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David (Johannes) Pootman, Putman

Also, Known as Potman and Portman

            David Johannes Potman, or Putman, was born in November 1684 according to the  Traphagen Bible now at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.  David’s daughter Cornelia married Rolf Hendrickse Traphagen.  

            David was likely born in Schenectady, New York.

            By 1705, David Pootman with his two sister's . . . Maria Johannes Pootman, who married Steven Bedeut, and Catherine Johannes Pootman, who married Cornelius Post . . . removed to Brooklyn, or Gowanus, New York.  It is probable that David was associated with Adam Brower's Mill, which was the largest enterprise in Gowanus.

            It seems that while in Gowanus, David became acquainted with the Mathius Van Horne and the Thise families of Gowanus.

            Between 1700 and 1710, the names of Catalyntje, Maria, and David Potman are recorded in the records of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York and Brooklyn.

              In the division of the estate of his grandmother Catalinytje De Vos' in 1715, David Pootman returned for a short time to Schenectady, New York, where he signed his name to the papers it seems as either Daved Pateman, Paterman, or Portman. 

            According to De Witt Putman, an 1800's history of the family, David married an Elizabeth Beekman.  David according to this tradition passed down by De Witt Putman married in Albany, New York, a Ms. Beekman.

This information was published by De Witt in the Schenectady news paper; however, if it is true, Elizabeth must have been David's second wife as it appears he married first Helena Van Gelder. 

            Henry Martinse Beekman and Anna Peterse Quackenbush lived in Schodack, New York, but  removed to Raritan, New Jersey.  It is possible that David may have married their daughter Lydia, who may have used the name Elizabeth.  Henry and Anna had  a daughter named Magdelena who was born about 1700, but she was too young to have married David and have children by 1711.   Also, David Potman's wife was called Helena in early records, and they named their second daughter Fyke, which is not a Beekman name.  

            Mr. Sissler, a genealogist in the Raritan, New Jersey, area, reports that  a land  deed show David Potman's wife to be Helena.  This land deed may have been between David Potman and Helena his wife and Mathius Van Horne and his wife Fyke Adamse Brower, who were the step-father and mother of Helena Van Gelder who it seems married David Potman.

            Known children of David Potman according to baptisms were Cornelia, baptized in 1711, Fyke, or Sophia, baptized in 1712, and two other unnamed children baptized in 1714 and 1721.

              David's first son would have have been named after Johannes Pootman, and the name Victor would have been used by another son, so John and Victor Potman seems to have been children of David Potman. 

            Cornelia Davidse Potman, was after her grandmother, Cornelia Bradt, the wife of Johannes Pootman.  Cornelia married married Rudolf Traphagen, and had daugther a Sarah and a son Henry.  Cornelia married second Christopher Voght who lived next to the Potman's when they lived north of Potterstown.

            Sophia, or Fyke, Potman and married Thomas Auten, and may have died young.  They had at least one daughter Helena who married Oliver Goldry, Jr.

              David Potman seems to have lived in Gowanus or Brooklyn, New York, from 1705 to 1710 when he removed, it appears, to Wickatunk, New Jersey, which is in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, and just across the from Brooklyn.  The Middletown Dutch Reformed Church was organized about 1710,

            David likely went up the Matawan River to Wickatunk with the Barber, Tice, Van Horne, and, Van Gelder families, and probably lived in the neighborhood of today's Tice Road on the border between Middlesex and Monmouth Counties not far from Deep Brook, which runs past Old Bridge and Spotswood and empties into the Raritan River near New Brunswick, New Jersey.  They lived near the John Kinnan family.  David Potman's grandson Peter Putman would marry Sarah Kinnan.

            In 1715, at a baptism, David was sponsor for Evert the son of Jan Tiis.  Jan Tiis, or Tice, may have been a son of Mathyse Lubbertse Van Blaricom.

            Because David Potman was the sponsor for Evert Tice at the Dutch Reformed Church of Middletown, and it is my guess that David was an uncle of the child, which was a common relationship for a sponsor.  David Pootman seems to have married Helena Evert Van Gelder while Jan Tice may have married [Jannetje] Evert Van Gelder and were brother-in-laws.  The name Evert came from Evert, or Ephraim, Hendrickse Van Gelder the father of the girls.

            David Potman seems to have moved with the Tice and Van Horne families to Monmouth because he was a brother-in-law.

            About 1718, it seems that the Kinnan, Tice, Van Horne, Holmes, and Potman families removed from Wickatunk to Upper Freehold Township, which was close to Trenton, New Jersey.  The church there was Presbyterian and called the Cream Ridge Church.

             About 1722, at the same time the Van Horne's removed to White House, New Jersey, David Potman removed to Potterstown, which was close by White House.  Both White House and Potterstown were on the road from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, to Easton, Pennsylvania.  It is probably that the Van Horne's and Potman's owned tracts of land that were adjacent to each other there in Readington Township. 

