. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . prominently identifiedwith the development of that region, than thefamily of 1 The name is variously spelledDepuy, Depue and Depuis. old papers Depu MONROE COUNTY. 1159 The original ancestor of the family is be-lieved to have been Nicholas Depui, who, withthree children, came to this country in October,1(362. He was a French Huguenot, In 1728Nicholas, Benjamin and Coruelius Depuy werefreeholders of Marbletown, Ulster County,N. Y. The first ancestor to locate in Monroe (ountvof whom we have any knowledge was NicholasDepui, who
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . prominently identifiedwith the development of that region, than thefamily of 1 The name is variously spelledDepuy, Depue and Depuis. old papers Depu MONROE COUNTY. 1159 The original ancestor of the family is be-lieved to have been Nicholas Depui, who, withthree children, came to this country in October,1(362. He was a French Huguenot, In 1728Nicholas, Benjamin and Coruelius Depuy werefreeholders of Marbletown, Ulster County,N. Y. The first ancestor to locate in Monroe (ountvof whom we have any knowledge was NicholasDepui, who came from Esopus about 1725, a wife, Wyntje, and his children—Moses, Samuel,Daniel, Aaron, Catharina, Susanna, Magdalena,Johanna and Elizabeth. By this instrument,which was witnessed by Daniel Brodhead,Abraham Van Campen, Benjamin Dupui andLambert Coyncse, his sons Moses, Aaron, Sam-uel and Daniel are made his executors, andjudging from the quantity of land dividedamong his children, he must have owned avery large tract. Considerable personal prop- Sn w. and made a settlement on the Delaware River,in what is now Smith field township. He pur-chased land directly from the Indians, and thedeed conveying the same is now in the posses-sion of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. In1733 he received a deed for some land of In 1742 Zinzendorf visited him, andin December, 1743, his name is found on a pe-tition for a road. In 1750 Conrad Weiscr vis-ited him and states that he was an old will, bearing date June 9,1745, mentions erty is also distributed, showing him to havebeen a man of wealth and distinction. Hisoriginal stone house stood on the site occupiedby a portion of the present family homestead,and was surrounded by a barricade, and used asa fort and place of shelter for the early settlersduring the serious Indian outbreaks that oftenrendered the Minisink region one of the mostdangerous points of pioneer life. The presenthouse was erected in 1785 bv Nicholas
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