Louis DUBOISE

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    Catarinen was captured by Esopus Indians on 7 June 1663, along with three of her children, her sister Maria, Maria's child and other women and children of New Village (now Hurley, NY). They were rescued three months later, just in time to save their lives. The prisoners had succeeded in delaying their executions by pleasing the savages with songs. One tntitled "The Babylonish Captives" was appropriately the song which Caterinen Blanchan DuBois and her children were singing at the moment of their deliverer's arrival. 
    On June 7, 1663, an Indian war party raided the settlement, taking Catherine, three of their children, and others as prisoners. Louis, with Captain Martin Kreiger and a party of thirty men, set out in pursuit of the Indians and their captives. They surprised and killed one of the Indian's rear guard, and took another captive. From him they learned the whereabouts of the main party, and on the second day found them. The Indians had bound the captives to trees, in preparation for torture and death, but Catherine led the group in singing the 137th Psalm, which laments the affliction of the Israelites as they sat by Babylon's stream. So sweet was the sound of this song that the savages hesitated.
    In the Second Esopus War, 1663, among the captives taken by the Minnisink Indians into the Catskill Mountains, when they burned the village of Hurley on June 7, were Catherineand her baby Sara (who later became the wife of Joost Janse Van Meteren) were placed upon a pile of logs. The Huguenot mother began to sing a hymn learned in France. The charmed Indians withheld the torch and listened, demanding another and another song. Before the last hymn was finished, her husband, Louis DuBois, with the Dutch soldiers and Capt. Krieger, arrived and this time were successful in saving all of the captives and punishing the Indians.