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The Putman Family Bulletin
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The Dutch-American Putman Linage in DNAThere are now four Putnam/Putmans whose YDNA match and who report that they descend from Johannes Pootman and Cornelia Bradt of Schenectady, New York. Three of the tests were done with Family Tree DNA and one was done with Ancestry.com. Of the tests done with Family Tree DNA, two are with 37 Markers and one with 67 Markers. Using the Haplo-I Subclade Predictor, which is located on the Internet, and using the first 37 Markers, it shows that the Dutch-American Putman YDNA is type I1 M253-AS10 with an 80% probability. However, when inputting the 67 Markers there is a 60% probability that the Putman YDNA is I1 M253-ASGen and a 10% probability that it is AS10. So, it would seem that the Dutch-American Putman family is ASGen or Anglo-Saxon Generic. The spreadsheet below shows the Y-DNA sequence of the three currently matching Putnams who actually are Pootmans along with the sequence for what is likely ancient Pootman YDNA sequence. The origin of ASGen10 is Netherlands, Denmark, and Northern Germany. The information in the
spreadsheet below comes from
http://ysearch.org
DD8VD
has a DYS385b value of 14, a DYSCDYa value of
36, and a DYS442 value of
11. These values seem to indicate a descendant of Arent Janse Pootman.
A DYS439 value of 12 and a DYS458 value of 14
separates the Pootman's from M253-ASGeneric [which is
11 and 15
respectively]. At DYS389-1 and DYS389-2, ASGeneric has values of 12
and 28. It appears to me that the Pootman values of
13 and 29 at DYS389-1 and 2 are more recent
mutations then DYS439 and DYS458 [12, 14]. The Pootman line in DNA, which starts with Haplogroup I, we may display
as follows: The ancient origin of Haplogroup I seems to have been in the Western Balkans, and descends from one person who lived there before the last glacial maximum.
To view results from the Putnam DNA Project click Results. I would encourage anyone who is a Dutch-American Putman or any other Putnam/Putman who is a male [with the surname Putnam/Putman] to have their Y-DNA tested to expand the database. You get the best rates as a member of the Putnam DNA Project Group: Recruitment. The Pootmans and the Chattii, Batavii, and SaliiOur early Poortman or Pootman ancestor was a member it appears of a Germanic tribes of Belgium or the Netherland. It may have been a member of the Chatti, Batavii, or Salii tribe.The Batavii were originally part of the Chatti tribe. The Batavii migrated between 100 BC and 50 BC from North Hessen to the island now called Betuwe, which was between the Waal and Rhine Rivers in the Roman province of Lower Germany now called South Holland and North Brabant. The Batavii were excellent horsemen. The Batavii tribe was mentioned in The Notitia Dignitatum of the 5th Century AD. The Batavians revolted in 69 AD under the Batavian leader called Gaius, or Claudius, Julius Civilis near the border between Germany and the Netherlands or near Nijmegen. At that time the stronghold was called Noviomagus Batavodurum. The Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, who were reportedly formed together from the Batavians, Frisians, Franks, and Saxons. The Batavians were mentioned by Julius Caesur in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentary on the Belgic Wars]. Caesur indicated the Batavii were living on an island in the Rhine River where it splits with one arm being the Waal and the other the Old Rhine. This high bank of the Waal offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenanum [Germania Beyond the Rhine]. The site was recognized first by Drusus who built a fortress, or castra, and a headquarters, or praetorium. The headquarters was used until the Batavian revolt. The Batavii lived in small villages made up of 6 to 12 houses in the fertile lands between the rivers. They were farmers and cattle-raisers and were also equestrians. At what is now Nijmegen a Roman administrative center was built called Oppidum Batavorum. Oppidum meant fortified warehouse. Here the tribe's treasures were stored. This centre was destroyed in the Batavian Revolt. The Batavians were still mentioned in 355 during the reign of Constantius II. Their island was then dominated by the Salii a Frankish tribe that had sought Roman protection on the island in 297 AD after having been expelled from their own country by the Saxons. Constantius Gallus added inhabitants of Batavia to his legions. It is assumed the Batavii merged with the Salii shortly before or after, and after having been expelled by another tribe, perhaps the Chamavi after 358 AD, they shared a migration to Toxandria, which today is called Brabant. The Chattae or Chatti tribe occupied today's central and northern Hesse region. It is thought that the name Hesse comes from this tribe. The Chatti also occupied parts of Lower Saxony and were the mother tribe of the Batavii, or Batavians, who left the Chatti trbe after a quarrel. The Chatti were one of the tribes that banded to together to defeat Varrus’ legions at the Herrmannschlacht in 9 AD, which kept Rome out of Germany. Later, the chatti were incorporated into the Franks. The Salii were, it appears also called the Sicambri. The name meant "those who lived near the [salt] sea". The Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally lived north of the limes [border region] in the coastal area above the Rhine River in northern Netherlands. The Merovingian kings were of Salians. From the 3rd century on, the Salian Franks appear in records as warlike Germanic people and pirates, and as allies of the Romans. They were the first Germanic tribe from beyond the limes that settled permanently on Roman land. The Salians fully adopted the Frankish identity and ceased to appear by their original name from the 5th century onward, when they evolved into the Franks before the Ripuarian Franks were mentioned. [This information was found at Wikipedia]. I think it is interesting that the YDNA of the Pootman family is close to the YDNA of the Selinger and Franck families. Perhaps, just a coincidence:
