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from Poughkeepsie is not quite clear, but on March 28, 1805, he was again living there when a special act of the legislature of the State of New York was passed, known as Act LIII, Laws of 1805,—An Act for the Relief of Lewis DuBois. "Be it resolved by the people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, that it shall be lawful for the commission of the land office, and they are hereby required to grant to Lewis DuBois, late a Colonel in the Line of the late Army of the United States during the revolutionary war, and his heirs and assigns forever, by letters patent, the number of acres of land which have been granted to officers of the same grade in Western District in a tract set apart for the Line of this State serving in the Army of the United States."

On December 31, 1764, a license was granted to Lewis DuBois to marry Alida, daughter of Johannes Van Kleeck. They had two sons, Elias L., baptized May 16, 1766, and Johannes, baptized May 16, 1769. His wife, Alida, died some time after 1793, probably during their residence in Montgomery County, and he afterward married Catharine Van de Bogart who survived him. She was mentioned in the administration of his estate. The Country Journal of May 16, 1787, says: "On Thursday last was Married, Mr. Elias DuBoys, Son to General DuBoys, of Poughkeepsie Precinct, to Miss Van Bunschoten, Daughter to Colonel Van Bunschoten, also of this Precinct". Mr. W. H. Van Benschoten, in his book on the Van Benschoten family, says: "On May 10, 1787, Jacemyntje, daughter of Colonel Elias Van Benschoten, married Elias DuBois, son of General Lewis DuBois". The bride died the same year and Elias later married Hannah Haff, as the birth of their son Lewis was recorded as January 13, 1793.

In The Dutchess Observer, published at Poughkeepsie on March 10, 1824, appears the following obituary: DIED—In this village, on Thursday last, General LEWIS

DuBois, in the 82d year of his age. He was one of the early asserters and defenders of American liberty and independence. He entered the American army in 1775 as a captain, and accompanied

Gen. Montgomery in his expedition to Canada. He was with him in the assault on Quebec, and near that gallant officer when he fell.

He was also one of the defenders of fort Montgomery, when that

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fortress was assaulted and stormed by the British, in the fall of the year 1777. He for some time sustained the rank of Major in the army, and was probably brevetted a Colonel, when the army was disbanded. He has subsequently sustained the rank of General in the militia of this state, and the office of Sheriff of this county.

Though carried safely through the perils of war, he has at last fallen under the stroke of death, and been gathered to his fathers in a good old age. And the Poughkeepsie Journal of the same date printed the following: DIED—In this village on Thursday the 4th instant, General

Lewis DuBois at the advanced age of 80 years. This gentleman took up arms in the commencement of the revolution at the head of a company, and saw its accomplishment in command of a brigade.

Thus, one after the other, the Heroes who breasted the perils of that eventful period, recede from our view, but leave a train of radiance behind them which succeeding generations will delight to point to with gratitude and rapture. NOTE

Great confusion exists among historical writers about two Revolutionary patriots with the same name: Colonel Lewis DuBois of Poughkeepsie, and Major Lewis DuBois of Marlborough.

In an address to the Newburgh Historical Society, E. M. Ruttenher, after giving the military record of Colonel Lewis DuBois, said: "and died at his residence in Marlborough, Ulster County, December 29, 1802." This was quoted by Frederick Cook, SecretarY of State, 1879, in his report of the Centennial Celebration of General Sullivan's Expedition."

Ruttenber also said that Captain Lewis DuBois, of Colonel Hasbrouck's regiment, Ulster County Militia, was sent to Dutchess County to raise a company for Colonel James Clinton's regiment for the invasion of Canada, early in June 1775. As the militia regiments were organized under an act of the Provincial Congress, passed August 22, 1775, there was in June, 1775, no such regiment. In fact, Colonel Hasbrock's regiment was organized in September, 1775, and on September 20, 1775, Lewis DuBois of New Marlborough Precinct, was commissioned captain," and later, on October 25, was made a major.3° By that time, Captain Lewis DuBois of Colonel Clinton's regiment was

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