Ralph LeFevre, History of New Paltz, New York, and Its Old Families, 2nd ed. (1909)

A compiled history of the Huguenot settlement, read in the archive.org full text. Used for the Deyos and Freers behind Jane Maria (Deyoe) Adams (research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Wives_Families.md):

• “Two New Paltz patentees, Christian and Pierre, bore the name of Deyo and were father and son.” Pierre’s certificate from the pastor of Mutterstadt in the Palatinate: “This is to certify that Peter Doio and Agatha Nickel both in honor living in Curr Pfaltz, Mutterstadt, circuit of Newstadt, have been united in marriage … Mutterstadt, Curr Pfaltz, 21 Jan., 1675. Jacob Amyot, Pastor.” Christian “was called ‘Grandpere’ or grandfather in the old documents”; his four sons-in-law were patentees. His will, 1 Feb 1686/7: “I give to my son Peter Doyou fifty rix dollars … and further I do give to my son’s son, Christian Doyou, forty pieces of eight and a small gun … and I do desire that my corpse may be buried at ye New Paltz”; the heirs’ agreement of 24 Oct 1687 (pp. 253-256).
• Pierre the Patentee’s children: Abraham (b. Hurley 1676), Christian (bapt. Brooklyn 1681), Pierre (1683), Hendricus (1690), Mary (1679) and Margaret; his bond of 26 Apr 1681, signed “Pierre doyo” (pp. 256-257). Christian “was married at New Paltz in 1702 to Marytje DeGraff (in French LeConte)”; taxpayer 1712, soldier 1715/16, builder of the stone church 1720, freeholder 1728, slaveholder 1755, deacon 1733, elder 1765; sons Moses and Jacobus (pp. 259-260). Jacobus “In 1724 … married, at Kingston, Janitje Freer”; in 1738 a foot soldier of Kingston; the Poughkeepsie church: “Janitje Freer, widow of Jacobus Dejoo, born at New Paltz, married April 22, 1754, to Richard Gryn, born at Oswego” (pp. 260-261).
• Appendix, from Mrs. A. C. Hayden of Saratoga Springs: Peter, son of Jacobus, “was born in 1738 and baptized by Dominie Mancius Oct. 21st, 1739, as shown by the Kingston church records, James Auchmoody and Gretje Deyo being sponsors. Peter married Charity Maria Cramer in New York in 1765 and died in 1812. He and his wife are both buried in the family burying ground at Pittstown, Rensselaer county, N. Y. The children of Peter Deyo were: Zachariah, James, Peter, Jacob, John, Sarah, Jane, Katharine and Charity. The oldest son, Zachariah Deyo, who was born in Dutchess county, Sept. 24, 1774 …” Also: “In the Land Bounty Rights in the Fourth Dutchess County Regiment appears the names of Jacob Deyo and Peter Deyo, Jr.” (Appendix pp. 158-159).
• The Freers: Hugo Freer the patentee came with “his wife, Mary Haye, and their three eldest children”; deacon at the founding of the church in 1683; married secondly Jannetje Wibau; his children Hugo, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (“b. June 9, 1679; m. Antje Van Weyen, September, 1705. Bontecoe”), Jean, Mary and Sarah (pp. 349-352, 527); “Jacob Freer married Altje Van Weyen in 1705” (p. 45). “The children of Jacob Frere and Antje Van Weyen were: Jannetje, b. October 20, 1706 …” (p. 528).