"Left France (Huguenot) and went to Palatinate, and in 1675 emigrated to America and settled Ulster Co., where he was one of the founds of the town of New Paltz. In an old MS diary, still preserved in the family, it is recorded that Elsie Schoonmaker Hasbrouck "was a woman of tall stature, good features (but a spare face, not broad), dark-blue eyes, brown hair."188, "The Schoonmaker Family of Ulster Co., N.Y." by Thomas G. Evans, pp 22-26, Jan. 1888