The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

THE NAME DUPUY IN FRANCE. 91
of visitation throughout the country, whose Chap.
duty was to decide upon their lawful authority.
Still more, such escutcheons sprung up
under rank rule and domination of Roman
Catholicism, but when in the 16th century
some descendants in Languedoc of the early
Dupuys became adherents to the Reformed
Religion, there is no evidence that they ever
set any store by such things, and least of all
is there the slighkst evidence that the one of
whom this volume treats ever laid any claim
to a Coat of Arms. In addition, a careful
perusal of the laws of Heraldry will convince
any lover of truth and honesty how absurd it
is for the descendants of Bartholomew Dupuy
to lay any rightful claim, in this late day to a
special Coat of Arms, which was framed
about six himdred years ago. And they should
aspire to claim,
"No forged tables
Of long descent, to boast false honors from."
From one or another of the four sons of
Hugo Dupuy, the crusader, have descended
all the Dupuys of this country, whose ancestors
were identified with the reformed religion
of France. We know there were no less than
five Huguenot Dupuys, who immigrated to
this country and probably there were more,
the several thousands of French refu-
among
gees, who found homes of peace in these parts
of America.
Two brothers, Nicholas and Francis Dupuy, Nicholas
fled from Paris in the fifties of the 17th cen- and
tury, and during the next decade they em- Dupuy.
igrated to America, and settled in the state
of New York, where some of their descendants
still reside. Dr. Richard B. Faulkner,
i .