            The Van Horne's of New Jersey would later marry into the Putman's of Montgomery County,  New York, at a later date.

            From the 1741 Census of Hunterdon County, it seems David Potman lived just north of Potterstown and northwest of White House.  

            Potterstown may have been named for David although reportedly the name Potterstown comes from an early pottery. 

             Ephraim Henderickse Van Gelder seems to have used the name Evert, Ephram, and even Abram.  The name Abraham was used by the early Cornelia Potman-Traphegan family and was not a Traphegan name.  It appears it came from the Potman side of the family or from Helena Van Gelder's father Ephraim.

            About 1760, Victor Potman of Portland, Pennsylvania, owed a large debt to Mathew Barber of Hardwick Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.  Mathew's mother, Maria, was a daughter of Peter Tice of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

            Tice, Tiis, and Mathius are the same name, but possibly different families in Monmouth County.  Mathius, or Tice, Lubbertse seems to have been the Jan, Derrick, and Peter Tice who bought land in Wickatunk, Monmouth County, New Jersey, about 1710.  It can be confusing, because the Van Horne family also went by the name Tyse because the founder was Mathys Van Horne.

            The only occurrence of the name Evert in the Kings County 1687 Census Rolls was that of Ephraim  Henderickse.  He was then a neighbor of Mathys Cornelisen [Van Horne].  Again, both Evert and Mathys were husbands of Fyke Adamse Brouwer whose father Adam Brower owned the mill in Brooklyn.  The Van Horne's also owned grist and saw mills, and it seems David Pootman was connected to that trade.

                Jan Tiis, or Tice, had a son named Evert baptized in 1711 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and in 1713 a son named John, who married Sarah Holmes.  Jan may have had a son named Gilbert, perhaps, Lubbert, who married Rebecca Holmes.  The name Adam Tice shows up in Upper Freehold in the 1793 New Jersey Census.  He may have been named for Adam Brower.

            Historical Miscellany says that a circuit rider "January 1737, 26th, . . . went unto Peter Bownes son of Andrew Bownes and Ann Seabrook; married Deliverance Holmes [to Peter] sister of Jonathan, it being very sloppy melting snow riding and tarried there.  27th . . . the weather altered to be very cold.  Brother and I went to William Logen's and tarried awhile.  Timothy Lloyd Jr., and P. Bowne shot at a mark with a single ball about 50 or 60 yards.  Lloyd missed.  Bowne shott the ball half through ye inch board close to the mark and won a bottle of rum.  Several came in.  John Bennet and others with us drank the rum.  28th . . . I was at Peter Bownes and went unto J. Reids [Scot] with John Stanley Bowne and Andrew McCoy and drank cider it being very icy walking and rainy weather.  I heard of a fashion that was in their parts to whip the women.  John MacConnen whipped his wife in 4 or 5 days 20 times.  John Tysson, William Terry, and William Rogers were not so apt to whip their wives although they did sometimes.

            The story seems to give a location, or neighborhood and reference to  John Tysson who seems to have been a son of Peter Tice.  The location was in the neighborhood of Wickatunk.

            Peter Tice was the father-in-law of Edward Barbar.  The above Johannes Tice seems to have married a Ms. Golder, and lived near Wickatunk.

            Cornelia Potman the widow of Roelof Traphegan received an inheritance from the estate of Jonathan Ketchum,  New Jersey Wills September 13, 1742.  Jonathan Ketchum was then a resident of Hunterdon County. 

            Jan Tyson and Sarah Tyson, possibly Sarah Holmes, were witnesses at the will of John Ketchum of Middlesex County, New Jersey, October 10, 1748.  There was a John Ketcham who lived in Upper Freehold during the 1793 New Jersey Census.

            David Potman had four children baptized at the Dutch Reformed Church of Freehold and Middleton, Monmouth County, New Jersey, without reference to wife's name. 

        Children:

        1.    Cornelia Potman.  She was baptized April 29, 1711, and married Rolf Traphegan.

        2.     Fytje Potman.  She was baptized February 22, 1712, and married Thomas Auten.  

        3.     A child was baptized October 24, 1714.  Perhaps, John David Potman.

        4.     A child was baptism April 21, 1721.  Perhaps, Victor David Potman.

Helena Evertse Van Gelder

Calendar of Wills records the will of Adam Brower Van Berkhoven, in which is mentioned Adam’s wife Magdalena [Helena]; children of sons Peter and Jacob and of daughter Aeltje, who are cut off with a shilling for disobedience; and children Mathys, William, Adam, Abraham, Nicolas, Mary, Fytie, Helena, Anna, Sarah, and Rachel.

