Lewis DuBois

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Lewis DuBois (1744–March 4, 1824) was an American Revolutionary War officer from Dutchess County, New York. He came from the DuBois family, descendants of Louis Dubois who founded the early Huguenot settlement at New Paltz, now part of the Huguenot Street Historic District. Before the war, he worked as a carpenter in Poughkeepsie.

Born in 1744, he was baptized on September 9, 1744 in Fishkill, New York. His father, Elias DuBois (born 1722 in Ulster County), and his mother, Susannah Vanderburgh (born 1725 in Poughkeepsie), later lived in Dutchess County.

DuBois joined the Provincial Militia in 1762 at age 18. On June 28, 1775, he was commissioned as a captain to form a Dutchess County company for Colonel James Clinton's 3rd New York Regiment in the Canadian Campaign. On June 21, 1776, he was promoted to colonel and began raising the 5th New York Regiment. He was taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery on October 6, 1777.

He resigned his commission on December 22, 1779, but by 1780 he was commanding a regiment of New York Levies in the Mohawk Valley. After the war he was promoted to brigadier general and led the Dutchess County Militia from 1787 to 1793. He also served as sheriff of Dutchess County from 1781 to 1785 and as a member of the New York State Assembly in 1786 and 1787.

Lewis DuBois died on March 4, 1824.