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The earliest pages of the Sandtoft Register having been lost, the ancestry of Leuren des Cou could not be traced to connect with any Coat of Arms.

The Flags of the Three Countries with which his family is associated seems an appropriate accompaniment to their history.

THE

GENEALOGY

OF THE

DECOU FAMILY

SHOWING THE DESCENT OF THE MEMBERS
OF THIS FAMILY IN AMERICA

FROM

LEUREN des COU

of the Sandtoft Colony, a Huguenot Settlement
in Lincolnshire, England, founded about 1630.

COMPILED BY

S. ELLA DECOU

of Trenton, N. J.

and

JOHN ALLEN DECOU

of Moorestown, N. J.

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State Papers in Les Archives Nationales, Paris, France.

Friends' Meeting Records at Devonshire House, London.

Friends' Meeting Records at Monthly Meetings in Yorkshire, England.
State Papers at Somerset House, London.

Prerogative Court Records of Canterbury.

Public Records in Yorkshire.

Records of Huguenot Churches in England.

Publications of Huguenot Society of London.

State Papers of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Friends' Meeting Records of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Archives of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Family Records in the United States and Canada.
Charles W. Baird's different books on the Huguenots.

MSS. in a Red Box.

"Book About Yorkshire," by J. S. Fletcher.

"Lives of the Engineers," by Samuel Smiles.

Articles in The Friends' Intelligencer.

Lives of prominent Friends.

PLAN OF MARKING

A system of letters and figures has been used so that each name may have its own mark and avoid the high numbers necessitated by so many names. Chart I is the oldest record so far obtained with certainty, and is continued by Charts II and III. Chart II contains all that is known of that line. Chart III, the only double-page chart, is the key to the entire work, being the line of Isaac A, the progenitor of all the family in this country, and whose line has been carried to the present time. He can always be recognized by the Greek letter Delta, which is used only for him. On the double-page Chart III his children are distinguished by the Arabic numerals-1, 2, etc., in heavy face type; his grandchildren by the capital letters A, B, etc. Each of these forms the initial letter of the

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