William’s son Adolphus; Mathus’ daughter Magdalen; Mary’s daughter Magalen; and Fytie's daughter Magdalen [Helena or Lena who may have married David Janse Pootman] inherited everything.

“Van Gelder Families of America” from The New York Genealogical Magazine, 1944, says that Evert Henderickse Van Gelder and Fytie had the following children:  

Children:

1.                  Adolph, [Adam] baptized 1677.

2.                  Jacobus, [James] baptized 1678.

3.                  Aeltje, [Alice], baptized 1680.

4.                  Hendrick, baptized, 1682.

5.                  Jannetje, baptized 1684.

6.                  Sarah, baptized 1690. 

        There is a gap between 1684 and 1690 when Magdalena, or Helena, would have been born.   

        David Janse Potman was born in 1684.

        Fyke Adamse Brouwer married February 20, 1692, Mathis Corneliuse Van Horne.  Their first recorded son was Cornelius Van Horne who was baptized May 4, 1695, at the Brooklyn Dutch Reformed Church.  Their second son was Abraham baptized January 15, 1699.  

        Jacobus Van Gelder, baptized in 1678, married first Divertje Thyssen and had the following children baptized at the Brooklyn Dutch Reformed Church:

March 26,1696          Johannes       Divertje Tijssen, mother. 

                                                          Witness:  Tryntje Tijssen, godmother.

May 19, 1700            Fyte, Divertje Twins.  Cobus Evertze [Jacob Van Gelder], Divertje. 

                                                          Witnesses:  For Fyte,  Gabriel Sprong, Fyte             Cornelius.  

                                                          For Divertje, William Thisse, Trijntje Lubberts.

          William Thisse prbably was brother to Divertje, which in English is Debbie or Debra.

           The name Divertje was common in the Lubbert Van Blarcom family.  Lubbert married Divertje Corneliuse.  Tryntje Lubbertse above in the baptism seems to have been sister to Thys Lubbertse and aunt to he children . . . Fytie and Divertje.

           Itr seems Divertje Tijssen was a sister of Peter, Derrick,  and Jan Tice of Monmouth County, New Jersey.  

            Thys Lubbertse Van Blarcom reportedly married Tryntje Janse a daughter of Jan Pieterse Van Wooglum. 

            In the Brooklyn Church, May 28, 1699, a Tys was baptized with parents of Dirck Tyssen and Annetje and with Tijme Valentine and Trijntie Lubbertse as witnesses. 

            Also at the same church, September 19, 1708, a Tijs was baptized with Jan Tijsse and Jannetje as parents and Barent Cool and Feytje Matisse as witnesses.  Perhaps, this was Jan Tice of Monmouth County, who had Evert born in 1711 in Monmouth.

            In Monmouth County, about 1755, a John Tice was associated with Tice Derrickson.  They may have been cousins. 

        According to “Van Gelder Families in America”, New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1944, Divertje Thyssen died before 1705, when Jacobus Van Gelder, the son of Evert Van Gelder and Fyke Brower, married second at the Hackensack Dutch Church in New Jersey, June 25, Susanna De Vouw.

        Jacob Evertse Van Gelder had a son Abraham Van Gelder, baptized in 1712.  Abraham in turn had Jonathan who was baptized at Pompton Plains, New Jersey, in 1737.  

        Jonathan had as his sponsor Jonathan and Mary Traphagen.  Jonathan Traphagen lived in Paramus near Pompton Plains and was the younger brother of Rolf Traphagen who married Cornelia Davidse Potman.

Elizabeth [Lyntje] Beekman

        De Witt Putman stated that David Potman married a Ms. Beekman.

        Warren T. Putman, also, state that she was Elizabeth Beekman.

        Perhaps, Elizabeth Beekman was Lydia the daughter of Hendrick Martinse Beekman of Albany, New York, and later of Somerset County, New Jersey.

        There is only one place in which Henry Martinse Beekman’s name is mention in the records of the First Reformed Church of Raritan, Somerville, New Jersey.  It happens at the same time in which Hendrick Traphagen, father-in-law of Cornelia Davidse Potman, is mentioned:

August 9, 1713          Elisabeth        Luyckas Schermerhorn and wife [Elizabeth Dame].

                                                     Witnesses:  Hendrick Beekman, his wife.

                                Blandina         Hendrick Traphagen.  

                                                     Witness: 

        These people may have lived in the same neighborhood and may have been close friends.

        Lucas Schermerhorn’s brother, Reyer Schermerhorn, encouraged Hendrick Beekman to remove to Somerset County, New Jersey, and bought property next to him just below the forks of the Raritan River. 

        Reyer Schermerhorn was a witness at the baptism of Cornelius Elias Post, which was recorded in the Dutch Reformed Church of New York:

November 6, 1683       Cornelius      Elias Post and Marritie Cornelis.  

