most part peaceable, until an advanced period in the eighteenth century." p 168

History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement to the Year 1900, Shonnard & SpoonerFrederick Philipse is anglicized from the Dutch, “pronounced Phillips”1672 “…sole owner of the country

from Spuyten Duyvil to the Croton River and from the Hudson to the Bronx.” Bought more later- Tarrytown, 1681; Irvington, 1682; Dobbs Ferry, 1682;”Yonkers to the northern limits of the manor, between the Sawmill and Bronx Rivers:” 1684; upper Yonkers, 1685; Sing Sing {Sint-Sinck], 1686; “Tappan Meadows,” 1687; Lower Yonkers, 1693. “…vested in him as a whole by Governor Fletcher on the 12 th of June 1693.” “…erects the estate into a manor called Philipsburgh or Philipseborough…” p 157-8

Philipse…”At it’s northwest corner it touched the estate of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the brother of his [Frederick] second wife – an estate which also (1697) became one of the great manors, called Cortlandt Manor, running east from Croton Bay to the Connecticut line, including, besides almost the whole of the northern part of Westchester County, a tract on the west bank of the Hudson.” Also land grants on Manhattan Island. P 157

“…Cortlandt became the proprietor of nearly the whole of Westchester County along the Hudson from Croton Bay to the Highlands.” Peekskill Bay was not part of the manor. “…the ferry across the Croton River mouth, which was the only means of reaching the country above without making a wide detour…” p 166


“The great distance of Cortlandt Manor from New York City… as well as its difficulty of access from the country immediately below on account of the obstruction of its lands…” p 168

"The portions of the county styled Yonkers and Philipseburgh at that period [1712?] were, respectively, the lower and upper division of Philipseburgh Manor," p 221?

“Westchester… appealing for special privileges, in view of the exceptional functions that had been conferred upon the adjacent manorial lands of Morrisania, Fordham, Philipseburgh, and Pelhem.”

P 221?Sons and grand sons divided it up then it came together again under grandson and “…the [Cortlandt]

manor continued to exist in it’s integrity until the Revolution, when, in consequence of his being a Torry partisan, and his removing himself to the British lines, the whole property was confiscated, …” divided between his three children. “…the largest of the six Westchester County manors, considerably exceeding in this respect the Manor of Philipseburgh, which in its turn was several times larger than the four other manors (Pelham, Scarsdale, Fordham, and Morrisania) combined.” p 170

“…Van Cortlandt, …also owned a large estate in the Town of Bedford…” History of Westchester Co, NY, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900,

Shonnard, Frederic, & Spooner, W W, 1900. [Contains good descriptions of each area in Co.]

"Frederick Philipse of the Hudson Valley governed his tenants' lives but cared for their welfare as well." "Tenant labor was not serfdom." "...landlordism and tenantry rather than freehold farms." "19 of every 20 whites dwelt in the countryside, not the towns."

The American Revolution, Edward Countryman, p 14Philipsburgh: "'after Lord Fredrick Philipse had bought and come into possession of his land tract (i.e.

the manor of Philipsburgh) he contracted with a number of people to come and live upon it without charge, that the land might be quickly put to use and settled.'... This was about 1680... the second wife of Lord Fredrick Philipse was Catherine Van Cortlandt, widow of Jan der Val. Catherine & Fredrick married in 1692. Lady Catherine who had been enrolled in the Dutch Church of NYC, was instrumental in gathering the church at Sleepy Hollow, her name heading the list of members... naturally transferring their association thereto from the more distant congregation in NY. " [When?]

The Matthysen-Bankers of Sleepy Hollow in NY G&B Record vol XL, 1909 as quoted by Isabelle... see FG for Daniel

Philipstown is in the Philipse or Upper Patent given to Adolph Philipse in 1697. Left to his nephew Fredrick [third lord] in 1749. Divided when he died between his three children Philip, Susanna & Mary.

Early Settlers of Putnam Co NY F. C. Haacker, 1946“In 1697, Adolphus Philipse, second son of the first Lord of the Manor of

Philipsborough, purchased from Lambert Dortlandt and Jan Sybrandt, who had bought it a few years before from the Wiccopee chiefs, a tract of land which became known as the Highland Patent. This tract extended approximately 20 miles along the east shore of the Hudson, from Annsville Creek to the Fish Kill, and eastward some 20 odd miles to the border of the Connecticut Province. The Patent included Polopel Island In the Hudson River.

“Shortly after his purchase, Adoiphus Philipse, who made his residence at the Castle near Tarrytown and maintained only a bachelor shooting lodge on Lake Mahopac in the Highland Patent, opened the tract to tenant settlers. It was his continued policy through 50 years, and the policy of his heirs, to rent, not to sell, land. The family was particularly jealous of the property on the river front.

“The Highland Patent was incorporated in the County of Dutchess and was known as the “South Precinct”. In 1812 all but a very small portion of this south Precinct was cut off from Dutchess County and became Putnam County.

“In 1704, Lord Cornbury, Governor of the Province of New York and a cousin of Queen Anne, ordered the development of a road on the Hudson’s east shore connecting New York with Albany. This Queen’s Highway, later the King’s Highway, be-came the Albany Post Road and in recent years a large portion of U. S. Route 9.

“Previous to Lord Cornbury’s road building, there had existed roads from New York to the villages in Westchester County as far north as Yorktown and from Fish Kill Village and the settlements in northern Dutchess County to Albany, but the 20 odd miles through the Highlands between Annsville Creek and the Fish Kill remained wilderness, broken only by Indian trails, The road which was put through this part of Adolphus Philipse's Highland Patent in the first decade of the Eighteenth Century was little better than a trail, being unfit for wheeled traffic for many years. This section of the King' Highway, later the Post Road, was spoken of as "The Path". Soon after the opening of "The Path", hardy pioneers began to move


northward from Westchester County into the Highland Patent. Among these early settlers were John Rogers, who built on "The Path" on the bill between Philipse and Indian Brooks; David Hustace (Hustis) who settled on "The Path" in the North Highlands on the brook running into the Fish Kill; Jacob Mandeville, near Four Corners, Garrison; and Thomas DAVENPORT, who rented land, built his log house, and raised his large family on land at the base of Bull Hill ex-tending from "The Path" to the Hudson, He was the first settler on the river in the Philipse Upper Patent.

“The first mill available to these pioneers was that built by Roger and Cathryna Brett on the north bank of the Fish Kill. Settlers on the Highland Patent north of Philipse Brook rode their sacks of grain to Madam Brett's mill to be ground. Settlers along 'The Path" in the mountains south of Philipse Brook found it easier to have their grain ground and do their trading at Yorktown, or, later at Beverly Robinson's Red Mill at Mahopac Falls. Thus came about the geographical division of the North and the South Highlands. Only after the Revolution was a mill built on Indian Brook at the crossing of the Post Road, available to farmers in both directions.

“This mill, operated first by a Warren, later by Nelsons, descendants of the Warrens, became the center of communal life in that part of the township.The house by the mill, built during or immediately after the Revolution by Captain John Warren of the Dutchess County Militia, was a tavern on the stage coach route along the Post Road, which passed close by it. Mail was dropped there to be picked up by residents in the neighborhood. Court was held in the big room of the tavern. Religious services were held there by itinerant ministers, including the Rev. Silas Constant of the church at Yorktown, A school was built near the mill. The later yellow brick schoolhouse on this site served the district until 1931 and still stands.

“The manuscript "REKORD" kept by successive clerks of the School Trustees from 1844 to 1931, is among the rare books of the Butterfield Memorial Library in Cold Spring, New York, Later, the Highland Turnpike was cut from Warren's Mill south to a new crossing of Annsville Creek, skirting the mountain ridge and thus avoiding the steep grades which were dangerous in all weathers for stage coaches. From the opening of the Pike, travel along the Post Road (once "The Path") between Warren's and Continental Village was limited to local farmers. The old road with its milestones, continued as it had been since the days of the Revolution. People living along the Post Road, to reach the new Pike, had to drive to Warren's Milllater Nelson's where the mail coaches made regular stops. A road following Indian Brook running from the Sunk Mines down to the Hudson at Nelson's Landing passed in front of the mill and the miller's house.

“ Here, in the old roomy house built by Captain John Warren, was born in 1840, a descendant of the house's first owner, James Nelson. In his veins ran the blood of Warrens, Nelsons, Rogerses, Haights and Davenports all pioneer settlers of the Highland Patent. His entire life was lived there. He was a miller, farmer, school trustee, Justice of the Peace. He married Mary Forman, a granddaughter of Gilbert Forman, formerly of Yorktown, who had moved up "The Path" shortly after the Revolution to settle on a large farm east of the Post Road and north of Indian Brook.”

Thomas Davenport & His Descendants , by James Nelson, p 1&2

From: Charlie Griffith [email protected] Aug 2000

[We have a map, obtained by Isabelle Cluff, of a “Copy of Lambert’s map of Water Lot #2, Philipse’s Upper Patent, made in 1768, after the partition of the Patent among the heira of Adolph Philipse and showing the location of the 8 tenants of that date.”

“This map was from the Putnam County Historical Society, 63 Chestnut St., Cold Spring, N. Y. 10516. The letter (dated Seept 1, 1976) from them states: ‘You are quite right in locating the Lamoreaux leasehold in Lot #2 in Philipstown. The properties you mention are on the Lambert map. The original of this map is with the Philipse papers in the library of Columbia University, New York City. We have this pen and ink sketch of the section along the old Albany Post Road. All of these properties were leased, not owned, as our entire county was the Philipse or Hiighland Patent, owned by members of the Philipse family.’”]

“The Philipses Patent… divided among the remaining three [children] Philip… Susannah married to Beverly Robinson, and Mary married to Col. Roger Morris. On the 7 th of



Feb 1754, the patent was divided into 9 lots: 3, each 4 mi. square, bordering upon the Hudson and denominated ‘water lots;’ 3, each 4 mi. wide by 12 long, extending N. and S. across the patent, and denominated ‘long lots;’ 3, each 4 mi. square, upon the E. border denominated ‘back lots.’ Philip, Susannah and Mary Philipse each owned one of each kind of lots. …When Robison and Morris and their wives were attained, their property was sold, chiefly to the former tenants…” p 541

West Point “…in 1778 a heavy chain was stretched across the Hudson from [the fort on Martlaers Island] to West Point. …the links weighed from 100 to 150 pounds each… In winter it was drawn on shore by a windlass…”

French, J.H., Gazetteer State of New York, p ? Putnam Co footnote.

Putnam County“This County was formed from Dutchess, June 12, 1812. It was upon the Hudson,

between Dutchess and Westchester cos., and extends e. to the Conn line. …It embraces nearly all of The Highlands E of the Hudson. The mountains consist of several steep, rocky ranges, extending in a N.E. and S.W. direction and separated by deep, narrow valleys, the principal of which are Peeks Hollow, and Canopus and Pleasant Valleys. The co. is watered by the upper branches of the Croton River and several smaller streams. Among the mountain valleys are numerous picturesque lakes, the largest of which are lakes Mahopac, Canopus, and Gleneida. In the valleys the soil is a productive, sandy loam, but the mountains are bare and rocky, and only valuable for their mines and quarries. (“Magnetic oxyd of iron”) …In the farming districts the people are principally engaged in dairying and furnishing milk for the New York market. [What year??] A strip …along the border of the co. …the ‘Oblong’ Tract, and a small part of Dutchess, are included in the great Highland Patent of Adolph Philipse. At the timeof the Revolution this patent was owned by Philip Philipse, and Mary and Susannah, wives of Col. Roger Morris and Beverly Robinson, or the British army. Morris and Robinson together with their wives, were attained, and their property was confiscated and sold by the Commissioners of Forfeiture. It was subsequently shown in court that one-third of the patent was vested in the children of Col Morris and his wife, and was not reached by the bill of attainder. …During the Revolution the passes through the mountains in this co. were carefully guarded, and at different times large bodies of troops were stationed there. It was the principal scene of Arnold’s treason, …no battle took place within its limits…” p 540

Note 1“…In the act of Dec 16, 1737, the co. was styled ‘South Precinct;’ March 23, 1772, it was subdivided into ‘Southeast,’ ‘Fredericksburg,’ and ‘Philips’ Precincts. The first of these precincts included the present towns of Southeast Carmel and Kent, and the third Putnam Valley and Philipsburgh.” p 540

French, J.H., Gazetteer State of New York,

The Philipse Patent and Cortlandt Manor are on the Hudson River. While this was a very beautiful land, it was very dangerous during the American Revolutionary War, especially for a Loyalist family.

Carl Crammer, in his book The Hudson, 1939, part of the “Rivers of America Series” states, Frederick Philipse ...owned ... tens of thousands (of acres) in Westchester County," he talks of "perpetual Lease" that was passed down from father to son, tenant farmers "In Westchester Co. by mid-century nearly 5/6th of the inhabitants were manor tenants,” “…lands being confiscated "…the DeLancey group had been driven from the country by the Continental patriots in the War of the Revolution"

Cramer mentions Washington Irving and his "…immensely popular caricature" of the Dutch people and legends, and Captain Kidd.”

"But by the late 1760's manor lords, tenants, and free holders alike were beginning to feel the strained relationship between Hudson River people and British rulers." He mentions in 1765 "the Stamp Act Riots" on the Hudson River. "... more than a year before the Philadelphia Declaration of Independence, 225 Hudson River men signed their names to a sheepskin parchment on which it had been written that they were resolved 'never to become slaves.'"

"... in 1776, many of the conservative, prosperous farmers of the valley looked forward to the comforting sight of redcoats on the march to restore law and order." "July 11 the British had come to the mouth of the river and the next day had landed troops,"

"... wives ... drove the horses to the house doors, loaded the wagons with their most precious belongings, and rolled away to visit relatives and friends not so close to danger. The back-river roads were full of creaking wheels and straining horses." p 107


"... warships had been moored above the Tappen Zee more than two weeks ... the first and last naval battle on the Hudson continued." p 109

"... the arrival of British reinforcements at New York ... 2000 red coats had landed near Stoney Point ... Brown Springster, Tory neighbor of the Orange Co. Militia had guided them through the fog over the high pass ..." p 121

"The year 1779 came and in the summer and autumn the Continental Army was back on the Hudson keeping watch over the British in New York. The Americans wintered in Morristown, New Jersey. Then in the spring the enemy began to creep up the valley once more." p 126

"The feeling between noncombatants in the valley grew bitterer than it had ever been. Mounted bands of lawless men infested the neutral ground that extended for nearly a score of miles between the upriver Continentals and the downriver British. There were tales of torture of old men and women in the effort to make them give up their savings, of sudden descents on little outlying communities and the murder of helpless inhabitants." p 127

"... in a letter published in the New York "Morning Post" on Nov 7, 1783: 'the voice of the inhabitants is so universally against them that they cannot hope for a peaceful residence among us’. p 136

Cramer also mentions events that seem to be peculiar to the lower Hudson vicinity. "With the coming of every spring there was the awesome spectacle of the ice breaking up on the river, 'Conceive a solid mass, from 6 to 8 feet thick, bursting for many miles in one continued rupture... Thunder is no adequate image of this awful explosion.' [The British had to wait for the ice to break-up before they could try to attack George Washington at West Point.]

"There were spring days, too, when the sky was black with the drumming of millions of pigeons, .... There were others when the sturgeon began to run upriver and everybody was hard at work spearing the great bodies of fish all day, and at night by the flares of torches." p 101

Carl Crammer, The Hudson“Situated on one of the highest elevations of the highland mountains, is a farm-house that was

owned by one family to the third generation, and the occupant was called the highland farmer. From his doorsill he could look down on the rich valleys of the Fishkills, and in Summer he could see the golden harvests, and in Autumn the ripening fields of corn stretching through the valleys, interspersed with mellow orchards and flocks and herds. He often inquired of himself why his forefathers settled on the mountains and entailed on their posterity poverty, when land was so cheap in the valley. The highland farmer now was in straightened circumstances, for he had a large family to support. The large forests which covered the farm when his grandfather settled there, had now nearly disappeared, for they were obliged to market a number of cords of wood yearly to help maintain their families.

“The Highland Farmer vs. The Western Farmer[from the internet]

1741 New York City Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york “ was thoroughly repaired in 1741; and on Wednesday, August 24th, 1743, the anniversary of Saint Bartholomew's day, a stone,

bearing the following inscription, was inserted in the front wall over one of the windows: "Aedes Sacra Gallor. Proto Reform. Fund: A. 1704, penitus repar. 1741"; that is, Church of the French Reformed Protestants, founded in the year 1704, and entirely repaired in 1741. p xxxiii

Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york, Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer, edit.; Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America.

1742 about Smith Cove, NY In the entry on Monroe, NY in Orange Co - “Among the early settlers were families of Miller, Galloways, Carpenters, Bulls, Dobbins, Wygants, Wards, Coltons, Nobles, Cunninghams, Slaughters, and Lamoreaux, -“ – Joshua’s brothers?

French, J.H., Gazetteer State of New York, p 508 footnote1742 Dec 2 Philipsburg, NY Daniel Lamoreaux "Danneyel Lamppewa" is listed on the register of the Manor of

now Yonkers Philipsburg on the Hudson River. –[These manors were rented lands.][These records were kept by Dutch; French names sometimes suffered in their

spelling.]Register of the Manor of Philipsburg

On the “Grantee & Grantor Index of Deeds (for surnames beginning with the letter L) 1718 – 1950 of Dutchess Co Land & Property “Not a single Lamoreaux (of any spelling) appeared on the records until 1814 … [as a land owner?]

“In the mid 1700s [DK Martin] …found John Joshua, Isaac [Lamoreaux] etc. on Dutchess County tax rolls …they were not land owners? Were they just renting or leasing? How else would they completely escape the index of deeds. I fully expected to find some kind of


reference to my Joshua buying land around 1765 when …on the first tax list. But there was no sign of him or his brothers on the deed index.” [leases were handed down from father to son]

A letter from Isabelle Cluff to D K Martin – April 1974“Grantee & Grantor Index of Deeds (for surnames beginning with the letter L) 1718 – 1950 of Dutchess Co Land & Property[2 films from SLC. Isabelle searched them in 1974.]

Daniel Lamoreaux's account book starts on p 11. On page 14 of this there is a history of several Lamoreaux’s at this time.

"An Andrew L'Amoureux at one time owned the house and farm at Tarrytown described by Washington Irving later as the home of Kathrine Van Tassel in the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.” [there is an Andrew Lamoureux listed as a revolutionary fighter. On line]

Daniel Lamoreaux 's son Andrew seems to have inherited his fathers land.?? The account book information was copied from Harold Dane L'Amoureux who says he obtained it from Miss Helen DuBarry of Fort Montgomery, NY.]

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.1740-1770's New York The old (Lamoreaux) homestead was near the Old Highland Church, where the

family lived from 1740 to the beginning of the Revolution."Andrew Jackson L'Amoureux [from Isabelle]

1742 after Monroe, Orange, Lamoreaux are listed as early residence, (after) 1742, of Monroe, Orange, NY;

NY [across the Hudson from Peeks Kill.] [John Lamoreaux born 1723 died in Monroe, Orange , NY 1809. Peter also died in Orange Co., Southfield, 1808.]

Gazetteer State of New York, J.H. French[I have parts copied.]

[Orange Co & Ulster Co are close. Shawangunk, where Daniel & Aaltie are listed is in this area. Lamoreaux families are listed in Orange Co. in Revolutionary War time.]

1743 Jan 10 New York Andrew Lamoreaux Married Elizabeth Covert. They are listed on the manor records. [He was later an attorney in Albany.] Duane LaMoreaux Letter 1991

1743 Aug 24 New York City Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york “on Wednesday, August 24th, 1743, the anniversary

of Saint Bartholomew's day, a stone, bearing the following inscription, was inserted in the front wall over one of the windows: "Aedes Sacra Gallor. Proto Reform. Fund: A. 1704, penitus repar. 1741"; that is, Church of the French Reformed Protestants, founded in the year 1704, and entirely repaired in 1741. p xxxiii

Eglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york, Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer, edit.; Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America.

1743 about Duchess Co, NY Elizabeth Ogden is born, Duchess Co, NYAncestral File. [See also 1738.]

1743 New York Commodore George Clinton replaces Clark as Gov. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes1744 N America King George's War between the British and French in North America begins1744 New York "The frequent recurrence of dangerous epidemics" draw attention to

"...the unsanitary condition of the streets..." p 197 The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes1744 June Cortlandt Manor Daniel Lamoureux moved to Cortland Manor in the North part of Westchester, Co.

Yorktown, West Co [Why did he move? to be near family? To get

married?]“In 1744 Daniel Lamoureux was in the Cortland Manor.”

[in the North part of Westchester Co.] “His son, Joshua, was in Westchester Co. when he enlisted in the militia in 1760…”


1744 June 9 Sleepy Hollow, NY Daniel Lamoureux widower of "Jannitie Marsze" living on "Mennier of Cortlandt" md 2) Aaltie Storms widow of Fredric Banker, in Sleepy Hollow Dutch Reformed Church


Records of Sleepy Hollow Dutch Reformed also in Matthysen-Bankers of Sleepy Hollow in NY G&B Record vol XL, 1909 and; Church Archive record

“Aaltie Storms was born on 20 Aug 1701 in Phillipsburg, New York. Aaltie Storms, was the widow of Fredrich Bancker, of Philips Burgh, Westchester County, New York,…”

Smith, Carl Wm, “A Line Of Descent, French Huguenot Émigré, Andre’ Lamoreaux, 1660-1706,”

Aaltie was "living in Philips Burgh", Westchester Co, New York."Current View of Daniel Lamoreaux" David Kendall Martin, 2/1974, New York

Aaltie's husband Fredrick Banker died after 29 Aug 1739. Matthysen-Bankers of Sleepy Hollow in NY G&B Record vol XL, 1909 and; Church Archive record

[NOTE: Aaltie had children ages 19, 17, 14, 10, 7 if they were all still alive. Add this to Daniel's now 24 md, 22, 20, 17, 15, 13, 11, 7, 5.]

[Children Married? No info on Daniel’s son Daniel; Andrew was married in Yorktown, Westchester, NY; John got married the next year in Phillipstown, Dutchess, NY; Peter, md 4 yrs later in Cornwall, Orange, NY; no info on Elizabeth; James md 10 yrs later in Phillipstown, Dutchess, NY: Isaac md 21 yrs later in Phillipstown, Dutchess, NY: no info on Susanne; Joshua md 13 yrs later. I have no information on Aaltie's children.]

[Isabelle searched the records of Sleepy Hollow in 1974. “Microfilm # 17971 from SLC; NY, Westchester Co, Tarrytown, Church Records; Records of the Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow) of Tarrytown (formerly Phillipsburgh) NY vol II …Ms in possession of the Holland Society of NY.]

1745 about Daniel Lamoreaux 's son Jean married Charity DavenportFamily Group Sheet [What is the date?]

1745 Phillipstown, Jane Lamoreaux, 1st child of Jean (John) Lamoreaux & Charity Davenport Putnam, N York later Md William Hornton [What is the date?]

1745 Nov 14 "John Lamoreaux was born the 14 day of November in the year 1745"[I think this is Daniel Lamoreaux's son Andrew & Elizabeth Covert's son.]

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.1746 Phillipstown, Thomas Lamoreaux, son of Jean (John) Lamoreaux &

Putnam, N York Charity Davenport Married Keturah Tuttle Notes for Thomas Lamoreaux: Baptized New Rochelle, Westchester, NY.

Notes for Thomas Lamoreaux: Baptized New Rochelle, Westchester, NY. Thomas Lamoreaux was elected ensign in Captain Francis Smith's Company of Militia

in the Cornwall Precinct, Orange County, NY on March 02, 1776. In 1778, he was commissioned Ensign in Captain Smith's Company of Colonel Jesse Woodhill's Regiment on February 21, 1778, and served throughout the War.

Patriot - signed Articles of Association, Cornwall Precinct, New York Thomas Lamoreaux: Burial:Jackson Twp. Luzerne Co.,PA See Thomas Lamoreaux

Will“Descendants of Henry Tuthill” From Colleen 12-2000Sources:- "History of Orange County, NY" E. M. Ruttenber and L. H. Clark, Vol. 1, 1980, page 48, and in the "Calendar of Historical Manuscripts Relating to the War of the Revolution in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY, Volume 1, pages 16 & 257. Wright's Historical Sketches of Plymouth, Documents Related to the Colonial History of the State of NY, Vol. 15, page 289. [see 1778 Feb 24]

1746 New York A colonial census is taken Population is 11,717 The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes

& History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard & Spooner

[Find our people on this.]

1748 Oct 30 Daniel Lamoreaux's son Pierre married Phoebe Wood1700 - 1749 New York State Continuous fighting with the French (& Indian)

pre-revolution War out of Niagara H. Swiggett1749 A colonial census is takenJosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 17 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc


1749 July Phillipstown, Jane Lamoreaux, 1st child of Pierre Lamoreaux & Phoebe WoodPutnam, N York later Md James Florance

1749 Aug 10 New York Elisha Lamoreaux was born. [I think this is Daniel Lamoreaux's son Andrew & Elizabeth Covert's son.]

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.1750 Phillipstown, Joshua, 3rd child of Jean (John) Lamoreaux & Charity Davenport

Putnam, N York Md ??? His mother may have been Elizabeth Rice1750 Dec 25 New York Louis Rou, preacher at New York French church died.

Rev. J.L. Mayor acted as supply until replaced - July 1754Records of the French Church of Staten Island, LDS Film #509,193 item #7

1751 May Phillipstown, Isaac 2nd child of Pierre Lamoreaux & Phoebe WoodPutnam, N York Md Phoebe Rumsey

1751 Aug 12 Elisabeth was born. [I think this is Daniel Lamoreaux's Andrew's & Elizabeth Covert's daughter.]

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.NOTE: [Daniel’s son Andrew Lamoreaux's children are the only grandchildren listed in Daniel's account book. Isaac in 1744 is listed first. then John, 1745; Elisha, 1749; Elisabeth, 1751; then in a different hand writing, Andrew, 1754; Daniel, 1757. Next is listed "Peter Z Vas [was?] Born the 12 day of July on thursday in the year 1761." Next is Jesse, 1763; Shebea, 1766. All seem to be children of Andrew & Elizabeth Covert. Andrew lived in Sleepy Hollow and stayed after the war. See NOTE June 1744.] [Last entry in Daniel's account book as published in NY G&B says, ".... the age of my father which is Daniel Lamoureux was born the twenty ninth of november in the year 1694 (or 5).' Page is damaged. I think it may have been a record of Daniel's death.]

1753 New York Gov Clinton "secured his own recall" "His successor Danvers Osborn ...hanged himself..." both events partly because of opposition of lieutenant-governor James DeLancey, who was then made governor. p 198

The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes1753 Oct Phillipstown, Joseph, 3rd child of Pierre Lamoreaux & Phoebe Wood

Putnam, N York Md Abigail Sneden1753 Oct 10 Shawangunk Daniel & Aaltie Lamerie are listed as helping build church Shawangunk, Ulster -

Ulster Co,NY. "Names of First Members of Shawangunk Church dismissed from Kingston, NY,

New York Oct 10 1753." "The Dutch and Huguenot settlers sustained a relation to the

First Dutch Church at Kingston in 1544, a relation which continued until 1750 at which time the Reformed Dutch membership at Shawangunk was organized as a distinct body." [Daniel & Aaltie owned their own pew.]

Records of Shawangunk Church [from Isabelle][This appears to mean that they first attended the Church at Kingston, NY, which is 30 miles north of Philipse & West Point. Then moved membership to Shawangunk with other Dutch Reform people. Shawangunk is across the river and SE of Poughkeepsie. New Platz is between Shawangunk (south) and Kingston (north). Church at New Platz was built 1772. Kingston was earlier called Esopus, 'Sopus and Wiltwyck It's on the "old mine road".][CHECK KINGSTON DUTCH CHURCH RECORDS FOR LAMOREAUX & BANKERS.]

[Joshua Lamoreaux, age 14, where was he? with Andrew? or etc.] “The country lying south of the Catskill mountains, and north of the

Highlands, on the west side of the North or Hudson river, was known to the Dutch from the earliest times as Esopus. Thither, even before the settlement of New Amsterdam, the Dutch traders went to traffic with friendly Indians;… This picturesque region – now included in the bounds of Ulster county – lay midway between the two rising towns of New Amsterdam and Beverwyck. Broken by mountain ranges, the Catskills in the north and the Shawungunk in the south; watered by numerous streams,… Fort Orange… now at Kingston - …bought from the Indians a tract of land, compromising seventy-six acres, on Esopus creek, where the city of Kingston now stands.”

Charles W. Baird, History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, p 190


1755 Before Philipse Josué Lamoreaux is listed as a tenant at Philipse in 1755 [Age 16-17.?] or was thisanother Joshua?

[There is more than one Lamoreaux farm in Philipstown.] [Ulster Co. is across the Hudson NE of Philipstown.}This updates DK Martin’s comment as far as place – date may still be the same – He said,

“Daniel is last known alive in June 1744, [NOT – someone found new records of him here in Oct 1753.akrc], at the time of his second marriage to a resident of the Cortlandt Manor, Westchester Co, NY, where I believe he died between August 1751 and March 1754, the dates between which the handwriting in his family record book changes from his hand to that of his son Andrew.”

"Current View of Daniel Lamoreaux" David Kendall Martin, 2/1974, N York

A letter to David Kendall Martin from Kenneth Hasbrouck dated March 6, 1974 says,“…the record specifically states “from Philipsburgh”; Daniel & Aaltie Storm, his wife; First

members of the Shawangunk Church dated Oct 10, 1753“Daniel Lamoureux is given as a first subscriber to the building of the church – this entry is not

dated, however, it would have been between 1752-1755.A letter to David Kendall Martin from Cynthia Hurd, Clintondale, NY, 1974

[Notes at the bottom of DK Martin’s page sent to me by Doug Negus; [email protected] say:First members of Shawangunk Church (pronounced Shon-guh) southern border of Ulster Co., NY:Daniel Lammerie & Aaltie Storm, his wife, from Philipsburgh; one of 1st churches to break off Kingston … only church between NYC & Albany – names of first subscribers who were instrumental in the erection of the Church: (erection between 1725 & 1755) 10 th from end of list: Daniel Lamoureux. : pp 36-37

His source: pamphlet, History of Township of Shawangunk, Kenneth Hasbrouck

1754 Feb 7 Philipse Patent, Philipse Patent was divided into 9 lots; 3 water lots, 3 long lots,

New York 3 back lots. Philipse patent is now mostly in Putnam Co.

A small portion is still located in Duchess Co, NY.

Early Settlers of Putnam Co, F C Haacker 1946See maps Lambert's Map water lot #2

[Josué Lamoreaux is later listed on the NE corner of water lot #2. See 1768.]

1754 Mar The handwriting in Daniel's account book seems to have changed to Andrew's(?) hand. [Why? did Daniel just move? Did he die, age 59?][Josue' may have been left an orphan at age 14.]

Daniel's Hand written journal“My theory at the moment is that Daniel never went to what is now

Putnam Co., but stayed all his life in Westchester Co. I have looked over all the early Dutchess Co. tax lists and find no mention of the name from 1717 onward until later generations got there. Dutchess then included Putnam. The marriage of Daniel Lamoreux to his second wife: Aaltie (Storm) Banker took place on 9 June 1744 (Sleepy Hollow Church record) which is in Westchester Co., and she was widow of Frederick Banker of Phillipsburg. THE TOWN BOOK OF THE MANOR OF PHILIPSBURGH (p.16) lists. The ear mark of a Daniel Lamppewa (sic) registered 2 Dec. 1742, whom I Believe is our ancestor. I feel Daniel probably died there between 1751 And 1754 (when the handwriting in the old family record changes.)… (I) wonder if the son who stayed in Westchester Co. …might not have had the family farm and if its location might not have a family graveyard.”

Notes of David Kendall Martin in a letter to Isabelle Cluff, 1973[Some of this info has been up-dated.]

1754 July 27 New Rochelle A new preacher at French Church, Jean Carle, “preached to dissidents at New Rochelle,

New York 4 times a year – with NY Church – resigned 23 May 1763 so hopeless was the problem of rebuilding the church.”

Records of the French Church of Staten Island, LDS Film #509,193 item #71754-1763 American Colonies Fighting against the French and Indians resumes and continuesJosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 19 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

"the last of the series of struggles between French and English for dominance in America." The colonies made their first attempt to unite with a convention. "New York ... was vitally interested in these campaigns." p 199

The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes[See1700LamNY - 1702 for more on the fighting]

1754 “In the History of Putnam County, New York, by W.S. Pelletreau, 1886, under ‘Town of Philipstown and Philipse’, ‘Lot number 2 was first surveyed in 1754 and in a survey of 1769 same was in 8 lots. Owner of lot number 8 is given as Joshua Lamoreaux. The chapter goes on too say ‘…The Lamoreaux family were a French family and were settled on the post road still farther north, their tract embracing the northeast corner of the lot.’”

Smith, Carl Wm, “A Line Of Descent, French Huguenot Émigré, Andre’ Lamoreaux, 1660-1706,”

1754 York town Andrew, 5th child of Andre LMOREAUX & Elizabeth CovertWorchester, NY Later married Anna Brown - died 1829

1754 Phillipstown, John Lamoreaux, 4th child of Jean (John) Lamoreaux & Charity Davenport Putnam, N York Md Jemima Stevens-1779 died – 1795 in Luzerne, Penn -

His mother may have been Elizabeth Rice1754 Oct 31 New York “Columbia College was chartered as ‘King’s College’ Oct 31, 1754. …cornerstone was

laid …1756. The building was finished in 1760 and during the Revolution it was used for a hospital.”

Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State, p 4301755 before Philipse Patent, Josué Lamoreaux & Elisha Lamoreaux are listed on rent rolls at Philipse

New York Upper Patent, Duchess Co, NY owned by Beverly Robinson, B-in-law

of Benedict Arnold, officer for George Washington. Lot 4 ... Joshua Lamoureux "…in Peeks Kill Hollow & from 4 to 12 miles fromPeeks Kill Landing on the Hudson River". Duchess Co, [also listed on lot #51]NY (later Putnam Co) [long time resident]

Early Settlers of Putnam Co , F C Haacker 194617?? Joshua Lamoureux was trained, in his youth, as a cordwainer (boot maker)

[like his dad.- maybe by his dad???] [Cordwan= long boots made from goats skin][It was acommon trade that was replaced, about this time, by newer methods. Many went into the militia to help support their families. Where did I read this???]

1755 Philipse Patent Joshua Lamoureux is listed on Lot #51 owned by Col B Robinson in the Philipse or Highland Patent. at the time it was in Duchess Co.

[Source? Is it Early Settlers of Putnam?]

1755 NY Charles Hardy appointed and arrived as Gov. of N Y The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes1755-63 French and Indian war begins, with the British

and Americans fighting the French, Canadians and Natives. –“…harass frontier settlement.”

1756 Austria Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.1756 New York A colonial census is taken.1756 New York "Washington was lodged and kindly entertained at the house of Mr. Beverly Robinson,

between whom and himself an intimacy of friendship subsisted, which, indeed,continued without change till severed by their opposite fortunes twenty years afterwardin the Revolution.." (George Washington courted Mary Philipse. Robinson was married to her sister.)


Philipse Patten “…Colonel Roger Morris, …married Mary Philipse, for whose hand Washington himself is said to have been a suitor.” ‘While in New York in 1756,’ says Sparks, ‘Washington was lodged and kindly entertained at the house of Mr. Beverly Robinson, between whom and himself an intimacy of friendship subsisted, which, indeed, continued without change till severed by their opposite fortunes twenty years afterward in the Revolution….” This was on


the Philipse Patten – kitty-cornered from Joshua Lamoreaux. P 348History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard &

Spooner1756 May 23 Joshua Mercereau, son of Jean Mercereau dies age 98 years 5 mo

[From my old time line, no source listed]1757 York town Daniel, 6th child of Andre LMOREAUX & Elizabeth Covert

Worchester, N York Married Charity Whetmore 1780 –[This Daniel went into Canada -in 1783 with Brother Jesse & uncle, Josue’.]

1757 about Philipstown? Josué Lamoreaux Married Elizabeth Ogden in NY, [Probably Putnam Co, i.e.Dutchess,Philipstown [? He was about 18.]

[He grew up early. Rented land at 16-17; married at 18.]Family Records [son John Mc. Lamoreaux said!]

"Elizabeth is the dau of Col Samuel Ogden, [Is this proven??? Maybe, maybe not.] for whom the British named Ogdensburg, NY, on the St. Lawrence River up from Montreal. It appears she was the sister or aunt of the Mormon leader Peter Skene Ogden, for whom Ogden, Utah is named. Were Peter Ogden, who traveled at B Young's right hand and David Burlock Lamoreaux, who traveled at his left hand, cousins?"??

[CHECK THIS OUT I want this source. Look up the history of Ogden..] Duane LaMoreaux in a letter dated 1991 July 4

[NOTE: The Lamoreaux brothers all married English wives. Each of Joshua's nephews in Canada gave the Ogden middle name to one of their sons. Were these Elizabeth's brothers names? Check for an Ogden family with these boys names.]

[All children of Daniel Lamoreaux married English.] “Assimilation of the French refugee into the body politic of England [and the American

Colonies] came about through the use of the English Language, by intermarriage, and a lack of desire to remain an isolated group.” Reaman, C. Elmore , The Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the United States,

South Africa and Canada, p.10 & 831758 by June Putnam Co, NY Daniel Lamoreaux's son, John, appears in the Southern Precinct later Putnam Co.

"I believe John is the Lamoureux Referred to by Blake;" "Daniel's son, Isaac, the longest resident of Duchess (i.e. Putnam) County of the family. Isaac arrived in 1761.


“…I have gone over many of the Dutchess County tax rolls- all of them for the Lamoreaux areas of interest, and I am sure that no Lamoreaux is listed there before June 1758 when John appears in the Southern Precinct, …Joshua does not appear until June 1765 in the same precinct – but there is no assessment for 1764, so he could have moved into the area between June 1763 and June 1764; in the same precinct at that time are: (John?), James (my line), and Isaac.The latter three continue to be listed in the Southern Precinct: June 1766, June 1767, June 1768, June 1769. In June 1770, James and Jeshua are there but I can’t find Isaac. The same for June 1771. About this time tha Southern Precinct was broken up into several precincts and in 1772 we have James, Isaac, and Joshua in the Philipse Precinct; in 1773 we have Joshua in Philipse and James in Charlotte (which is now the area of Hyde Park where he remains unil the lists stop in 1779; Isaac is in Charlotte also until 1779; Joshua stays in Philipse Precinct in 1773, 1774 (so the fence viewer must be Joshua’s son and not my James as some have said), and 1775. There is no list for 1776, and I have not found Joshua in 1777, 1778, or 1779, but he might well be there but not taxed – the Revolution was in full swing at this point.” [Note added: “Joshua’s son was born 1762, only 6…” so it can’t be him.]

Notes of David K Martin, in a letter to Isabelle 19741758 July Duchess Co, NY James, Josué Lamoureux & Elizabeth Ogden's 1st child, is born in Duchess Co, NY

(later Putnam Co) Family Records

Philipstown, NY Archive Record [says B 1760 it has no Suzanna] .James Lamoureux lived to be 111 years, 4 months. Died in Canada, 1869.[Sets Birth date at July 1758.] [Did he set his birth place?]

Toronto Newspaper "...rol", on County News pageBrougham, 25 Oct 1938


Daniel Lamoreaux Children"Of the second generation we have Daniel's [Lamoureux] nine children and the three

children of his two sisters. This number is probably incomplete. We are certain of seven sons of the family name, one son named Chaperone, one son named Dusjean, two daughters of Lamoureux origin, and one daughter of the Chaperone origin.

"During Daniel's [Lamoureux] lifetime the family seems to have been kept well together, but after his death, perhaps influenced in some degree by the restlessness of the people just before the Revolution, his sons began to scatter. The Revolution introduced another disturbing element, sending two of his sons into exile. Only one of them remained near the old homestead, two went to Orange Co, and one (with two of Andrew's sons) to Albany Co. It was a period of comparative poverty, hard work, hard living, much ignorance, and large families. All of Daniel's sons, so far as I have records, had large families, the smallest 7 children, the largest 13. They were all typical pioneers, however, and they met the hardships of pioneer life bravely and cheerfully. When Daniel settled at Philipstown, he was in the backwoods, as I have said, for the Indians still lived in that vicinity, and hunting and trapping filled no small part of the settler's regular life. His sons were accustomed therefore to the rough fare and simple wants of the backwoodsmen, and their outlook upon life was unquestionably that of the frontiersman who have done so much to make the early history of our country."

"The Lamoureux Record", Oct 1919, AJ Lamoureux, in Yesteryears Magazine

1760 Westchester Co, Susanna, Josué Lamoureux & Elizabeth Ogden 2nd child is born New York Family Records - Josué will mentions Susanna

“…Joshua was in Westchester Co in 1760, so he must have moved from Yorktown area or Philipsburgh (Westchester Co) area to Philipstown, Dutchess Co, between April 1760 and June 1764. The Militia list states he was born in Westchester Co, and as Daniel’s child b 1737 was bp. at Bedford Presbyterian Church, I think Joshua was born in nearby Yorktown. I agree with Mackenzie; although we have no proof,”

Notes of David Kendall Martin, letter to Isabelle, 19741760? Yorktown-Philipsburgh “…Joshua [Lamoreaux] was enlisted in 1760, aged 21 … he had a child born 1760,

Westchester then he must have been married about 1759, so I would look for Elizabeth Ogden in the area of Yorktown-Philipsburgh in Westchester

Notes of David K Martin, letter to Isabelle 1974From Colonies to Country, Joy Hakam, p

“His [Daniel Lamoreaux's] son, Joshua, was in Westchester Co. when he enlisted in the militia in 1760 and his[Daniel’s] eldest son, Andre, who had married in 1743, Elizabeth Covert of Cortlandt Manor, was there in 1779, apparently in that part later know as Yorktown where he was in the census for 1790 & 1800, & where he died in 1809. It is my belief that this is where Daniel also had lived…”

David Kendall Martin, 2/1974, New York 1760 England George III becomes king of England

From Colonies to Country, Joy Hakam, p1760 Mar 27 Rumbout, Twins, Charity & Elizabeth, born to "John Lamoreau" are christened

Dutchess, NY [These would be g-child of my Daniel.]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Computer printout, Birth & chr of Presbyterian Church , Rumbout, Dutchess Co, NY 1744-1844, film # 1,002,749 item 5

Phillipstown, Elizabeth & Charity 6th & 7th Jean (John) Lamoreaux & Elizabeth RicePutnam, N York [mother may have been Charity Davenport ]

Elizabeth later Md Gilbert Lent Charity later MD Thomas Davenport [Where is Rumbout? Part of Philipse? This family was Presbyterian too.]

Joshue is listed on Westchester Co Muster Roll in 1760The French and Indian War

1700 - 1749 New York State Continuous fighting with the French (& Indian)pre-revolution War out of Niagara H. Swiggett

1754-1763 “French & Indian Wars harass frontier settlements.”New York Area Key, p4

“…the Fighting against the French and Indians resumes and continuesJosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 22 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

American Colonies "the last of the series of struggles between French and English for

dominance in America." "New York ... was vitally interested in these campaigns." p 199

The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes1754-1763 “The French and Indian War. This was the American phase of a world-wide nine

years’war that was waged between 1754 and 1763.”

“The great War for the Empire began over the specific issue as to whether the upper Ohio valley was a part of the British empire …or…of the French empire.”

“A conflict… was doubtless inevitable …force was applied in 1752… This was followed by the plundering, capture or killing of every English-speaking trader in the upper Ohio valley…

“…it was determined late in 1753 to send young George Washington…“During the first four years …the over-all advantage was with the French…the British

regulars and American colonials suffered one stunning reverse after another.“…the frontier settlements in what is now central New York, central Pennsylvania,

western Maryland and western Virginia were deserted while thousands of families fled eastward in panic from the torch, sword, and tomahawk carried by the French and their Indian allies.”

William Pitt “…promised the colonies a liberal reimbursement of their expenses, were they to do their part in the effort by furnishing men for the colonial line…”

“Finally, both British regulars and the American colonial line became seasoned wilderness fighters. …In the main, both sides tended to observe well-established principles of strategy and tactics. The war… witnessed the transfer to America of European methods of fighting…”

“The French and Indian War,”Encyclopedia Britannica, 1969, vol 9 pg 864-6

1760 Apr 23 Westchester Co [Joshua Lamoreaux enlisted in the militia in 1760. Probably the French & Indian War]

New York Muster roll lists " Joshua Lumerix" ; …5' 8";…Black hair & black eyes" "Inlisted 23 Apr[1760] - age 21, born in Westchester Co, cordwainer, Volunteer in

Capt. Phil.Verplanck's Co.""Men raised and passed in the Co of Westchester for Captain Jon'th Haight Company, May ye 13, 1760."

Muster Roll, 13 May 1760 Capt. Haight CoState of NY, Report of the State Historian 1897, Colonial series v 2 [From Isabelle] Mesa FHC US, NY, H2, 3

[Isabelle says he fought with Brittish 18 Months. WHERE is this reference?]

1760-age 21 Yorktown- Philipsburgh “…Joshua was enlisted in 1760, aged 21 … he had a child born 1760, then he must New York have been married about 1759, so I would look for Elizabeth Ogden in the

area of Yorktown-Philipsburgh in WestchesterNotes of David K Martin, letter to Isabelle 1974

"Eighteenth-century British military records... Recruits tended to be around twenty years of age and averaged 5' 7” in infantry regiments, a bit taller in the elite regiments such as the dragoons. Most were urbanites either by birth or migration, of lower or lower-middle class background, and possessed of occupational skills no longer in great demand. The textile industry, for example... Shoemakers, pliers of a craft that also had begun to feel the effects of mechanization and overcrowding, likewise enlisted in extraordinary numbers."

p 173The World Turned Upside Down, Ferling, John, 1988.

“Capt. Jonathan Haight had a company of men mustered in the French and Indian War in 1759 from Westchester County. My ggggg-grandfather, Ebenezer Robinson served in that company. They might have been in northern Westchester Co. since many of the people in that company later lived in lower Dutchess County.

“ There is a mention of this company, and others from the area, moving out to Albany JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 23 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

for a major engagement in either 1760 or 61. I would need to look through my notes.” Wade Robinson, posted on RootsWeb in response to my inquiry Oct 2001His source is?? “Muster roles of NY Provincial Troops" Ernest F. DeLancy, A Heritage Classic

NOTE: [1760 was pre-Revolutionary War. They were probably mustered for fighting the French & Indian War]

1754-1763, American Colonies This muster roll would be for “…the Fighting against the French and Indians resumes

pre-revolution and continues" “the last of the series of struggles between French and Englishfor

dominance in America." "New York ... was vitally interested in these campaigns."

