Hester was baptized October 9, 1625. Witnesses: Jean du Bois, her uncle, Jean Desmullie, widow of Pierre Du Bois, the grandmother; and Esther Pierquin.

The record says her father was a Huguenot of Amsterdam, though late of Canterbury, England where Esther was born and baptized. (Lafayette De La Mater, Descendants of Claude Le Maitre, 1882, pg. 17). She said she was born and reared in a humble home. On "the quiet Sabbath, she was wont to accompany her parents to the grand old cathedral, and down by a flight of stone steps into the solemn crypt or vault, where the French and Walloons used to meet for divine service, a privilege long before granted them by good Queen Bess." (James Riker, History of Harlem, pg. 424)

History says that King Edward VI gave a charter, on July 24, 1550, to Protestant refugees allowing them to worship in their own manner. Many Huguenots began moving to England. They had 4 churches: Canterbury, Norwich, Southampton, and London.

She was received into the Walloon Church of Amsterdam 15 August 1649, from the French Church, at Threadneedle Street, London, England (Membership Record 46B; n.p., FHL 113,405). Soon after their marriage, she and Claude moved to New Netherlands (New York). The Attestations of the Walloon Church in Amsterdam include the following entry, 8 June 1653 "Ester du Bois pour Neue Nederland" (Attestations 50C; n.p. FHL 113, 409)

After Claude died, she married Jan Tibout, former schoolmaster at Flatbush, NY, and the parish clerk of New Harlem. In view of this event, she and Tibout had entered into an agreement, on September 23 preceding, with her sons Jan and Isaac, and son-in-law Bussing (who together took the real estate, having power to do so from the absent heirs, Abraham and Jacobus Delamater, and Moses Le Count), by which she was to "have the free use of the house and erf at the strand," while she lived, and Jan and Isaac were to pay her twenty-seven schepels of wheat yearly. "Should any land be drawn during Hester's lifetime, it shall belong to them both, to wit, Jan Tibout and Hester Du Bois." Some say Hester died in New Jersey.

NOTE: Pierre Billiou was a Walloon from near Lille, France. He married Francoise du Bois at Leyden, Holland on April 1649. She was a sister of Louis du Bois, who later lived in Esopus. Both are thought to be from the Canterbury family for which Hester descended. This kinship, probably, is the cause for three of the Delamater children going to the Esopus area to live. 

-From an Ancestry Family Tree, lists sources from a book "Connecting with our Past: A Genealogy of Descendants of Claude Le Maistre Celebrating 350 Years in America."