The origin of this family is believed to descend from Pierre Ledoux, a Huguenot who escaped France, supposedly by having himself boxed up in a hogshead and put on board a ship to England. Research from Landis provides a clue that Pierre might have been at a Huguenot parish called Threadneedle in London where he may have married Marthe Anneraud if she was with him during the escape. According to records, Pierre purchased land in March of 1697 at New Rochelle, New York which was a destination for many Huguenots. There is a plaque in New Rochelle whereupon his name is listed as a Huguenot immigrant.

This family name has been spelled LaDue, Ladue, Ladew, Ladoe, Ladow, Ladu and probably any other way it might have sounded to anyone who might have been recording a particular document. The name, however, has always been pronounced La Due or Le Due. Whether the family changed the spelling of the name during the years French and Indian War to throw off suspicion that they may be harboring French Sympathy, or that the spelling changed over the generations due to illiteracry or simply to differenentiate one family from another is not known. Whatever the case, the Saratoga branch of the family (specifically the Ladows in Halfmoon and Milton) wrote the name as "Ladow" for sometime until it seems Samuel Peters La Due began to sign his name as La Due rather than Ladow, and by the 1880s when the family was residing in Minnesota, all the families of this branch were spelling the name La Due, and continue to use this spelling today.

It is speculated (but not proven), that Abraham La Due or Ladow, was the father of Jane who married Samuel Bentley; and Thomas who married Jerusha (Peters). The two may have had a half brother names Stephen who was also mentioned in the will of Thomas Smith. It is believed that Abraham's father might have been Stephen Ladow who was born in 1732 and died in Milton, Saratoga Co., New York in on 24 Feb 1824 and left a bequest in his will to the children of his son Abraham, though he unfortuantely did not name them.

Again, this is speculation. The only fact that is known is that Thomas La Due was married to Jerusha (Peters) as this information was included in the will of her father wherein he "makes a bequest to Samuel & Jane the son and daughter of my daughter Jerusha by her 1st husband Thomas Ladoe."

The goal of all the La Due, etc researchers has been to link themself with the this patriarch, but unfortunately, though Pierre and his wife named their children in his will, most of their children did not leave wills of their own (at least that have been found) so the result is we're all little fallen branches trying to find our place on the tree. The following branch respresented here is that of Jane and Thomas, believed to be the children of Abraham, and it is from this point that the descendancy of Pierre Ladoux is presented.

Many thanks to Landis Bender for his research and contributions. Should you have any information you would like to share, or if you've found any errors, please feel free to contact Patricia Davidson-Peters.

In 1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860 Jane is listed as living in Brutus, Cayuga Co., New York. She died on 28 Nov 1865, and according to her headstone was aged eighty-one years, four months, and 25 days at the time of her death.

1. Maria Bentley - born 04 Jan 1806 in New York; married Lewis B. Mintogne or Montague, and died 15 Jan 1856.
2. Cecilia Bentley - born 04 Dec 1807 in New York; married Titus Smith on 06 Dec 1832 and died shortly after on 04 Jan 1833.
3. Stephen Ladue Bentley - born 28 Oct 1809 in New York; married Hettie Maria (Oglisbie) on 27 Mar 1836, she having been born in New Jersey in about 1814. He married (2) Mary Hedger on 12 Feb 1868, and died in Sennett, Cayuga Co., New York on 28 Apr 1872.
4. Sarah Bentley - born 12 Sep 1811 in New York; married Myron B. Rude on 03 Feb 1830, and died 26 Feb 1863.
5. Thomas S. Bentley - born 09 Jan 1814 in New York; married Jerusha (Healy) on 04 Sep 1844, and died in Cayuga Co., New York on 29 Apr 1888.
6. Jane Anne Bentley - born 19 Apr 1816 in New York; married J.H. Briggs on 24 May 1837, and died 23 Aug 1837.
7. George H. Bentley - born 14 May 1818 in Cayuga Co., NY; married Electa L. Gaylord on 15 Nov 1848, and died 09 Jul 1900 in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., New York.
8. Malissa Bentley - born September 1820 in Cayuga Co., NY, twin of Miranda, she died 12 Nov 1820.
9. Miranda Bentley - born September 1820 in Cayuga Co., NY, twin of Malissa, she died 28 Sep 1820.
10. Minerva Sophia Bentley - born 13 May 1823 in Cayuga Co., NY; married Cicero Webster on 07 Mar 1839 and was the mother of Chester Albert Wester who was born 20 Oct 1859 in Cato, Cayuga Co., New York.