The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes, p 199“The muster rolls for colonial military service were destroyed in the 1911 Capitol fire.

Rolls abstracted in Third Annual Report of the State Historian… 1897 (Albany; 1898), pp 437-1130; and in “Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops, 1755-1764,” Collections of the New York Society for the Year 1891(New York: 1892).

New York State, City & Church Archives, Mesa Family History Center1760 May 13 Westchester, The Muster Roll of 13 May 1760 for Capt. Haight Co lists Joshua Lamoreaux

NY "Joshua Lumerix" "Inlisted 23 Apr - age 21, born in Westchester Co, cordwainer, Volunteer in Capt. Phil. Verplanck's Co." Enlisted by Capt. Haight "Men raised and passed in the Co of Westchester for Captain Jon'th Haight Company, May ye 13, 1760."

Muster Roll, 13 May 1760 Capt. Haight CoState of NY, Report of the State Historian 1897, Colonial series v 2 [From Isabelle] Mesa FHC US, NY, H2, 3

[Isabelle says he fought with Brit 18 Mo. WHERE is this reference?]

“His [Daniel Lamoreaux's] son, Joshua, was in Westchester Co. when he enlisted in the militia in 1760 and his[Daniel’s] eldest son, Andre, who had married in 1743, Elizabeth Covert of Cortlandt Manor, was there in 1779, apparently in that part later know as Yorktown where he was in the census for 1790 & 1800, & where he died in 1809. It is my belief that this is where Daniel also had lived…”

“Daniel’s [Lamoreaux] son, James, also seems to have married a girl from Cortlandt Manor about 1754.” "Current View of Daniel Lamoreaux"

David Kendall Martin, 2/1974, New York 1760 Sept 6 “…the French gov general“…was obliged on Sept. 8 1760, to surrender… Montreal…”

& Cuba in 1762. Peace Treaty in 1763- cession of Louisiana “The French and Indian War,”Encyclopedia Britannica, 1969, vol 9 pg 864-

61760 Oct 30 King George II died.1760 George III is crowned king of England

From Colonies to Country, Joy Hakam, p1761 “…in 1761, …New Rochelle, which village, as well as Fordham, was considered

within the spiritual jurisdiction of Westchester Village, then the only parish in the county. The French church was named Trinity, and received, at this time, a charter from George the Third, dated 1762.” It mentions

“…the removal of the sacred edifice, to make way for the highroad to Boston…”Fosdick, L. J., The French Blood in America, p 242

1761 "Daniel [Lamoreaux's] son, Isaac, the longest resident of Duchess (i.e. Putnam) County

of the family. Isaac arrived in 1761.”"Current View of Daniel Lamoreaux" David Kendall Martin, 2/1974, New York

1762 Phillipstown, NY Jerusha (Rhoda), Josue' Lamoureux & Elizabeth Ogden 3rd child, is bornnow Putnam Co Family Records

"…of Pickering, Duchess Co, NY"("Jerusha Earl" is Buried in Kirtland, Ohio.)JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 24 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

Archive Record - Ancestor File1763 French & Indian War ends - The treaty of Paris was signed, ending the conflict between

English & French, giving the English control of North America east of the Mississippi. The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, Stokes p 1991763 NYC "The 22,000 people of NYC were crammed into the area that the financial

district now occupies, with the rest of Manhattan, and all of Queens, Kings, Staten Island, and northern NJ lying almost empty.

The American Revolution, Edward Countryman1763 Yorktown Jesse, 8th child of Andre LMOREAUX & Elizabeth Covert

Worchester, N York Md Jane Whetmore 1782 – [This Jesse went into Canada -in 1783 with Brother Daniel & uncle, Josué.]

1764 Duchess Co, NY Jemima, Josué Lamoureux & Elizabeth Ogden's 4th child, is born Philipstown, NY. Family Records

[As an 82 year old widow in Canada, Jemima is listed as a Presbyterian.]

1765 Stamp Act; "...emigration,(to Canada) beginning as early as the Stamp Act crisis in 1765, took place throughout the revolutionary period and even beyond."

Victorious in Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 301765-1775 Philipse Josue' Lamoureux is on the tax rolls on Philipse Patent.

[Where is this source for this early year? from D.K. Martin ] 1765 Westchester Co. Westchester Co farmers, protesting the feudal practices of valley manor lords rebelled.

[This was a preview of the war to come.]The Lordly Hudson, Carl Cramer

1766 Putnam Co, NY “St Philip’s Church in the Highlands, - … The church itself is said to have been built in 1766

‘by certain subscriptions both in Courtlandt Manor and the lower end of Philipse Upper Patent,’ … dedicated …August 9th, 1767.’ …’We could not have gone through with our undertaking but for entering into an agreement with the people on the lower end of Philipse Patent, …when we obtained a missionary he should be settled for both places, so as to make but one congregation of the whole: To preach every other Sunday at the house of Jacob Mandeville.’ …’in the lower end of Philipse Patent,’”

“…1771 …granted the church a special charter… a glebe farm of 200 acres of land… ‘given by Beverly Roninson…for the use of the Rector officiating one half of the time in the Highlands.”

1775 – Later pastors left “…for seventeen years there was no settled pastor.”“…It appears that the glebe or parsonage farm mentioned above was not formally

given by deed to the church by Beverly Roninson, although the church had possession of it. After the Revolution this farm was, like the rest of the land of Colonel Robinson, confiscated, …”

History of Putnam Co NY, William S Pelletreau, 1975; p 540-21768 Philipse Upper Josué Lamoreaux listed on rent rolls at property of B. Robinson B-in-law of Benedict

Patent, Arnold, officer for G Washington, headquartered at West Point just across the river.

Duchess Co. Arnold & André met at Peekskill to exchange plans for West Point to give to British; for New York which Andre' was caught& hung in 1780. Washington, as commander of West Point, was

staying on Robinson's property at the time. Arnold escaped and went to England. "Robinson had left by this time."

Early Settlers of Putnam Co, F C Haacker 19461768 Mr Lambert, surveyor, made a map of the Philipse Patent, (including Water Lot # 2)

after the partitioning of the patent among the heirs of Adolph Philipse showing the location of the 8 tenants of that date.. . . J. Lamarkee [Joshua] is listed as leasing

Philipse's Upper the NE corner of Water Lot #2 on the Hudson River, Philipse's Upper Patent. One of


Patent 8 tenants. 'The properties are on the Lambert Map." "All of these properties were

leased,not owned, ... our entire county [Putnam Co] was Philipse or Highland Patent, owned by members of the Philipse family." [Putnam Co was Duchess Co till 1812 when it was formed. The Old Albany Post Road runs North & South through the west part of his plot.] [They are listed also on lot #8.]

Letter dated 1976 from Putnam Co Hist Society to Isabelle Cluff

Lambert's Map on file at Columbia Univ, Library NYC, film #529,189 I have a copy of the map - akrc

1768 May 9 “To the PUBLIC [Figure of stage wagon, drawn by four horses.] THAT the Stage - Waggons,kept by John Barnhill, in Elm-Street, in Philadelphia, and John Mercereau, at the New-Blazing Star, near New-York, continues their Stages in two Days, from Powles-Hook Ferry, opposite New-York, to Philadelphia; returns from Philadelphia to Powles-Hook in two Days also; they will endeavour to oblige the Publick by keeping the best of Waggons and sober Drivers, and sets out from Powle Hook and Philadelphia, on Mondays and Thursdays, punctually at Sunrise, and meets at Prince Town the same Nights, to exchange Passengers, and each return the Day after: Those who are kind enough to encourage the Undertaking, are desired to cross Powles Hook Ferry the Evenings before, as they must set off early: The Price for each Passenger is Ten Shillings to Prince Town, and from thence to Philadelphia, Ten Shillings more, Ferriage free:

“There will be but two Wagons, but four sets of fresh Horses, so it will be very safe for any Person to send Goods, as there are but two Drivers; they may exchange their Goods without any Mistake. Persons may now go from New-York to Philadelphia, and back again in five Days, and remain in Philadelphia two Nights and one Day to do their Business in: The Public may be assured that this Road is much the shortest, than any other to Philadelphia, and regular Stages will be kept by the Publick's obliged humble Servants,

JOHN MERCEREAU, and JOHN BARNHILL.”The New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, No. - 1323, May 9, 1768. Quoted in:Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New Jersey Vol XXVI - Pages158-9

[Mercereau are related to Masse & therefore Lamoreaux.]

1769 Philipse Patent Joshua Lamoreaux on Philipse Lot #2: & James Lamoreaux & Beverly Robinson also.

"The Lamoreaux were a French family, and were settled on the Post road still farther

north, their tract embracing the north-east corner of the lot."History of Putnam Co NY, William S Pelletreau, 1975; p 545-7

1770 Beethoven is born.1770 July 9 Philipstown, P, NY Joshua Lamoreaux Jr., Josue' & Elizabeth 5th child, is born Duchess Co,

NY (later Putnam Co) Family Records 1770 Aug 18 Putnam Co, NY “St Philip’s Church in the Highlands, - This church was originally a chapel, and was

united with St. Peter’s Church at Peekskill, the history of which has been written with careful minuteness by the lamented historian, Bolton. The first charter of this church was granted August 18th, 1770,…first trustees were Beverly Robinson, [6 more including Thomas Davenport] … built about two miles north of Peekskill… The church itself is said to have been built in 1766 ‘by certain subscriptions both in Courtlandt Manor and the lower end of Philipse Upper Patent,’ … dedicated …August 9th, 1767.’ …’We could not have gone through with our undertaking but for entering into an agreement with the people on the lower end of Philipse Patent, …when we obtained a missionary he should be settled for both places, so as to make but one congregation of the whole: To preach every other Sunday at the house of Jacob Mandeville.’ …’in the lower end of Philipse Patent,’”

“…1771 …granted the church a special charter… a glebe farm of 200 acres of land… ‘given by Beverly Roninson…for the use of the Rector officiating one half of the time in the Highlands.”




History of Putnam Co NY, William S Pelletreau, 1975; p 540-21770’s "The Huguenots of New Rochelle, New York, the only [group of people] still speaking

French..." Victorious in Defeat, W Brown

1770"s NY "Joshua's [Lamoreaux] land was in Newburgh, NY. and he left with or immediately or 1780 after the 'Arnold Treachery'". Arnold was a Huguenot family.

Duane LaMoreaux, Letter July 1991 states British records were sold to U of Mich and are at Ann Arbor

[Where is Newburgh?]Duane also states Joshua never learned to read & write.

[I am undecided as to whether Joshua could read & write.. Some of his documents are signed with an "X"others seem to be signed by his signature. See later petitions, akrc]

1770's Duchess Co, NY Josue' Lamoreaux "Resided at Duchess Co, NY... was obliged to leave his property to the value of two hundred pounds N York currency in land and movable estate ... Beside services as a vollintear at the outpost with Col Dellincar (Delancy) was taken prisoner and wounded and very badly treated while with them But got exchanged and remained till the treaty of peace"

Loyalist Petition #271 & 273 & cover 20 Mar 1786 Fredricton, NB, Dept of Nat'l Resources,

[I think this means he & family remained in New York City, Morrisania, Long Island or etc.][Morrisania was not evacuated till 1783] [Where are the records of DeLancy’s group?][Find DeLancy history]

1770's Peeks Kill, NY Josué Lamoreaux's nephew Daniel's petition says "...formerly of Peekskill,West Chester, New York ... his aged father & numerous family were all faithful to his majesty ... were exceedingly persecuted and all driven from a very valuable and pleasant farm ... served 18 months with Cole. James De Lancy at Morisania

Morisania, NY [Daniel says he built a house at Morisania] --- a very Hazard and importantPost where there was attacks and continual apprehension from an enraged and cruel Enemy ---where he rec. no pay except rations, nor did he choose to live or enrich him self by Plunder" [See 1779 Aug 5]"That for his loyalty, he has in the vigor of his youth, lost his native Country -- the

Hopes of a pretty Patrimony, his tender Parents and affectionate Friends ..."Loyalist Petition #148 by Daniel Lamoureux, 30 Mar 1786Fredricton, New Brunswick Dept of Nat'l Resources,

Guerrilla warfare raged over the "neutral ground of Westchester County where James De Lancey's Westchester Refugees (many of whom later settled in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) were known to their enemies as "cowboys" and "cattle rustlers."

Victorious in Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 19"...To add to the confusion, the three battalions of De Lancey's Brigade

had been reorganized into two before leaving New York, and the men themselves did not always set down correctly their new battalion number, ..." Many of the De Lancey 2nd battalion (over 100 people) were killed in the wreck of the "Martha' in the Fall Fleet, Oct 1783.

The Loyalists of New Brunswick, E.C. Wright, p 180[Is this our De Lancey? I really think so They "annexed" cattle.]

1771 A colonial census is taken; this is the last of the colonial census History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard &

Spooner1771 Putnam Co, NY “St Philip’s Church in the Highlands, - “…1771 …granted the church a special

charter… a glebe farm of 200 acres of land… ‘given by Beverly Roninson…for the use of the Rector officiating one half of the time in the Highlands.”




History of Putnam Co NY, William S Pelletreau, 1975; p 540-21772 “New Paaltz Church … Built in 1772 at the site of the LaFevere House.

[later] The Huguenots were absorbed by the Dutch Church.”The Huguenot Migration in Europe and America, It’s Cause & Effect, C. Malcom B Gilman

1772 Mar 24 Philipstown, NY South Precinct is subdivided into Southeast, Fredricsburgh, and Philips Precincts

Early Settlers of Putnam Co, F C Haacker 19461772 Apr 5 Philipstown, NY James Lamoreaux is listed as a "fence viewer" for Phillipstown.

Joshua is mentioned.

[Daniel is said to be the only Male descendent of Andre so this James should be his son, Jacques born 1731. James is 41. Josué is 33.]

History of Putnam Co, Pelletreau"The Lamoreaux were a French family, and were settled on the Post road still farther

north, [from the junction of Post road & Philipstown turnpike?] their tract embraced the northeast corner of the lot. [this is listed in Lot 2, Philip Philipse river lot, the middle one Joshua Lamoreaux, is on Lot 8 of the division of lot 2 in 1768: and James is the only one listed in town records in 1772.]

"The town records of Philipstown, or rather of Philipse Precinct, begin in 1772, and are contained in a paper covered book out of which a large gap has been eaten by the mice. From these records we transcribe the following:

“’At a town meeting in Philipse Prscinct, in Dutchess County, on the 5th of April, 1772.

… “’Joseph Haight and James Lamoreaux, fence viewers.” p 545-5471777- Joshua is mentioned in assessment of Philipse Precinct... assessed "1” p 127

-...Elisha Lamoreaux is "2" p 128 - Beverly Robinson was highest at "70" next there are two at "15" and one at "12" All rest of the 160+ are 5 and under. Most are "1's" No other Lamoreaux.

"The foregoing list signed by ...Assessors ... no evidence of actual amount of property possessed by the persons named. … Beverly Robinson[a man] was highest at "70" next there are two at "15" and one at "12" All rest of the 160+ are 5 and under. Most are "1's" ..."[Daniel is said to be the only Male descendent of Andre so this James should be his son, Jacques born 1731. James is 41. Josue' is 33. Elisha, Andrew's son, is 23.]

History of Putnam Co, William Pelletreau p 127-128John Lamorieaux is listed p125 on “List of taxable inhanitants of Philips Patent”, p

121 … “Fredricksburg Precinct.” p 122.History of Putnam Co, William Pelletreau p 121-125

"Philipse Lot No. 2 - The central part of Philipstown consists of Lot No. 2 of the Philipse Patent, and fell to Philip Philipse, in the partition and division in 1754. The next information we have concerning this tract, is its survey and division into eight lots, and a map made of them by David Lambert, the surveyor, in 1769. The original map is now among the Philipse papers. The owners of the lots are mentioned by their last name, except the Davenports. Their full names were probably: Lot ... 8 Joshua Lamoreaux." "...Names of earlier settlers.. mention made in various records such as surveys of highways & minutes of town meetings" Lamoreaux not listed in 1745

"The names of the early settlers on this tract are only to be learned from mention made in various records such as surveys of highways & minutes of town meetings. The earliest names found are in the survey of highways in 1745:" [Lamoreaux name not listed in 1745. akrc]

“The proximity of this region to the Hudson River rendered it far more easy of access than the central portion of the patent, and the fertile portions were soon settled by nem who held farms as tenants of Philip Philipse and after of his children. The following list includes the persons whose names appear on the town records between 1772 and 1782, and includes the people living in Putnam Valley, which was then a portion of Philipstown: … James Lamoreaux…”

“Among the earliest settlers…“The Lamoreaux were a French family…”

History of Putnam Co, Pelletreau"When Benjamin Franklin became postmaster of the colonies he improved the roads so

the mail could be carried more efficiently. These new roads were called post roads."JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 28 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

"Until the middle of the 19th century, most American roads were made of dirt. Some were surfaced with gravel or oyster shells. With ice or snow on them they often became impassable. Spring thaws made them turn to mud... Some roads were made with rough logs; dirt was put on top of the logs. These roads were called corduroy roads."

From Colonies to Country, Joy Hakam, p 58.1773 New York A will left £1000 to Trinity Church “in trust for the First French Congregation of New

York which should adopt the Angilican liturgy.”Records of the French Church of Staten Island, LDS Film #509,193 item #7

1773 Sept 18 N America Total eclipse of the sun“There were four total solar eclipses between 1773 and 1778 on Sept. 18, 1773,

March 1, 1775, July 5, 1777 and June 24, 1778. Of these, only the September 15, 1773 eclipse was likely to have been visible over North America.”

“Was anything happening in the sky between 1772 and 1776?” NASA, http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11791.html

1774 May 2 Daniel Lamoreaux records his son Andrew and Elizabeth [Covert] had a son Isaac born

Daniel's hand made account book. I have a copy, akrc.1775 New York Andrew Lamoreaux, Josue' & Elizabeth Lamoreaux’s 6th child, is born.

[Later killed by a falling tree, died after 1797 Mar 6]Family Records

1775 King George proclaimed the colonies were in Rebellion.1775 Joshua Lamoreaux - According to Memorials written later, by John McCord

Lamoreaux, Joshua "joined the British Standard" in 1775. Family tradition states they were in the worst area of fighting. War started 1775 even before Declaration.

See later petitions"Perhaps the hardest condition for both sides to bear during the years of the long fight

in the (Hudson) valley was the bitter dissension among neighbors."The Lordly Hudson, Carl Cramer

[Daniel's sons are listed on both sides of the fighting.]

1775 Paul Revere makes his famous ride.1775 May Unied States "Congress were acknowledging and declaring themselves, and all the inhabitants

within the now United States, to be the Loyal and faithful subjects of Great Britain."

14 months later the Declaration of Independence. p 152 History of New York During the Rev. War, Vol 1 Thomas Jones

Children of Daniel & Jeanne Masse Lamoreaux in 1776"Of the second generation we have Daniel's nine children and the three

children of his two sisters. This number is probably incomplete. We are certain of seven sons of the family name, one son named Chaperone, one son named Dusjean, two daughters of Lamoureux origin, and one daughter of the Chaperone origin.

"During Daniel's lifetime the family seems to have been kept well together, but after his death, perhaps influenced in some degree by the restlessness of the people just before the Revolution, his sons began to scatter. The Revolution introduced another disturbing element, sending two of his sons into exile. Only one of them remained near the old homestead, two went to Orange Co, and one (with two of Andrew's sons) to Albany Co. It was a period of comparative poverty, hard work, hard living, much ignorance, and large families. All of Daniel's sons, so far as I have records, had large families, the smallest 7 children, the largest 13. They were all typical pioneers, however, and they met the hardships of pioneer life bravely and cheerfully. When Daniel settled at Philipstown, he was in the backwoods, as I have said, for the Indians still lived in that vicinity, and hunting and trapping filled no small part of the settler's regular life. His sons were accustomed therefore to the rough fare and simple wants of the backwoodsmen, and their outlook upon life was unquestionably that of the frontiersman who have done so much to make the early history of our country."

"The Lamoureux Record", Oct 1919, AJ Lamoureux, in JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 29 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

Yesteryears MagazineThe 1776 ages of Daniel & Jeanne Lamoreaux's children were:

Daniel, 56; Andrew, 55; John, 53; Peter, 50; Elizabeth (who did she marry?), 48; James, 45; Isaac, 43; Susanne (who did she marry?), 39; Joshua, 37.

Daniel & Jeanne Lamoreaux's grand children's [the ones I know of] ages were: Daniel, Elizabeth, Susanne, (I have no record of any marriage or children)Andrew & Elizabeth Covert Lamoureuxs of Cortlandt Mannor, Yorktown, Westchester, NY;

Isaac, 32, md; John, 31, md; Elisha, 27, md Hill; Elizabeth (Drake,) 25, md; Andrew, 22; Daniel, 19; Peter, 15; Jesse, 13; Phebe, 10.

John & Charity Davenport Lamoureux of Cornwall, Orange Co, NY; or John & Elizabeth Rice: [Was Jane oldest?] Thomas, 32, md; Jane (Horton,) 28, md; Joshua, 27, ?md; John, 22; Susanna (later Prindle), 20; Elizabeth (later Lent), 16; Charity (later Davenport), 16; Martha (later Reynolds), 14; Isaac, 13; Phebe (later Prindle), 11; Robert, 7; Daniel, 5; Hannah, 2.

Peter & Phebe Wood Lamoureux of Orange Co, NY: Jane (prob Flourance), 27, Jane md; Isaac, 25; Joseph, 23; Luke, 20; Peter, 17; Suzannah (later Davenport), 15; Phebe (later Clark), 13; Jesse, 11; John, 9; Andrew W, 5.

James & Hannah Clement Lamoureux of Philipstown, Dutchess Co, NY: Daniel, 22; Aaron, 16; Peter, 12; William, 8; Catherine (later Smith), 5; James, 3; John, 2; George was born 1778.

Isaac & Hannah Tomkins Lamoureux of Phillipstown & Hyde Park., Dutchess Co, NY: Andrew, 10; Mary (later Tompkins), 8; John, 7; Fanny (later Culver), 5; Timothy, 3; James, 2; Sarah (later Tompkins), 1; Susan (later Albertson), was born 1778; George was born 1780; Hannah (later Ostrom), was born 1784; Elizabeth (later Carpenter), was born 1786; Phebe (later Cornwell), was born 1789.

Joshua & Elizabeth Ogden Lamoreaux of Phillipstown, Dutchess Co, NY & Westchester Co, NY.& NYC: James, 18; Susanna (later Waters), 16; Jerusha (later Earl), 14; Jemima (later Wright), 7; Joshua, 6; Andrew, 1; Isaac was born 1777; John McCord Lamoreaux was born 1779.

[Where are Aaltie's kids? Were they all raised together with the Lamoreaux children?]

1776 July 4 Declaration of Independence is signedNOTE: The Loyalist families were forced to evacuate their Hudson River farms and go into New York City by 1779 through 1783. Housing was crowded and inadequate. Parts of the City had been burned. Food was rationed out by the British.]

Loyalist who sincerely felt that armed revolt was unjustified looked upon their rebelling neighbors as deserving of the hangman's noose, and those sympathetic with the Colonial armies were even more strongly convinced that Tories were traitors and should suffer the consequences."

