Andries DuBois House
| Article Name |
Milestone in Wallkill - The Andries DuBois Home - One of
Wallkill's Oldest |
| Location |
North on Wallkill Avenue between Pleasant
Avenue and DuBois Avenue
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| Owners | |
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* Andries Dubois * Jonathan DuBois * Sarah DuBois Vernooy * Simon DuBois * James Mitchell * James Nicholl Mitchell * Charles F.V. Reeve * Simon L. DuBois * Jonathan Deyo DuBois * Jacob Tears * Elizabeth DuBois * John Alsdorf Tears * John Manning * Cora DuBois Rogers
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* 1759 - 1781 * 1781 - 1789 * 1789 - 1809 * 1809 - 1810 * 1810 - 1842 * 1842 - 1853 * 1853 - 1856 * 1856 - 1865 * 1865 - 1871 * 1871 * 1871 - 1891 * 1891 - 1892 John died in 1892 and his widow married John Manning * 1892 - Laid out building lots between Wallkill Ave and Orchard and sold them * 1965 Shares ownership with her sister Edith DuBois Powell |
| Names mentioned |
* Hattie Tears - daughter
of John Tears who became the first pipe organ player in the Reformed
Church in 1892 * Dr. Charles Beattie - owned the land where the barns and grainery were located |
| Other Structures |
* The barnyard was U shaped with the Cow barn on the West and the horse barn on the East. Near the road on the North side was a grainery and a spring. |
| Other Information
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There was an apple orchard too |
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