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Nicholas DuPuy was the first settler of Shawnee. In 1727 he purchased 3000 acres of land, including the islands of Shawano and Manwalamink, from the Minsi Indians. He was a grandson of Nicholas DuPuy and his wife Catherine DeVos, Huguenot refugees from Artois France who, with their sons Nicholas, John, and Moses, arrived in New Amsterdam in 1662. In 1750 William Allen conveyed five acres of land to Nicholas DuPuy and others for a Dutch Reformed congregation that is now the Presbyterian church.
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