The Lordly Hudson, Carl Cramer, 1958 “During the American Revolutionary War, inhabitants were equally divided between the patriots and the

Loyalists. Most of them signed the Association Tests, but not so many joined the militia, and a number of the later were branded as out and out Tories. After the war ended, those who had vacillated, or gone definitely over to the ‘enemy’ were highly unpopular and many moved to the wilds of Pennsylvania.”

Carl William Smith, “A Line Of Descent, French Huguenot Émigré, Andre’ Lamoreaux, 1660-1706,”

1776 "Many of the younger generation joined the army as patriots, ... some, Joshua being among them, had fled northward into Canada to escape imprisonment or even death.

"The Life History of David B Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans Lamoreaux[This is a bit jumbled. Joshua did leave but not till after the end of the war, 1783. He was wounded, captured and traded. He and his family probably were in NYC till the end of the war. Although they are not on any Vitualling list in NY City, they left NY City on a British Summer Fleet to go into Canada.]NOTE: The Loyalist families were forced to evacuate their Hudson River farms and go into New York City by 1779 through 1783. Housing was crowded and inadequate. Parts of the City had been burned. Food was rationed out by the British.]

1776 New York City is occupied by the British New York City is an English StrongholdNY Area Key Chronology

French “Church closed for 20 years, war period. English used church roughly for ordinance stores. Required virtually rebuilding – done in 1796…”

“New York French Church Records, Staten Island, New York, 1694-1886, LDS Film #509,193


[Along the Hudson Valley…]"…in 1776, many of the conservative, prosperous farmers of the valley

looked forward to the comforting sight of redcoats on the march to restore law and order." "July 11 the British had come to the mouth of the river and the next day had landed troops,"

[Many men along the Hudson River Valley left to fight or had to flee persecution which left the women folk to escape the dangers of war on their own…] [Joshua and Elizabeth Lamoreaux sided with the British,. either by choice or by default because they would not fight for the Rebels.]

"…wives …drove the horses to the house doors, loaded the wagons with their most precious belongings, and rolled away to visit relatives and friends not so close to danger. The back-river roads were full of creaking wheels and straining horses." p 107

The Hudson, Crammer, Carl, 1939, (part of the Rivers of America Series)

"... warships had been moored above the Tappen Zee more than two weeks ... the first and last naval battle on the Hudson continued." p 109

"…the arrival of British reinforcements at New York… 2000 red coats had landed near Stoney Point… Brown Springster, Tory neighbor of the Orange Co. militia had guided them through the fog over the high pass…"

p 121"The year 1779 came and in the summer and autumn the Continental

Army was back on the Hudson keeping watch over the British in New York. The Americans wintered in Morristown, New Jersey. Then in the spring the enemy[the British] began to creep up the valley once more." p 12

"The feeling between noncombatants in the valley grew bitterer than it had ever been. Mounted bands of lawless men infested the neutral ground that extended for nearly a score of miles between the upriver Continentals and the downriver British. There were tales of torture of old men and women in the effort to make them give up their savings, of sudden descents on little outlying communities and the murder of helpless inhabitants." p 127

Comments about the British or Americans? "…in a letter published in the New York "Morning Post" on Nov 7, 1783: 'the voice of the inhabitants is so universally against them that they cannot hope for a peaceful residence among us." p 136

He also mentions events that seem to be peculiar to the lower Hudson vicinity. "With the coming of every spring there was the awesome spectacle of the ice breaking up on the river, 'Conceive a solid mass, from 6 to 8 feet thick, bursting for many miles in one continued rupture… Thunder is no adequate image of this awful explosion.' [The British had to wait for the ice to break-up before they could try to attack George Washington at West Point.]

The Hudson, Crammer, Carl, 1939, (part of the Rivers of America Series)

"There were spring days, too, when the sky was black with the drumming of millions of pigeons, …There were others when the sturgeon began to run upriver and everybody was hard at work spearing the great bodies of fish all day, and at night by the flares of torches." p 101

CarlCrammer, The Hudson, 1939, (part of the Rivers of America Series)

New York City, 1776 early July...Situated on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, it was surrounded by the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east, and the Harlem River to the north... the city was dominated by Brooklyn Heights across the East River on Long Island.

T. Harry Williams, The History of American Wars from 1745 to 1918 p59"John Adams estimated that at the outbreak of the war, one-third of the colonists were

warm patriots, one-third clung to their allegiance to the Crown (usually at great personal cost), and one-third were neutral, took no sides, and simply wished to be left alone .

p 256Opposing friends in the war, he said, "…is the sharpest thorn on which I ever set my

foot…" p 666


"In addition to religion, nationality, family, and sectional antagonism, '... the age and temperament of individuals had often an influence in fixing their political character. Old men were seldom warm Whigs: they could not relish the great changes which were daily taking place; attached to ancient forms and habits, they could not readily accommodate themselves to new systems. Few of the very rich were active in forwarding the Revolution....'

"The Tories, like the patriots were moved by a variety of motives,... Most Tories kept their opinions to themselves and weathered the storm as best they could. Many of them were individuals respected and liked in their own communities. In such cases, their courage in making the decision to oppose the majority of their friends and neighbors, not to mention in many instances members of their own family, and their persistence in the face of public pressure, usually won for them a grudging respect, and public opinion protected them from open persecution." p 658-9

Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins"Throughout the war Loyalist were elusive. At least one in five of all

Americans remained loyal to George III - though not all of them showed it - …Spies and turncoats, agents and double agents abounded

The Fire of Liberty, Esmond Wright, . p 49"An oath was therefore framed in order to tender to all suspicious

persons, with a notice that every person refusing to take such oath should be considered as inimical to the State, not suffered to remain therein, but banished to New York, as an enemy to the Congress, to the 'liberties of the people,' and to the "rights of mankind." p 146

History of New York During the Revolutionary War, Vol 1 Thomas Jones

"…men who were moved toward outright loyalism. This group was centered on the DeLancey family of New York City. Loyalist never formed a large percentage of the American population, all in all, but in a few places, such as the area surrounding New York City, they were an overwhelming majority. In others, including the Hudson valley,… they were strong enough to wage extended guerrilla resistance. …on New York's western frontier, they were so numerous that the Revolution became a war of American against American." “ …a fair sized minority of that people dissented." p 123 131

"They were more interested in survival than glory… in… the western frontier of NY, the war became a vicious guerrilla struggle. In those places, the devastation and the bloodshed were frightful…" p 141,

The American Revolution, Edward Countryman"New York City had remained a British garrison and a Loyalist haven since it's capture

in September, 1776. During 1782, as it became clear that the war was lost and that the rebels remained antagonistic, refugees flooded in to camps set up on Long Island, Staten Island, and the Jersey Shore. ... a total of perhaps thirty thousand."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984 p 33.1776 Aug 28 Westchester Co “The first encounter of the Revolution on the soil of Westchester County ….between a

party of Loyalist recruits led by one William Lounsbury and an American force commanded by Captain John Flood…” “…a commission from General Howe to raise rangers: …a party of the militia went in pursuit of him,…killing him, as he would not surrender; another was wounded four were taken prisoners.” “…each of his recruits was to receive £3.” P 348

These pages tell of other encounters that year or next [?]… “After the defeat of Long Island, the New York State convention then sitting at Harlem, deemed that place insecure, adjourned to Fishkill.” Sessions were held at “Kingsbridge (Aug 30), at Mr Odell’s house in Philipseburgh Manor (Aug 31), and at Mr Blagge’s house at Croton River (Aug 31).” “Provision was made for removing all the horses, cattle, and other livestock from Manhattan Island and the exposed portions of Westchester County into the interior; the Westchester farmers were directed to immediately thresh out all their grain, in order to furnish straw for the army; stores were taken from the State magazine in Westchester County and sent to the army…” Three British War Ships came as close as Tarrytown.


1776 Nov 3 Fishkill, NY "Resolved, That all prisoners at present confined in the jails in the Counties of


Dutchessand Westchester, be forthwith removed to Exeter, in the State of New Hampshire, there

to remain in jail..."The following list of prisoner' names who were confined in Poughkeepsie jail, in the County of

Dutchess, now sent to Exeter, in the State of New Hampshire: Frederick Ham, Junr., James Lummery, (sick,) Edward Talbot, Lewis Hogg, Obediah Griffin, John Laurence (Lawrence), John Mc Donald, Thomas Barker, Samuel Glass. These persons were all more or less concerned in a late insurrection in Dutchess County, and the greatest part actually in arms." p 6-7[There is a Azariah Whittemore listed in jail in White-Plains, Westchester.][See also entry for 1777 Aug 9 ] [Look for Exiter records AM Rev.]

"Minutes of the Committee & of the first Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York," Film # 1,035,605, item 6, MFHC & SLC-HC

[What insurrection? Check Dutchess Co history AM Rev. Check Exeter, NH records.]

[The James Lamoreaux we know of were 18 year old son of my Josue' , 46 year old brother of Josue', 2 year old son of Josue' bro Isaac, 2 year old son of Josue's bro James.]

This James seems to be Joshua's older bro. His grand dau says, "James Lamoreaux (Sr) ... enlisted in the revolutionary war when he was 18... Grandfather married Martha Cross..."

Abigail Lamoreaux Scott, in a letter to AJ Lamoreaux 1919. The Patriots’ Orange Co. Militia (Land Bound Rights) lists Isaac Lamarux, Isaac Lamore and

John Lamoreux in First Regiment with Major Zachariah Du Bois. The Militia - Orange Co, fourth Regiment lists; Joseph & Luke Lamoreux.

New York in the Revolution as Colony & State, James Roberts, 1898, (p165) [The Patriot options for Isaac are Daniel & Jeanne's son, (Joshua's Bro,) 44; Daniel's G-sons, Andre's son, 32; Jean/John's son, 14; Pierre/Peter's son, 25; (probably them); Joshua's Isaac was born that year. [The options for a John Lamoreaux are Jean/John, 54 bro of my Josué; son of Josué's bro Andrew, 32; son of Josue's bro Jean/John, 23 (probably him); son of Josué's bro Pierre/Peter, 10; son of Josué's bro Isaac, 8; son of Josué's bro Jacques James, 2; (my John McCord Lamoreaux was born 2 years later.) Daniel's sons John & Peter both settled in Orange Co. They stayed after the war, so, they probably fought for the Patriots.] [Luke is the son of Daniel's Peter, 20; he has a brother Joseph, 23; these are the only Joseph & Luke.] No Lamoreaux are listed in Dutchess Co. Daniel's sons John & Peter both settled in Orange Co.

1776 Nov 5 Westchester Co, “…the burning of the Westchester County court house some soldiers of Washington’s Army.” General orders of 2 Nov said no burning! “…besides destroying the court

house, they burnt the Presbyterian Church and several private dwellings at White Plains.” “…county records did not perish in the flames,” removed earlier “by the two armies.” P402

“This instance of the incidental outrages inflicted upon the people of our country as a result of the military operations in the campaign of 1776… local details of destruction, devastation, violence, and plunder almost innumerable.” “…cases of individual persecutions for political belief, they were perpetrated with activity and mercilessness by both sides-“ “British and Germans [soldiery] robbed, killed, burned, and devastated the land with little discrimination between Tory and patriot where the object was gratification of their own greed or passions.” “…a letter written from Peekskill, Jan 19, 1777… ‘…it is infinitely better to be slain in battle than to be taken prisoners by British brutes, …not only the prisoners… Every part of the country thro’ which they have march’d has been plundered and ravaged.”


1777 Mar 6 New York Isaac, Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux, 7th child, is born in New York – Where?Family Bible of Isaac & Ann LamoreauxFrom Duane L"Amoureux, 19I9, have a copy

1777 March Peekskill, NY "In the month of March, 1777, Colonel Bird, with a detachment of the British army,

went up the Hudson, and at Peekskill, in the county of Westchester, destroyed all the rebel

magazines, barracks, and storehouses erected at that place, with an amazing quality of provisions, military stores, clothing and accouterments, of almost


every kind; demolished their fortifications, and returned to New York without the loss of a man."

History of New York During the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jones,

Edited by Edward F DeLancey, 1879, New York Historical Society

[Was this the incident referred to in the Conspiracy trials on 1777 Aug 9?]

1777 Mar 23 Peekskill, NY British, Howe, destroys a large deposit of stores at of near Peekskill which “greatly agitated the State convention, which caused a portion of the militia of Orange, Dutchess, and Westchester Counties to be called out, sent to the Highlands…”

p426History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard &

Spooner1777 Mar 31 Small-pox at Fishkill, New York p 437

"Minutes of the Committee & of the first Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York,” Film # 1,035,605, item 6.

1777 Spring Long Island, NY "In the Spring of 1777, a foraging party were at Sag Harbor, at the east end of Long

Island guarded by a company of DeLancey's provincials, consisting of about 70 men; the transports to carry the forage to New York being small vessels employed for the purpose, were under the protection of an armed schooner of 12 guns and about 40 men. Information …being given to the rebel powers… Colonel Meigs… with about 400 men, embarked in a number of whale boats, in the evening, at a place called Guilford, crossed the Sound, and about 2 o'clock the next morning landed at a small distance from Sag Harbor, …made the whole party prisoners before they were aware of their danger…

“This is what the British during the war called an alert."History of New York During the Revolutionary War, Thomas

Jones, Edited by Edward F DeLancey, 1879, New York Historical

Society [The Question

When did our Lamoreaux leave this area, Dutchess Co,? Where did they go? Lots of opposition and persecution of Loyalists in Dutchess Co started in 1777.

Committees formed 1776. Their Landlord, Beverly Robinson appeared before "The Committee" Feb 22, 1777. Was told he must take Oath of Allegiance.. Asked for time to think about it & left the area Mar 18, 1777. Wife Mrs Susanna Philipse Robinson stayed a while. By 1779 land was confiscated & both were charged with treason & threatened with death if found in the county.

The whole family could have left after rents were paid. Another family member could have stayed on property & harvested & paid

rents.Elizabeth could have left alone, before Joshua paid rents and gone to stay

with her family, his family, her bro, sis, his bro, sis, step-bro, step-sis, friends, etc. If she left alone, she probably went to her family or friends.

If they left together they probably went to his.Joshua’s entire family could have stayed through till much later, Elizabeth

had children in 1775, 1777, 1779. Their births are listed at several different places each. John McCord Lamoreaux said much later he was born in New York City. Morrisania is now in the Bronx, which is NYC.

NYC was burned badly after the British took it over 1776. Rents were very high. Conditions were very bad. Joshua,Daniel & Jesse all left NYC in 1783. Daniel & Jesse collected supplies, There is no record that Joshua did until he got to Canada.

Many people tried to go home to collect things & etc after the war, 1781 to 1783.

Daniel (nephew) and Joshua were both in DeLancey's group, which sounds like they may have been together. Daniel fought with DeLancey for 18 months. Probably before he was married, because Daniel wasn’t married till 1780 on Long


Island. That’s across the British lines from Morrisania. There were three DeLancey groups. One in Morrisannia, another on Long Island

Joshua was captured; it sounds like while he was with DeLancey’s. Where was Elizabeth & the family? akrc]

The Facts]1777 May 1 Philipse Patent Josué Lamoreaux last listing on rent rolls at Philipse Upper Patent, Duchess

Co, NY. On Lot #4 owned by and next door to Beverly Robinson, B-in-law of Benedict Arnold, officer for George Washington. One of "…75 tenants most of them undershort leases; in general very good farms; ... in Peeks Kill Hollow & from 4 to 12 miles from Peeks Kill Landing on the Hudson River... good roads." This is just south from West Point.

"At the time of the Revolutionary War this patent was owned by Philip Philipse, and [Sisters] Mary and Susannah, wives of Colonel Roger Morris and Beverly Robinson, of the British Army. Morris and Robinson together with their wives, were attained, and their property was confiscated and sold by the Commissioners of Forfeiture. Most land was sold to Patriot tenants. [see 1756 entry on Washington & Robinson.]

[I think this is a list of rents paid. Josué would have been there still on 1 May 1777.]Early Settlers of Putnam Co, F C Haacker 1946NY State Lib#A974.732, q H 111 SLC FHC #529,189

Philipse Patent "The Lamoureux were a French family and were settled on the (Albany) Post Road still

further north, their tract embracing the North East corner of the Lot."History of Putnam Co, Pelletreau, 1886

“The town records of Philipstown, or rather of Philipse Precinct, begin in 1772, and are contained in a paper covered book out of which a large gap has been eaten by the mice. From these records we transcribe the following:

History of Putnam Co, Pelletreau, William. 1886 - p546 & 547Westchester Co. was raided regularly,. first by one side then by the other.

Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984 p 171"Most women stayed home during the war, but they did things they

hadn't done before. They had to do all the men's work as well as their own. They ran the farms and businesses… When battles were fought near their homes, women fed and cared for the wounded.

"Women who were loyalist had a terrible time of it. Usually they had to keep quiet or leave the country… Women whose husbands had gone off to war to fight were often alone when the invading army looted and destroyed, as armies often do. When it was necessary, women put guns to their shoulders… on the frontier… many had fought the Indians…""

From Colonies to Country, Joy Hakam, p 110"Many women, Patriot and Loyalist alike, were forced to house the

enemy, and those women whose husbands were away were forced to defend the family's property, earn a living, and protect their families as well. …Women on farms were constantly faced with the threat of losing animals and crops to the enemy. …some unscrupulous characters …turned to cattle rustling… Crops in the field were also fair game."

"When fighting armies approached, women had little choice but to flee with their children… moved in with friends and relatives.

Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution, Karen Zeinert, p70-74

[See DeLancey references in 1778-9.]

1777 July 5 N America Total eclipse of the sun1777 Aug 9 NY "Resolved that Benjamin Smith, Waitstill Vraghan, Francis Hoagl, Will: Shower,

John Lomaree, (Jacob Straat Jun., Peter De Pew 3rd, Corn Jn Blau Velt) be still detained inthe Goal of Poughkeepsie till further Order of this Board, or otherwise delivered by a dueCourse of Law. [See also entry for 3 Nov 1776] p 354

[The options for a John Lamoreaux are 54 year old Jean/John bro of my Josué, (in Orange Co); 32 year old son of Josué's bro Andrew, (probably this one); 23 year old son of Josué's bro Jean/John, (in Orange Co); 10 year old son of Josué's bro Pierre/Peter, (in Orange Co); 8 year old son of Josué's bro Isaac, (too young); 2 year old son of


Josué's bro Jacques James, (too young); (my John McCord Lamoreaux was born 2 years later.) Daniel's sons John & Peter both settled in Orange Co. They stayed after the war, so, they probably fought for the Patriots.]

"Minutes of the Commettee & of the first Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the Stete of New York," Vol I & IIFilm # 1,035,605, item 6, MFHC & SLC-HC

1777 Aug 30 Council of Safety for the State of New York were, "empowered to remove wives &

children of" Loyalists War out of Niagara, H. Swiggett, 1933, MP Library 1996

1777 Sept 9 Kingston, NY An Act for the Forfeiture and Sale of the Estates of Persons who have adhered to the

Enemies of this state, and for declaring the Sovereignty of the People of this State,

in respect to all Property within the same. Passed 22nd October, 1779. "The first session of the legislature of New York, for business, began at Kingston... [Met to write the New York Act of Attainer or Confiscation Act.]

The second session began at Poughkeepsie, on the 5th of January, 1778… [The act was rewritten several times and never agreed on unanimously.]

[Beverly Robinson's name was not on original, Sept, 1777; was on act passed Oct 1788. His wife's name was on it too. Joshua Lamoreux lived on this property. Joshua & family most probably left Dutchess Co before Oct 1778. p 510, 524

History of New York During the Rev. War, Vol 1, Thomas Jones,Edited by Edward F DeLancey, 1879,

1777 Oct Hudson River "In Oct 1777, General Clinton, who then commanded at New York, sailed up the

Hudson with about 3,000 troops, and a train of artillery, …He attacked, and took, all the rebel forts in the Highlands, to wit, Montgomery, Clinton, and Constitution…

“Kingston, a large rebel village upon the west side of the Hudson, was burnt, and a number of rebel houses on the east side of the river." p 218

History of New York During the Rev. War, Vol 1 Thomas Jones 1777 Nov Hudson River "In Nov, 1777, a parcel of rebels in the dead of night passed the North (Hudson) river

from the Jersey shore, landed at Bloomingdale, the seat of General De Lancey, about 7 miles from the city of New York, surprised, and made prisoners, …plundered…"

History of New York During the Rev. War, Vol 1 Thomas Jones p 185

1777 Nov 27 The Colonies "Congress recommended to the states that they appropriate the property of residents who

had forfeited 'the right to protection'."Encyclopedia of American History, Richard Morris, 1976.

[When did Josué & family leave their Philipse farm? Was it confiscated 1777 or 1779? see reference 1779.]

1778 Jan 3 Poughkeepsie An Act for the Forfeiture and Sale of the Estates of Persons who have adhered to the

Enemies of this state, and for declaring the Sovereignty of the People of this State, in respect to all Property within the same. Passed 22nd October, 1779.

"The first session of the legislature of New York, for business, began at Kingston… [Met to write the New York Act of Attainer or Confiscation Act.] The second session began at Poughkeepsie, on the 5th of January, 1778… [The act was rewritten several times and never agreed on unanimously.] [Beverly Robinson’s name was not on original, Sept, 1777; was on act passed Oct 1788. His wife's name was on it, too. Joshua lived on her property. Joshua & family most probably left Dutchess Co before Oct 1778.


History of New York During the Rev. War, Thomas Jones, p 510, 524


1778 Feb 21 Thomas Lamoreaux's Rev. War record. - On February 21, 1778, he was re-appointed as Ensign to the 5th Orange County (East Orange or Cornwall Regiment) for Colonel James Woodhull, under Captain Francis Smith. He is also listed in the History of Orange County, New York with Illustrations and Biographic Sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. Compled by E.M. Ruttenber and L. H. Clark, Heart of the Lakes Publishing, Interlaken, NY 1980, Vol. 1. Under Cornwall Precinct he signed Articles of Association NY.

They spelled his name "LUMMARCAUX". No wonder I couldn't find it. For your info it is listed in "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of NY" Edited by Berthold Fernow, Vol. XV, STATE ARCHIVES, VOL. 1, Albany, NY, Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers 1887, page 289.

1778 June 24 New York Total eclipse of the sunWar out of Niagara, H. Swiggett 1933

“There were four total solar eclipses between 1773 and 1778 on Sept. 18, 1773, March 1, 1775, July 5, 1777 and June 24, 1778. Of these, only the September 15, 1773 eclipse was likely to have been visible over North America.” [Obviously this one was seen too. akrc]

“There were many interesting planetary conjunctions during this period. On January 6, 1772 there was a pretty twilight conjunction between Jupiter and Venus. Before sunrise on July 5, 1776 there was another Jupiter-Venus conjunction too, but it would have looked nearly as pretty on July 4, 1776! On April 9, 1774 there was a Jupiter-Mars conjunction.”