Salland is a historical region in the west and north of the Dutch province of Overijssel through which the Ijssel River runs. The Ijssel was named for the Sali People so it seems. It is likely that the Salian Franks originated from Salland. The Old Belgic Map The "Belgii Veteris Typis", or The Belgium Old Map, shows the tribes of Belgium during Roman times. Tribes of note are the Chattii and Batavii. The area of Toxanderia included the Salii who were later the Salian Franks. To see the map, click hyperlink The Old Belgium Map David Portman / PotmanPotterstown, New JerseyThere is a site on the internet about the Christopher Voght family of Clinton, New Jersey. Christopher Voght married Cornelia Davidse Potman, or Portman, the daughter of David Potman who was a son of Johannes and Cornelia Pootman of Schenectady, New York. The David Janse Pootman family also used the name Portman according to the Voght record. In an article on the Voght's . . . http://hunterdonhomes.com/history/TheVoughtHouse.pdf . . . it appears that David Potman deeded his homestead to Henry R. Traphegan his grandson. Christopher Vought was said to have lived between Potterstown and New Germantown [Oldwick], New Jersey. It seems David Potman lived next to Christopher Voght or just below today's McCrea Mills, New Jersey, just northeast of Potterstown. David probably lived along the middle brook of the Rockaway Creek. Probably, just below the David Potman plantation was the Van Horne Plantation located near what is today White House, New Jersey. Christopher Vought later removed a few miles west to the Raritan River and just north of Clinton, New Jersey. The 1741 Census of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, shows that David Potman lived in Readington Township probably near Potterstown. Cornelia Potman married first Ralph Traphegan by who she had two children: Sarah and Henry. Sarah married Gerrit Covenhoven, or Conover. Sarah probably inherited or purchased a division of the plantation of David Potman] with her brother Henry. Just northeast of Potterstown is Covenhoven Road, which was probably at one time on the Potman Plantation. I have received and an email, recently, that stated that David Potman purchased land from Mathius Van Horne in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, [about 1722]. Mathius Van Horne's wife was Fyke Adamse Brower who married first Evert Hendrickson Van Gelder. Fyke and Evert had a daughter named Helena who may have married David Potman. The Van Horne's about 1722 removed to White House about the same time that David removed to Potterstown, which is just upstream from White House along the Rockaway Creek. The Upper Freehold land sold to David Potman was next to that of Cornelius and Abraham Van Horne's tract. The latter two were sons of Mathius Van Horne and Fyke Brower. David Potman's Plantation may have rested in both Readington and Tewksbury Townships. In the 1741 Hunterdon Census, David Potman is listed in Readington while Simon Voght, Christopher Voght's father is listed in Tewksbury.
This 1874 map shows Potterstown, Whitehouse, and New Germantown. David Potman lived just north and then east of Potterstown probably along what is Lance Road. The Putman Family Name Once Was PootmanWhich Meant PortmanOr, GatemanA European email correspondent has told me that the Pootman family name means Portman . . . or a person who keeps guard at a gate or port . . . a person who may also be called a doorman at a castle. Many of the Pootman's of the Duisburg, Germany, area in the early records of the 1600's also used the name Poortmann. If you check the internet for early Pootman's in Europe, the names Portman and Pootman are used interchangeably. The "r" in Portman was apparently dropped. Other names for Portman in Dutch are De Poorter and De Pooter . . . and Van Der Poorten and Van Der Pooten. There is information on the Internet, that indicates in Professor Debrabandere book of Belgium names Potmans and Pothman are also variants of the name Poortman. Use of these names goes back to about the year 1200 AD. In American, there are occurrences where the Dutch-American Pootman family last name was spelled Poortman. Rhoda J. Ensweiler Cline in her book on her family says that Johannes Pootman's last name was also spelled Poortman. In the Baptism Record of Schenectady Reformed Church, 1694-1811, it lists Teunis Pootman, or Putman, as Teunis Poortman at a Barheit/Pootman baptism in 1742. It seems that Johannes Pootman's son Cornelius Janse Pootman had descendants that used the last name Portman or Poortman. Also, Cornelius Portman who was listed in the 1790 MY Census was a Putman. Johannes Pootman,Cornelia Bradt:Johannes Pootman, or Johannes Putman, and Cornelia Bradt. Children:1. Arent Pootman And His Descendants. Born about 1676. 2. Mary Pootman and Her Descendants. Born about 1678 3. Victor Pootman and His Descendants. Born about 1680. 4. David Pootman and His Descendants. Born in 1684. 5. Cornelius Pootman and His Descendants. Born about 1686. 6. Catherine Pootman and Her Descendants. Born about 1688.
