arm. The party then resolved to delay the attack until
dark; at which hour the savages were preparing for slaughter one of
their unfortunate captives, which was none other than the missing wife
of Dubois himself. She had already been placed upon the funeral pile,
and at this trying moment was singing a martyr's psalm, the strains of
which had often cheered the pious Huguenots in days of the rack and
bloody trials. The sacred notes moved the Indians, and they made signs
to continue them, which she did, fortunately, until the approach of her
deliverers. 'White man's dogs! white man's dogs!' was the first cry
which alarmed the cruel foes. They fled instantly, taking their
prisoners with them. Dubois calling his wife by name, she was soon
restored to her anxious friends, with the other captives. At the moment
of their rescue, the prisoners were preparing for the bloody sacrifice
to savage cruelty, and singing the beautiful psalm of the 'Babylonish
Captives.' Heaven heard those strains, and the deliverance came. During
this fearful expedition the Ulster Huguenots first discovered the rich
lowlands of Paltz.

This was the section which they selected for their homes, distant some
eighty-five miles from New York, along the west shores of the Hudson,
and extending from six to ten miles in the interior. It was called _New
Paltz_, and its patent obtained from Gov. Andreas; twelve of their
brethren were religiously selected by the emigrants as the _Patentees_,
and known by the appellation of the '_Duzine_,' or the twelve patentees,
and these were regarded as the patriarchs in this little Christian
community. A list of the original purchasers has been preserved, and
were as follows: Louis Dubois, Christian Dian, since Walter Deyo,
Abraham Asbroucq, now spelt Hasbrouck, Andros Le Fever, often Le Febre
and Le Febore, John Brook, said to have been changed into Hasbrouck,
Peter Dian, or Deyo, Louis Bevier, Anthony Cuspell, Abraham Du Bois,
Hugo Freir, Isaac Dubois, Simon Le Fever.

A copy of this agreement with the Indians still exists, and the
antiquarian may find it among the State records at Albany. It is a
curious document, with the signatures of both parties, the patentees'
written in the antique French character, with the hieroglyphic marks of
the Indians. A few Indian goods--kettles, axes, beads, bars of lead,
powder, casks of wine, blankets, needles, awls, and a 'clean
pipe'--were the insignificant articles given, about two cen