                                                    Witnesses:  Reyer Schermerhorn, Lysbeth Cornelis.

        Cornelius Elias Post married Catherine Potman . . . David Pootman's sister.  

        According to the book Beeckman, the progenitors of the Albany Beekman family in America were blacksmith Martin Beeckman and his wife Susannah Jans from Hamelwarde, Germany.  They had the following children:

  Children:

1.      Hendrick.  Married Annetje Pieterse Quackenbush.  

2.      Johannes.  Married first Machtel Schermerhorn.  Married second Eva Vinhagen.

3.      Martin.  Married Neeltje Slingerland.

4.      Metje.  Married first Cornelis Van Der Hoven of Albany.  Married second Jan Bebout of Brooklyn.

5.      Neeltje.  Married Jacob Bennet of Brooklyn.

6.      Engeltje.  Married, probably, Teunis Egbertse Meetselaer.

        Henry Beekman and Annetje Quackenbush removed to New Jersey after the prodding of Reyner Schermerhorn.  The had the following children:

    Children:

1.      Martin.  Born 1685.  Married Elizabeth Waldron.  Lived in Somerset County, New Jersey.

2.      Susanna.  Baptized March 7, 1686.  Married a Tunis Middleswart.

3.      Lydia.  Baptized June 2, 1689.  Perhaps Lytje or Elizabeth.  May have married David Potman.

4.      Hendrick.  Baptized June 5, 1692.  Died single in Somerset County, New Jersey.

5.      Pieter.  Baptized July 25, 1697.  Married Grietie. 

6.      Magdalena.  Baptized November 19, 1701. [While a Helena, she seems to have been born too late to have married David Putman.]

        Henry Beekman removed to Somerset County, New Jersey, about 1710 and died in New Jersey about 1735. 

        “Beekman”, from State of New Jersey, says Martin Beekman, Jr., lived in New York City.

        It also says Reyer Schermerhorn of Albany County, New York, in 1710, purchased 250 acres of land on the south side of the south branch of the Raritan River west of the Millstone River.  

        Prior to this purchase, Reyer’s younger brother Lucas Schermerhorn had bought lands on the Raritan River.  

        Hendrick Beekman purchased the 250 acre tract of land next to and west of Reyner’s.  

           Reyner and Lucas were brother-in-laws of Henry Beekman’s brother Johannes Beekman, Sr., of Albany.  

        Before Reyner died, or in 1717, he devised land to his daughter Jannetje, wife of Volkert Symonsen [the baker] ½ of his land’s and ½ to his granddaughters by his deceased daughter Catalina, wife of John Wemp.  The land, however, was subject to the use of Lucas Schermerhorn for six years.  Lucas also received all the cattle of his brother Reyer. 

        Henry Beekman seems to have purchased the lots next west of his first lot from the heirs of Reyner Schermerhorn.  

        When Henry Beekman died in 1735, there was a written agreement between Martin, Peter, and Henry, Jr., Beekman that Martin and Peter divide the 500 acres. 

        Isaac Slover of New York City married Judith Waldren.  The Waldren’s were close associates of the Beekman family with early marriages between them.  Isaac and Judith Selover had at least the following children:

        Children:

1.      Daniel.  Married Lanah Schermerhorn, daughter of Lucas.

2.      Abraham.  Married Sophia Schermerhorn, daughter of Lucas.

        Daniel and Abraham used Lucas Schermerhorn and his wife Elizabeth Dame as witnesses at the baptisms of their children at the Harlingen Church, Somerset County, during the 1720’s. 

        At the Readington Dutch Reformed Church, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Lucas Schermerhorn and Elizabeth Dame had another daughter Sarah baptized March 19, 1721. 

        At the same church, Cornelia Potman was a witness at the baptism October 26, 1734, of Lucas the son of Abraham Selover and Sophia [Schermerhorn].  This was the only time that Cornelia Potman’s name appears as a witness. 

Later Years

        When the 1741 Hunterdon Census was taken, David Potman was a Freeman or Freeholder in Readington Township.  The census was a poll for potential jurors in Hunterdon County.  Someone had impersonated a local minister and committed frauds and the court needed jurors for a trial.  

        Jurors were freeholders who according to the “Fundamental Constitution for the Province of East Jersey in 1683” were the following: 

. . every Planter and Inhabitant dwelling and residing within the Province, who has acquired rights to and is in possession of Fifty Acres of Ground, and hath cultivated ten acres of it; or in Boroughs, who have a House and three Acres; or have a House and Land only hired, if he can prove he have Fifty pounds in Stock of his own.  (The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, 1962, 49.)

        Jurors were freeman "above five and Twenty Years of Age.”  No one born after 1716 would have been on the list.

