Emojene Demarest Champine

This 1939 publication, packed with interesting information, covers the lineage of Jacques LeRoux, the French Huguenot and some of his descendants, including LeRoux, Laroe, LaRue, and Lereau. This covers the beginning of the American line in New Jersey, New York, and a line to Upper Canada after the Revolutionary War, and back to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The spellings of the names in this book were retained exactly as found. Jacques LeRoux was born in 1657 and first appears in the records of New Harlem, August 25, 1673, when he took the oath of allegiance as Jaco el Roey, a young man. He was also called Jeams, Jacobus, and Jacob. There is a tradition that his father died on the voyage over and his mother , after a stop by way of Mannheim in the Paltz, landed in New Amsterdam with three children, Jacques, Susanna, and Abraham. He married Wybrecht of Bergen, NJ. In 1673.  He was appointed as one of the soldiers to serve on night watch in New Harlem, and was a member of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. There was a close affiliation between him and the Demarest family of New Harlem.   

(100+14p., Illus, Index, 1939)