De Forest Family

Surnames: Baldwin Cook Darby de Fosset De Reimer Dorn du Cloux du Trieux
Gates Gregg Kip Kline Lansing Maillard Morris Noiret Quackenbush
Schermerhorn Schraff Traux Truax Turnbull Van Alstine Van Alstyne
Van Antwerpen Van Epps Van Eps Van Slyck Van Slyke Vedder Veeder
White Wiley Winne Wright

The line of descent: Melchort>Jean>Jesse>Isaac>Philip>David>Marten>Jacob>Obadiah Lansing>Henry S.>Lansing

Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs; A record of achievements of the people
of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, including within the present counties
of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady,
Columbia and Greene; Prepared under the editorial supervision of
Cuyler Reynolds, c1911; Page 447

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Jesse de Forest along with Jean de la Montagne and nine other men of French or Walloon origin, sailed from Leiden, Zuid Holland 1 July 1623 aboard the "Pigeon", Hoping to find a good location for a colony in South America. After a delay for ship repairs in Co. Kent England they arrived 16 Oct.at the mouth of the Amazon. Of the French and Walloon men only Jesse, Jean and Louis le Maire remained ashore when on 1 January 1624 the "Pigeon" sailed from the mouth of the Oyapock River ( which today forms the border between Brazil and French Guiana) to return to the Netherlands. On 13 Oct 1624 Jesse was felled by sunstroke and a high fever. He d. 22 Oct. and was buried that day. (Joe Pabol, eaglejoep@comcast.net)