Pierronne Bentyn

   FamilySearch ID: LCQ4-P6H. Find a Grave ID: 148243714.

  General Notes:

This record says that she was born in Lille, France, but at the time of her birth Lillie was under the Catholic control of the Spanish Hapsburgs. She was no doubt a Protestant like her husband and fled the wartorn area of what is now northern France for those reasons. She was very much Dutch and not French, being one of the Huguenots who settled along the Hudson River valley. See the notes on her husband for more.

There are no deathdates or birthdates recorded for this 1663 bride of Jacques DuBois, although we know that she outlived her husband, for her name appears in 1688 and 1698 on the records of the First Dutch Church at Fishkill as a sponsor of children, the second entry that of her granddaughter, Petronella, the daughter of Peter DuBois. ⁵²⁸

  Events

• Sponsored: Annetje, d/o Henderick Jansen Van den Bosch & Marie DuBois, 10 Jun 1688. First Dutch Church, Kingston, NY

• Sponsored: Petronella, d/o Pieter DuBois and Jannetje Burhans, 13 Jun 1698. First Dutch Church, Kingston, NY.

Pierronne married Jacques Dubois, son of Chrétien Maxmillan Dubois and Françoise le Poivre, 25 Apr 1663 in Leyden, Holland.⁶³⁸ (Jacques Dubois was born in 1628 in Wicres, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, christened 27 Oct 1628 in Wicres, France and died about 1677 in Kingston, NY.)

  Marriage Notes:

Witnesses groom: Philps du Bois cousin Langestraet
Witnesses bride: Mary Bentyn sister Geer Graft - Walloon Church ⁶³⁸