Elliott and Adams

In January 1675 the pastor of the Reformed church at Mutterstadt, in the Palatinate, certified that Peter Doio and Agatha Nickel had been married there, and that they were "members of the Reformed church and as far as we know the same are well behaved people." Pierre Deyo and his father, Chrétien, were French Protestants in refuge, and that year or soon after they came over to New York. In 1677 father and son were two of the twelve patentees who bought the land at New Paltz from the Esopus. Chrétien, the "Grandpère" of the settlement, saw all four of his daughters married to patentees, and the first stone house on what is now Huguenot Street was built for Pierre in 1692. Pierre's son Christian, whom his grandfather left "forty pieces of eight and a small gun," farmed at Springtown, north of the village, and was an elder of the church. Christian's son Jacobus married Jannetje Freer, a granddaughter of Hugo Freer, another of the patentees, at Kingston in 1724, and left his father's home for Kingston, where he was among the foot soldiers in 1738.

Their son Peter, baptized at Kingston in 1739, took the family from the Huguenot settlements of Ulster County to Pittstown, Rensselaer County, where he died in 1812. James Deyoe, probably his son, was at Pittstown in 1800 and later at Stillwater, and about 1832 James's son Peter J. Deyoe moved to Wilton, Saratoga County. There in November 1833 Peter J.'s daughter Jane married Lewis M. Adams, a farmer of Wilton, and their daughter Susan married Charles Franklin Elliott, born in Connecticut in 1829. Their daughter Jennie was born at Saratoga Springs in October 1857 and was with them at Wilton in 1860. On 1 September 1880, at Chicago, Jennie married Dr. Finley Ellingwood; she was the mother of Richard Everett "Cudge" Ellingwood, and her son Elliott Lee carried her family's name. Her father died at Chicago in 1896, and her mother at Evanston in 1926, where Jennie lived on in the family house as a widow.

The line at a glance

Chrétien Deyo (d. 1687), patentee of New Paltz = Jeanne Verbeau > Pierre Deyo, patentee = Agathe Nickol (m. by 1675) > Christian Deyo (bp. 1681, d. aft. 1765), of Springtown = Mary LeConte > Jacobus Deyo (bp. 1704, d. bef. 1754), of Kingston = Jannetje Freer (b. 1706) > Peter Deyo (bp. 1739, d. 1812), of Pittstown = Charity Maria Cramer [?] > James Deyoe (1764-1841), of Pittstown and Stillwater > Peter J. Deyoe (1787-1857), of Pittstown and Wilton = Elizabeth Esmond (1788-1841) > Jane Maria Deyoe (1809-1892) = Lewis M. Adams (1812-1904), of Wilton > Susan Marriah Adams (1837-1926) = Charles Franklin Elliott (1829-1896) > Jennie L. Elliott (1857-1929) = Dr. Finley Ellingwood > Richard Everett "Cudge" Ellingwood Sr. (1895-1985).

The Freers: Hugo Freer, patentee of New Paltz = Mary Haye or Jannetje Wibau > Jacob Freer (b. 1679), of Bontecoe = Antje Van Weyen > Jannetje Freer = Jacobus Deyo, above.

The scope walks every ancestor of Jennie Elliott. Her husband's side is the Ellingwood line, which stops at her. The Elliotts and Adamses are two generations; the line's depth comes through Jane Deyoe, Jennie's grandmother.

