RARITAN LANDING & the LABOYTEAUX / LA BOYTEAUX FAMILY

LABOYTEAUX, LABERTEAUX, LABERTEW,
LABOYTAUX, LeBOITEAUX, LeBOYTEAUX, Le BOYTEULX,
BETTIEU, etc.
FAMILIES
of
NORTH AMERICA
and
BEYOND

DISCLAIMER:

The information contained in this record should only be used as a guide or "working genealogy." You should always validate or reconfirm your own lineage. Only through continual research and finding legal records, known as primary resources, will one's genealogy be more exact. At times, when all is said and done, we must rely upon one's own preponderance of what seems to be, but that needs to be stated. Please, therefore, use as a genealogical aid only.     Audrey


  Recovering Raritan Landing  



RARITAN LANDING & the LABOYTEAUX / LA BOYTEAUX FAMILY



In the Colonial Period, the market village of New Brunswick was one of the major ports of water navigation travel and commerce in New Jersey. However, small vessels (sloops) could ascend the Raritan River during high tide to port at what became known as Raritan Landing, a couple of miles north of New Brunswick. Raritan Landing was a thriving 17th-18th Century riverport village/town now [2008] a part of Piscataway. Here 20-30 Colonial houses/dwellings, artisan and trade shops, and warehouses were built. From this farthest inland port of that time local goods, produce, grain products, and supplies coming from further north could reach the cities of New York, Philadelphia and beyond via water transportation. Today only a few remnants (the Cornelius Low House and others' foundations) of that bygone era remain, but inbedded in its history are surnames of many of our ancestors and their inter-connecting families: LABOYTEAUX, BODINE, SMOCK, RUNYON, RAPPELYEA, & LOW.    ASH



Geographical Note:
[Feb 2008, LABOYTEAUX PAPERS: Elizabeth "Beth" Zaring]
"Peter Laboiteaux (the Pioneer) was said to have been born at Raritan Landing, Middlesex County, NJ. As there is no longer a Raritan Landing, it is easy to place it elsewhere. But the Geographical Gazeteer of New Jersey published in 1834 has this to say:
'Raritan Landing on the left bank of the Raritan river at the head of the tidewater and two miles above New Brunswick in Piscataway Township, Middlesex County. This is a place of considerable business containing some 20 dwellings, 2 stores and a tavern chiefly on the primitive bank of the river which is here high and having between it and the water a broad bottom of alluvial land. There is a wooden bridge across the river.'
This would today be in New Brunswick and likely where there is a Landing Lane on the map."
[Note: What is given as "today" is unknown...no year stated. ash]


Rappleyea, Anderson, Covenhoven Research Notes


Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society
Volume 54, No. 2
April 1936, Whole No. 205

"Raritan Landing That Was, The History of a River Port from 1675 to 1875," by C. C. Vermeuls, East Orange


p. 87...begins the story of those who lived at Raritan from 1675 to 1700....

p. 88..."Next comes what we now know as the Hoe place. Here Jabez Hendricks must have located about 1675. After his death his son Daniel sold to "LaFlower, alias Renne Piatt," in 1683. Piatt divided it, selling the easterly 55 acres to John Pound the same year. This went by inheritance to Martin Beekman, who sold to Gabriel Le Boyteaux in 1704... [MAP at top left see: Gabriel Laboyteaux, Merchant]

p. 96..."A word as to Gabriel Le Boyteaux, merchant. We have already found him suddenly becoming a large land owner between 1701 and 1704, when he purchased three farms, in all 200 acres. His land passed to Williamson before 1720, and his will was probated in 1734. At his death he was but a small land holder and without much property. He left a son, Paul, who was selling lots at the Landing in 1742, also a daughter, Catharine, who became the wife of John Bodine..." [Voices from Raritan Landing: Quick Navigation Menu (drop down box): Traders: JOHN BODINE & Peter Bodine]

p. 197...Begins a list of dwellings located on a map of "Raritan Landing."

p. 198...we find parcel of land #14 on map..."Gabriel Le Boyteaux, wife Constance, 1704-1734. Son, Paul, wife Elizabeth Henry, to 1742..."

p. 198...#23...John Bodine, wife, Catharine Le Boyteaux, to 1742. [Voices from Raritan Landing: Quick Navigation Menu (drop down box): Homemakers: CATHERINE LEBOYTEAUX BODINE]

p. 200...#43...Paul Le Boyteaux, wife, Elizabeth Henry, 1742   [Voices from Raritan Landing: Quick Navigation Menu (drop down box): Traders: John Bodine story: PAUL LEBOYTEAUX]
(Source: 2008, LABOYTEAUX PAPERS: Elizabeth "Beth" Zaring)



HOMEPAGE:
LABOYTEAUX, LABERTEAUX, LABERTEW
  LA BOYTEAUX, LA BOITEAUX, LABOITEAUX  
and variants:
LaBAYTEAUX, LABOYTAUX,
LeBATTEUX, LeBITOUX, LeBOITEAUX,
LeBOITEUX, LeBOYTEAUX, Le BOYTEULX,
BETTIEU, PATOU, PETUE, etc.
FAMILIES
of
North America
and
Elsewhere




Created: 16 February 2008
Revised: 18 February 2008


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