Abel Deveaux 
(15 November 1719 - about 1775)
Date this page was last edited=26 Jan 2014
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- Ancestors of Frank Kenneth DeVoe (1908 - 1998)
Descendants of Frederick de Veaux (b. about 1645)
Abel Deveaux was born on 15 November 1719.1,2 He was the son of Abel Devaux and Magdalena Hunt.1
Abel Deveaux married Mary Soulice, daughter of John Soulice and Mary Bonnett, in 1740.1,3
Abel Deveaux resided in 1767 in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, where his farm lay "some two or three miles on the easterly side of the North Road leading to White Plains, taking in the highest elevation in that region."4
Abel Deveaux died about 1775.4
Abel Deveaux left a will dated 3 May 1775 at New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York.5
Thomas De Voe's book quotes the will as saying that his body be buried in the "Burying-ground that I have reserved for my family, or any of the Devoues of my relations, and the free liberty of a road from the highway of the said burying-ground now in my possession, containing north and south 30 feet, east and west 28 feet, which I reserve for a burying-place for ever, as aforesaid.".4
Thomas De Voe visited the burying-ground in 1878 and found it almost obliterated. He described it as lying "some 300 or 400 paces from St. John's Church, near Cooper's Corners."6 An 1868 map shows that Cooper's Corners was at the intersection of the present day North Avenue, Wilmot Road, and Mill Road in the northern part of New Rochelle; there was a St. John Episcopal Church just to the east of the intersection on the south side of Wilmot Road.
Abel Deveaux married Mary Soulice, daughter of John Soulice and Mary Bonnett, in 1740.1,3
Abel Deveaux resided in 1767 in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, where his farm lay "some two or three miles on the easterly side of the North Road leading to White Plains, taking in the highest elevation in that region."4
Abel Deveaux died about 1775.4
Abel Deveaux left a will dated 3 May 1775 at New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York.5
Thomas De Voe's book quotes the will as saying that his body be buried in the "Burying-ground that I have reserved for my family, or any of the Devoues of my relations, and the free liberty of a road from the highway of the said burying-ground now in my possession, containing north and south 30 feet, east and west 28 feet, which I reserve for a burying-place for ever, as aforesaid.".4 Thomas De Voe visited the burying-ground in 1878 and found it almost obliterated. He described it as lying "some 300 or 400 paces from St. John's Church, near Cooper's Corners."6 An 1868 map shows that Cooper's Corners was at the intersection of the present day North Avenue, Wilmot Road, and Mill Road in the northern part of New Rochelle; there was a St. John Episcopal Church just to the east of the intersection on the south side of Wilmot Road.
Children of Abel Deveaux and Mary Soulice
- Andrew Deveaux2 (1743-1811)
- Mary Devaue+7 (1745-1826)
- Daniel Deveaux6 (1748-)
- James Deveaux8 (1753-)
- Abel Deveaux8 (1755-)
- Benjamin Deveaux9 (1757-)
- Joshua Deveaux2 (1758-)
- Hester Deveaux9 (1760-)
- Susannah Deveaux9 (1763-)
Citations
- [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 103.
- [S346] Mackenzie, Families of the Colonial Town of Philipsburgh, 211.
- [S733] Bolton, History of Westchester, Vol. II, 759.
- [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 104.
- [S185] Pelletreau, Early Wills of Westchester County, New York, 314.
- [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 105.
- [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, ID 682.
- [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 110.
- [S1] De Voe, Genealogy of the de Veaux Family, 117.
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