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Dan
Somewhere I have a story about what was said to me to be Boultinhouse Prairie, sent I think by Leniegh Schrinar. Will look it up. Anyway, it wasn't Capt. Dan's father, who had to have been born before 1758 when his mother died as a widow, and who was (if Joseph) the only child of age for the probate so he would have been too old as you say in 1813.
The main Hugenot settlement was at New Rochelle NY (Rochelle in France being a protected Hugenot city until the protection was lifted and they were persecuted and had to flee. There was a lot of intermarrying with English and the Dutch of Long Island. I'm not an expert on Hugenots, but I can't say I can remember coming across Dutch-sounding names among the Hugenots. Most of the ones I've seen were from New Rochelle and had French names.
The name Boultinghouse doesn't appear among the first land-owners of East Jersey, and I've yet to see it on Long Island or in CT or Mass in the early years. I think the first one came over in the very late 1600's or early 1700's to either Philadelphia or New Ark (or Elizabeth Town) with perhaps a short layover in Boston. I haven't searched ship records. I question whether there was enough time on these shores to Anglecize the names if they came over as Dutch, or German to PA. If they had been here enough time, they would have left more of a record, I believe. Nothing like the name appears in any of the Dutch churches of NJ or NY, at least in index records I've seen. That leaves them spending quite some time in England, where there may be a record. I'd sure like to find some evidence!
Alec
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