of both these arrests. He was subsequently a member of the Provincial Convention, and in 1775 was appointed Colonel of the 1st N. Y. Regt. He rose in the course of the war of the Revolution (1776) to the rank of Brigr General, and in 1777 to that of Majr Genl in the U. S. army; was a prominent member of the N. Y. State Senate from 1784 until his death, which occurred in June, 1786. He is represented by one Author, as a native of Scotland; Allen's Biograph. Diet, states that he was the son of a Scotchman who sold milk in the City of New York, and that he was not ashamed to acknowledge that when a boy he assisted his father. For further particulars See, Journ. of N. Y. Prov: Convention, and American Archives 5th Series, Vol.1. Ed.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REV. Mr. DUBOIS OF NEW-YORK. [ Note to p. 447. ]

The Revd. Gualtherus du Bois, Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church ol the city of New- York, was born in the year 1671, at Streef-Kerk, in the Province of Holland, of which place his father. Dome Petrus du Bois, was at the time pastor. The latter removing subsequently to Amsterdam, Gualtherus passed with great credit through the Latin school of that city, and at the age of twenty, was sent to the university at Leyden, where he studied humanity, science, philosophy and theology under Professors Van Es, Hollebeck, Van Peenen and Francius. After having "sate six years at the feet of these four Gamaliels," he returned to Amsterdam, and underwent liis preparatory examination on the 1st July, 1697, before the Classis of Amsterdam.