“Was anything happening in the sky between 1772 and 1776?” NASA, http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11791.html

1778 Westchester Co., There was a small-pox epidemic "like a cordon to the south across Westchester Co.

New York & Connecticut"War out of Niagara, H. Swiggett 1933

1778 ???, New York Abigail Ann Losee is born to Simon Losee and Margaret BushThey were married 1759, of Huntington, LI, Nassau, NY

Family Records & Isabelle L. Cluff1770's late Duchess Co, NY Josué Lamoraux "Resided at Duchess Co, NY ... was obliged to leave his

property to the value of two hundred pounds New York currency in land and movable estate ... Beside services as a vollintear at the outpost with Col Dellincar (Delancy) was taken

prisoner and wounded and very badly treated while with them But got exchanged and remained till the treaty of peace"

Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoraux - 20 Mar 1786 #271 & 273 & coverNOTE: [Remained- Where? NYC? Are there records of prisoner exchanges? Some are listed in 1777, James not Josue']

Josué Lamoreaux nephew Daniel's petition says "...formerly of , Peekskill, West Chester, New York ... his aged father & numerous family were all faithful to his majesty ... were exceedingly persecuted and all driven from a very valuable and pleasant farm ... served 18 months with Col. James De Lancy at Morrisania

[(Daniel Lamoreaux built a house at Morrisania) Morrisannia is a manor in the Bronx, across the Harlem River from Harlem.]

Daniel Lamoreaux says “ --- a very Hazard and important Post where there was attacks and continual apprehension from an enraged and cruel Enemy ---where he rec. no pay except rations, nor did he choose to live or enrich him self by Plunder"

"That for his loyalty, he has in the vigor of his youth, lost his native Country - the Hopes of a pretty Patrimony, his tender Parents and affectionate Friends ..."[His aged father was Andrew? who stayed in Westchester?] [Daniel has a brother Jesse. A Daniel & a Jesse went to Canada with Josué.]

Loyalist Petition Daniel Lamoureux, 30 Mar 1786 ; #148[Lease rights for the best lands were inherited from father to son, ... find this source.]


[Daniel Lamouree (son of Andrew) Married Charity Wetmore in St George Church in Hempstead, Long Island, NYThey were "Both of Oyster Bay" - 1780 July 30 – He said he was from Peekskill & Morrisannia… why does this say he is from Oyster Bay??? Maybe in exile he settled there.]

“During the entire period of the Revolution the City of New York was occupied by the British Army. Its fleet patrolled the Sound. Washington’s forces were encamped in the hills in the north of Westchester. Westchester received protection from neither side, and was constantly raided by both Armies. The advertising an the jacket of The Neutral Ground, by Frank I. Hough, published by J. B. Lippincott Co., 1941, reads: "Westchester County, before it became the embattled 'neutral ground' was feudal, serene and rich. When the tempest of 1776 brake, landowners and peasants, idealists and profiteers, mistress and maid, were swept away on the dark waves of war and bitterness. The seven years of privation and struggle between 1776 and 1783 took their toll. . .”

"…The region separating the two Armies is neutral in the sense that it is occupied by neither side, each wishing to keep a sufficient distance from each other, to avoid surprise attack. The people who live there are neutral perforce because, being at the mercy of both parties, they can't afford to be known as adherents of either. Every attack, every raid, moving in either direction crosses the region, and in between times, forage parties from both Armies have combed it repeatedly. Bands of ruffians prowl there with impunity; burning, raping, murdering, stripping the luckless inhabitants of what poor possessions they have somehow managed to retain far no civil government exists, nor any means of enforcing law …”

Aaron Burr controlled “…outposts in Westchester, from Tarrytown eastward across the Country. …’Not withstanding the caution I gave (against plundering) . . . I blush to tell you that the Party returned loaded with plunder. . The Party had not returned an hour before I had six or seven persons from New Rochelle to Throg's Neck with piteous appeals for stolen goods and horses. Some of these persons are of the most friendly families…” So plundering in Westchester was not confined exclusively to the British foraging forces - according to this first-hand testimony by Aaron Burr.

“In Westchester County archives, the term "Skinners" was applied to the members of the Revolutionary sympathizers who turned marauders in Westchester and literally skinned the territory of food, livestock and movable property. The term “Cow Boys" was applied to the Loyalist banditti.”

“If conditions in southern Westchester during the Revolution were even a fraction as shocking as authentic eye-witness accounts graphically portray, it's a wonder that anything remained … in the path of the two armies during all those long, dreary and dreadful years.” P 58-61

Barr,Lockwood. Ancient Town of Pelham, 1946. DeLancey Westchester Co, NY

"In the year 1779, the refugees within the British lines, …were …suffered to establish a jurisdiction of their own, …These refugees having arms in their hands, no pay, provisions, nor clothing from the Crown, were now under the sanction of government, …publicly encouraged to maintain, support, and if possible enrich themselves by the spoil and plunder of the rebels, under pretence of distressing the enemy, and gaining information … [privateers & etc] These refugees consisted of three 'societies,' one …upon Staten Island, another of those upon Long Island, and the third, of those posted at Kingsbridge, Morrisania and the borough of Westchester. Those at Kingsbridge, Morrisania and the borough of Westchester, consisted of horsemen, were formed into companies, and regularly officered and commissioned. These made incursions into the country and plundered whatever they could lay their hands upon,…" "By way of retaliation … [rebels] plundered the inhabitants in the same manner as the loyal refugees…"

History of New York During the Rev. War, Thomas Jones, p 510, 524


"Upon the submission of Long Island to General Howe, in 1776, he appointed Oliver De Lancey ...to raise three battalions of 500 men each for the defense of the Island. …to remain upon the Island for it's defense during the war, …one of the battalions …solely of natives, or inhabitants of Queens Co. (the 3rd battalion) In the winter of 1776-7, these battalions were stationed, one at Oyster Bay, one at Huntington, and one at Brookhaven... the island remained in a perfect state of tranquility as to any attacks or depredations from its neighbors, the New England rebels. In 1777, the first and second


battalions were ordered from Long Island to Kingsbridge, in the County of Westchester. …The second battalion continued at Kingsbridge. …The New England men immediately fitted out small privateers, …landed and plundered the tories… Clinton, in the fall of 1778, sent the first & second battalions …to Georgia …until the evacuation of South Carolina… when they returned to New York …The third battalion was stationed at Lloyd's Neck… where they remained until the evacuation of New York, …(all) disbanded in Nova Scotia." p 264-270


"The Loyalist… were strongest in New York, and not only in New York City when the British occupied it. Westchester County, just north of the Harlem River, became the scene of a specially bitter civil war. James De Lancey, a nephew of Oliver De Lancey and the former sheriff of Westchester County, fought for the British after Washington's withdrawal from New York in 1776, raised a troop of horse, the so-called 'Cowboys' or the 'Westchester Refugees", and annexed cattle. His guerilla operation took place in the 'Neutral Ground', that twenty-mile-wide area that became a no man's land between the two armies, extending from Kingsbridge and Morrisonia in the south to the mouth of the Croton River and across to the Sound. The rebel counterpart were the 'Skinners', so called because they often robbed and murdered their victims. Some of them were patriots, some were banditti for whom patriotism was a cover-word for plunder." p 156

The Fire of Liberty, Esmond, WrightMorrisania "…a large tract of land in the County of Westchester about

7 miles from NY, lying upon the banks of the East River, and divided from York Island by a small river called Harlem River, which he called by the name of Morrisania." "This family are so remarkable for 'enlarging the truth' that all stories suspected of not being true are known through out the County of Westchester, in the City of New York, and on the westernmost part of Long Island, by the name of 'Morrisanias.'" p 138- 140


"…Morrisania …Jimmy DeLancey, Oliver, and John, after giving their parole, are gone off to the enemy and their house is plundered."

The Fire of Liberty, Esmond Wright, p 73"The Long Islanders called these vicious marauders by various names,

most often Redcoats, Cowboys, Runners, Skinners, and Robbers. The gangs roamed the neutral ground, the area between the American and British armies on Long Island, taking the property of anyone they captured. The patriot gangs were called Skinners and the Loyalist gangs were Cowboys."

Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman, J Greenberg, & H McKeever p 24

Guerrilla warfare raged over the "neutral ground of Westchester County where James De Lancey's Westchester Refugees (many of whom later settled in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) were known to their enemies as "cowboys" and "cattle rustlers."

Victorious in Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 19"At least fifty loyalist regiments and battalions, comprising more than

three hundred companies of troops, joined with the British Army in the fight against the rebels. …Among them were… Westchester Refugees from New York." p 165

"A traveler through Westchester County, New York, was startled by what he saw of how people there reacted to raids first by one side, then by the other: They feared everybody they saw and loved nobody… To every question they gave such an answer as would please the enquirer; or, if they despaired of pleasing, such an one as would not provoke him. Fear was, apparently, the only passion by which they were animated… They yielded with a kind of apathy, and very quietly, what you asked and what they supposed it


impossible for them to retain… all thought, beyond what was merely instinctive, had fled their minds forever. Their houses… were in great measure scenes of desolation. Their furniture was extensively plundered or broken to pieces. The walls, floors and windows were injured both by violence and decay;…" p 172

"Some of the officers of loyalist battalions were British. Others were British Americans of social standing and position, like Beverly Robinson,… and Oliver DeLancey… Delancey's New York Volunteers fought with distinction alongside the British in the South."

Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984 p 170

[I don't think the Lamoreaux family went south. ??? 'Remained" may mean in Morrisania with Daniel, just across the river from Harlem. akrc]

1779 July 19 NYC, NY, NY John McCord Lamoreaux, 8th child, born to Josué & Elizabeth Ogden LamoreauxNauvoo Temple record [John said he was born in New York City?]

“Josué, [Lamoreaux] ... having been forced to flee from his native state, New York, where he, with others loyal to old King George of England, had been branded as Tories in their refusal to fight with American patriots in the Revolutionary War.”

"The Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux", by Edith Ivans LamoreauxJosué [Lamoreaux] said they lived "…in the worst part of New York ... very close and cannons fired over their land."

Canada Petition # 1779 Aug 5 Morrisania, NY “On the 5th of Aug “about 100 horses,…passed by de Lancey’s Mills to the

neighborhood of Morrisannia, where they took twelve or fourteen prisioners,… a number of men killed and wounded…” p 460


1779 Sept 22 "In the name of God, Amen. I, CHARLES JANDINE, of Staten Island, being of sound mind. I leave all my estate, real and personal, to my five daughters, Susanah Jandine, Catharine Lamb, Mary Lamb, Hannah Lawrence, and Martha Allicocke. …

“ A marginal note states, That on July 9, 1789, before Thomas Tredwell, Esq., Judge of Probate, it was shown that Joseph Allicocke, one of the executors, had departed from the state, and that William Smith was also absent from the state, and James Lamb, who married Mary Jandine, was appointed Administrator.” Isabelle Cluff <[email protected],, 6 Sep 2000

New York City Wills, 1777-83- Page 221[NOTE: This was Revolutionary War time. People were leaving, escaping, if they could. Where did they go? Were they Tories? New York City was occupied by the British at this time.]

1779 Aug 3 Westchester Co,NY "Old Wills of New York City" by Chris Tami (online at Ancestry.com) Andrew Lamoureux listed as executor of the will of James Travis of Cortlandt Manor (Westchester Co,NY) dated 3 Aug 1779.

Iabelle Cluff PAF Notes1779 Oct 24 Peekskill “General Heath resumed his old headquarters at Peekskill on the 24 th of October, three

days after the final evacuation by the British of the forts at Verplanck’s and Stony Points.”


[All Torries were probably out of the area and in NYC by this time.]

1779-1780 New York Bay “The winter of 1779-80 was the severest ever known in this part of the country. Not only

the whole North River, but much of New York Bay, was frozen solid,…” Washington could have captured NYC easily they were in their most “deplorable plight” It was encamped in two divisions,… Peekskill and in the highlands,” and “under Washington at Morristown.”

History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard &


Spooner[John McCord Lamoreaux was about 6 months old at this extremely cold time. Where were his mother and brothers and sisters? Where was his dad, Josue?]

1779-80 Winter "a Desperate cold ... people walked across the ice from Long Island to Norwalk, Conn." War out of Niagara, H. Swiggett; Mesa P Library

NOTE: [Burial Records Trinity Church, 1704-1807 Film #17,778 says someone was buried"over the fresh water on Manhattan Island.”]

"A crisis was experienced during the winter of 1779-1780… It was a season of biting cold… (and) the attempted treason of Benedict Arnold."

The History of American Wars from 1745 to 1918, T. Harry Williams, p73

“The cold was so intense that I frequently made the children lie in bed in order to keep them warm. Wood could not often be purchased for money; and if by chance a little was for sale, it cost ten pounds by the cord. I have myself paid one piaster (which is a crown with us) for a single stick. The poor were obliged to burn fat, in order to warm themselves and cook their meals.”

"One day I was at the house of the lady of General Cornwallis's aid-de-camp, who had been confined, and complained bitterly of this lack of wood; whereupon, she promised to send me some coals, which I could return at my own convenience. I showed so much joy at this, that a certain major, named Brown, who happened to be present, and was attached to the commissariat, and who had already expressed much sympathy at our want of wood, was so much affected that he immediately left the room.

"The next day, as I was looking out of the window, I saw quite a number of wagons full of chopped trees, standing still in the street. Each wagon contained two cords of wood. I went into the room where the pastor, Mylius, sat with the children before the fire-place, in which the last stick was burning, and said to him: 'Never before have I been envious; but now, the distress and pain which these poor children suffer, make me so; for just now there has come to our very door four wagons filled with wood. How happy would I be if I only had some of it!' Scarcely had I thus spoken, when a servant brought me a message from Major Brown, stating that he had sent me these loads of wood with his compliments, and begging us to send to him whenever we should again be out of fuel. Imagine my joy, and my eagerness to thank our guardian angel. I had scarcely seen his face, as the lying-in chamber of milady had been so dark. Pg 261-262

"History of New York City From The Discovery To The Present Day", William L. Stone, Pub: New York: Virtue & Yorston, 12 Dey Street. 1872.

The Records of the Dutch Church of Staten Island says after the war, “Our house of worship having been destroyed in the late unhappy war it was resolved to build a new one of brick.”

Records of the Dutch Church of Staten Island, LDS Film #509,193 item #31780 Feb 2 NY “On the night of Feb 2, 1780, “a force of between 4 & 5 hundred infantry and 100

horsemen, composed of British, Germans, and Colonel de Lancey’s Tories set out from Fort Knyphausen (formerly Fort Washington), south of Spuyten Duyvil…” to attack …he weather was intensely cold, and deep snow covered the ground. …The killed of both sides were buried together.

P 460“In consequence… all attempts by the Americans to hold the country south of the

Croton River was abandoned…our lines did not extend below Pine’s Bridge and Bedford.”462About Feb 6, 1780 a party of Americans descended to Morrisania and at dead of night

attacked the quarters of the British Colonel Hatfield. …Several British were killed, the quarters were burned, …11 men were taken prisoners. Another raid on Morrisania, on a larger scale and much more effective, was made in May.[1780] …More than 40 of de Lancey’s troops were killed or made prisoners….to capture de Lancey… he was absent. Capturing Captain Ogden…”

P 462“Washington… By the end of July he had moved all his forces across King’s Ferry


into Westchester Co… headquarters …at Peekskill.” P 463 “Toward the end of Jan [1781] a bold and successful raid was made …from the

Westchester lines upon de Lancey’s corps at Morrisania. A number of the British were killed and fifty were captured, some of their huts were burned, and the pontoon bridge across the Harlem River was cut away:…during the retreat… the British suffered a further loss of thirty-five.” P 498

“In Feb (the 7th) [1781] 50 of de Lancey’s Horse came up …”“In March 2 successful attacks were made by the Americans on de Lancey’s camp at

Morisannia. …just before sunrise, taking the enemy completely by surprise, killing and wounding many, and carrying away 20 prisoners. …On the 26 th of March there was a similar attack, though on a smaller scale. …penetrated to the camp of the Rangers and took a number of prisoners,… We believe this was the last encounter of the Revolution in Westchester County.”

P 518History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard &

Spooner1780 West Point Benedict Arnold & Andre' met at Peekskill to exchange plans for West

Point for which Andre' was caught & hung in 1780. Washington as commander of West Point, was staying on Robinson's property at the time. Arnold escaped and went to England.

Philipse Patent Robinson had left by this time. Josué Lamoreaux listed on rent rolls at Upper Philipse

Patent, Duchess Co, NY on property of B. Robinson B-in-law of Arnold, officer for George Washington, headquartered at West Point just across the river.

Early Settlers of Putnam Co, F C Haacker 19461780 Mar 10 New York Law passed directing Commissioners of Forfeitures to sell property attained at once.

Early Settlers of Putnam Co, FC Haacker, 19461780 May Morrisania Another raid on Morrisania, on a larger scale and much more effective was made in May.

…led by Capt Cushing of the Massachusetts line …More than 40 of de Lancey's troopers were killed or made prisoners. …de Lancey… was absent. On this occasion Abraham Dyckman, the guide, …(captured) Captain Ogden, in Emmerick's quarters at the Farmers' Bridge,…"

History of Westchester Co, NY …, Shonnard & Spooner, NOTE: Captain Ogden was at Farmers' Bridge near Morrisania!

1780 July 30 Long Island Daniel Lamouree (son of Andrew) Married Charity Wetmore in St George Church inNew York Hempstead, Long Island. "Both of Oyster Bay"

[Daniel & Josué Lamoreaux were both in Delancey's corps.][Daniel's brother Jesse Lamoreaux married a Wetmore, too.]

Computer printout of Marriage record of St George Church , Hempstead, Nassau, NY 1725-1786, film # 1,002,749 item 18and Family Group from Roland Smith

1780 about New York Josué Lamoreaux's daughter Susanna probably married Mr Waters before they left NY.

She was a widow at time of Joshua's will. Josué will

NOTE: [Joshua Lamoreaux had 8 children; Josué's petitions say he has only 7 children to provide a home for. Josué will lists Susanna Waters as his daughter does not mention a son John.]

1780 Oct 9 Dutchess County - “As assessment of the estates of such Persons in Charlottee Precinct who’s sons have

gone of [off] to and joined the Enemy Pursuiant Legislature of the State of New York, passed the 9th of October 1780.Name sons Value of Estate (9d in pound) Cornelius Vandike 2 1560 L58 10s 0dRichable Williams 3 1800 67.10.0James Lomeree 1 134 5. 0. 6


We the supervisors and Asesors of the precinct aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true asesment of the Estates of such Persons in this precinct whose sons have gone of to and joined the Enemy to the best of our knowing according to Law. Jan ye 15 day 1781…

No.3491: Charlotte Precinct’s Tory Assessment.Public Papers of George Clinton, 1st Gov of NY. (Albany 1902) VI: 576-7

1781 March 4 "In March two successful attacks were made by Americans on de Lancey's camp at Morrisania. The first (March 4) …assaulted the cantonment just before sunrise, …killing and wounding many, and carrying away 20 prisoners." p 518

History of Westchester Co, NY,…, Shonnard & Spooner, 1781 March 26 "In March two successful attacks were made by Americans on

de Lancey's camp at Morrisania. On the 26th of March there was a similar attack, …on a smaller scale. …only 13 mounted volunteers …penetrated to the camp of the Rangers and took a number of prisoners… We believe this was the last encounter of the Revolution in Westchester Co. Shortly after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown…"

"a state of war existed, notwithstanding the complete inactivity on both sides.

History of Westchester Co, NY,…, Shonnard & Spooner, p 518-9

1781 Oct 19 Yorktown, VA The British Army formally surrenderedCornwallis surrenders. British troops lay down their arms.

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984 p 33.1782 May 6 NYC “Sir Henry Clinton was removed from the command of the British forses in America, Sir

Guy Carleton, reaching New York on 6th of May. The next day he sent to Washington… announcing the readiness …to negotiate a peace on the basis of the independence of America. … a state of war still existed, notwithstanding the complete inactivity on both sides.” P 518

[this lasted about a year see 1783 May 14]History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement..., Shonnard &

Spooner1782 summer New York "News of Britain's decision to concede independence ... reached New York in the summer

of 1782... exile ... the ultimate safeguard against retaliation ..."Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, p 14

"New York City had remained a British garrison and a Loyalist haven since it's capture in September, 1776. During 1782, as it became clear that the war was lost and that the rebels remained antagonistic, refugees flooded in to camps set up on Long Island, Staten Island, and the Jersey Shore. ... a total of perhaps thirty thousand."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984 p 33.1782 Aug 15 New York Jesse (son of Andrew Lamoreaux) Married Jane Wetmore

Family Group from Roland Smith[WHERE? Bro, Daniel Lamoreaux, married a Wetmore on Long Island, NY, 2 yrs before. These two went to

Canada.]

1783 There is a great deal of small pox in New York in 1783The Loyalist of New Brunswick, E.C. Wright

1783 A Treaty is signed. War Ends. Loyalist must leave.1783 May 14 NY After a year of truce“…on 14th of May, when… Westchester Co was surrendered to the

State government by the withdrawal of the British garrrison from Morrisannia.” P 525


“But though the 14th of May was Evacuation Day for Westchester County, it was not until the 25th of November that the British troops in New York City took their farewell. The deportation of the thousands …” P 525



"The practical outcome of the conference at Tappan was an agreement by Sir Guy

Carleton to give up the various outlying posts of New York, and finally New York itself, as soon as convenient. The first step in this direction was taken on the 14th of May, when (says Colonel Varick) Westchester County was surrendered to the State government by the withdrawal of the British garrison from Morrisania." "…it was not until 25th of Nov. that the British troops in New York City took their farewell. The deportation of the thousands of Tories …taxed all the shipping facilities of Sir Guy Carlton until that time."

History of Westchester Co, NY…, Shonnard & Spooner, "New York... 1783... 'The spirit of persecution and violence against the unhappy

loyalists does not appear to abate to any degree since the cessation of hostilities. They are not suffered to go into the country even to take a last farewell of their relations."

Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman p 221"Many a worthy family, exiled by circumstance, sadly packed it's worldly goods and set

out for the cooler and less settled lands of Canada. The Lordly Hudson, Carl Cramer

[This volume has a wonderful, detailed drawing of the Hudson Valley from NY harbor to Albany.]

Spring & Summer Fleets leave New York City for CanadaNY to NS “In 1782 Sir Guy Carleton made overtures for refugees to be provided

with ships to go toNova Scotia, and in the spring of 1783 some forty-four ships were

prepared to transport the Loyalists. Among these refugees were some French Huguenots. In two of DeLancey’s companies of soldiers there were three hundred and fifteen men together with women and children. Doubtless many of these were French Huguenots the same as the DeLanceys who after arrival took an active part in locating the emigres.

“Esther Clark Wright, who has given these Loyalists careful study, states that there were about eighty Huguenot families, many from New Rochelle and Staten Island Huguenot settlements. Most of these settled in Queens County. In Sunbury County, Maugerville became a centre. The following names of families have been provided by Mrs. Wright in a personal letter: Allair, Ansley, …Brundage,… Chadeayne,… Crozier, … DeForest, DeLong, …Devoe, Dibble, … Evarts, … Frazee, Guthrie, Haycock, Lamoreaux, … LeRoy, Lesterr, Losee, Mabee, Mercereau, … Secord, … “There were more than thirteen hundred men, women, and children who went by ship to Canada and many more came by their own means. Some, however, returned to the United States after the close of the Revolutionary War and some two hundred left New Brunswick, which in 1784 was separated from Nova Scotia. These moved on to Upper Canada influenced by John Graves Simcoe who, when made Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1792, encouraged officers that had served under him in the Queen’s Rangers to come to Upper Canada and serve as members of his Council.

“…Following the American Revolutionary War, there was a great influx of refugees. Esther Clark Wright estimated that between fourteen and fifteen thousand Loyalists came to New Brunswick which had been separated from Nova Scotia in 1784, but of this number only a small portion were Huguenots, perhaps one hundred families and not all of these remained.