Thomas died in Herkimer Co., New York in 1816 but his place of burial is not known. His widow Jerusha later married David Barclay who was born in New Jersey on 20 May 1793. The family appears in the 1840 census residing in Middlesex, Yates Co., New York and ten years later living in South Bristol, Ontario Co., New York. The 1850 census household includes both their daughters Ruth Ann and Jerusha. David died 30 May 1854 in Italy, Yates Co., New York and was laid to rest at the Italy-Naples Cemetery.

By 1855 Jerusha had returned to to Italy, New York where she was listed in the 1855 state census for Yates County. No record of her has been located in the 1860 census records, but she died in this place on 16 Feb 1869 and laid to rest beside her second husband, David Barclay.

1. Sarah La Due
2. Jane La Due
3. Samuel Peters La Due - born 12 May 1811 in Columbia, Herkimer Co., NY; married Sarah (Wright) 11 Aug 1831; died in Fertile, Polk Co., Minnesota on 08 Dec 1889.

1. Ruth Ann Barclay - born 16 Aug 1828 in New York; married Alfred Beeman 31 Dec 1851 in Canandaigua, Ontario Co., NY; died 05 Nov 1911 in Broome, Schohaire Co., NY.
2. Jerusha Barclay - born about 1831 in New York; married Alfred Holcomb 31 Dec 1851 in Canandaigua, Ontario Co., NY; died March of 1879 in Cohocton, Steuben Co., New York.
3. Charles Barclay - born about 1832 in New York; died 05 Feb 1841.

Maria died on 15 Jan 1856 in Elk Twp., and was laid to rest at Clendening Cemetery. Lewis removed to Jamestown, Chautauqua Co., New York and though he did no remain there long, he was enumerated in the 1860 census for that place and appears to have then been married to a woman by the name of Perlina. In 1870 a Lewis Mintonye was listed in the 1870 census residing in Union Borough, Erie Co., Pennsylvania whose age and place of birth matches that of Maria's husband - in this census he appears to be married to a woman by the name of Caroline. No date of death or place of burial is known.

1. Chauncey Lewis Mintonye - born 19 Apr 1825 in New York; died 27 Jul 1844 at the age of 19 years, 3 mos, and 8 days. He was laid to rest at Clendenning Cemetery in Elk Twp., Warren Co., PA.
2. Mary Mintonye - born about 1828 in New York; married Edward Reynolds and resided in Ellicott, Chautaqua Co., NY.
3. Viola Jenette Mintoyne - born 27 Aug 1846 probably in Elk Twp., Warren Co., PA; died 11 May 1847 at the age of eight months and fifteen days; laid to rest at Clendenning Cemetery in Elk Twp., Warren Co., PA.

It appears Hettie died sometime before 1868 when Stephen married (2) Mary Hedger on the 12th of February. In 1870 he had returned to Cayuga County and was residing in Mentz. He died two years later in Sennett, Cayuga Co., New York on 28 Apr 1872.

1. Stephen Bentley - born about 1837 in New York
2. Samuel Bentley - born about 1838 in New York
3. Michael O. Bentley - born 26 Oct 1839 in New York; married Jane A. Osborn.
4. George Bentley - born about 1841 in New York
5. Mary Jane Bentley - born 26 Apr 1847 in Cato, Cayuga Co., NY; married James S. McKissisk; died 06 Dec 1883 in Cayuga Co., NY.
6. Hettie M. Bentley - born about 1849 in New York.