        The list from the census shows the neighbors of David Potman, which included the following:

Benjamin Archer

Johannes Weycoff  [lived near Potterstown]

David Potman  [lived just north of Potterstown?]

Arent Van Genee [lived in Potterstown.]

Mathias Scherpestyne [lived in today's Tewksbury Township]

Baltus Spigle [lived at Pickle's Mountain east of Potterstown.]

Simon Simonson [Perhaps, was  a children of Simon Volkerson].

Barent Simonsin

        Early Germans of New Jersey tells us that Baltzar Pickle bought land in Round Valley [today Round Lake] before 1729 and gave the name Pickle’s to Cushetunk Mountain.  He afterwards bought property in  Potterstown about 3 miles west of Whitehouse. 

        “The Lutheran Church of ‘Raritan in the Hills,” Somerset County Historical Quarterly also says that Are Van Guinee’s  resident in 1714 and Pickle’s in 1719 were at the Ridge.  The original meeting place named in the 1714 records subsequently became the Lutheran Church at Potterstown, where the church was known as the Rockaway Church.   This church and the town of Potterstown were on the Rockaway River.  

        Northwest New Jersey indicates that Aray Van Genee was an early settler at Potterstown and was a colored person who acquired considerable property.  

        A later account from the early town minutes of Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, just west of Potterstown, depicts the conditions under which the early settler went about daily life.  It says:

        One often took a shotgun along to church, to defend oneself not only from the wild animals but also against the yet much wilder Indians.  When services were held, men with loaded rifles were posted to stand guard.

        Traditions of Our Ancestors also records Dutch life along the upper Raritan River where David Janse Potman lived:

        [After settlement and] . . . for about sixty years the people spoke the Dutch language; it was used in preaching and in the family.  The records were kept in Dutch, counting was done in the Dutch fashion, brides were given away in the manner of the old country, and the marriage service was read and spoken in the mother tongue.

        The people who tilled the soil . . . were honest, economical, generous, and brave.  They would put a lump of sugar in their mouth and suck it while they drank their tea thus economizing their sweets, yet, at the appearance of the stranger guest, their tables would fairly groan with the good cheer of hospitality . . ..

        We would . . . [see] the men arrayed in homespun suits--coats reaching to their knees and breeches down to their boot-tops, big enough for two men, and coats thickly set with . . . brass buttons.

        Women would have appeared in enormous straw hats . . . and petticoats reaching half-way below the knees . . ..

        According to the Traphagen Family Bible at Rutgers University, David Potman died in October 1761.

        Children:

1.      Cornelia Potman.  She was baptized April 29, 1711, at the Dutch Reformed Church in Middleton, Monmouth County, New Jersey, and married Rolf Traphegan.

2.      Fytje Potman.  Baptized February 22, 1712, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Middleton, New Jersey.  She married Thomas Auten. 

3.      Probably John.  A male child was baptized October 24, 1714, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Middletown, New Jersey.  David Janse Potman’s first son would have been named Johannes after his father. 

4.      Poss. Maria.   

5.      Probably Victor.  A male child was baptism April 21, 1721.  This is Victor Potman who appears in the records of the Smith Dutch Reformed Church, Pennsylvania, in the 1740’s and 1750’s. 

Cornelia (David, Johannes) 

            Cornelia Davidse Portman, or Potman, was born March 23, 1711, and baptized April 29, 1711, at the Old Brick Church in Marlborough Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.  The church was also called the Dutch Reformed Church of Middleton and Freehold.  Only her father, David Potman, was listed as parent.

            About 1728, Cornelia married Rolf Traphegan.  This would have been went David Potman, her father lived north of Potterstown.  Ralp was the son of Henry Traphegan and Sarah Kiersted and was baptized August 5, 1702, with John Traphegan and Blandina Kiersted as sponsors.

            Cornelia and Rolf' s first child was Sarah baptized June 19, 1729.  She was named after her grandmother Sarah Kiersted.  Cornelia's second child was Henry baptized October 10, 1731.

            In 1735, Christopher Voght, was on the list of leases of Lewis Morris, Jr., on lands in the West Jersey Society. 

             John Ketchum in his will dated April 9,1742, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, left property to Cornelia Potman, wife of Rolf Traphagen, or her children.

              Rolf died before 1742, and Cornelia then married second John Christopher Voght of Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

           Palatine Families records that in April 1749 Cornelia Potman married John Christopher Voght.  John Christopher was a son of Simon Voght of Lebanon Township, and was born February 24, 1714, in Raritan Township, Hunterdon County, which may then have included Lebanon.  

            Christopher live first just above Potterstown, but about 1756 removed to just north of Clinton, New Jersey, a few miles away.

           Before her marriage to Christopher, David Potman signed a note of permission for Cornelia.

           John Christopher was a member of the Council of Zion Church in 1763, and the church elected him an elder May 13, 1767.  Christopher was also road commissioner in Hunterdon County in 1768. 

