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Hendrick Belyea - 1720-1802
(Son of Jan Belyea) 
1 Hendrick BELYEA d: 1802/1804

      + Deborah CARPENTER born. April 19, 1720  
              m. Nov. 24, 1739 d: BEF MAR 1755

         2 Mary BELYEA b: 1741 d: 1765 (Full line to date.)
           + Robert WILLIAMS d: 1765/1766
             3 James Dorset WILLIAMS b: 1762 d: 17 SEP 1832
               + Patience b: ABT 1766 d: 25 MAR 1854
             3 William WILLIAMS
             3 Jacob WILLIAMS
             3 Robbin WILLIAMS
             3 John WILLIAMS d: 24 SEP 1834
               + Eleanor CRONK b: ABT 1770 d: 29 MAR 1862
                 4 Catherine WILLIAMS b: 1795 d: 1876
                   + James WHITE

         2 Judith or Judy BELYEA b: 1743
           + John NICHOLS (No descendants found yet.)

         2 Joseph BELYEA b: 1746 d: 1845
           + Sarah SNIFFIN

         2 John BELYEA b: 9 OCT 1739 d: 10 DEC 1813
           + Susannah SNIFFIN b: ABT 1744 d: 12 JAN 1843 (2 children)
                             1760 Sept. 13,  Jan (Jr)    by Susanna Sniffen
                             1764 June 30,   Debra       by Susanna Sniffen


     + Angelica (Engeltje) STORM - Born in 1719. Engeltie was baptized in 
       Sleepy Hollow Reformed Church on 16 Oct 1719. 
       Engeltie, daughter of Jan STORM and Rachael DeREVIER.
       
       m. March 1755 
       d: ABT 1804-1805 Tombstone at Tarrytown matches her 86 yrs, d. 1805)

         2 James Albert BELYEA b: 1755 d: 1834/1837
           + Jemima PURDY b: 1765 d: 1828

         2 Deborah BELYEA
           + Richard MAC DONALD (No descendants found yet.)

         2 Abraham BELYEA b: 1756 (Died young)

         2 Abraham BELYEA b: 5 OCT 1757 d: 27 SEP 1833
           + Catherine TABILET d: 1 NOV 1819

         2 Lavinia or Wintie BELYEA
           + John STEVENS (No descendants found yet.)

         2 Thomas BELYEA b: 1762 (Full line to date.)
           + Eliza BRADEN
             3 Margaret BELYEA
             3 Elizabeth BELYEA

         2 Robert BELYEA b: 1765
           + Prudence HOLLY b: 1770

         2 Henry BELYEA b: ABT 1770
           + Mary PARKS b: 1773 d: FEB 1849

         2 William BELYEA b: 1771 d: 3 OCT 1862
           + Phoebe TUCKER b: ABT 1784/1787 d: 20 APR 1876

NOTES:
FROM: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cannbfam/belyea/Descendancy/Hendrick.htm

Hendrick BELYEA, was christened 19 Apr 1720 in (Tarrytown) Phillipsburgh, Westchester Co., NY, in the Old Dutch Church of Sleep Hollow. (This was the church of the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", a classic written by Washington Irving.) He was a son of Jan BOULIER and Helena WILLIAMS. Henry married there, first on 24 Nov 1739, to Deborah CARPENTER, of North Castle, Westchester Co., NY; the daughter of Nathaniel CARPENTER  and Abigail FOWLER. She died before Mar 1755 in Tarrytown, Westchester Co., NY.

    His second marriage was in Mar 1755 to Angelica (STORM) Belyea, christened 20 Jun 1730 in Tarrytown, Westchester Co., NY, daughter of Jan STORM and Rachael DeREVIER. She was the widow of  Abraham Jurckse/Yerxa, and her son, John, by that marriage also came to NB as a Loyalist. Angelica was said to have died abt 1804 in Greenwich Par., Kings Co., NB, buried  in Greenwich Par., Kings Co., NB.

    Hendrick/Henry died 1802 in Greenwich Par., Kings Co., NB, buried in Greenwich Par., Kings Co., NB.

    Louis Boulier was apparently the first of this line to come to America. A few quotes from The Genealogy of the Boulier- Bulyea- Belyea Family 1697-1969, written and Compiled by Florence G. (Belyea) Tisdale and Marjorie A. (Belyea) Rennie, state;

    "The traditional story, handed down in our family from our Loyalist forebears, who went to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada from New York in 1783, was that our original ancestor in America was a Huguenot mariner who had sailed his ship from the western shore of France to escape from the persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. If our early family knew the name of "our ancient mariner" it was not included in the story or recorded. It is therefore the most rewarding fact discovered in our research to have traced the name of Louis Boulier."

And:

    "In a history of the church restoration, found in the library in the museum at Tarrytown, maintained by the Daughters of the American Revolution; Louis Boulier, a native of Saintonge in France, had married Antje Konninck, in the Old Dutch Church of Sleep Hollow on May 23, 1697. "

As well as:

    " Information was given that Jan, son of Louis and Antje had served in the church as a deacon in 1733-36 and in 1746. He was listed as an elder in the church in 1751. He was the father of Henry Bulyea who went to New Brunswick as a Loyalist in 1783."