In 1860 Myron was listed as a laborer, his wife and three daughters were listed in his household; but Sarah died a few years later on 26 Feb 1863. On 10 Aug 1866 he married Mrs. Tryphenia Cole in Van Buren, Onondaga Co., NY who was the daughter of Matthew Baker & Lydia (Millard) and widow of James Cole. Myron and Tryphenia were enumerated as a blended family in 1870 residing in the town of Ira, and in 1880 were living in the Village of Merdian.

It is believed that Myron B. Rude died in 1892 and was laid to rest at Meridian Cemetery. His wife Sarah was buried in God's Acre Cemetery in Weedsport as were his parents Gen. John "Orange" Rude who died 31 Mar 1830 and Phebe on 31 Aug 1830; and her parents Samuel, who died .

Note: The Myron Rude family has been extracted and indexed from the census records as Rude, Rood and Hood.

1. Phebe Rude - born about 1830 in New York.
2. Sarah Rude - born about 1832 in New York; enumerated as a tailoress in the 1860 census.
3. Myron Augustus Rude - born about 1834 in New York; died at the age of 21 years and nine months on 09 Feb 1856 and laid to rest at God's Acre Cemetery in Weedsport.
4. Celia A. Rude - born about 1839 in New York; enumerated as a milliner in the 1860 census.
5. Minnie Jerusha Rude - born 1848 in New York; enumerated as "Jerusha" in the 1850 census, and included in her father's 1870 household with his wife Tryphenia and her daughter Florence; and again in the 1870 census with her husband Frank Hunting in Daviess Co., Missouri. She died in 1906.

Thomas and Jerusha resided in Brutus where they were listed in the 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 census records. Jerusha died at the age of fifty-four years, nine months, and 15 days on 30 Jun 1881. Thomas died on 29 Apr 1888 at the age of seventy-four years, three months and twenty days. They were buried in Weedsport Rural Cemetery in Brutus, Cayuga Co., New York.

Note: John Mason Healy and his wife Sally (West) were laid to rest in Sennett Rural Cemetery.

1. George T. Bentley - born on or about 22 Aug 1834 in Cayuga Co., New York; died 02 Sep 1842 at the age of eight years and 11 days. He was laid to rest in the Weedsport Rural Cemetery.
2. Alfred H. Bentley - born Aug 1846 in New York; died 22 Jul 1907 in Cayuga Co., NY and laid to rest in Weedsport Rural Cemetery.
3. Cecilia Bentley - born about 1848 in New York; enumerated in the 1850 and 1860 census residing in Brutus, Cayuga Co., NY. May have been married to Seymour Hunting (brother of Frank M. Hunting), she having been born about 1839 and died 17 Jul 1875. Seymour born 1835 and died 07 Oct 1873 - both laid to rest in Weedsport Rural Cemetery.
4. Ellen Bentley - born about 1852 in New York; enumerated in the 1860 census residing in Brutus, Cayuga Co., NY.
5. Mary Bentley - born about 1854 in New York; enumerated in the 1860 & 1870 census residing in Brutus, Cayuga Co., NY.

The 1850 and 1860 household enumerating George and Electa, includes Hannah Gaylord. Cemetery inscriptions indicate she died 14 Mar 1863 at the age of 75, and her husband Silas having died 30 Jan 1841 at the age of 55. The Lawton family, enumerated next door in each of these census records, were also laid to rest in the Quaker Cemetery - thus the probability that Silas and Hannah were the parents of Electa.

In 1870 the family of George and Electa had grown to include four additional children, and son Edwin (or Erwin / Irwin) had died on 20 Apr 1863, at about age five. In 1880 and 1900 they were residing in Skaneateles. George died later that year on 09 Jul 1900 and his widow on 17 Mar 1909. They were laid to rest in Lakeview cemetery (Sec. 9, Lot 259).

Note: Electa's full name may have been Lydia Electa or Electa Lydia.