P 210Reaman says: “The Lamerieux Family, pronounced Lumoree or

Lamoroo, came first to Acadia [One did; one didn’t. He is mixing two different Lamoreaux families together. akrc] and sometime about 1816 came to Ontario County, in Upper Canada. James Lamerieux is a son of the first ancestor in New Brunswick.” [Son of our Josué]

“Two brothers, Mercereau, of Huguenot stock moved from New York State to New Brunswick, one settling in Fredrericton area and the other farther north…” p 212

“…the greatest number of persons with French Huguenot blood came JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 44 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

into Upper Canada in 1784 and settled in and around Kingston and the bay of Quinte. This was…because of the situation that existed in New York City following the close of the War. …a large number of Loyalist who had lost all their property…”

G. Elmore Reaman The Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the U S, S A &Canada,

P 208, 209, 210, 2121783 May-Jul NY to NB Spring & Summer Fleets leave NYC for Canada

Joshua's petitions state he was on the Spring Fleet, in New Brunswick by July 1783."The June or Summer Fleet of eighteen transports which left in mid-

June brought about twenty-five hundred more to Annapolis, Port Roseway, Fort Cumberland, and the Saint John River. By July, the ships of the Spring Fleet had returned and began to sail back north intermittently. These irregular sailings - unremarkable, often unrecorded-increased in August when Carleton, pressured by numbers, decided to hire private vessels, including many belonging to patriots. The voyages continued until November."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984. p 38."Emigrating to Nova Scotia suddenly became an agreeable prospect in

loyalist circles. America had become a land of affliction for them. Canada was the land of the future.

“As the refugees,... reached the wild, lonely, barren shores of Nova Scotia, they were, however, deeply apprehensive. It was nothing like what they had been led to believe. Trees had to be felled and brush had to be cleared before they could even pitch tents to provide immediate shelter. ... At the landing site across the bay, where the city of St John would grow, there was little but woods and swamp.

“One woman said that as she watched the sails of the ship which had brought her to Canada disappear in the distance, 'such a feeling of loneliness came over me that though I had not shed a tear through all the war, I sat down on the damp moss with my baby on my lap and cried bitterly.' Few of the refugees possessed more than the clothes they wore and the fear that they had made a dreadful mistake."

"The British did by then provide them with provisions,... full rations for the first year... one-third rations the third and last year, after which the refugees were expected to provide for themselves." Some had "trouble finding enough food on which to survive" p 215

"The weather was also demoralizing. Nine months of winter each year and the phenomenon of fog that bit right through to the bones were an unsettling novelty… p 216

"It was not an easy way. During the 'starving time,' a shattering famine in the late 1780's, many refugees thought longingly of the farms and towns they had forsaken in the American states years before. People survived by eating wild plants and stripping bark from trees to supplement their meager diets… Stories are still told of how beef bones were passed from home to home for soup and of dozens of acres offered for a bushel of potatoes or wheat." p 217

Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984 1783 May St. John, NB Daniel & Jesse Lamoureux are on the victualling list. Daniel, unit 7, yeoman,

from NY, wife, 2 children under 10, 1 servant listed in NY none in May at St John. Jesse, unit 7, farmer, NY WC, came on the ship Montague, with wife, no children, 2 servant in NY & on Ship & arriving, only one servant in May & June.Unit 7 is Peter Huggelford's unit.

Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, ,p 214-215Daniel & Jesse Lamoureux are listed on the victualling list in NY. Daniel, unit 7,

yeoman, from NY, wife, 2 children under 10, 1 servant. Jesse, unit 7, farmer, NY WC, with wife, no children, 2 servant in NY. Unit 7 is Peter Huggelford's unit.

The Loyalists of New Brunswick, E.C. Wright, p 246[Joshua Lamoreaux is not listed on victualling list in New York, only on the Canada lists. See entry for 1784 May


& June. Was he in prison? Or what? Where were his family?] [Also, Joshua had 8 children. Petitions in Canada say he is caring for 7 only. Was Susanna md? Joshua's will, written in 1817, lists Suzanna Waters, widow but does not mention son, John Mc Cord Lamoreaux.]

1783 May Simon Losee, wife Margaret Bush; 4 children over 10; 1 under 10 (Abigail), He was a shoemaker from Long Island, NY, arrive in NB, Canada on the ship "Union". He settled in Queens. New Brunswick Loyalist, Sharon Dubeau, Ontario, 1983Simon "Loser/Losie?" unit "S" spring fleet, Family at New York, 1 adult male

1 adult female, 4 children 10+, 2 children under 10, 0 servants. Family on arrival is the same. [They are not on list in May, June 1784.]

Early Loyalist St John, David G Bell, 1983: inter library loan 1997“…the ship ‘Union' which had the honor of leading the whole fleet carrying the Loyalist settlers.

After fourteen days at sea, they arrived at Partridge Island.”“A list completed on April 16, 1783 of the Return of the families who embarked on the ‘Union'

gives the names of the signers, their former place of abode, occupation and number of women, children and servants. Some of the signers being: Baker, Bardsley, Bates, Boon, Burdin, Burlock, Carle, Carrington, Caswell, Chick, Comely, Coree, Deforest, Dibblee, Dickermon, Ferris, Fountain, Fowler, Gordon, Hait, Hand, Happie, Hendrickson, Holcomb, Jostlin, Lane, Losee, Lumsden, Lyon, Marvin, Maybee, Nichols, Picket, Raymond, Rothburn, Scribner, Seaman, Seely, Shippy, Slokum, Smith, Squiers, Straight, Sweet, Trecarty, Tucker, Underwood and Wade. In all 65 signers, 35 women, 107 children and 2 servants made the journey on board the Union.”

Cusack, Ruby, “Keeping Kingston Memories,” http://www.rubycusack.com/issue168.html

“Kingston and the Loyalists of the Spring Fleet of 1783 with Reminiscences of Conn.”

"The vindictive treatment of the Loyalist was out of step with contemporary civilized practice by which civil wars were ended by 'generous acts of amnesty and restitution.'"

"... more would be needed than mere land, which would take time to clear and bear crops. ...Whenever possible they sailed away with a year's rations, allocated according to an army scale of 1 lb bread and 12 oz pork or 21 oz beef per day per man; women and children got half-rations. In addition, from army stores came cloth, hose, mittens, shoes, blankets, axes, spades, medicine, and tents. On arrival, articles for husbandry and building were disbursed-ploughs, livestock, lumber, shingles, nails, saws, hammers, knives, files, hoes, stoves, and ultimately equipment for saw and grist mills.

"...'For a time we lead a regular Robinson Cruso life'- ... p 71"The exiled Loyalists received free transportation, land, rations, and various supplies. Soldiers

kept their arms and accoutrements;... p 71Supplies were issued from army stores. Many Loyalist farmers sold surplus crops to garrisons

at Fredericton, St John, Montreal, Kingston, etc. p 72Lots of "…distress stories about shortages and unfair distribution of supplies which caused

everything from inconvenience to starvation." p 72-3Some people sold their supplies & rations & even their lands for "a trifling sum." "...but supplies

and rations ended after three years and so a jolt was felt in 1787 which caused many Loyalists to leave Nova Scotia."[& NB] p 73

"Many Loyalist arrived with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. ...some... The rich who sailed from New York City, often accompanied by servants and slaves, brought... furniture, bedding, livestock, squared lumber, and even dismantled houses." p 74

"...in 1783 more than 95% of the land was tree covered... enshrouded in primeval forest." "... Loyalist ...turned from war against the generals... to war against (the trees) ... with axes & fire ... A few lucky settlers got natural meadowland or cleared land that had been abandoned. But the majority faced a new world of Trees."

Winter... "Many women and children and some men died from the cold and exposure" Survivors resorted to each other's body warmth, to all-night shifts to keep fires going, or the use of heated boards. European visitors found mosquitoes, blackflies, and other bugs a sore trial in summer, and noted the prevalence of ague or malaria in Upper Canada

"On the other hand, the climate, especially bracing winter, was generally regarded as healthy and conductive to longevity. Freeze-up brought easy transportation and much socializing via sleighs or skates... facilitated the hauling of wood. Snow not only provided insulation, it slowed down wild animals, making them easier to kill, and provided a deep-freeze for meat storage. p 75


http://www.rubycusack.com/issue168.html

Hannah Ingraham states, "they made their way to their lot ...in a hired rowboat. At first they lived in a tent. 'We all had rations given us by the Government, flour and butter and pork; and tools were given to the men too.' Sometime during the first winter (we) built a log house, a one room hut, ... There was no floor or window or chimney but there was a roof and a fire... and mother said, 'thank God, we are no longer in dread of having shots fired through our house.

"In the spring of 1784, they planted wheat, rye, and beans, the seeds of which they had brought with them. The virgin soil produced a thirty-fold yield of wheat which was threshed by hand on boards." p 76

Victorious in defeat, W Brown & H Senior[More details & specifics can be found in this source.]

“At first incoming Refugees and Provincials were sheltered in small, half worn tents donated by the British military, but by the middle of summer they were at work on more substantial housing. A few months later the maze of tents had been largely replaced by 'numerous huts and houses scattered over the hills and rising grounds.' [ie]... wigwams, framed and log houses and wicker cottages."

"...first supply of boards and shingles on 23 June 1783 ...500 feet of boards and a 1000 shingles per household became standard...

"...exiles were dependent on British military for food... Some food and livestock were brought from New York... practically no food stuffs on sale at Saint John... also little game to be had...self sufficiency in food impossible... custodian of the nearly empty fort storehouse... reprehensible & vexatious... p 50-51

"...although they appear to draw in companies, I am obliged to issue rations in small parties, as they have only a few canoes to carry their provisions in, and they lend them to each other..." p 53

"[John] Beardsley & the Revd James Sayre were the only active Anglican ministers at St John during the first two years of the Loyalist era."

“Most forms of government assistance to the Loyalists - clothing, blankets, tools, foods, transportation, monetary compensation - generated some form of adverse reaction, usually over the manner of distribution rather than the nature of the gift. [This was not as bad as]... the indignation aroused in the whole Saint John community by the mal-distribution and non-distribution of their promised land. This profound disappointment dominated Saint John's collective life for three years from the time of arrival of the Spring Fleet. It caused such frustration and heartache that... it became the triumphant rallying cry of the Opposition faction at the general election of 1785. [No wonder Joshua had so much trouble getting land. He wasn't alone. akrc]

Early Loyalist Saint John, DG Bell, p 48-58 New Ireland Press, 1983."...To add to the confusion, the three battalions of De Lancey's Brigade had been reorganized

into two before leaving New York, and the men themselves did not always set down correctly their new battalion number,

...." Many of the De Lancey 2nd battalion (about 68 people) were killed in the wreck of the "Martha' in the Fall Fleet, Oct 1783

The Loyalists of New Brunswick, E. C. Wright, p 180 [The Loyalist may have boarded their ships as much as a month before departure. Many lived on board the ships for some time before they sailed. Maybe they they had no place else to go, maybe they moved in to claim the best spots? ? They often lived on board the ships as long as was allowed after arrival; there was no where to go, no homes, the army gave many tents. Ship living quarters were better than where they were going.]

1783 Parr Town, " Parish Formations ~ Sunbury County was one of the original eight counties Sunbury County, formed when New Brunswick became a province, …Sunbury County covered Nova Scotia, much of New Brunswick , as a County in Nova Scotia.”Canada “Many researchers, when they begin their search for New Brunswick

ancestors run into the name Sunbury Co., …they could be found anywhere along the Saint John River area, as far up river as Fredericton.“When the Loyalist came in 1783, they were granted land in Parr Town, Sunbury

County. This was actually what became Saint John City about one year later, when New Brunswick became a separate province, and the eight original Counties were set off . At that time Fredericton became it's capital, and Saint John became the first incorporated city in what would one day become Canada."

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/1107/sunbury.html 1783 Canada American Claims Commission set up for Loyalists; loyalty & ownership must

be JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 47 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

proven.National Geog. Soc. Special #45

1783 NY to Canada Joshua Lamoreaux, ... having been forced to flee from his native state, New York, where he, with others loyal to old King George of England, had been branded as Tories in their refusal to fight with American patriots in the Revolutionary War."

"The Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux", E I Lamoreaux1783 July New Brunswick Josué Lamoraux, wife and 7 children (one not there) & nephews left New York

Canada "Resided at Duchess Co, NY …was obliged to leave his property to the value of two hundred pounds New York currency in land and movable estate …Beside services as a vollintear at the outpost with Col Dellincar (Delancy) was taken prisoner and wounded and very badly treated while with them But got exchanged and remained till the treaty of peace" Remained within lines until July 1783 when he came to N.B. [All 5 of Josués brothers died 1800's in NY state! Jesse & Daniel, nephews, left New York went to Canada.]

Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoraux #271 & 273 & cover 20 Mar 1786

Memorials 20 Mar 1786 and 18 Jan 1787 St. John's. Claim: Services rendered. Rejected. (A013/21/271-273)Special Publication #45, 1980, Nat Genealogical Soc.

St John, NB, Joshua Lamoreaux in Canada July 1783 – His petition written Dec 1784 says "…been

Canada at St John Seventeen months …endeavor to procure a farm for the support of a wife and seven children …house and effects burnt in the great Fire at Parr"

New Brunswick Josué Lamoreaux nephew Daniel's petition says "…formerly of , Peekskill, West

Canada Chester, New York “In the vigor of youth, was driven from native country with aged father and

numerous family were all faithful to his majesty …were exceedingly persecuted and all driven from a very valuable and pleasant farm … served 18 months with Col. James De Lancy at Morrisania (Daniel built a house at Morrisania) --- a very Hazard and important Post where there was attacks and continual apprehension from an enraged and cruel Enemy ---where he rec. no pay except rations, nor did he choose to live or enrich him self by Plunder" "That for his loyalty, he has in the vigor of his youth, lost his native Country - the Hopes of a pretty Patrimony, his tender Parents and affectionate Friends …" Has wife and four small children in backlands of N.B. and is unable to buy a horse or a cow.”

[His aged father was Andrew? who stayed in Westchester] [Daniel has a brother Jesse.]

Loyalist Petition Daniel Lamoureux, 30 Mar 1786 ; #148Memorial 30 Mar 1786 N.B. Claim: House built at Morissaina: services. Evidences: Cites as witness Joshua Lamoureux of N.B. (A013/22/148-149) Special Publication #45, 1980, Nat Genealogical Soc.

"... Josue,[Lamoreaux] came to N.B. along with other loyalist Huguenot families. From there he and his wife Elizabeth Ogden, with their seven children and two young nephews, moved on to Upper Canada and settled in Scarborough." P ?

“JOSUE L’AMOREAUX, founder of the L”Amoreaux settlement in the north western corner of Scarborough, was a descendant of a French Huguenot, Andre L’Amoreaux, a shipmaster and pilot of the little port of Meschers near Bordeaux. After the Revocation of the Edit of Nantes in 1685, he and his wife and two children escaped from France to Bristol, England; and in 1700 the family came to New York, when Andre became a captain of a merchant vessel. When the British evacuated New York at the end of the American Revolutionary war in 1783, his grandson, Josue, came to New Brunswick, along with other Loyalist Huguenot families. From there he and his wife, Elizabeth Ogden, with their seven children and two young nephews, moved on to Upper Canada and settled in Scarborough.

“Their sons Isaac and James had ten children apiece and our L’Amoreaux area soon developed into a vigorous Huguenot settlement. In 1817 a little log school was built,”


A History of Scarborough, Robert Bonis, 1965. P 46“On the northern border of the Township another Scottish immigrant,

Robert Rennie, a few years after his arrival in Canada in 1833, acquired the lot destined to become famous throughout Ontario as Kelvin Grove Farm. Lot 30, Concession 5, which had been purchased by Joshua L’Amoreaux in 1832 for 75 pounds sterling, was sold to Robert Rennie on February 17 th 1838, for 175 pounds sterling. [see 1838]

A History of Scarborough, Robert Bonis, 1965.1783 Canada American Claims Commission set up for Loyalists; loyalty & ownership must be proven National Geography Society Special #451783 Summer NB, Canada Joshua Lamoreaux's NB Claim was rejected; says it was filed late.

Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoree1783 [Nov?] France First manned Balloon Flight in France

"During the dreadful New Brunswick winter of 1783-4, …Loyalist 'all had to live after the Indian fashion,' fishing and hunting moose. …canoes full of Micmacs, but the Indians proved friendly 'and furnished us plentifully with moose meat.' ... In St John valley the Indians ...introduced fiddleheads, those edible fern-sprouts ... a great delicacy."

Victorious in Defeat, p 65, W Brown & H Senior, 19841784 Mar 25 Deadline for receipt of Loyalist claims

National Geography Society Special #451784 Apr 19 Canada Joshua lived in lot #484 in Parrtown , Land draw date seems to be on 19 Apr 1784

These lots were supposed to have been attained by a “draw”Film #859584, Mesa FHC , "Marianne Grey Otty Estate papers"

[This may be the earliest date we have for him in NB! He says he was there in July 1783.]

1784 May St. John, NB Joshua Lamoreaux & nephews Daniel & Jesse are listed on the May and June

victualling list in St. John. Joshua, unit 38, is listed with a wife, 5 children over 10, 2 under 10, no servants. Daniel, unit 7, yeoman, from NY, wife, 2 children under 10, 1 servant listed in NY none in May at St John. Jesse, unit 7, farmer, NY WC, came on the ship Montague, with wife, no children, 2 servant in NY & on Ship & arriving, only one servant in May & June.

Unit 7 is Peter Huggelford's unit. Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, p 214-215

[Peter Huggelford wrote a petition Joshua signed March 1796] [Joshua is not listed on the list for New York.]

Unit 38 was either under James Spence, James Thorne, & John Lumsden (Bell #38) or Robert Camble, Alexander Milne, & Alexander Gardiner (Wright #38).

There is a discrepancy in the unit numbering. Bell says Wright is two numbers off on her counting-page 23-.

The Loyalists of New Brunswick, E.C. Wright, p 246Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983,

1784 May St. John. Daniel & Jesse Lamoreau(x) are listed on two lists of grantees of Loyalist

and June Daniel, C 299; Jesse C 268. Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, p 154-165

1784 June St John, NB "The dangers of life in the woods were many. ... lost, treed by a bear, wounded Parrtown Canada by a slipped ax, or injured or killed by a falling limb or trunk. Burning, best done fire on a calm day, made a 'brilliant spectacle,' but

runaway fires , such as that which devastated the mouth of the Saint John in June, 1784, were an ever present hazard.

Victorious in Defeat, p 77, W Brown & H Senior, 1984


"Predictably there were destructive fires at an early date. Four occurred within a single week in June 1784, leaving dozens homeless: Halifax Gazette, July 13, 1784. One was called the 'Great Fire at Parr': Lamoreux to Governor, 16 Dec 1784: RS108, PANB. "

Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, p 50, footnote 86. Parr, Canada Fire at Parr town, NB Dec. 1784 petition says "Parr fire, last

summer"Petition dated 16 Dec 1784Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoree, #128 - Dec 16, 1784

"The smaller houses, 'shanties,' perhaps ten feet by eight feet and six feet high, had a roof of a single slope; the larger ones, 'log houses,' perhaps fifteen feet by twenty and nine feet high, sometimes had a peaked roof. Rounded logs, notched near the ends, or dovetailed square logs, were piled to form a rectangle, the base logs being supported with rocks. The chinks were caulked with wood chips and moss, and plastered with clay. The roof consisted of poles covered with bark... At first the door might be a blanket or quilt or a couple of rough boards fitted with wooden hinges and locks. One or two tiny windows were covered with government-issued glass, oiled paper, or a sliding board. Sometimes there were no windows... Floors were at first dirt, then logs split in half. A small hole under some of the loose boards served as a root cellar.

"...lighting a fire was not easy;... Settlers worked to keep fires going permanently. Firewood needed at the rate of 5 or 6 cords per head per year, was readily available, but very expensive if purchased already cut because of labor and transportation costs.

"Fireplaces and wooden buildings were a constant fire hazard not only to the family but to the whole settlement."

"After a fireplace the priority was a bed. ...a latrine,... a rough hewn cupboard, a table... bench or two which, added to a few knives, kettles, and some treasured pewter-ware brought from his former home, completed his humble abode. In time, improvements- a proper door, better windows, an attic, and extra rooms- increased standards.

"...'King's chateaux,' as the French Canadians derisively called these cabins... A dreary contrast to our former conditions.'"

"...in 1791 ... Saint John 'well planned' with two churches and about five hundred houses 'well painted'... The shops, stores and wharfs, numerous and commodious.'"

Victorious in Defeat, p 78-9, W Brown & H Senior, 19841784 Summer Parr, NB, "…at the end of the Revolutionary War they went over to Canada and settled in NB.

Canada “They used to go fishing and they were boiling pitch and it caught fire and

burned up every-thing they had The old French Bible and all the papers they brought from France. [all they had left were the clothes on their back, the family Bible had all the ages in and that is when they lost track of everything.] My grandfather's name was James, ...He was one hundred and eleven years old when he died, ..."

Parr, NB,C "James Lamoreaux Jr was born at Troy, New York and enlisted in the revolutionary

war when he was eighteen (18) at Canada the end of the Revolutionary War they went over to Canada and settled in NB. They were building boats and were boiling pitch (to apply to the boats) when the pitch caught fire and burnt up everything, the family Bible included and all they had left were the clothes on their back, the family Bible had all the ages in and that is when they lost track of everything."

Letter to Andrew J Lamoureux from Mrs A L Stock; [bolding is mine.]

a g-dau of James & Martha C Lamroux dated 12-16-1919"I will tell you what I have heard of my grandfather say. When they

lived in New Brunswick, they used to go fishing. One day when they were boiling pitch and it caught fire and burned up everything they had. The old French Bible and all the papers they brought from France."

A 2nd letter to Andrew J Lamoureux from Mrs A L Stock; a g-dau of James & Martha C Lamroux dated 12-19-1919Isabelle Cluff has a copy of both these letters.


1784 Dec 16 St John's, Joshua's petition for land written Dec 1784 in St Johns (Conway) NB

Queens, "To His Excellency Thomas Carleton Esq. Gov …The Petition of Joshua Loamreaux

New Brunswick --- Humbly herewith, that your petitioner has been at St John Seventeen months --- has used every decent endeavor to procure a farm support of a wife and seven Children but has never drew any. Had the misfortune last summer to have house and effects burnt

Grand Bay, NB in the great Fire at Parr which obliged him to move his family to the Grand Bay Grand Bay, NB where he finds there is a farm, #18 in Conway in Wm Bidle's Survey that has yet never been touched and the neighbors imagine has not been drawn or rejected as a bed farm.

“Your exc, petitioner prays said farm may be granted to him if it is vacant and as in duty bound he will ever pray ye, …" [He had no records.]

Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoree, Memorial #128 - Dec 16, 1784[Joshua is asking for Lot No 18 in Conway – Enquire of Wm Bedell – Order that the petitioner advertise?? 18th January] [He had no records.] [I think Joshua signed this one. It does NOT say, “mark of”]

1786 Mar 3 St. John, NB Joshua "Lamerrey" signed the Seditious Election Petition. This is signed, not a mark X.

Marks were listed for others. Peter Hugelford? wrote petition, signed by 327 St. John electors. Petition expresses extreme dissatisfaction with agencies in NB over lack of speed in dispersing land and provisions to Loyalist in NB. [Is this father or son?]

Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, ,p 152-3"…chief business was land. In the first full year …nearly 1700 petitions

on land matters alone. Most applicants merely wanted their promised piece of wilderness and were easily dealt with, but many situations were more complicated. In numerous cases surveys had been so slapdash that two families had overlapping claims...The council's work was made more burdensome by its unfamiliarity with the province, the lack of accurate maps and, until the spring of 1785, the absence of the new surveyor-general. "

"...early incorporation of Parr and Carleton as a city, to be called St John. ...Soon after upwards of 300 Saint John electors declared their grievances so great and their hopes in the new regime so confounded that they feared a second American Revolution - a community composed solely of Loyalists. ...The transformation from American Loyalist to New Brunswicker had begun"

Early Loyalist Saint John, D.G. Bell, 1983, p 98-991786 Mar 20 St Johns, NB Josué Lamoreaux petitions for land at St Johns, NB stating; Josué Lamoree left July 1783

"Resided at Duchess Co, NY …was obliged to leave his property to the value of two hundred pounds New York currency in land and movable estate …Beside services as a vollintear at the outpost with Col Dellincar (Delancy) was taken prisoner and wounded and very badly treated while with them But got exchanged and remained till the treaty of peace" He prays for land in compensation of his losses. [No specific land requested.] [I think Josue signed this one.]"Rejected"

Loyalist Petition of Josué Lamoraux #271 & 273 & cover 20 Mar 1786

This petition seems to be in three parts. Part 1 asks for land. Part 2 says they were in N. York & N. Brunswick at appropriate times, seems to be a form letter. Part 3 is the cover page received 3 Apr 1786, "Rejected" 7 Apr

1786.


Addendum on same page signed 10 Jan 1787 says he was in NY & NB.New Brunswick Daniel Lamoreux (nephew) petition #148 sworn 31 Mar 1786,

stating losses no KingsCo specific land request. Mentions Peekskill, Westchester;

says Col DeLancy Co. was at Morisania, mentions wife and 4 small children; says his father & numerous family have been persecuted & driven from farms, receiving only rations, no pay. Sets values for, house L40; Mare L25 & L10; 18 Mo service L75. In 3 parts; 1 asks for land, 2 lists losses, 3 affirms he was at NY & NB

[SEARCH NEWSPAPERS: Joshua may have had to advertise for the land he was petitioning for. There were two papers in St John at the time, Saint John Gazette, 1783; & Royal Gazette, 1785.]

1786 Jul 25 Jimsag Creek, NB Simon Losee Petition #320 for land Spray"s Grant lot #2 & 3

1786-7 Canada "...Governor Carlton spent 2000 pounds to help groups made destitute by the Winter severe winter of 1786-7 and by the hailstorms of 1789 in the Saint John Valley."

Victorious in Defeat, p 85, W Brown & H Senior, 1984"Everything is intolerably dear and the old inhabitants are accumulating wealth at a great rate by the exorbitant prices which they extract from the Strangers."

Victorious in Defeat, p 65, W Brown & H Senior, 19841787 Jan 10 New Brunswick Joshua Lamoraux (Sr) Memorial #271 stating residence an addendum to #273 Kings Co Rejected See 20 Mar 1786

Loyalist Petition of Josue' Lamoraux #271 [I think he signed this one.]1787 Canada "...supplies and rations ended after three years and so a jolt was felt in 1787..."

Victorious in Defeat, p 73 W Brown & H Senior, 1984 1788 Reaman talks of “the hungry years of 1788” in Loyalist Canada.1789 St John, NB "...Governor Carlton spent 2000 pounds to help groups made

destitute by the severe winter of 1786-7 and by the hail storms of 1789 in the Saint John Valley."

Victorious in Defeat, p 85, W Brown & H Senior, 1984[Did he send $ in 1786 or 1789?]

1791 NB, Canada Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux 4th child, Jemima Married Archibald Wright

Records of Anglican Church in NB1792 Feb 7 Upper Canada "Simco issued a proclamation to those 'desirous to settle on the Lands

of the Crown in theProvince of Upper Canada.' Townships,... were to be surveyed... farm lots of 200 acres were available almost free to virtually anyone who would take an oath of allegiance to the king.... Late Loyalist swarmed in..."

Victorious in Defeat, p 64 W Brown & H Senior, 1984 1792 King's Co, NB Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux 3rd child, Jerusha (Rhoda) Married Henry Earl

Records of Anglican Church in NB1793 Mar 13 Waterborough, NB Abigail Ann Losee is Baptized

, [source ?????? ]

1794 Feb 17 Gagetown, NB Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux family on records of Anglican Church St John, Gage, NB Canada Registers of Anglican Church in NB

"From records of Rev. Richard Clarke, first rector.” Isabelle


[First listing for Joshua Lamoreaux 's family on registers of St. John's Anglican Church of Gagetown, Queens Co., N.B.; baptisms & marriages]

1795 Sept 19 Gagetown, NB James Lamoreaux, Josués & Elizabeth's 1st child, Married Martha "Patty" Cross

St John Anglican Church Registers of Anglican Church in NB Feb 1794- May 1805

James lives to be 111 and is buried, 1869, near Pickering.“The Evening Telegram,” Toronto, 25 Oct 1938

1796 Jan 29 Gagetown Gagetown Records lists Isaac & John Lamoreaux - son of Josh & Eliz

Marrianne Grey Otty Records -LDS film #859584 - New Brunswick Records - St John - Estate Papers of M G Otty

1796 Feb 1 Gagetown, NB Josue' Lamoreaux (Sr) & sons; lists lots they intend to improve in the spring.

Grand Lakes, Q, Joshua Sr, #7; John, #22; Isaac, #23; New Brunswick Joshua Jr, #26; & James, #27; Daniel

Waters, #8; Grand Lakes Archibald Wright, #6; Millers on #17 & 25.

The petitions are for lots on Dibbles 1st Survey, Lamoreaux were all on unimproved lots.

Petition #558, Queens Co., this date1796 Feb 29 NB, Canada John & Isaac listed as children of Joshua & Elizabeth Ogden Lamoreaux

St John Anglican Church Records of Anglican Church in NB[This would be John McCord Lamoreaux – Why is he not listed on Joshua’s will?][When moving to a new area, sometimes the children were re-baptized to show they belonged to the faith. Also sometimes there was no minister in the area they came from so when they got to an area with a minister the entire family took advantage of it and were all baptized.]

1797 Mar 6 Gagetown, NB Joshua Jr., Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux 5th child, Married Ann Cross St John

Anglican Church, Gagetown, NB

Records of Anglican Church in NB Family Records & Archive Record

1797 (after) Gagetown, NB Andrew, Josué & Elizabeth 6th child, dies - A falling tree struck him!

Age 24, unmarried? [Not listed in father’s will in 1817.]Family Records

1798 Canada Marriage Act of 1798 extended the right of performing marriages to Lutherans,

Calvinists & Church of Scotland as well as Anglican & Catholics who already had rights.

Victorious in Defeat, p 164 W Brown & H Senior, 1984 1801 Jan 21 New Brunswick John Lamoreaux, Isaac & Joshua (Jr) & others (Terrill & Miller) sign a Queens Co complaint against Aaron Allen at Grand Lakes, Queens concerning him settling Grandlake wild meadows, property forbidden at Salmon Bay at the head of Grand Lake.

Memorial #6021803 Mar 6 NB, Canada Isaac, Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux 7th child, Married. Nancy Ann Miller in NB or Nov Family Bible of Isaac & Ann Lamoreaux

I have a copy of the entry. It says "Nov 1803"1805 May 30 Gagetown, NB John McCord Lamoureux married Abigail Ann Losee in St John Anglican Church

also her sister Margaret married Norman Harvey this year. St John


Anglican ChurchNew Brunswick Loyalist, Sharon Dubeau - Ontario, 1983also in Records of Anglican Church in NB also Film

#859584 Married, John Lammereux and Abigail Losee (no parents

mentioned)"From records of Rev. Richard Clarke, first rector,” Isabelle

“John Lammereux - Abigail Losee” Gagetown Anglican Church Records (marriages) F1140-F1141

1786-1911 http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nbpast/Church/gage-ang-m.htm

Abigail & John Lamoreaux's marriage, 20 or 30 Mar 1805, Gage...I found Abigail & David Losee listed on page 34, and "James & Joshua Lumaree" listed on p39 as adults, no parents listed. …The books are hand written copies of the original records. and may not be complete.

Film #859584, Mesa FHC , "Marianne Grey Otty Estate papers" [30 May 1805 - Last record of any one of the Josue' & Elizabeth Lamoreaux family in St John's Anglican Church of Gagetown, Queens Co., NB. – they went to Ontario shortly after this.]

1806 Nov 20 New Brunswick, Susan Ann Lamoreaux dau of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee

Canada is born [Later Marries Jaciethe Brunelle.]

Family Group Record1808 Josué Lamoreaux's Brother Peter, dies in Southfield, Orange, NY 1808 Ontario “That your petitioner [John Lamoreaux] is a natural born subject of His Majesty

and removed from New Brunswick to this Province in the year 1808.”

John Lamoreaux second Petition for land in York, 1 October 1831

[bolding is mine.]1809 Before Ontario Josué & Elizabeth Lamoreaux & family settled in Ontario

See Memorial #1243

Upper Canada OR Ontario, Canada[NOTE: The early Ontario records are listed as being in Upper Canada.

I use Ontario to simplify things. Pickering, now called Scarborough, is now part of Toronto.]

"CROWN LAND GRANTS... free grants of Crown land …in Scarborough. "… 'such as are desirous to settle on Lands of the Crown in the Province of Upper Canada.'

Any person might apply for a farm lot of 200 acres, and at the discretion of the government he might be granted additional land up to 1,000 acres. Such grants were made free of all expenses, except for small fees payable to the government officials through whose hands the patent passed before it was completed and recorded. U.E. Loyalists and military claimants were, of course, exempt from payment of these fees, and enjoyed further special consideration. The sons and daughters of Loyalists were entitled to free grants of 200 acres apiece, ... Later the free grants to Loyalists were limited to those who were resident in the Province by July 28, 1798..."

"Petitioners for land had to give assurances that they would actually settle upon and improve their grants. After taking the oath of allegiance, a grantee received a Location Ticket, which described the position of his lot in the township by number and concession,..." p 288

"...in the list of original patentees of land in Scarborough, the date given for the patenting of a lot by a settler is usually somewhat later than the time of his actual arrival in the township." Location tickets were sometimes acquired and sold by speculators. "Two sevenths of the land was tied up in Clergy and Crown Reserves, and did not become available for ownership by actual settlers for a long time. …every seventh lot in the township was reserved for the support of a Protestant


http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nbpast/Church/gage-ang-m.htm

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nbpast/Church/gage-ang-m.htm

clergy. While most of these lots remained vacant... some were leased by early settlers; and eventually they were able to purchase them outright." P 289

“It should also be noted that, while location tickets did not give legal title, land transitions based only on them often place before fees were paid and patents issued. Many lots changed hands several times in this fashion, so that in the list of patentees the name of the original grantee does not appear.

“Many… early land speculators… absentee owners… lots often remained unoccupied for years until they could be sold to genuine settlers. A History of Scarborough, Robert Bonis, 1965. P 288-9

Upper Canada, Britain's first "inland colony," isolated and indefensible by the Royal Navy, seemed destined for a much more modest future than that of the favored Maritimes. The Upper Canada Loyalist was, therefore, less likely to be disappointed, less likely to be shocked by the wilderness." "the Loyalist moved about frequently, especially in the early years."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 31-32John Simco, chief administrative officer of Upper Canada, "…intended to persuade these

secret loyalists to turn their backs on the United States and settle up north where the king was still the king. …he offered two hundred acres of land (sometimes more) to anyone who would come.

He "made food available for the new arrivals, and building materials and tools: 'nails, hammers, gimlets, plains, chisels, gouges, hinges, iron rimmed locks, padlocks, handsaws, …And it was promised that the children of the settlers would be given sizable stakes of land of their own as soon as they came of age."

Less than Glory, Gelb, Norman, 1984 "The embarkation point for the Loyalist bound for [Toronto] The route was navigable, but only

with difficulty. From Lake Ontario to Montreal the river drops 225 feet in 190 miles, creating 120 miles of rapids, chiefly the Long Sault, the Galop, & the Beauharnois. The Sault rapids,… dropping 45 feet in 9 miles.

“Four or five families and their modest belongings… 'Brigades' of ten or 12 bateaux…traveled together… At the rapids, passengers alighted with their valuables and the bateaux were poled and dragged… Progress could average 18 miles a day, hence the trip from Montreal to Kingston could be done in 10 days, but it might stretch into a month. At night the company usually went ashore and slept in tents… Always the journey could become unpleasant or dangerous from plagues of insects, rough accommodation, bad weather, and hazardous water." Victorious in Defeat,

"During the first thirty years, elementary and secondary education was primitive. The majority of the Loyalist children received little or none, other than what might be provided at home."

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 106

1809 Jan 5 Scarborough, John Lamoree witness; Joshua buys land (lot #33, concession 3; 88 & 1/2 acres for 50

York, Ontario, pounds Sale from Asa Patrick to Joshua Upper Canada Memorial #1243 Old York Deeds for Jan 9,1809

1809 Upper Canada John Mc. Lamoreaux & 3 brothers "ascended" St John & St. Lawrence Rivers to

Lake Ontario & on to Pickering & inland. "Joshua Jr. at least remained at Grand Bay until 1809, during which time he was married to Annie Cross of St John, & his brother James was married to Martha Cross, prob a sister. My grandmother Hester, was born at Grand Bay or Grand Lake as she used to call it. She lived with us when I a child used to talk about her life on the bank of the river. She was born July 10, 1801. In 1809 the four brothers, James, John, Joshua Jr, and Isaac left Grand Lake, ascended the St John River, came across the portage at its head to the St Lawrence, ascended the St Lawrence River to Lake Ontario and came west on Lake Ontario to Pickering. From there they went inland…"

Letter to Harold D L'Amoureux from A J Lamoureux 15 Jan 1921

1809 Josué Lamoreaux & family settled in Ontario - Sale from Asa Patrick to JoshuaLot 33 Concession 3 cont. 88 1/2 acres; for 50 pounds

See Memorial #1243 Old York Deeds for Jan 9,1809 1809 Canada James Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee is born.


Dies as an infant Family Group Record

1809 early New York Josués Brother John dies in Orange Co NY."Will of Jean (John) Lamoureux dated 31 Dec 1808 at Goshen,

Orange, NY.The will was proved 24 July 1809." - Isabelle L Cluff

1809 July 24 Orange Co, NY Josue Lamoreaux's Brother John dies in Orange Co NY."Will of Jean (John) Lamoureux dated 31 Dec 1808 at Goshen, Orange, NY.The will was proved 24 July 1809." Isabelle L Cluff

1809 Nov 20 New York Josués Brother Andrew dies, Will dated 5 June 1809, proved 5 Dec 1809 "m

Elizabeth… Covert, she died Nov 1798. Resided Cortlandt and had: John, d by 1809, Jesse m (MB 15 Aug 1782) Jane Wetmore. Dau unnamed m ___ Hart. Isaac. Elisha. Andrew. Daniel. Peter."and

Westchester Patriarchs, Norman Davis, p 142Josués Brother Andre' (Andrew) dies in Yorktown, Westchester, NY

Family Group Record from Roland Smith"Westchester Co. NY Lib Q of Deeds pg284 Deed for sale of 42 3/4 acres of land in

Yorktown, W, NY as part of the estate of Andrew" "Andrew's family is listed in the "1790, 1800, & 1810 census of Yorktown, Westchester, NY."

"Rev James Whitmore of Rye baptized most of the children of A & Elizabeth"

Isabelle L Cluff1812 Oct 17 Ontario, Canada Andrew Losee Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee

is born. Family Group Record

1812 Nov 23 Scarborough John Mc Lamoreaux memorial wants "200 acres of waste lands"“The petition of John Lamoreaux of Pickering born in the State of

New York and aged 33 years humbly sheweth your petitioner is the son of A loilest [loyalist] [Josué] who joined The British Standard in the year 1775 and remained in his Majesty’s dominions ever since that your petitioner never receiving land or order for land from the Crown Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays you will be pleased to grant him two hundred acres of waste lands of the Crown by discharge of the usual fees . –

and is duty bound Will ever prayYork November 23th 1812 John

Lamoreaux”Ontario People, 1796 – 1803. E. Keith Fitzgeraldhttp://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html [an add for the

book][Upper Canada opened up to others, ie descendents of Loyalists.]

1815 Sept 20 Ontario, Canada Archibald Wright Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Loseeis born.

Family Group Record 1815?abt Far Pacific Volcano erupts in far Pacific [Philippines? I think] Dark clouds of ash are seen

half way around the globe effecting weather everywhere.Source: Video on volcanoes (get bib. info)

1815/6 ? Coldest winter ever [Because of volcanic ash in air.?]Source: Video on volcanoes

1816 “The Year Without a Summer. Unusually cold weather froze lakes and forced

people to wear their winter woolies in July.” Hugh Westrup. History, Facts you won’t Believe. 1999,

Scholastic.1817 Mar 14 Ontario, Canada Joshua & Isaac lease clergy lot, Lot 33 Concession 4; lot JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 56 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

borders on Joshua's land; he's, been in Upper Canada since 1809

Memorial #53 this date p222Clergy Lots were originally set out every seventh lot "reserved for the

clergy". These lots could be leased by citizens. Eventually several churches argued over who owned the lots so the government sold the lots. Joshua's sons John & Andrew seem to have bought one.

1817 Jul 3 Canada Joshua Lamoureux's will writtenScarborough "I, Joshua Lamoree ... the Elder Yeoman" will to my eldest son, James, $50;Ontario son Joshua $50; eldest dau Susanna Waters, widow, $50; dau

Jerusha, wife ofHenry Earl, of NB, $50; dau Jemima wife of Archibald Wright of York,

$50; son Isaac land in Scarborough, lots 32 &33 cons 3 (90 acres) and personal estate; recorded 27 Sept 1830 [His mark] [What about John?]

Will of Joshua Lamoree #7585; p 588, 589[No mention of wife Elizabeth, she was probably dead at the time of writing of will.] [No mention of son John, did he fall from favor or already have his inheritance at the time of writing of will? No mention of son Andrew, did he die before this?]

1817 Dec 30 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman memorial to lease lot 33 in 4th concession Clergy Lot*

Scarborough Source? Land Records? Or will?1819 Sept 20 Ontario, Canada David Burlock Lamoreaux son of John McCord Lamoreaux & Abigail Losee

is born. Family Group Record

1820 Mar 1 Daniel Lamoreaux's son Jacques (James) dies at Waterloo, Albany, NY Buried at Renesselaerville, Albany, NY"Tombstone on old Lamoreaux burial ground on the Lamoreaux farm, Westerloo, [sp?] Albany, NY."

"Baptism rec of Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Dutchess, NY"Records of David Kendall Martin (descends thru child 1)"The will of Jacque L'Amoureux mentions 7 sons & 1 dau"from Isabelle L Cluff

"Jacques stayed on the family homestead in Phillipstown until the begining of the Revolutionary War when he moved to Albany Co, NY and settled in Renesselaerville. He built a mill at Coeyman's Hollow and later bought a large tract of land at what is now (1950) Indian Falls Village where they have always been prominent farmers.

Landmarks of Albany Co, NY by A.J. Parker, part 3 p 206 from Isabelle L Cluff

1820 June 5 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman lease lot 33; 4th concession Clergy Lot*

Scarborough as he owns land next to it he wants to lease

Source? Land Records? Or will?1821 Jan 18 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman memorial to lease lot 33 in 4th concession

Scarborough Clergy Lot*

Source? Land Records? Or will?1821 Feb 3 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman memorial to lease lot 33 in 4th concession

Scarborough Clergy Lot*

Source? Land Records? Or will?1821 Mar 18 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman and Isaac memorial to renew lease on clergy Scarborough reserve, lot 33 in 4th concession in Scarborough Clergy Lot* Later that


year they lease it to Isaac Christy who continues to lease it from them until 1828. The clergy reserve came up for sale in that year and Isaac Christy buys it. Andrew & John Lamoreaux sign the contract saying that Joshua Lamoreaux was the original improver of the land.

Memorial?? #222Source? Land Records? Or will?

1821 Mar "Will of Peter Lamoureux dated 25 Mar 1816 & probated 23 Mar 1821."

"Regarding Peter's death: Monroe Twp was called Cheesecocks then Southfield then Monroe again between 1799-1808. Smith's Cove was also in this area which is now Central Valley." Orange Co, NY

Isabelle L Cluff1821 or 1817 Ontario, Josue' Lamoreaux’s will is proved. [NOT proved till 1828 - ?Recorded?] Lists

Upper Canada "eldest son James; eldest daughter Susanna Waters, widow; Dau's Jerusha

Earl, & Jemima Wright; son Isaac" [No son John listed.]The Will of Joshua Lamoreaux

"Joshua Sr spent last years with [son, & dau-in-law] Isaac & Nancy Ann

Lamoreaux in Markham, Ontario," indicating that Elisabeth has proceeded him. His will does not mention a wife; leaves all to children. John was also not mentioned.

[from Isabelle][Why wasn't John McCord Lamoreaux mentioned in the will? He was listed son of Josué & Elizabeth Ogden Lamoreaux in his marriage record in NB in 1796.][Some of the Joshua records are signed; some say the mark of…Maybe my Josué Lamoreaux could read & write but his son Joshua couldn’t. Or visa versa??? It is hard to tell them apart.]

1824 Dec 25 Scarborough Joshua Lamoreaux (Sr) Yeoman sells to Isaac Charity something for 5

shillings [Who is this? Probably My Joshua Lamoreaux [Sr} had a will recorded in 1821!

proved? 1830?]1825 Dec 18 Petition: Joshua Lameree [X] [a mark after the name which is spelled wrong.

Joshua Lamoreaux Jr has several signatures with marks[X]Last one I know of is from Ohio in 1843.

“To his Excellency Sir p… Maitland? Lieutenant Governer of the Province of Upper Canada V Major…

…The Petition of Joshua Lamereaux ot the Township of Scarborough Y…

Humbely ShowethThat your Petitioneer is a native of New Brunswick, has resided in this

Province 17 years, [since 1808] and served in the Militia during the late war. That our petitionee gratefully acknowledges the grant of 100 acres of land which he improved, For which a patent has … That having a large family of a wife and 10 children, and….

[Signed] Joshua Lameree X

“The Scarborough Historical Society erected a plaque mounted on a memorial stone cairn topped with the original St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux copper bell. The bronze plaque reads: St Paul’s Church, Lamoreaux 1840-1935. In 1808 Josué L’Amoreaux, a Loyalist of Huguenot descent who had fled New York to New Brunswick at the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, settled here in Scarborough on Lot 33, Concession 3.” Page 8-9 [A fire burned the original building in 1935.]

Carl W Smith, “A Line Of Descent, French Huguenot Émigré,


Andre’ Lamoreaux” 1828 Feb 23 Ontario John McCord Lamoreaux & Andrew (son of Isaac) - memorial to buy land lot

Scarborough 33 in 4th concession Clergy Lot* This year Isaac Christy buys this lot and John & Andrew sign the contract saying that Joshua was the original improver of the land.

I have a copy of the petition - #222?*Clergy Lots were originally set out every seventh lot "reserved for

the clergy". These lots could be leased by citizens. Eventually several churches argued over who owned the lots so the government sold the lots. Joshua's sons John & Andrew seem to have bought one.

