Gerretje Gerretse Nieuwkirk ( Gerretse 1 , Cornelisse 2 ), was baptized at Kingston, March 12, 1669, and died at Hurly after April 3, 1739. She married first, Barent Kuntz, baptized at Kingston, January 30, 1667, son of Jan Barentsen Kunst and wife Jacomyntje Slecht, and brother of Jannette Kunst, wife of Cornelis Gerretse Nieuwkirk, who died about a year after marriage. She married second, Jacob DuBois , a widower, third son of Louis (The earliest comprehensive record of Louis DuBois begins with that of his marriage at Mannheim, Germany, whither he had gone to escape persecution because of his religion. Translated it reads: "DuBois and wife Catharine."

"Louis DuBois, son of the late Chretian DuBois, of Wikres, near La Basse, on the one side, and Catharine
Blanshan, daughter of Matthew Blanshan, citizen of Mannheim, on the other side were married in French Church
at Mannheim the 10th Oct., 1665."

The little Hamlet of Wikres contained about three hundred inhabitants devoted to agriculture, and is in the Province of
Artois, French Flanders. Here Louis DuBois was born October 21, 1626. The family was then a very ancient one, and is
referred to in thee archives and books of heraldry "as one of the most ancient and noble of the realm." How long he had
been at Mannheim is unknown; he was twenty-nine years old at his marriage, and was probably about ten years older than
his wife. In New Netherland, to which he emigrated in 1660, he was farmer, merchant, magistrate and leading citizen,
and is found to have been in the fore front of every undertaking. In 1677 he organized the movement which resulted in the
purchase of about forty thousand acres of land from the Indians, known as the New Paltz Patent. The Village of New
Paltz was laid out, and on the principal street a number of substantial stone residences built, several of which are still
standing. A church was organized with Louis DuBois the first elder.

For a time, he and his associates, all of whom were Frenchmen, resided at New Paltz, but he later returned to Kingston
and spent the remainder of his life with the Dutch settlers of Kingston and Hurley. He left a large family, all named in his
will; his widow married Jean Cottio, the schoolmaster. ( DuBois Family of Ulster County, by O. Collins, in The New
York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vols. xxvii, xxviii.). Blanshan, one of the captives of the Indians at the
burning of Hurley.

Jacob DuBois, baptized October 9, 1661, was a farmer at Hurley, where he died in 1745, leaving a will dated April 3,
1739, probated June 7, 1745, which mentioned wife Gerretje, to whom a number of bequests were made, with life
interest in landed estate and remainder to children. By his first wife, Elizabeth Vernooy, whom he married March 8, 1689,
he had one child, Magdalena DuBois, baptized May 25, 1690, named in his will. She married first, Garret Roosa,
second, October 20, 1718, Peter VanNest, and with him settled in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Issue: Child of Barent and Gerretje (Nieuwkirk) Kuntz;

i. Jacomyntje Kunst, born in Hurley; married at Kingston, June 26, 1713,HenryPawling, ( Lineage of the
Pawling Family, by Mrs. J. Frank Kitts, printed in Olde Ulster, vol. 1, pp. 339 et seq.; Pawling Family of
New York and Pennsylvania, in Publications of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vii, 1-25) who died
at New Providence, Philadelphia, later Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1739, aged fifty years,
youngest son of Henry Pawling of Ulster County, New York, and wife Neeltje Roosa. He and his brother, John
Pawling, removed from Ulster County and settled some ten miles from Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he and
his family were members of St. James' Church, Perkiomen.

Children of Jacob and Gerretje (Nieuwkirk) DuBois; all born in Ulster County:

i.. Barent DuBois, bapt. May 3, 1693; died at Pittsgrove, Salem County, New Jersey, January 22, 1749, leaving
a will which made bequests to all his children. He married April 23, 1715, Jacomyntje, born October 30, 1693,
daughter of Solomon DuBois and wife, Tryntje Focken, q.v. His family Bible is in the possession of the Salem
County Historical Society, from which source the present record was taken.
ii. Louis DuBois, born in Ulster County, January 6, 1965; died at Pittsgrove, Salem County, New Jersey, in
1784; married June 21, 1720, Margaret, daughter of Matthys Jansen and wife Aaltje Elmendorf, bapt. Kingston,
June 4, 1699. At the date of his will, February 12, 1784, his sons Jacob and Matthew were deceased, as was
also his wife.
iii. Gieltjie DuBois, bapt. May 13, 1697; died young
iv. Gerret DuBois, bapt. March 20, 1700; died young
v. Isaac DuBois, bapt. February 1, 1702; lived at Greenkill, Ulster County, where he owned and operated a mill;
died before September 21, 1773, date of probate of will. He married (1) August 5, 1731, Neeltje Roosa, bapt.
April 5, 1713, daughter of Aldert and Aagje (Krom) Roosa. He married (2) October 5, 1760, Jannette Roosa.