NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com THE DE BEVOISE FAMILY Page 1 The subjoined account of the family of De Bevoise is Extracted from “RIKER’S ANNALS OF NEWTOWN.” It will be noticed that in the following article the name is spelled Debevoise except in the instance of Carel, who spelled it de Beauvois. The change in orthography from de Beauvois to Debevoise has been followed by other changes in dividing and capitalizing the latter word, so that now different branches of the family write it variously de Bevoise, De Bevoise and De Be Voise, and attention is called to the fact that in sketches of several of the family of the present generation and that only just passed away the writer has adopted the orthography in use by each of the branches thus represented,and in the title of this article that which seems to be the most common. “Carel de Beauvoise * * * was a highly respectable and well educated French Prostestant, who came from Leyden, in Holland. He was of a family whose name and origin were probably derived from the ancient city of Beauvais, on the river Therin, to the northwest of Paris; but there is reason to suppose that he himself was a native of Leyden. He arrived at New Amsterdam in the ship ‘Otter,’ February 17th 1659, accompanied by his wife, Sophia Van Lodensteyn, and Three Children born to them in Leyden and now aged eight, six and three years respectively. His literary merits and acquaintance with the Dutch language soon acquired for him the situation of a teacher, and in 1661 he became’chorister,reader and schoolmaster’ for the people of Brooklyn, at a salary of twenty-five guilders and free house rent. He afterwards served as public secretary or town clerk, which office he held till 1669. His children were Jacobus first; Gertrude, who Married Jacob W. Van Boerum; Catharine, who married Jacob Hendrickse Haste; and Cornelia, who married Gerrit G. Dorland. “ I Jacobus Debevoise, only son of Carel, was born at Leyden. In early manhood he embraced religion and joined the church at Brooklyn of which he was afterward a deacon. He married, June 12th 1678 Maria Daughter of Joost Carelsz, and died in the early part of the next century, his widow surviving him. they had sons Carel second born 1680; Joost born 1683; Jacobus born 1686; and Johannes, born 1689. Jacobus married in 1715, Sarah, daughter of Joris Remsen, and died on his farm at Bedford, aged about four score. His children were Jacobus (who died in 1751, and whose only daughter, Engeltie, married Isaac Degraw of Brooklyn) and George, who was born in 1720, married Sarah Betts October 18th 1746, and inherited all his father’s estate at Bedford. Joost married in 1707,Mary daughter of Joris Remsen; remained a farmer in Brooklyn,and died a few years before the Revolution, in advanced age. he had issue: Jacobus; Phebe, who married John Johnson; Mary, who also married; Anna who married Johannes W. Wycoff; Elizabeth, who married Peter Cowenhoven, and Sophia, Who Married Albert Nostrand. Jacobus inherited his father’s farm at the Wallabout; married in 1736 Maria Garretson, and died prior to the American War. His Children were: George; Samuel, who died without issue; Ida, who married Ferdinand Suydam; MAry,who married Garret Van Duyn. George last named married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah Vanderbuilt,and died at the Wallabout in or prior to 1784. PG 2 Issue Maria, who married Captain Jackson; Catharine, who married John Van Alst; Phebe, who married Jacob Ryerson; Sara, who Married Jeromus Ryerson and John Cozine; and Ida, who Married in succession two persons of the same name, Francis Titus. “II. Carel Debevoise, son of Jacobus was, married Margaret Meserole, and became a Notary public in Brooklyn, fully sustaining the prominence in civil and church relations which the family enjoyed for a long period in the above town. From 1752-1761 he was county judge. He lived on the premises {later} of his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Prince. His sons were Jan 4th, Jacobus,Carel 3rd and Johannes. Jacobus was born 1709, and resided at Gowanus, where he die d in 1766. His first wife was Maria Van Housen, Whom he married in 1736;his second wife was Mary Stillwell, who survived him. He had Issue Charles; Richard; Margaret, who married Charles Doughty of Brooklyn, afterward member of Assembly; Ida, who married John Godfrey Muller of New York; Adriana and Mary. Of these Charles remained at Gowanus and had issue James, Wyant and others. Johannes was a town clerk of Brooklyn, and a somewhat important citizen. He married, June 15th 1749, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Betts of Flatbush and died November 19th 1792, having had Issue Thomas, Charles, Margaret and Hannah, all of whom died single but Margaret who married De. John Duffield, a surgeon in the American Revolutionary army. They were the parents of Susan Duffield, who married Captain Charles K. Lawrence; Anna, who married Captain Christopher Prince; and Margaret, who Married first Captain Archibald Thompson and secondly Samuel A. Willoughby, Esq., of Brooklyn.. The End of this Family Next... The Townsend Family