Bevier, Louis S. (Lewis) (b. 10 JAN 1719/20, d. BEF 1750)

Note: He was a member of the New Paltz Militia under Capt. Zachariah Hoffman. His name was spelled Lewis several times in his father's will.

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Note: Another source indicates her date of birth as Jan 7, 1721. Hester (Esther) joined the New Paltz Church in 1751.

Source: (Birth)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Note: Johannes Bevier was married to Magdalena LeFevre by Cornelius DuBois, Esq. on September 2, 1749, after three publications of the banns by Daniel Hasbrouck. In 1751, he joined the church on confession of faith and the following year his wife joined by letter. He removed to Shawangunk where he became a prominent citizen and an elder in the church in 1760. In 1784, he was a member of the consistory in New Hurley. He signed the authorization of the government by the Duzine in 1774, and in the following year (1775), he gave his signature to the Articles of Association. His death occurred October 27, 1795, and his will was admitted to probate on March 5, 1796. He owned one male and one female slave according to the record.

Source: (Death)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Note: Philip Bevier was the first of that name in this country. On July 10, 1748, he was married in church to Tryntje Low and settled on the Hudson River on land belonging to his father. In 1753, he and his wife joined the New Paltz church. He is reported to have owned one slave in 1755. He died prior to September 1765 as his widow's second marriage, to Adriance Newkirk, took place on October 27, 1765.
The Katharine Bevier genealogy states that "he must have taken part in the Revolution because he received Land Bounty Rights." As he died prior to 1765, and the Revolution commenced in 1775, I cannot understand how he could have participated in the Revolution and received Land Bounty Rights!

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Source: (Birth)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Note: Louis Bevier was born in New Paltz and baptized in Kingston on June 9, 1717. The sponsors were Jacob and Elizabeth Hasbrouck. A French Testament and Psalms arranged with musical notes published in 1741 contains the boy's name, "Louis Bevier, Jr." written on the flyleaf by his father and then appears again, "Louis Bevier, Jr., I have written this being yet a little boy of thirteen." He was carefully educated and attended school at Hurley and Kingston. One of his books was "Geodesia or Love of Surveying," which was also used as an authority by his son and later his grandson. In 1738, Louis Bevier, Jr. was a member of the Foot Company of Captain Daniel Brodhead. Later in life, Louis Bevier, Jr. became a surveyor of considerable note in the area of Marbletown. In 1760, he was employed to survey a portion of the New Paltz lands and an entry in the book of the Duzine records the payment of his bill for this service. Louis Bevier was married 24 Oct 1745 at Rochester to Esther DuBois, daughter of Philip DuBois who had removed from New Paltz to Rochester. Louis was a man fortunate in all his relations as a son, father, husband, neighbor and friend. He was a man of large business capacity and owned considerable property. The record shows he owned 4 slaves in 1755 and at the time of his death in 1772, he owned eleven slaves.
In 1755, with Abraham and Jacob Hasbrouck, he obtained a grant of land of 2000 acres south of New Paltz. This was a tract long called "The Plate". In 1762 Louis bought additional land for his farm at Marbletown from Isaac Davis. In 1743, Louis subscribed to the building of the earliest church at Marbletown. He was chosen a deacon in 1753 and he was frequently an elder thereafter up to the year of 1769. He held the office of Town Clerk of Marbletown from 1745 until 1758 and again later. He was Town Trustee from 1762 to 1772 and Justice of the Peace in 1769, Town Assessor in 1760, and Supervisor in 1772, dying before his term expired. Both Louis and his wife Esther are buried in the old churchyard at Marbletown. Abraham Hasbrouck, cousin of Louis Bevier, 3rd wrote the following upon Louis' death in 1772.
"My cousin, Louis Bevier, departed this transitory life the 29th day of September, at two o'clock in the morning and in the year of our Lord 1772, aged 55 years, 4 months, 19 days, and rests in the Lord until his coming. He was a good husband, a tender father, a good master, a kind neighbor, a true friend to liberty, a pillar in the church at Marbletown and elsewhere, an honest gentleman. He was endowed with a good share of knowledge, he was a comely man of middle stature, strong of body. He died of an apoplectic fit in the night, very suddenly, before his wife and children could come to him and see his exit."

Source: (Death)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Source: (Death)
Titel: Huguenot Historical Society Archives

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Source: (Birth)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Source: (Birth)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Source: (Death)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Source: (Birth)
Titel: One World Tree
Auteur: Ancestry. com

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Source: (Birth)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Source: (Name)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Source: (Birth)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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Note: Another source claims she escaped the Fantinekill Massacre by visiting Jacob Bevier after having been warned of the impending disaster by friends of her husband who was a well-known Tory.

Source: (Death)
Titel: The Bevier Family - by Katherine Bevier
Auteur: Katherine Bevier
Publicatie: Tobias A. Wright Company - 1916
Media: Book

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