1. BALTHAZAR1 DEWOLF was born 1620 in Belgium, and died 1696 in Lyme, New London, CT. He married ALICE MARRUS PECK Abt. 1645 in Guilford, New Haven, CT. She was born 1625 in London, EN, and died 1689 in Lyme, New London, CT.
Notes for BALTHAZAR DEWOLF:
BALTHASAR DEWOLF... was in Hartford, Connecticut by 1656. In 1668 Balthazar DeWolf and his family removed to Lyme which was the seaport center of commerce. The origin of the name DeWolf(e) and the relationships are in Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Russian Baltic Provinces. The DeWolfs have proof of their noble origin with a family coat-of arms from the official Archives Nobilities of Belgium. This pride taken in their name DeWolf rather than in a title, recalls the splendid old motto of the Rohans: Roi ne puis, Monseigneur ne daigne, Monsieur sius.-A King I cannot be, a nobleman I do not deign to be, a gentleman I am. All the theories of Balthazar's descent—Russian, French, Dutch and Jewish-- suggest he had a keen interest and natural ability as a merchant and businessman. Whatever Balthasar was - he had a dream and goal for business and that of a land developer which he shared with his sons and grandsons. In Lyme, CT., the DeWolf family built vessels which went out to many markets and brought back cargoes of spices, coffee, sugar, and other merchandise needed in Colonial New England. The Dewolfs became the great merchants inherited from their immigrant ancestor, Balthazar DeWolfe, and before him. The same characteristics, whether personal or physical, seem to be strongly marked in all this particular family. The family business flourished in Lyme and Middletown providing employment for hundreds of skilled craftsman from ship builders to carpenters, sailors and wharves workers, merchants and shop keepers just to name a few jobs that kept a thriving economy going in New England. Business was profitable with money from the shipping trade and commerce and with land development of saw mills and grist mills on waterways.
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