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- He married Elizabeth ROSSIGNOL about 1655. (Elizabeth ROSSIGNOL is #98.) Elizabeth was born about 1626. Elizabeth died about 1663 in New York. At 30 years of age Elizabeth became the mother of Madeleine Du_Sauchoy in Staton Island, Richmond, New York, 1656.
At 30 years of age Marcus became the father of Madeleine Du_Sauchoy in Staton Island, Richmond, New York, 1656.
Historical events during the life of Marcus Du_Sauchoy: Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders agreed to emigrate to New England on August 26, 1629; birth of Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet on August 13, 1655; history's 1st all-female jury convened on September 22, 1656; birth of Leonhard Euler, mathematician on April 15, 1707
Marc du Sauchoy, patriarch of the Disosway ( Du Soison, Dusachoy, Dusochany, Dusway, etc.) family in America, and a direct ancestor of my branch of the Hardin family, was a Huguenot, a French Protestant of the 17th century. In order to escape the despotism of the French Catholic king and to provide a home and living for himself, Du Sauchoy, a wool carder by trade, moved to Leiden (a city in the southwest Netherlands northeast of The Hague), lived there for two or three years and then came to New Netherland and found employment in clearing some land at Flatbush for Cornelis Van Ruyven. Our first record of him in New Netherland is on May 31, 1655 when he appeared in court as a plaintiff concerning the clearing of 3 morgens of land in Midwout (Flatbush), Long Island. He was also present on June 17, 1655, when his countryman, Pierre Terracon, bought a farm at Mespat. Du Sauchoy returned to Holland to marry Elizabeth (Lysbet) Rossignol (sometimes written by the Dutch church clerks as 'Nachtigaal', the Dutch word for 'rossignol' or nightingale). Du Sauchoy and his bride sailed for New Netherland on April 2, 1657 aboard the ship Draetaat . After their arrival, Du Sauchoy leased Burger Jorisen's tide mill, on the Mespath Kill (Dutch Kills), the former wool carder/wood cutter now became a miller. This proving a failure, but by no fault of his, gave it up for a plantation, and turned to farming in the town of Brooklyn, to which place he and wife, April 10, 1661, transferred their church connection from New Amsterdam. Selling his farm a year later to Pierre Prae, from Dieppe, who had refuged at Leyden when Du Sauchoy was there, Marc appears at Harlem, January 3, 1664, as prosecutor of a claim against Glaude Le Maistre for 95 1/2 guilders, and soon after left and leased lands from Jean Le Roy. The length of the lease is not known, but it had expired March 15, 1667, date of their settlement. John Archer now induced him to take a farm in Fordham, where he continued to live a number of years.
On September 8th., 1671 in court at Harlem, presided over by Mayor Delavall, Marcus Du Sauchoy brought a complaint against John Archer for throwing his furniture out of doors. Marcus' son-in-law, Martin Hardewyn also complained about Archer breaking down his fences and David Demarest complained about Archer mowing grass in his meadow and the Inhabitants of the Town of Fordham also preferred a charge against John Archer that he " several times hath been the occasion of great troubles betwixt the inhabitants of the said Town, "he taking upon himself to rule and govern over them by rigor and force." The court ordered the cases to the arbitration of Daniel Tourneur and Jan La Montagne and further the court ordered the defendant Archer, "to behave himself, for the future, civilly and quietly against the inhabitants of the said Town, as he will answer to the contrary at his peril."
Marc Du Sauchoy's wife, Elizabeth (Lysbet), had a longstanding feud with the Tourneurs. This attitude had obviously originated from some past incident in France and later made worse by the elder Tourneur's refusal to pay for work done for Delavall as directed by Tourneur as Delavall's agent. Dame Du Sauchoy continually accused Tourneur of having committed a murder while in France. Their mutual hatred grew bitter over time, and it showed in their mutual actions against one another. The charge of homicide, reiterated so persistently by Dame Du Sauchoy, was met by recriminations even worse, till the local magistrates became weary of it. Wisely, the Mayor's Court cooled Lysbet's itching to push her adversary to the wall by making good her charge; and but for the rejection of her offer to send to France for proof, we might know more of the affair in question. The settlement of some old accounts between the parties, March 4, 1674, in presence of the magistrates, was another step toward cessation of hostilities. Still Lysbet, but four days after, made another charge in the Mayor's Court against Tourneur's widow, but it was dismissed as "a vexatious suit," with costs to the plaintiff; and no more is heard of this quarrel.
Du Sauchoy must have had means, to pay 80 guilders for "a Book of Martyrs and others," from the estate of Jean Le Comte, as he did July 2, 1675. He bought lots Nos. 8, 9, on Hoorn's Hook, from Jan Delamater, November 29, 1679, but presently sold them. He is first mentioned on Staten Island in 1681 when he was a defendant with Capt. Billop concerning the branding of some pigs.
On June 7, 1683, he and wife took letters from the Dutch to the French church, newly formed under Rev. Pierre Daille. He soon moved to Staten Island, where 225 acres of land near Daniel's Neck were laid out to him April 5, 1684, and for which he got a patent July 16, 1685. In 1689 Staten Island became involved in Leisler's Rebellion. Du Sauchoy informed the government that many of his neighbors had left their houses and taken to the woods, "for fear of the Papist."
Marcus Du Sauchoy was still living on October 1, 1706 on Staten Island at the age of 80 years as reflected by the census taken on that date. Marcus and his wife Elizabeth's children, as far as known, were:
Madeleine, baptized on January 20, 1657 in New Amsterdam, she married Martin Hardewyn (as the Dutch wrote it; most likely it was Hardouin) in 1671 in Fordham, New York.
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