            Cornelia Potman and John Christopher lived in what is today the northern part of Clinton Township, Hunterdon County, near Gray Rock Road.  This area is just north of Annandale, New Jersey and north of Hamden, Landsdown, and Grandin, New Jersey, which were homes to the early Grandin family.  Cornelia's son John Voght married into the Grandin family.

            The Christoffel Vought home is shown below:

            During the Revolution, Christopher Voght was a Loyalist and had to forfeit his estate to the newly formed United States.  

            Cornelia and Christopher removed to Paris Borough, Nova Scotia, until after the Revolution.  Three of their family became prisoners of the United States during the American Revolution. 

            John Voght, Cornelia and Christopher’s son, resided in Monmouth County, New Jersey, before the Revolutionary War, and raised a company of Loyalists in New Jersey.  The Crown gave him a Lieutenant’s commission in the Second New Jersey Volunteers, December 1776.  He became Captain in July 1778. 

            In 1786, Christopher Voght was in Paris Borough, Nova Scotia, on half-English pay. 

            While in Canada,  Cornelia Davidse Potman and John Christopher Voght and their son John claimed L 3,371 from the English Crown and were allowed L 1,225 and L 496 respectively.

            On May 19, 1770, Cornelia and Christopher Voght became owners of 2,000 acres on which was located three houses.  This second plantation was in Albany County, New York, and purchased from Captain John Leake of New York.  Its value was L1, 123, 10 s Sterling.

           About 1792, the Voght's returned to the United States and Voght's Patent near Albany. 

            Cornelia died there September 6, 1800.  Christopher died June 21, 1809.  

            Both were buried in their private family cemetery in Duanesburgh, New York. 

            Descendants of Cornelia and Rolf lived on the old Putman Homestead and attended the Presbyterian Church in Lamington.

        Children by Rolf Traphegan:

1.   Sarah.  Sarah was baptized June 19, 1729.  Sara Kiersted, her grandmother for whom she was named, was her sponsor.  At the Dutch Reformed Church of Harlingen, Sarah married Garret Jorise Covenhoven.  Garret was baptized March 18, 1723.  

Children:

1.    Joris.  Joris was baptized October 26, 1745, at the Middletown Dutch Reformed Church and married Lydia Bennet, or Burnett, and lived in Lebanon, New Jersey.

2.    David.  He was born July 4, 1749, and baptized July 23, 1749, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Readington.  David remained unmarried and died November 15, 1800.  He was buried at the Old Churchyard in White House, New Jersey.

3.    Abraham.  Abraham was baptized December 28, 1751, at the Dutch Reformed Church and married Rebecca.  Abraham seems to have been named after David Johannes Pootman's father-in-law.

4.    Leena.  Leena was baptized May 5, 1754, at the Dutch Reformed Church.  Lena is form of the name Helena.  This seems to indicate that David Janse Potman married a Lena.

5.      Cornelius.  He was baptized May 21, 1756, at the Dutch Reformed Church Church and married Neeltje Monfort who was baptized May 7, 1765, at the Dutch Reformed Church the daughter of Abraham and Neeltje Monfoort.

6.    Aeltje.  Olive was born in 1758/9 and died in 1824 in Rush, New York.  In 1779, she married Peter Monfort who was born in 1757 the son of Abraham and Neeltje Monfort.

7.     Roelof.  Roelof was born in 1760 and died in 1824.  He married first Sarah Van Sickle who was born 1766 and died 1801.  Roelof married second Elizabeth Wycoff who was born 1776 and died 1860.  Elizabeth was the daughter of George Wycoff and Rebecca Van Cleaf.

8.     Garret.  He baptized May 1, 1764.  He married Margaret Raeger in 1790.  She was born in 1769 and died in 1840.  Garret died November 9, 1831 and was buried in White House, New Jersey.

2.   Henry.  Henry was born October 10, 1731 in New Jersey.  In 1753, he married Hannah Van Doren who was born in 1733.  In 1782, Henry became a Trustee of Queen’s College, which is now Rutger's University.  Hannah died in 1790.  Henry left a will December 25, 1802, as a resident of Bridgewater, Somerset County, New Jersey.  He died in 1803.  Henry inherited the Putman Homestead and lived near the Covenhoven's and Readington Township, near McCrea Mills, and not far from Lamington, New Jersey.

Children:

1.    John.  John was born in 1754 and married Ms. Pickle.

2.    David.  David was born in 1755.  He married Margaret Pencar the daughter of Colon Peter Augustus Pencar, born January 4, 1766.

