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| | Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Douw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The coat-of-arms of the Douw family, as it was depicted upon the window of the old Dutch church in Albany, New York, and as was borne by Volckert Jansen Douw, is as follows: Field: Argent, on a fess azure a demi-female robed gules, holding in her dexter hand a bird sable, behind an anchor sable. |
 | | Her father was Mayor Johannes De Peyster of Albany, born in New Amsterdam, January 10, 1694, died at Albany, February 27, 1789, married, at Albany, November 24, 1715, Anna Schuyler (daughter of Mayor Myndert Schuyler), born in Albany, February 27, 1697, died at Albany, September 13, 1750. |
 | | Deborah Matilda, born at Albany, April 19, 1835; residing in Albany in 1911; became a missionary to China, and was present in the city of Peking throughout the terrible Boxer uprising and siege of 1898, after which she returned to Albany. |
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