Johannes Pootman's Beautiful HandWhen Jan Hendrickse Van Baal, apprenticed Johannes Pootman to work for Philip Hendrickson Brower in September 1661 in Albany, it was said that Johannes wrote his name in a "beautiful hand”.
Johannes Pootman's Signature Burning of SchenectadyOn the night of February 8, 1690, the French and Indians knowing they could not over take Albany determined, instead, to plunder and destroy the small stockade village just to the west of Albany--Schenectady. When the French and Indian's attacked Schenectady, it was burned and many of it inhabitants were killed.
Schenectady Massacre Johannes Poetman, or Pootman, and Cornelia Bradt were among those who were killed that night. Victor PootmanAalburg, The NetherlandsFrom the naming of his children, Johannes Pootman's father would have been a Victor Pootman. Johannes' first son Arent was named for Cornelia Arentse Bradt's father Arent Andries Bradt. The next son of Johannes and Cornelia Pootman was named Victor, which indicates that Johannes' father was a Victor, also. Johannes Pootman's father was according to tradition a dominee, or minister, in The Netherlands. Perhaps, he was a schoolmaster. About the time Johannes Pootman's birth, 1645, Victor Pootman was a schoolmaster in Aalburg, North Brabant, Netherlands. The names Victor and Pootman are both very, very, uncommon names, so it would seems that Johannes Pootman was connected with Victor Pootman of Aalburg. Johannes and Cornelia Pootman's first son Arent married Elizabeth Akkerman who family was from area of S'Hertogenbosch just a few miles east of Aalburg. Also, Cornelia's stepfather-in-law Klaus Van Bokhoven was from Bokhoven, which is only a couple of miles east of Aalburg. Was Johannes Pootman the son of Victor Pootman of Aalburg? It's seems very possible.
Land of Kleve, GermanyThe Home of a Number of PootmannsThe Dutch-American Putman family homeland may have been the ancient Land of Cleve, Germany, which at one time included parts of Brabant. Cleve is Latin for "cliff". Looking over the Internet, I've discovered that the last name Pootmann was common in the neighborhood of Voerde, Germany, in the early 1600's. Wilhelmus Pootman in 1683 was "Vesalia Clivensis, Ex classibus ibidem promotus". "Vesalia Clivenis" is Latin and means the Town of Wesel in the Duchy of Cleve. In 1614, a Marijtje Jans Pootman married Jan van Roocke in Leiden, South Holland. Marijtje Jans was probably the sister of Garret Janse Pootman. Maritje was born in the Kettwig, Duchy of Cleve. Kettwig is near the cities of Essen and Duisburg, Germany in the bottom of the old Duchy of Cleve. Voerde includes the suburbs of Stockum, Spellen, and Goetterswickerhamm. In the late 1600's and early 1700's, there were Pootmanns in the later towns. Voerde is in the northern part of the Old Dutch of Cleve. From Familysearch.org., we find that Gordt [Gerrit] Pootman was baptized at the Freimersheim Church, which is on the Rhine River just above Duisburg. Gordt Pootman seems have lived at Goetterswickerhamm. There were a few Pootmans or Poortmans who lived in East Flanders or Belgium near Aarschott The Ruhrpott: The Pott Home of Poots, Potts, Pootmanns, Pottmans, Potmanns, and PutmannsThe Ruhrpott is what is commonly called the Pott. It is a coal mining area in Germany at the intersection of the Rhine, Lippe, and Ruhr Rivers. This is the general home of the families called Poortman, Pootman, Pottman, and Putman although the names may have different meanings and origins. The name Pootmann was also spelled Pottmann. The name Ruhrpott means the Ruhr basin or valley called officially the Ruhrgebeit. A "gebiet" is a region. Wendal Putman, an early 1900's American writer on the Pootman or Putman family, said that the Dutch-American Putman family was from the area of Duisburg and had a coat of arms with three boars heads at the top and what looked like coal hods or buckets. The Ruhrpott, or Pott, is also called the "Kohlenpott" or Coal Region. "Pott" may mean a large tub or crucible. Pootman/PostmanThe immigrant ancestor of the American Putman family was Johannes Pootman -- 1645-1690. The name Pootman comes from Poortman meaning Gateman to a Castle. The German word "porto", also, means postage. Norwegian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674, says that name Pootman also was spelled or meant Postman. In Dutch, a messenger is a "bode", and in German he was called a "bote". The root is the Dutch word "bod", which means to bid, or command, from which we get English bode. In Sweden, a porter is called a "stadsbud". A few Dutch-American Pootman's, or Putman's, who attended the German Lutheran Church of Herkimer County, New York, in the 1800's, spelled their name Bodman and Bottman. Alkmaar, North HollandThe Dutch Mohawk Valley Putman family originally spelled their name Pootman, and on the Vedder and Groat family websites our early surname is spelled Poetman. I have not found any reference in early records in which the Pootman family name was spelled Poutman,: however, Eben Putnamm of New England used the spelling. The name Pootman is pronounce, it appears, like Boatman. On search engines, if you type in the words "pootman holland", a listing for the Pootman, or Poeytman/Poitman, family, of North Holland, comes up. This Pootman family was recorded in the church inventory of the 1400's and 1500's in Alkmaar, North Holland. Poentic Kill: Putman CreekWest out of Schenectady, New York, runs Putnam Road where the children of Johannes and Cornelia Pootman first received grants of land from Queen Ann about 1710. Putnam Road runs along Poentic Creek. Putnam Road was "The Road to Mohawk Country" and ran a mile or so south of the Mohawk River. Poentic Creek may have been an Indian name for the Pootman family, which was also known as Poetman. The Putman family was known in the 1600's and early 1700's as the Pootman family. During the late 1700's, the name was changed to Pottman and Potman and on at least one occasion Puttman. It was not until the American Revolutionary War, 1776, that the family began using the English rendition Putman. Some Pootmans' today also use the spelling Putnam. My Putnam FamilyAccording to my YDNA, the Putmans of Tuscola County, MI, descend from Johannes Pootman. I once asked my father from where did our family come. He said that his father, Claude, told him we were Scotch of Dutch. From my research, it appears that Claude's mother was of Scottish ancestry and his father was of Dutch ancestry. Great Grandfather--William C. Putman in the 1880 Michigan Census indicated that his parents were from New Jersey, so it appears my family descends from Johannes and Cornelia Pootman's son David of Potterstown. David was born in the 1680's and died in 1761. David Potman or Pootman also known as Portman probably had two sons John and Victor. It appears John Putnam [Potman] was associated with the Swayze and Hopkins families of Hopkins Corner, New Jersey, which is near Hamburg where it appears his son John Putman II lived during the 1793 Military Census. It appears Victor Potman had two sons John V. Pottman and Peter V. Potman, or Pottman, and lived in the area near Portland, Pennsylvania, along the west bank of the Delaware River. John Pottman remained near Portland, Pennsylvania, until about 1790 when he removed to Luzerne County. In 1800, he is in Niagara County, New York. Peter Putman [Potman] in 1793 lived near Bevens, New Jersey, opposite Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania. Peter V. Putman and his children removed just west of Porter's Corner, Yates County, New York, about 1815. John Putman [II] of Hardyston, New Jersey, married a Sina and had son John [III] who married Jane Stull. The later two and their children removed to Schuyler County, New York, just below Porters Corners. Great Grandfather William C. Putman came to Caro and Tuscola County, MI, in the mid-1850's when the Thumb of Michigan was the lumbering capital of the world. He probably came from Delhi, Ontario, Canada, which a few years earlier might have had the same claim. It seems that William C. Putman was born in 1834 near Porters Corners, removed to Ontario, and finally settled in Michigan. Peter V. Putman had a son John who lived near Porters Corners and removed to Delhi, Ontario, about 1843. William C. Putman was said to have worked on Ontario's Welland Canal. As a witness to the purchase of his homestead, William C. Putman used Abel Eveland who also lived just south of Porter's Corners, New York. Abel was the guardian of a Francis Marion Goldry a descendant of David Potman of Potterstown, New Jersey. David Potman's daughter Sophia, or Fyke, married Thomas Auten, and they had a daughter, Helena, who married Oliver Goltry. Abel Eveland also had a daughter, Mary, who married a grandson of John Putman and Jane Stoll. Abel also a son who married Harriet Stoll who was it appears a close related of Jane Stoll.
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