François Dubois, a hatmaker (fabricant de chapeaux), age 40, is recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
François Dubois, a hatmaker (Hutmacher), and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23.
The 1764 list of colonists records that François Dubois came from the French area of St. Germain. The 1767 census records that François Dubois came from the French city of Paris.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dubois family among the Volga German colonies.
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