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| I do not have hard proof that Francis was the son of William and brother of Peter, but age and location, i.e., NJ, make it seem plausible if not probable. Francis could very well have been William's eldest child. Immigrated 1665; settling on Long Island, then South Amboy. He and his brother Gilbert married in this country, and the latter spelled his name "Boileau." Sounds French. 1701, 13 Nov Middlesex Co., NJ Deed: George Willoks, of Rudyard, Monmouth Co, to Andrew Hamilton, ?Gov of E Jersey, land on the ?high tract of P Amboy. Wit: Frances Buckaleiu & John Burnet. Unrecorded deed, Ref. #D351, NJ Historical Soc. From colpy of orig, available through Gerry Green.1 From Gerry Green's "Mary's People... ," p. 7: "This version comes from a 'History of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pensylvania, by J.H. Battle, and published in 1887. This family sketch states that the two brothers [Francis and Gilbert Bucceleuch] went from Scotland to France with Queen Mary. They immigrated to Long Island about 1663, and both married in this country. In time, Francis became 'Buckalew,' and Gilbert's name changed to 'Boileau.' It goes on to say that Francis moved to South Amboy, New Jersey; that he bequeathed land there prior to his death at 110 years to his son Samuel. (Another, similar version, from a book in the L.A. Library says Francis was born in 1640, and died in South Amboy, New Jersey in 1750. ) The tract was then bequeathed by Samuel to his son John in a 1782 will. Samuel is said to have died in New Jersey in 1792 at the age of 96. This particular John, born in 1743, eventually moved west into Pennsylvania. Gilbert Boileau was not mentioned again in the sketch."1 A minor problem with the account in the paragraph above is that Mary, Queen of Scots, was transported to France in 1548 when she was approximately six years old. If Francis and Gilbert had gone "from Scotland to France" with her, they would each have been over 115 years old when they arrived on American shores. This is not to say that they did not come to America from France, for they very well may have been among the Scots who went to France with their father, who may have been a mercenary on loan to the King of France. [a reference to the ship CALEDONIA (History of the Old Tennent Church by Rev. F. R. Symmes, 1904) which states that "it is supposed that this ship brought emigrants from Scotland as early as 1685, and it is a matter of history that it bore to New Jersey many Scotch families about 1715."] "Gilbert and Francis Boileau, two Huguenot brothers, left France in 1663 in consequence of the continued persecutions of the Roman Catholic Church which commenced upon the revocation of the "Edict of Nantes" and continued for near 200 years. Family traditions say the family of which these two young men were members kept their Bible fastened to the bottom of one of the heavy clumsy chairs of the period with the curtains handing down conceling it. When they wished to read it one or more members of the family were places as sentinels outside, to guard against surprise by the Maligant Priesthood or their more ignorant and brutal assistant, the penalty of death by torture or imprisonment and confiscation of property directed by all the malevolence the followers of the Christ upon Earth could inflict. "The sentinels placed, some members of the family would turn up the chair, read a portion of the scriptures and conduct the services..." The above two brothers settled on Long Island near where the city of Brooklyn now stands, at the time owned by the Dutch, there being but one church at that time in 'Nie Yorck.' From "Book of Biographies -- Seventeenth Congressional Dist": Francis Buccleuchs ... the name back to the time when Queen Mary of Scotland left her native country for France. Francis and Gilbert, who were his brothers, immigrated to America and located on Long Island, which was then in the possession of the Dutch. Their name Boileau, and Francis spelling his, Buckalew. Francis later moved to South Amboy, N. J., where he spent the remainder of his life, dying at the advanced age of one hundred and ten years." From Keith W. Riche: "Mary, Queen of Scots was half French; she married Francis II of France on April 24, 155_. In her train of Scotsmen, one or more bore the name of BUCCLEUGH, of the clan Scott. They became Huguenots, and the BUCCLEUGH became BUCLEAU in France where they stayed for three generations. Frances BUCKALEW, born in 1640 and Gilbert BUCKALEW his brother came to America in 1665, probably due to religious persecution. They first came to Long Island, New York and then to South Amboy, New Jersey. -- This was the beginning of the Buckalew or Buckelew (both spellings are used) family in America." | ||||||||
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