In "History of Colleton County the first 160 years 1670-1830 "by Mrs Evelyn Bryan 2 of the names of petitioners to move the courthouse and jail from Jacksonboro to Walterboro were William Duboyse and Dempsy Deboyse.( the spelling is as they signed it) William DuBois is my husbands gggrandfather. In later records and deeds the name is spelled Dubois,DuBois, Duboise, and DuBoise. Some of these spellings appear in the same document.His ggfathers name Jesse is recorded as Jep, Jepe and Jesse. The p being double S's.as in old english. In a deed dated recorded July 1868 states W.S.Godley to Jepe Dubois " two hundred and fifty-seven acres from a tract of five hundred and fourteen acres bounded south by lands of Benjamin Godley, myself and the Little Salkhatchie swamp, east by said swamp and south and west by lands of ISAAC,DEMPSEY and J.Q.A. DuBois. In other documents Dempsey is Dempsy DUBOISE. So much for the spelling of names. J.Q.A. is John Quincy Adam. in some records listed as Quincy. Sure would like to know where Isaac has been hiding . This is the only record that I have found where all 3 have been listed.No spelling of Dubose except in census records. Hope this helps someone. Lettye DuBois sponsor of rootsweb