3.    Rolf.  He was born in 1757.  He married Fanny Pencar.  She lived near Burnt Mills.

4.    Maria.  She was born in 1759.  Maria married James Porter.

5.    Cornelia.  Cornelia was born in 1761.

6.    Hannah.  Hannah was born in 1763.

7.    Henry.  Henry was born in 1768 and married Eleanor, or Neetie, Van Vorst, 1803.  Eleanor was born in 1768 the daughter of Cornelius Van Vorst.  Eleanor died in 1814.  During the American Revolution, Henry Traphegan, Jr., served as a Lt. Colonel in the Bergen County Militia.

8.    Jonathan.  He was born in 1770.

            Children by Johan Christopher Voght:

1.    John.  He married Abigail Grandin the daughter of Major Philip Grandin and Eleanor Forman.  Philip gave an affidavit in proof of the Loyalty and ownership of property of Christopher and John Voght dated October 4, 1783.  He is described therein as gentleman of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, formerly major in the Royal Militia of New Jersey.  Philip was the son of Daniel Grandin II, who died after 1748 in Hampden, New Jersey, to which he had removed after living for many years at Colts Neck. He was buried in Quakertown.  Philip married Mary, daughter of Job and Sarah [Leonard] Throckmorton, who died in 1761.  Daniel I came to New Jersey, it was said, from the Island of Jersey just of the northern French coast.  Daniel II's sons John and Philp came to Hunterdon and purchased 1,000 acres of land on the South Branch of the Raritan River being part of the 5,000 acre tract of Daniel Cox.  They called this the Hamden Tract.  They did not buy it all at one time, but built mills when they came from Monmouth.  The original deed was destroyed by fire when the old Grandin house was burned.  They owned the mill property as far back as 1759, and probably several years earlier.  The water-right at the mills was given in 1752, and the mills were given in 1752 and transferred to the Grandins in 1759.  Philip Grandin, who was married to Eleanor Forman, was a fuller, dyer, and miller.  John attended to the store and farm and was justice of the peace.  

2.    Cristinia. 

Fyke or Sophia (David, Johannes)

        Fyke Davidse Potman was baptized February 22, 1712, at the Old Brick Church of Marlborough in Monmouth County, New Jersey.  Only David Potman was listed as a parent.

        The English-speaking people of New Jersey knew Fyke Davidse Potman as Sophia Putnam.

        Sophia married Thomas Auten and lived in Somerset County, New Jersey.

        Thomas Auten seems to have been the son of Thomas Auten, Sr., who married Elsje Skillman.  It seems that Fyke, or Sophia, died while still somewhat young, and Thomas Auten, Jr, married second Hilletje Van Arsdalen.   Thomas Auten, Jr., reportedly, married first Sytie, which seems to have been Syke or Fyke Potman.

            Children:

1.    Helena.  At the First Reformed Church of Raritan, Somerville, Thomas Auten and “his wife” had Helena baptized March 23, 1735.  Helena married Oliver Goltry II who was born August 17, 1730 in Somerset County, New Jersey, and died February 29, 1777.  Oliver married before 1752 Helena Auten.  Their children were the following:  1.  Oliver III, born January 7, 1757 and died 1821 in the summer.  He married Emma Van Tuyl.  2.  Thomas, born July 8, 1764, and died May 22, 1849.  Thomas married Elizabeth Kells, born circa 1769, and died in 1847.  He changed his name to Goltra.  3.  Paul G.  He was born May 24, 1767, in New Jersey. and died in 1845 in Indiana.  Paul married in 1790 Elizabeth Morphet, who was born in Scotland in 1770.  Paul and his younger brother John moved to Steuben and Schuyler Counties, New York in the 1790's.  4.  John.  He was born January 13, 1771.   5.  Sophia.  She was born March 5, 1752.  6.  Margaret, born August 29, 1759, and died March 2, 1846, she married Folkert Voorhees, who was born in 1756 and died in 1822.  7.  Lydia.  She was born March 7, 1762.  8.  Cornelia, born September 5, 1769.  Cornelia married Charles Kelley.  9.  Mary.  She was born September 28, 1774, and married Isaac Van Tuyl.  

Johannes (David, Johannes)

            According the traditional way Dutch named their children, David Janse Potman would have named his first, or second, son Johannes after his father Johannes Pootman of Schenectady, New York, before he would have named a child Victor, and it appears David did have a son called Victor, who lived in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania.

            David Janse Potman had an unnamed child baptized October 24, 1714, at the Old Brick Church in Marlborough, New Jersey, also known as the Reformed Church of Freehold and Middleton.  This was  probably David's first son who would have been named John Davidse Potman.

            There was a gap between 1714 and 1721 in which John or other children may also have been born.

            A John Putman seems to have lived in the early Township of Lebanon, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and seems to have been connected by a daughter's marriage to the Samuel Swayze family of Chester.  Elisabeth Putnam married Samuel Swayze, III, and had as her first son a John, which seems to indicate that her father was John Putman or Potman.