"Loyalist Canada was not particularly spiritual but it was a church-going society characterized by self-help and community effort, even among Anglicans and Catholics who possessed a pre-existing organization. Early settlers often relied on family prayers or a simple gathering in a barn or neighbor's house for bible reading.

Victorious In Defeat, Wallace Brown, 1984, p 1081828 Apr 12 Ontario Joshua Lamoreaux(Sr)Yeoman buys or sells land from/to Asa Patrick; 88½

Scarborough acres, northern part of 33 lot 3rd concession for 44 pounds

[Transaction drawn up in 1828, not enacted till 10 Aug 1831memorial "indenture of sale" #8128

1828 Sep 2 Scarborough Isaac Charity buys land originally taken by Joshua Lamoreaux [see 1821 Mar 18]

Isabelle Cluff notes on Petitions1830 Sept 27 Ontario, York Joshua Lamoree (Sr) will proved at York, York Co., by his son Isaac.

York Co. Will had been drawn up 13 years earlier (3 July 1817) and Mentions

lots #32 & #33 concession. 3 of Scarborough (about 20 or 90 acres). Names Isaac Lamoreaux, his son, as heir of this property.

Will of Joshua LamoreauxNotes by Isabelle says abt 20 acres

Joshua Lamoreaux Sr spent his last years with his son Isaac in Markham

Letter from J.B. Tyrell to Isabelle [see 1821 or 1817 entry]

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NOTE: See also for more detailed info before this timeline starts see “The Huguenots, 1600; Our Lamoreaux, Massé & Mercereau Family in France,” “The Huguenots, 1690; Our Lamoreaux Family in England & Holland,” for previous years in The Colonies "The Lamoreaux Family in New York City in the 1770's,"

“The Losee Family in New York City in the 1770's” see "1776 The Lamoreaux Family in New York in the American Revolution" for more details of the revolutionary days in New York Colony. for more detailed info on further generations of the Lamoreaux family in Canada see "Canada, the Lamoreaux Family 1783-1837" "Kirtland, The Lamoreaux Family in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, & Iowa" and"Nauvoo & the Temple Bell, Lamoreaux History 1840s & 1850s to Salt Lake City" “Lamoreaux 1850s Pioneers to Utah,” “Lamoreaux Pioneers from Utah to Idaho & Arizona”

Some of these have been posted on the internet at RootsWeb.com, under the Lamoreaux name biography section.

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This bibliography was an after thought and the sources are taken from the text, as is, some incomplete.. Some of this research was done when I was a teenager and wasn't documented well at the time.

I have tried, and still try, to find better references for all information. akrc


MPL=Mesa Public Library FHC=Family History Center either Salt Lake or Mesa ILL=Inter Library Loan

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Nassau, NY 1725-1786, LDS film # 1,002,749 item 18, at the Mesa Family History Center.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, TIB File, at the Family History Center.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, www.lds.org, Family Search ProgramClancey, Roger, Ships, Ports and Pilots, 1984, Found in the MPS Library 1989.Cluff, Isabelle Lamoreaux research & comments are quoted frequently. Cluff, Isabelle, Email- Subject: - New Mercereau data - from Treemaker Genealogy Library <[email protected]> 6 Nov 2000 Cluff, Isabelle note, Nov 2000: “Just last week I was so delighted to find "NY Historical Society" Vol KVIII, pg 74 - list of

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Reformed Church, N.Y. City.,” 974.7 – B4ne – SLC Family History Library.Computer printout of Marriage records of St George Church , Hempstead, Nassau, NY 1725-1786, LDS film # 1,002,749 item

18, at the Mesa Family History Center.Conttret, Bernard, The Huguenot in England Immigration and Settlement c 1550-1700, 1985Countryman, Edward, The American Revolution, Hill & Wang, NY, 1985Crammer, Carl, The Hudson, part of “The Rivers of America Series,” 1939.Crammer, Carl, The Lordly Hudson, 1958, pages sent to me by Duane LaMoreaux, 1991. This volume has a wonderful,

detailed drawing of a map of the Hudson Valley from NY harbor to Albany.Dubeau, Sharon, New Brunswick Loyalist, - Ontario, 1983Du Pasquier, J.T., “Records of Huguenots in France,” World Conference on Records, LDS, [MFHC] I have it.Early New York State Rrecords, 1663-1772, Carol M MeyersLDS Genealogical Library, entered in 1966. US/Can 974.7

x28mEglise Francoise a la Nouvelle york, Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths from 1688 to 1804; Rev Alferd V

Wittmeyer, edit.; Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America, vol IErdman, Kimball S., "The Masse' & Mercereau Families" Part 1 of "Forefathers of David Burlock Lamoreaux," 1965.

His sources are: Parish registers of Moeze,1666-1682 searched, by him, at State Archives in La Rochelle, France Collections of the Huguenot Society of America, vol 1: The Records of the French Church of NY

Histoire des Souffrances du Sieur Elie Neau, at State Archives in La Rochelle, France, copied and translated by Kimball S Erdman.. Contains info about Moeze. Lists Elizabeth Dubois, widow of Jean Mercereau also Pierre Masse’


http://www.lds.org/

Correspondence between Don L Prillman & M Delafosse. A State Archivist, La Rochelle France A series of letters on research on Masse/Mercereau lines dating from the 1950’s.Three Mercereau sources are listed. He says they are filled with errors and omissions.

Mercereau, Henry Lawrence, 1893 Mercereau Family Genealogy, NY Gen & Bio Rec 26:195-197.Clute, J J, 1877, Annals of Staten Island, Charles Vogt Press, pp 408-412.Smith, H P, 1885, Editor, History of Broome Co, N Y, D Mason & CO, pp 425-428 Not reliable, garbled.

Family Bible of Isaac & Ann Lamoreaux received from Duane L'Amoureux. Family Records; including records collected by Archibald O. Lamoreaux in 1930-1945 through his correspondence with

Andrew J. Lamoureux and others.Family Search, LDS genealogy index.Fosdick, L. J., The French Blood in America, Baltimore, 1973, at the Mesa Public LibraryFrench, J.H., Gazetteer State of New York, at the Mesa Family History Center, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day SaintsGelb, Norman, Less than Glory, G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1984 from MPL April 1998 [A good description of Loyalist-Patriot

feelings & persecutions. see bibliography.]Giles, Dorothy and Franklin, Irma,"Thomas Davenport and His Descendants" by published by Putnam County Historical

Society. Gilman, C.M.B., The Huguenot Migration in Europe and America, It’s Cause & Effect, 1962 [Phoenix Capital Library]

Gray, H.G., "Early History of the Sicasrd-Secor Family" NY Genealogical & Biographical Record, v 66, Oct 1937. [This is in the Phoenix Capitol Library.]

Greenberg, Judith & McKeever, Helen, Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman, Franklin Watts, 1996. [MPL Apr 1998]Grum, Bernard, The Timetable of History, Simon & Schuster, 1991. Gwynn, Robin D, Huguenot Heritage, 1986, London Haacker, FC, Early Settlers of Putnam Co, 1946. NY State Lib#A974.732, q H 111; [SLC FHC film #529,189]Hastings, Hugh, Ecclesiastical Records, State of NY, vol 1 &2, 1901.Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State, Historical Records Survey, WPA, Inventory of the Church Archives of New York City, Reformed Church in America, NY Aug

1939 [Has indexed the records of the reformed churches of NY.]Huguenot Ancestors Represented in The Membership of The Huguenot Society of New Jersey, 1945,compiled by Dorothy W

Taylor & 1956, compiled by Sara Morton Koehler; New JerseyHuguenot Society of America, Collections of the, vol I “Registers of the births, marriages, and deaths of Eglise Francoise a

la Nouvelle york from 1688 to 1804”; Rev Alferd V Wittmeyer, edit.;Huguenot Society of America, Collections of the, vol 1: The Records of the French Church of NY quoted by Kimball S

Erdman.The Huguenot Society of London, "Denizations at Bristol, Eng." found in the Publications of the Huguenot Society of London

vol XVIII, 1911 (942.1/l1 B4h Vol 18) [at the Mesa Family History Center and Salt Lake Family History Center, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints..]

The Huguenot Society of London, Registers of the French Episcopal Church , Bristol, EnglandThe Huguenot Society of London, Publications of, vol XXIV 24, 1921 “Naturalization of Foreign Protestants in America, West

Indies, Colonies, Pursuant to Statute 13 George II, c-7”The Huguenot Society of London, vol XLIX, p 118, “French Protestant Refugees Relieved Through The Threadneedle Street

Church, London 1861-1687,” by Hands & Scouloudi, 1971[Isabelle – BYU Library]Jones, Thomas, History of New York During the Revolutionary War, Edited by Edward F DeLancey, 1879, New York

Historical Society, New York. [ILL from ASU Library to MPL May 1998.]Kirkham Kay, A Survey Of American Church Records, vol II Minor Denominations, , 1969 – [MFHC 1994]Lamoureux, AJ, "The Lamoureux Record", Oct 1919. [I have a copy of this.]Lamoureux, AJ, "The Lamoureux Record, A Study of The Lamoreaux Family in America" edited by 1939. [I have a copy of

this.][edited by] Lamoureux, Daniel, “Daniel's hand made account book.” Found in the "NY Gen & Biographical Record" vol 104 (Oct 1973)

as donated by David Kendall Martin. Lamoreaux, Edith Ivans, "The Life Story of David Burlock Lamoreaux", (before 1973)L'Amoureux, Duane, "A L'Amoureux Family History as we Approach 300 Years In America," in a letter to akrc, July 4,

1991. [This is a very informative and entertaining 12 page history. Many new stories were introduced in it. however, does not give the original records to go with it.] He states some British records were sold to U of Mich and are at Ann Arbor. {CHECK THIS OUT!]

L,Amoureux, Duane, “letter written for unmoin(?) in 1978” Sent to April in 1991 with his “300 years…”

L’Amoureux, Harold Dane, quoted in The Lamoreaux Record, 1939, [I have a copy.]LaRochelle, Old Huguenot records, carried out of France and housed in the Leiden Collection, Film # 199955 SLC-LDS-FHSLatourette, L.E,. [at age 81?], "Latourette Annals in America," in which he quotes, "Annals of Binghamton" by J.B. JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 61 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

Wilkinson, NY, 1840.Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, Huguenot Records, LDS Film # 199955 SLC-LDS-FHS, Index of Huguenot records from

Holland and those brought from France when the ministers escaped. Records of LaRochelle, France were brought here.

Letter to Capt Miles from "His Excy Edward Viscount Cornbury" Fort Anne, NY Harbor, 1706: NY Colonial Manuscripts Vol 51 p 125B, NY State Archives [I have a copy.]

Letter to David Kendall Martin from Deputy Mayor of La Rochelle, France, dated 22 Mar 1967Letter to Isabelle L Cluff, dated 1976 from Putnam Co Hist Society Lambert's Map on file at Columbia Univ, Library NYC.I

have a copy of the map - akrcA letter to Andrew J Lamoureux from Mrs A L Stock; a g-dau of James & Martha C Lamroux dated 12-16-1919.Loyalist Petition #128 Josue' Lamoree - Dec 16, 1784 [from Isabelle] [see memorials]

#148 by Daniel Lamoureux 30 Mar 1786; Fredricton, New Brunswick Dept of Nat'l Resources. #271 & 273 & cover by Josue' Lamoureux 20 Mar 1786 Fredricton, NB, Dept of Nat'l Resources,

Mackensie, Grenville C, "Families of Old Phillipsburg, NY"Martin, David Kendall, "Current View of Daniel Lamoreaux", Feb 1974, New York. David did extensive research on Andre'

& Daniel. He has been a very valuable source of research in New York. His help with the "Pirate Letter" is greatly appreciated. DKM, Mouse Hill, West Chazy, New York, 12992.

Martin, David Kendall, “A Letter from David Kindall Martin, Mouse Hill, West Chazy, NY” about 1975?MEMORIALS: #128 from Dept of Nat Resources, Fredricton, NB; By Joshua Lamoree dated Dec 16, 1784, St. Johns, Kings

Co, NB, from Isabelle [see petitions] #271 & 273 ,by Joshua Lamoureux, dated 20 March 1786 at St. Johns, Kings Co, NB, from Isabelle #558 names Joshua Lomereux & others, dated 1 Feb 1796, Queen's Co, NB, from Isabelle #602 a complaint by Joshua Lamoree & others, dated 21 Jan 1801, Grand Lake, Queens, NB , from Isabelle #1243 Old York Deeds, Scarborough Twnship, Home District, [Ontario, Upper Canada],Sale of property lists yeoman, Joshua Lamoree, dated 5 Jan 1809, John Lamoree is a witness. #53 lease by Joshua & Isaac Lamoreaux dated 14 March 1817, Scarborough, Ontario, from Isabelle #222 lease by Joshua & Isaac Lamoreaux dated 18 March 1821, Scarborough, Ontario, from Isabelle

Meyers, Carol M, Early New York State Rrecords, 1663-1772, LDS Genealogical Library, entered in 1966. US/Can 974.7 x28m

"Minutes of the Committee & of the first Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the Stete of New York," LDS Film # 1,035,605, item 6, MFHC & SLC-HC

Morris, Richard, Encyclopedia of American History, Harper & Row, NY, 1976.Muster Roll, 13 May 1760 Capt. Haight Co; State of NY, Report of the State Historian 1897, Colonial series v 2 [From

Isabelle] Mesa FHC US, NY, H2, 3.“Names of Persons for whom Marriage lisceneses were issued by the secretary of the Province of New York previous to 1784.

LDS #974.7 V25mNational Archives in Paris, France; ‘Baptism records of the French Reformed Church of Cozes, Saintonge, France, found,

copied and translated by Kenn Garner in 1988 under the [code] Manuscript section #Cote MS 284. The manuscript has been translated from Old French into English and indexed and is available at the Salt Lake Family History Center. The record covers a time period from 3 Jan 1655 through 13 Oct 1658.

National Archives in Paris, France, "Protestant Fugitive List from Santonge," Dated 1687; COTE TT 265, item 25 thru 29; Copied and Translated by Kenn Garner, 199? [I have given this complete list to the Mesa Family History Center of the Church of Jesus Christ Of latter Day Saints.] I have a copy of this list.

National Archives in Paris, France, “A Record of the Protestant French Temples, 1665 & Recommendations of What to Do With Them” Cote TT 265; items 18-24

National Geog. Soc., Special Publication #45 dealing with Loyalist papers, Washington DC, 1980.Nauvoo Temple Baptism Records, 1840, film #183,376."New Windsor, Orange Co, New York Presbyterian Church Records 1774-1796" lists Isaac and Hannah Pringle or Prindle

Lamoureux's marriage.NY Area Key Chronology by ?? from Phoenix Capitol Library.“ New York City Wills, 1706 – 1790;” Isabelle Cluff, [email protected] Found; 23 Aug 2000NY Colonial Manuscripts Vol 51 p 125B, NY State Archives [I have a copy.] “New York French Church records, Staten Island, New York, 1694-1886 - LDS Film #509,193 item 7NY G&B Record, The Matthysen-Bankers of Sleepy Hollow in NY G&B Record vol XL, 1909 NY Historical Society, Vol KVIII, pg 74 - list of freeman; from Isabelle Cluff, Nov 2000NY, State of NY, Report of the State Historian 1897, Colonial series v 2, containing, “Muster Roll, 13 May 1760 Capt. Haight

Co” [From Isabelle] Mesa FHC US, NY, H2, 3.O’Callaghaw, Edmund, Calendar of Historic Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y.1664-1776 part

II The Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.Y., 1968. (SLC-LDS-HFC - US/CAN 974.7 A3c Vol 2 , p 348)JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 62 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

O'Callaghan, E. B.., MD, Documentary History of the State of New York, arranged under direction of Morgan, the Hon C,. Sec of State, Albany, 1849. [Contains the 1703 census of NYC. From Tom Lamoreaux, SLC, 1988]

Parker, A.J., Landmarks of Albany Co, NY, part 3 p 206 [I don't have this, it's from Isabelle L Cluff]"Protestant Fugitive List from Santonge", Dated 1687; French National Archives COTE TT 265, item 25 thru 29; Copied and

Translated by Kenn Garner, 199? [I have this complete list.]Reaman, G. Elmore , The Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the United States, South Africa and Canada, 1966Records of French Church of Bristol, England"Records of French Church of New Rochelle," Copied by LCH Cole, SLC, LDS Film # 017795Records of French Church of New York at Fresh Kill, Staten Island. See NOTE for pre- 1700Records of Shawangunk Church, from David Kendall Martin & IsabelleRecords of the French Church of Staten Island, LDS Film #509,193 item #7Registers of the Births, Marriages, & Deaths of the Eglise Francoise A la Nouvelle York from 1688 to 1804, edt. Rev. Alfred V

Whittmeyer; Collections of the Huguenot Society of America vol. I (Neww York) 1886 (Baltimore 1968) this is how David Kendall Martin listed his source for these records.

Registers of French Church of New York City (de Nouvelle york) p 72; Found in Collections of the Huguenot Society of America, vol I, See NOTE for 1700

Registers of the St John’s Anglican Church in Gagetown, Queens Co., New Brunswick, Canada. [Specifically 17 Feb 1794 to 30 May 1805.] SLFH film #85,9584, in Mesa.

Rivierre Jean, The Gold Book, Vol IV, handwritten, by a Protestant pastor who, for two years from 1961-63, found by Allen Steele <[email protected]

Roberts, James, New York in the Revolution as Colony & State, Second edition,1898, Press of Brandlow Printing Co. This is in SLC FHC. I also found it in Mesa, "Bound with: NY in Rev as Colony & State, Compiled by Fredric G Mather,

vol II, 1901 Supplement, Genealogical Publishing Co" Robinson, Wade, posted on RootsWeb in response to my enquiry Oct 2001.

His source is?? “Muster roles of NY Provincial Troops" Ernest F. DeLancy, A Heritage Classic “Roll of infants baptized in the French Church of Delft, Holland since 9 Feb 1620” LDS Film #117519 SLFHC

part of Leiden Collection Jandein Film #199852; Lamoreaux Film #199862Ruttenber & Clard, The History of Orange County, New YorkSeacord, Morgan, Biographical Sketches & Index of the Huguenot Settlers of New Rochelle,1687-1776, 1941. SLFHCShonnard, Frederic, & Spooner, W. W., History of Westchester Co, NY, From Early Settlement to the Year 1900, The NY

History Co, 1900, & Harbor Hill Books, 1974, [MFHC, June 1998. Contains descriptions of each area in Co.]Smith, Carl William, “A Line Of Descent, French Huguenot Émigré, Andre’ Lamoreaux, 1660-1706,” Smith, Page, “A People's History of the American Revolution,” A New Age Now Begins, vol 1, Penguin Books, 1976. [MPL

Apr 1998]Smith, Roland, Idaho, Family Group Record on disk. Stein-Schneideer, Rev Herbert L, " A Brief History of the Huguenots, Washington, DC, 1973.State of NY, Report of the State Historian 1897, Colonial series v 2, containing, “Muster Roll, 13 May 1760 Capt. Haight Co”

[From Isabelle] Mesa FHC US, NY, H2, 3.Stock, Abigail Lamoreaux, letters to Andrew Jackson Lamoureux dated 12/16/1919 & 12/19/1919, Isabelle Cluff has these.

I have a copy.Stokes, I.N. Phelps, The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 * 1909, NY 1915 [This record is a wonderful in depth

history of NYC. I have only the chapter on British rule.]Stone, William L. "History of New York City From The Discovery To The Present Day", Pub: New York:

Virtue & Yorston, 12 Dey Street. 1872. Swiggett, H., War out of Niagara, 1933; [Mesa Public Library 1996]Tepper, M., American Passenger Arrival Records, 1988 [Ph Cap Lib] Toronto Newspaper "...rol", on County News page Brougham, 25 Oct 1938 [From Isabelle]TreeMaker, from IsabelleValentine, David T, History of the City if New York, 1853, Doc of NY, 1703 Census of NYVan Cott, Annie A., The Female Ancestors of Losee Van Cott in America and Europe, SLC, 1937, in the possession of a

grandson, Robert Van Cott, Mesa. [I have parts copied. My pages have handwritten notes all over them.. Some of her information is mixed up.] She lists her sources as Dos. Hist of the Dutch Congregation of Oyster Bay by Stoutenburgh; Adventures for God by Haight; Records of Huntington; N.Y. Record; Holland Soc Year book 1896, 1897. 1904; N.Y. Historical Society Collections v 2; Early Settlers of King Co, by Bergen; King Co Genealogical Club Collections; etc.

Van der Zee, H & B, A Sweet and Alien Land, the Story of Dutch New York, NY, Viking Press. [Mesa Public Lib.]Weiss, M. Charles., History of the French Protestant Refugee from The Revocation of the Edit of Nantes to Our Day, vol

11854, translated by Henry W Herbert New York Stringer & Townsend [SLC-FHC]Wilkinson, J.B., "Annals of Binghamton" NY, 1840. quoted in "Latourette Annals in America," L.E. Latourette [at age 81?]JosueElizTmLn in AC_LAM/Lamro/Josue 6/29/2006 update / print date 05/21/23 Page 63 of 64***My notes are in brackets [ ] My ancestors are bolded. akrc

Will of Josue' Lamoureux, written 1817, registered 27 Sept 1830, in Toronto CanadaWilliams, Jeanna T, "Passionate pacifist wrote of conditions during war," "The Woman of 1776", Woman's Forum, (section C, page 1), Arizona Republic Newspaper, Friday, May 7, 1996.Williams, T. Harry, The History of American Wars from 1745 to 1918, Alfred A Knopf, NY 1981Wittmeyer, Rev. A V, An Historical Sketch of L'eglise Francoise a Nouvelle York from 1638 to 1804, New York 1886.Wittmeyer, Alfred V., the Rev,. Registers of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths, of the "Eglise Francoise a' la Nouvelle York",

from 1688 to 1804, Baltimore, 1968. Reprinted from the collections of the Hug. Soc of Am.. [In Mesa FHC of LDS]Wright, Esmond, [Prof of Am Revolution at London Univ.] The Fire of Liberty, St Martin's Press, [England? after 1972?]

I found it in MPL east branch, Apr 1998.Wright, Ester Clark, The Loyalist of New Brunswick, 1955: MFHC 1996 &1997www.lds.org, Family Search Genealogy siteYesteryears Magazine, March 1968 p 16 [116?] & 120Zeinert, Karen, Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution, Millbrook Press, 1996

< < < < < > > > > > ***My notes are in brackets [ ]See also: “The Huguenots; Lamoreaux, LaTour, Masse & Mercereau Family; 1600’s in France,” “1690’s in Holland & England,”” New York City in the 1700's, THE LOSEE FAMILY HISTORY IN NEW YORK.” ” New York City in the 1700's, THE Masse & Mercereau FAMILY HISTORY IN NEW YORK.”

For further generations see my other timelines: "1776 The Lamoreaux Family in New York in the American Revolution" "Canada, the Lamoreaux Family 1783-1837""Kirtland, The Lamoreaux Family in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, & Iowa" "Nauvoo & the Temple Bell, 1840-1850”Lamoreaux Family,1850 to Salt Lake City" and “Lamoreaux Pioneers to Utah and Arizona”These have been posted on the internet under RootsWeb.com, under the Lamoreaux name biography section.

akrc april coleman, PO Box 31184, Mesa, AZ 85275-1184

email at [email protected] July 1996 – 15 June 2007 update



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