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Isaac, son of Jesse and Marie (du Cloux) De Forest, was baptized at Leyden, Holland, July 10, 1616. With his brother, Henry, then thirty years of age, Isaac, who was ten years his junior, quitted Amsterdam, October 1, 1636, in a small vessel called the"Renssalaerwyck," which belonged to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the first patroon. They reached New Amsterdam in safety and settled upon the broad fertile flat called "Muscoota," now the site of Harlem, upper New York City. Henry had a grant of two hundred acres; Isaac, a strip of one hundred acres along the Harlem river and part of the later day Morris Park. Henry, the wealthier and apparently the abler of the two brothers, died July 26, 1637. The interests of his widow were safeguarded by Dominie Evarardus Bogardus, as her attorney. She married again. Isaac was still unmarried, and for several years remained at Harlem raising tobacco and selling it at New Amsterdam for transport to Holland. On June 9, 1641, he married "Sarah du Trieux of New Amsterdam, spinster," daughter of Phillip du Trieux and Jaqueline Noiret, founders of the Truax family of America. He became a wealthy tobacco dealer and brewer of New Amsterdam, and was appointed in 1658 by Governor Stuyvesant and council a "great burgher." When the English fleet took New York in 1664 he was one of the persons of distinction seized and held. His will is dated June 4, 1672. He died in 1674. His widow died in 1692.- Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 447

Isaac married Sarah duTrieux on 9 Jun 1641 in New Amsterdam, New York,. Sarah (daughter of Philip de Trieux and Jaqueline Noiret) was born in 1625 in New Amsterdam, New York, USA; died on 9 Nov 1692 in New Amsterdam, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Jesse De Forest was born in 1642; and died.
2. Susannah De Forest was born in 1645; and died.
3. Gerrit De Forest was born in 1647; and died.
4. Michael De Forest was born in 1649; and died.
5. John De Forest was born in 1650; and died.
6. Philip De Forest was born on 28 Jul 1652 in New Amsterdam, New York; died on 18 Aug 1727 in Albany, Albany, New York; was buried in Albany, Albany, New York.
7. Isaac De Forest was born in 1655; and died.
8. Hendrick De Forest was born in 1657; and died.
9. Maud De Forest was born in 1666; and died.
10. David De Forest was born in 1669; and died.

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Jesse, son of Jean and Anne (Maillard) De Forest, was born about 1575. There is no important information concerning him after December 1, 1623, when in a tax list of Leyden, Holland, opposite his name is the entry "gone to the West Indies," which may have meant anywhere in North or Central America. Up to 1606 he appears as a merchant residing at Sedan, France, and in 1615 he appears in the Walloon registers of Leyden, where he was residing in 1620, the time of the departure of the Pilgrim fathers for America. He conceived the design of planting a colony of his own people in the New World, and this design he carried from year to year and from state to state until he had brought it to execution. He gathered a colony of fifty or sixty Walloon and French families, "all of the Reformed faith," and prayed the King of England to grant them a settlement in Virginia and "to maintain them in their religion" by undertaking their protection and defence. The petition or demand was signed by fifty-six men, mostly heads of families, the first of whom was Jesse De Forest. They prayed the King that he would grant them a territory of sixteen miles in diameter where they might cultivate fields, meadows, vineyards, etc., and article seventh of the petition reads:

"Whether they would be permitted to hunt all game, whether furred or feathered; to fish in the sea and rivers, and to cut heavy and small timber, as well for navigation as for other purposes, according to their desire; in a word, whether they might make use of everything above and below ground, according to their will and pleasure, saving the royal rights and trade in everything with such persons as should be there to privilege."

The petition was not acted upon favorably. He continued his enrolling, and looked for aid from Holland in getting the colony to America. Here Jesse De Forest disappears from distinct sight. It seems clear, however, that his first and perhaps only colonizing venture, was to that part of South America which the Dutch called the "wild coast," or Guinea. To this region two successive bands of settlers were despatched from Leyden in 1623. The fleet which Jesse De Forest accompanied sailed out of the Neuse, twenty miles south of Leyden, December 23, 1623. Nothing further is known of him. He was a man of fixed purpose, which he carried into execution, but whether he sleeps beside the Oaypok or beside the Hudson is not known. He had aroused and directed the emigrants who founded New York as well as those who established a dwelling place in Guinea and among the Carribean Islands. He married Marie du Cloux, and their seventh recorded child, Isaac, is the founder in America of the De Forests of Schenectady. - Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 447

Jesse married Marie du Cloux on 21 Sep 1601 in Sedan, France. Marie (daughter of Nicaise du Cloux and Marie Aubertin) was born on 17 Nov 1576; died in 1622. [Group Sheet]

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Jean married Anne Maillard. Anne and died. [Group Sheet]

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Nicaise married Marie Aubertin. Marie and died. [Group Sheet]

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Melchort De Forest, of Asvesnes, France, was the father of Jean De Forest, the first Protestant of the De Forest family, and was the grandfather of the first De Forest emigrant to America. He married Catherine de Fosset, of Mons. Jean, their youngest son, married Anne Maillard, and settled in Holland along with thousands of his countrymen, Walloons and Huguenots. - Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 447

Melchort married Catherine de Fosset on 4 Apr 1533 in Avesnes, Hainaut, France. Catherine and died. [Group Sheet]

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Melchort married Jacqueline Bronchin. Jacqueline and died. [Group Sheet]

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