Deblois, Lewis, 1760-1833

Lewis Deblois was born in Boston, the son of Gilbert DeBlois and Ann Coffin. He moved to Washington from Philadelphia in 1794 and became a land agent for John Nicholson, later establishing himself as a merchant in Alexandria. He married Ruth Hooper Dalton on July 21, 1789. After the War of 1812, the Deblois family moved to Massachusetts, where worked as a weigher and gauger at the Boston Custom House. He's buried at King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston.