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Louis Belyea - 1672 - circa 1720

Origin ?
Louis or Louis Belyea's earliest name on record is spelled Louwys Buliers. It is surmised that since he was from Saint Onge (spelled St. Tonne in marriage record) province in France. Saint Onge was a hotbed of Huguenot persecution and at this time period many fled for their lives to Holland and England. It is assumed that Louis was a Huguenot who fled to Holland (possible on to England) then to New Amsterdam. We have found no ship logs with his name or any near spelling of it. It is supposed he was born ab out 1672.
Hackensack
The first appearance of the Belyea name in American history is that of Louis Belyea. His name first appears in the marriage records in Hackensack, NJ in 1697, when on May 23, 1697 he married Anna (Antje) DeKoninck. His name is recorded as LOUWYS BULIERS. The record shows us that he was originally born in St. Tonne (Saint Onge), France, and she was born in Dergroede. Antje de Koninck was the daughter of a prominent Philipsburg family Adriaen Jansen Konink, who arrived in America aboard "De Bonte Koe" (The Spotted Cow) on April 16, 1663, with his wife and four children, ages 8, 6, 4, six months.4
The Boules did not live in Hackensack. Hackensack was on the western shore of the Hudson River while Sleepy Hollow or today's Tarrytown, New York is on the eastern shore some miles north of Hackensack. I accidentally came across a record from the Old Dutch Reformed Church of Hackensack, NJ which contained the original marriage record for the marriage and bans of Louwis Boulier and Anna Koninick on March 23, 1697. The same dominie (pastor) covered both parishes at the time. It was Abraham d'Revier who convinced the good pastor take on the Sleepy Hollow congregation in 1697 and volunteered to carriage him back and forth the three or four times a year that he would go there to administer the sacraments. The good Rev. Dominie Guilliam Bertoholf was fulltime in Hackensack and continued to visit the Sleepy Hollow Church until it called its first pastor in 1716.
Louis does not appear on the Sleepy Hollow membership roles but his wife does. Curious, why would a good Huguenot not become a member of the local assembly? Perhaps he was not a Huguenot at all. Later the family of Louis is found in the New Amsterdam (New York) Dutch Reformed Church where daughter Catharina, November 16, 1712 New Amsterdam, NY is born. He apparently dies sometime thereafter and his widow married Isaac Callio by which they have two children.
Long Island
Another record referred to in a researcher's publication claims documentary evidence that Louis and possibly his brother Jan settled in Flatbush, Long Island around 1695. It also claims that Louis had a son there named Jan around 1698. We have yet to find documentary evidence to confirm Jan Boule's birth there. Together they moved to the Philipsbugh manor in Tarrytown, NY to become tenant farmers under Frederick Philipse. 5 They and their children lived in the Ossining, New York area of the Philipsburgh Manor.
Sleepy Hollow
The next appearance of the name Louis Boule is in the records of the Old Dutch Reformed Church at Sleepy Hollow, in Tarrytown, NY. His wife is listed as one of the original charter members of that congregation. His name does not appear on the membership rolls. His name is spelled Boule, and later as Boulje. The Church records the baptism of their son, Jacob on March 25, 1706.6
The next appearance of the name of Louis Belyea, or Boulje, is in New York City's (then New Amsterdam) Dutch Reformed Church (page 364). It is the record of the baptism of Louwys and Anna Boule's daughter Catharina, on November 16, 1712. So from this information we deduce that they had moved to somewhere within the New York City area attending the Dutch Reformed Church there.
There are subsequent records in the same book that list baptisms children born to Agnietje Bolje. December 15, 1728 a Augnietje, is born to Isaac Calio, and Augnietje Boelje.(p.488) , and also a Angieje on December 17, 1729) who was married to a Isaac Callio. (p. 495) Then on p. 497 there appears an entry of a baptism of a Catharina born to Margrietje Bolje and Jan Hyer on December 18, 1730. It appears that Lowies Boule died and Angnietje remarried Isaac Callio between 1712 and 1728.
Whether there were more than one Boulje family residing in NYC it is not clear. The name is rare however, so whoever is there is most likely related to Lowies Bolje. We have found no death records for any of these Boljes.
Children:

Jan, around 1698, Flatbush, Long Island, NY
Jacob , March 25, 1706 Tarrytown, NY
Catharina, November 16, 1712 New York, NY
* Augnietje, December 17, 1729 New York, NY - father is Isaac Callio
* Augnietje, December 18, 1730 New York, NY - father is Isaac Callio

NOTES:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cannbfam/belyea/bel-intro.htm
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."
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.