For all those confused DuBoise/DuBois/DeBoise/Duboys/DuBoyce and as many more variatiations... Certainly, no single generation can claim ownership of all misspelled, misrecorded names, but I believe many Duboise descendants can point the finger at the 1790 census taker in the Cheraw District of South Carolina. All DuBose families were recorded with the extra "i." My family is a prime example: Isaac DuBosc->Stephen DuBose->Stephen Duboise->Elias H. Duboise->Elias Hodge Duboise->Commodore Franklin DuBois->Doris Maxine DuBois->me. Stephen Duboise was born in 1758 and served in the Rev. War in 1775-76. He moved to Bedford Co., Tennessee about 1822 (Federal Land Grant for 25 acres on the Barren Fork of the Duck River). His Rev. War pension was applied for and sent to Murfreesboro, TN. While I don't have primary evidence that Elias H. was Stephen's son, the families lived next to one another for several years (Elias received his land grant on the Duck River in 1830)...and the families moved to Alabama about the same time during the 1840s. Elias also named one of his sons Stephen. My grandfather always referred to his lineage as "Scotch-Irish and Dutch." I have evidence of at least 5 of the above spellings in my direct line.