1. George Allen Bentley - born about 1850 in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., NY; married Emma O. Thornton and died 13 Aug 1908 in Siloam Springs, AR.
2. Charles Gaylord Bentley - born about 1852 in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., NY; married Katherine Rinner in Colorado Springs, CO on 14 Apr 1898.
3. William R. Bentley - born about 1855 in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., NY; married Kate Orr in that place on 15 Mar 1877 and died on 14 Jul 1878. Laid to rest in Lakeview Cemetery.
4. Edwin or Irwin Bentley - born about 1858 in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., NY; died 20 Apr 1863 and laid to rest in Lakeview Cemetery.
5. Walter L. Bentley - born about 1860 in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., NY.
6. Louisa May Bentley - born Aug 1862 in in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., NY; married Fred H. Loveless and died in Skaneateles on 18 Mar 1891.
7. Frank L. Bentley - born Jul 1865 in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., NY; married (1) Estella M. Hoxsie, married (2) Clara M. Parsell; died in Skaneaeteles on 30 Mar 1948.
8. Anson L. Bentley - born Oct 1869 in Skaneateles, Onondaga Co., NY; married Ida M. Sealy; died 17 Feb 1948.

Cicero and Minerva were enumerated in the 1850 census residing in the town of Cato. In 1860 their household included an eleven year-old girl named Ellen M. who was born in Massachusetts and she does not appear to be their daughter. Also listed is their one year-old son Chester A., and two boarders. In 1870 their son Chester was residing in their household, but by 1880 Cicero and Minerva were listed in Weedsport and their son Chester had moved out and was living at the boarding house of Carter Hickok in Auburn where he was working as a store clerk.

Cicero died sometime before 1900 when Minerva was listed as widowed and living at "The Home for the Friendless" located on 46 Grant Avenue. Here she is listed in the census as born May 1822, mother of one child which was living. Minerva died this same year on 16 Jul 1900 and was laid to rest in the Weedsport Rural Cemetery where it is presumed her husband is also buried.

1. Chester Albert Webster - born 20 Oct 1859 in Cato, Cayuga Co., New York; married Emma J. Little, the daughter of John H. and Mary E. in about 1882 and were the parents of Maude E. Webster.

His parents were from Saratoga County where the La Dues had settled since before the Revolutionary War in areas such as Galway and Halfmoon. At about age five his father died, and family notes suggest that he "was brought up more or less by an Uncle Thomas who had a carding and fulling mill and also was a tanner." No documentation has yet surfaced to confirm this information, but it would seem likely that he would be taken in by family.

Samuel was married to Sarah Maria (Wright) on 11 Aug 1831 at Esperence, Schohaire Co., New York where her father Calvin was living. She was born in that town on 01 Oct 1804 and was nearly twenty-eight years old when their first child was born in Otsego Co., New York. By 1840 the family had moved to Canada, and in 1845 were residing in Napanee.

A man with a violent temper, Samuel seemed to have had a calling and after "being converted was entirely freed from is control." He attended the Methodist Seminary in Lima, New York and joined the Wesleyan Methodist ministry and was a successful revivalist for years in the area known as the village of Napanee Mills in eastern Upper Canada. Although he performed baptisms as early as 1836, he is not enumerated as a clergyman in the census records until 1860 when the family was residing in Rockford, Floyd Co., Iowa. They had returned to the United States sometime between 1846 and 1850 when they were were enumerated in the Kenosha Co., Wisconsin census living in the town of Salem.

In 1870 Samuel was once again listed as a farmer, and his youngest son John, was enumerated as teaching school at Fall, Cerro Gordo, Iowa. Samuel has not been located in the 1880 census records - not in the Villiage of Plymouth in Falls Township, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, nor in Falls Township itself. Although records show he purchased 158.22 acres in Polk Co., Minnesota on 10 Nov 1882 and 160 acres on 20 Aug 1884, he also does not appear in the 1880 census for that county or near his son Calvin who was residing near there at the time.

Samuel and Sarah reappear in 1885 Minnesota State Census residing in the Aedle household of their son John Samuel La Due. He died a few years later in Fertile, Polk Co., Minnesota on 08 Dec 1889. His widow Sarah was enumerated in her son John's household in 1900, and passed away that year on the 26th of August.

Photo of Samuel P. La Due, Sarah & John (circa 1865)

Note: Samuel listed his name as Ladow at one time, but later spelled it La Due, which is the current spelling of his descendants who later resided in Minnesota.

