Laurent du Bois

This article is about the 17th-century minister. For 21st-century scholar, see Laurent Dubois.

Laurent du Bois was the first pastor of the first French Church in Boston, organizing a congregation in 1685.[1] He served until the following year when he was succeeded by David de Bonrepos, a refugee from the Antilles.[1] The congregation members were Huguenots, a term for French Protestants. Du Bois changed his name to Laurentius Van den Bosch after living in Holland.[2]

  1. ^ a b Stapleton, Ammon (2011). Memorials of Huguenots in America: With Special Reference to Their Emigration to Pennsylvania. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 9780806303222. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  2. ^ Charles Washington Baird (1885). History of the Huguenot emigration to America. Dodd, Mead & Company.