On 27.08.1706 first documented mention of the fuller (dyer) Peter Deboor [] and his wife Johanna Maria [] who, for the price of 1500 gulden, acquires a fulling mill in the Neustadt Hanau. The down payment was 400 gulden, 1100 remained as a mortgage on the mill.

Five years later an official call for the public auctioning of the fulling mill of Peter Debor in the Haingasse. The announcement is dated 09.07.1711. The mill is being auctioned off since "ein Kapital von Eilfhundert Gulden und verschiedene Jahr rückständige Pensiones, sodann 300 Gulden in drey verschiedenen jährlichen Terminen an dem Capital abzulegen schuldig geblieben ist" (an amount of eleven hundred gulden and several years' outstanding interest, and also 300 gulden in three annual payments on the capital are still owed). Through friends, Peter Debor asks for patience, "anders währe er mit seinen 6 Kindern ein verdorbner Mann" (as otherwise he with his 6 children would be a ruined man). He then sends a petition in this matter to the council of the Count. Here, he signs it himself as Peter de Bois. The consistency of these documents makes it clear beyond doubt that this is the same man who earlier was referred to as Peter Debor or later as Peter Deboor. Peter himself participates in the auction, in the written record he appears as Peter Deboir. He outbids all others, but does not get the nod, and the reasons for this are detailed.
But it appears that he remained - as tenant? - in the fulling mill. The new owner mentions him as Peter Tepor. And only the next buyer of that mill reports on 04.01.1721 the departure of the Debohr in a complaint concerning the removal of an iron stove and the destruction of various items. Peter is interrogated, the questioning recorded. In an undated document, the new owner of the fulling mill then complains about the daughter of Peter de Bor, "so bey ihrer Großmutter hier in der Altstadt sitzet, in Beiden Städten aus- und ab- und sogar denen des Tuchmachern in die Häuser gehet und alles zusammen aus der Stadt hinausschleppt, wodurch gnädigster Hoher Herrschaft das Lochgeld ab und mir und den Meinigen aber die Nahrung platterdings gäntzlich entgehet" (who lives with her grandmother in the old part of town, but freely moves about in all parts of town and even enters the houses of the cloth makers and carries it all out of town, whereby the 'Loch'-geld is lost to the high lords while the very food is taken from me and mine).

This `carrying out' may perhaps be connected to the fact that Peter's son Andreas has taken up the father's profession and operates a fulling mill in Stockstadt (not all that far from Hanau, in Bavaria, on the Main river by Aschaffenburg). A complaint against the fuller Debor, dated 24.10.1731, refers to him, as is clear from the documents. Andreas Thebor, Andreas du Bois of Stockstadt "untersteht sich" (has the gall) to assert that he could work 1 Loch of cloth in 12 hours, while the Masters in Hanau affirm that it takes 48 hours.

In 1739, this Andreas Tebohr applies for the count's fulling mill in Hanau. Through the building of a mill in Babenhausen (slightly west of Stockstadt) he has incurred debts. He has to suffer from the "Verdrüßlichkeiten und Verleumdungen der anderen Müller" (peevishness and slanders of the other millers). He is forced to leave the mill and "sein Stück Brod anderwärts zu suchen" (to seek his piece of bread elsewhere). He would like to lease the count's fulling mill in Hanau, "als ein Hanauisch und in der andern Walckmühle dahier erzogenes und gebohrenes Kind" (as someone born and raised here in Hanau in the other fulling mill). In a report on this, he is called "Müller Deboir". He signs a report, dated 03.03.1739, as Andreas Deboir. His application is successful. On 21.03.1739, Andreas Deboir, miller at the mill near Harreshausen, is accepted as a sock fuller in the count's fulling mill. He signs the employment contract as Andreas Debohr. The mill manager calls him in a report "Walcker Te bour“.