1. Thomas Scott Ladow - born 07 Aug 1832 in Lawrence, Otsego Co., New York; married Martha.
2. Sarah W. Ladow - born about 1834 in New York; may have married David W. Poindexter.
3. Mary A. Ladow - born about 1840 in New York; may have married Charles W. Tenney.
4. Calvin Wright Ladow - born 20 Feb 1842 in Canada; married Olivia M. Sanford in 1866; died in Fertile, Polk Co., MN in 1891.
5. Louisa J. Ladow - born about 1844 in Canada; married Henry Tenney in Plymouth, Iowa.
6. Alice J. Ladow - born about 1846 in Canada; may have married John Gaylord in Nora Springs, Iowa.
7. John Ladow - born Feb 1854 in Wisconsin; married Sarah about 1874.

Ruth's husband Alfred Beeman appears to be the son of Abel and Ann who were also residing in South Bristol in 1850. According to the cemetery inscriptions, he was born on 08 Jun 1822. By 1860 Ruth and Alfred were married and living in Italy, Yates Co., New York with their two son Charles and Delford. In 1870 Alfred's widowed mother was residing with them in the Town of Benton along with son Charles and daughter Carrie, and in 1880 they were listed in Middlesex, Yates Co., New York.

Enumerated in the 1892 New York State Census, Alfred died seven years later on 02 Nov 1899. The following year his widow Ruth was listed as a widow residing in her son's 1900 household in Broome Co., New York. She not located on the 1910 census, but she died 05 Nov 1911 at the age of eighty-three years, two months and twenty days. They were buried in the historic Riverside Cemetery at Endicott (Old Union), Broome Co., NY.

1. A Grove of Family Trees RootsWeb File by Raymond Kinney (Online Link)
2. Ancestral file of Jean Gibson Kneeshaw at FamilySearch.org
3. Cemetery Inscriptions & Photos - Coye Cemetery (Ontario Co., NY)
4. Cemetery Inscriptions - Clendenning Cemetery (Warren Co., PA)
5. Cemetery Inscriptions - God's Acre Cemetery (Cayuga Co., NY)
6. Cemetery Inscriptions - Lakeview Cemetery (Onondaga Co., NY)
7. Cemetery Inscriptions - Weedsport Rural Cemetery (Cayuga Co., NY)
8. The Columbian - Newspaper editions and transcriptions provided by the Skaneateles Historical Society
9. Facts Regarding Weedsport New York by Lazelle R. Hopkins, A.M., 1933
10. History of Cayuga County, New York ..by Elliot G. Storke; D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, NY, 1879
11. History of Ontario County, New York : with illustrations and family sketches by Lewis Cass Aldrich, Syracuse, NY; D Mason, 1893
12. History of Ontario County, New York and its people, Volume 1, by Charles F. Milliken, Harvard University Pub. Co., 1911
13. History of Warren County, Pennsylvania, by J.S. Schenck, D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, NY, 1887; p. 300, 508
14. The McKusick Family Genealogy compiled by Charles E. McKusick (Online Link)
15. New York, Broome County Federal Census: 1900
16. New York, Cayuga County Federal Census: 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900
17. New York, Chautaqua County Federal Census: 1850, 1860
18. New York, Herkimer County Federal Census: 1810
19. New York, Onondaga County Federal Census: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900
20. New York, Onondaga County State Census: 1855, 1865, 1892
21. New York, Ontario County Federal Census: 1880
22. New York, Yates County Federal Census: 1860, 1870, 1880
23. New York, Yates County State Census: 1892
24. Pennsylvania, Erie County Federal Census: 1870
25. Pennsylvania, Warren County Federal Census: 1840
26. Research & Family Notes of Landis Bender
27. Riverside Cemetery Biographical Database on-line at The Goetz Family of Endicott, New York
28. “The Weekly Recorder" Marriages & Deaths (1866-1867) published in Fayetteville, Onondaga Co., NY
29. William Marks of Naples by Beth B. Flory, 2003 at The Crooked Lake Review

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