How sure it is

• Jennie to her parents. Her death certificate names her mother "Susan Maria [?] Adams," born in New York (documented, probable). Her father's name is left blank on it; Charles Franklin Elliott comes from the Ancestry tree (compiled, probable), and the 1860 census of Wilton, as indexed, has Charles F. and Susan M. Elliot with Jennie.
• Susan to Lewis M. Adams and Jane Deyoe (compiled, probable): in their household at Wilton in 1850; the Deyo genealogy (Hasbrouck and Heidgerd, 1958) lists "SUSAN M. ADAMS" among their children; and her death index names her father "Lars" Adams, probably Lewis misread.
• Jane to Peter J. Deyoe and Elizabeth Esmond (compiled, probable): the Deyo genealogy places her under Peter J. and his wife, and her brother was A. I. Esmond Deyoe. Peter J.'s probate (Saratoga,
  1857. would settle it.
• Peter J. to James Deyoe (documented, probable): James's will, proved 2 June 1841, names "Peter J. of Wilton," as the genealogy abstracts it. Peter J.'s mother is not known: James married Maria Cole on 3 Mar 1788, four months after the birth date the genealogy gives Peter J.
• James to Peter Deyo of Pittstown (documented, probable), the weakest step. Peter's will of 1812 names nine children, James first; but a descendant of his brother Zachariah, quoted by LeFevre in 1909, calls Zachariah (b. 1774) "the oldest son," and dates Peter's marriage to Charity Maria Cramer to 1765, the year after James's birth, so Charity as James's mother is possible only. This step keeps the whole New Paltz descent, and every Deyo connection, at probable (Famous kin through the Deyos and Stephen Hopkins: verification and new lines, 1.1).
• Peter to Jacobus, and up to Chrétien (documented, proven): Peter's Kingston baptism and the 1756 deed of Christian Deyo's heirs ("Jacobus' heirs: Peter J ..."); Jacobus's Kingston baptism; Christian's baptism of 1681, naming "Pieter Dujoo, Angeniet Nickie"; and, for Pierre as Chrétien's son, Chrétien's will of 1686/7, the heirs' agreement of 1687 and the same baptism. Jannetje Freer as Peter's mother is probable (the genealogy, from the Kingston baptisms). Jeanne Verbeau as Pierre's mother is probable: she is known only as a witness, "Gian Wibooe," in 1681, and that she bore Chrétien's children is assumed.
• The Freers (compiled, probable): LeFevre lists Jannetje first among the children of Jacob Freer and Antje Van Weyen, and Jacob among Hugo Freer's, without saying which of Hugo's wives was his mother.

The Saratoga dates disagree in places. Jane's birth is 4 Jul 1809 on her gravestone and in the Deyo genealogy, 1808 by the censuses and 4 Jul 1803 at Saratoga Springs in the Ancestry tree; she was probably born at Pittstown, where her family lived until about 1832, and the genealogy's death date for her, 1843, is an error. Peter J.'s birth is 2 Nov 1787 at Pittstown in the genealogy, 1786 at Schaghticoke in the tree. WikiTree has Jennie and Susan born at Wilton, and Charles at East Canaan, Litchfield County. The pages keep their dates and places with these readings in the notes, and the questions are in Questions to decide.

Set aside: the Deyo genealogy's parents for Elizabeth Esmond, "Deyoe Esmond & Hannah," are impossible, since Hannah Deyoe was born in 1790; the Ancestry tree's Joseph Esmond and Catherine Deyo are possible, and would make Peter J. and Elizabeth first cousins. The "James Jacobus Jr." Deyo of Ghent, Columbia County, is a namesake of James Deyoe. WikiTree's line through Antje Van Weyen to the Hooglands, Bergens and Rapaljes is not established: the Kingston baptism of 1686 it quotes names her mother Annetie Gerritz. LeFevre's 1674 Palatinate birth for Christian Deyo is contradicted by his baptism of 1681. The research is in Ellingwood line: the wives' families (Pattullo and Short, Adams and Deyoe, Rice and Sylvester), section 2.

Open questions

• Jennie's middle name: "Libelia" in the memoir, "Sibelia J." in the Cook County marriage index.
• Charles Franklin Elliott's parents, and his birthplace in Connecticut.
• Lewis M. Adams's parents.
• Peter J. Deyoe's probate (Saratoga, 1857), which should name Jane Adams; and his mother.
• Peter Deyo's will of 1812, read in full, and James's baptism of 1764.
• Elizabeth Esmond's parents: Schaghticoke or Pittstown baptisms, or Joseph Esmond's estate.
• Antje Van Weyen's parents, and where in France Chrétien Deyo came from.