            The areas in which the children of David Potman first lived seems to have been in the area near Hens Foot and Van Sickel, New Jersey, in today's Union Township, Hunterdon County.  Allied families included the Grandins of Grandin and Landsdown, New Jersey, which are 2 and 5 miles miles east of Hens Foot.   Potterstown, New Jersey, is about 10 miles further east.  The Voght's lived a few miles north of Landsdown on the west branch of the Raritan River. 

            Elisabeth Putnam and Samuel Swayze III removed to Adams County, Mississippi.

            And, they had the following children:  John, born 1763; Daniel Darling, born 1765; James, born 1767; Samuel, born 1769; and Elizabeth, born 1771.  

            Daniel Darling and James seem not to be traditional Swayze or Potman names, so it may be that these names came from Elizabeth's maternal side of the family. Elizabeth's grandfather may have been  Daniel Darling. 

              In 1772, a group of people including Samuel Swayze, III, and Elizabeth Putnam removed by chartered boat to Baton Rouge, Mississippi.  They then traveled to Natchez, which is in today's Adams County, Mississippi.  The area was at that time a part of Florida.  Early Germans of New Jersey says:

Rev. Samuel, Jr., born July 4, 1712, was the first minister of the Congregational Church of Chester, which he served for twenty years from 1753 to 1773.  He removed at a later date to Western Florida, now Mississippi, with his brother Richard and a number of other families.  He probably married Hannah Horton, a daughter of Caleb.  Children: 1.  Samuel.  Married . . . [Elizabeth] Putnam.  2.  Nathan.  3.  Elijah.  4)  Stephen.  5.  Penelope.  6.  Hannah.

            It, also, seems that a Johannes David Putman had a son John Putman, II, who married a Sina and lived in Hardyston and Newtown Townships, Sussex County, New Jersey.

          Children:

1.    Probably Helena.  Born about 1735.  

2.    Probably Elizabeth.  She was born about 1741 and married Samuel Swayze, III, of Chester, New Jersey.  They removed to Natchez,  Adams County, Mississippi.  

3.    Probably John.  He was born about 1745 and lived in Hardyston Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.  

Maria (David, Johannes)

         All of David Janse Potman's siblings gave their third daughters the name Maria.  Maria Davidse Potman would likely have been born between 1714 and 1721 if David Putman had more than two daughters.  

Victor (David, Johannes)

            David Janes Potman likely had a son Victor Davidse Potman who may have been the unnamed child baptized April 9, 1721, at the Brick Church in Marlborough, New Jersey.

            Victor Potman the assumed son of David Potman appears in the baptismal records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield, Pennsylvania.

            According to the baptismal records of this church, Victor Potman married Margaret Wies also known as Greitje Wiser.    Greitje is Dutch for Margaret. 

Above is Fort Shawnee or the Dutch Reformed Church of Smith, Pennsylvania

            The Smithfield Church was about five miles north of the Delaware Water Gap and nine miles north of Portland, Pennsylvania.  Portland was just across the Delaware River from the mouth of Paulin's Kill, New Jersey, today called Columbia, New Jersey.

            The “List of the Inhabitants of the Hunter Settlement,” Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, taken in 1775, shows the Scotch-Irish neighborhood of Upper and Lower Mount Bethel Townships, Pennsylvania.  

            In it was listed John Potman, who seems to have been Victor's son.  John Potman's neighborhood follows:

        Gaston, William

        Gaston, John

        Gaston, James

        Waggener, Mathies

        Gerris, Philip

        Durham, James

        Marr, Thomas

        Marr, William

        Marr, David

        Santee, Valentine

        Mordan, Ralph

        Potman, John

        Colvert, Joseph

        McNeal, Hector

        Beer, William

        Beer, Robert

        Otter, Darick

        Cample, Patrick

        Mack William

        Goodwin, Benjamin

        Jacoby Creek, which empties into the Delaware River at Portland was once called Campbell's Creek.  Also at one time, Portland was called Goodwin's Ferry.

        Thomas Quick and Rachel Emmens were sponsors for Maria the first child born to Victor and Margaret Potman.   Maria Potman was baptized in October of 1749.

            The History of the Quick Family says:

            Thomas Quick was baptized August 25, 1717, and married Rachel Emmens, the eldest daughter of Eleanor [daughter of Peter Van Auken] Robeson, who was the wife of Edward Robeson of Oxford Township, Sussex County, [now Warren] New Jersey.  Edwards Robeson’s will was probated November 25, 1762, and mentions “250 acres on the west side of the Delaware River, on the banks thereof, above the forks, that I had of Jacobus Quick.  Thomas Quick of Greenwich, Sussex County, [Warren], New Jersey, weaver died in testate, and his widow, Rachel, was appointed administrator May 26, 1761.

          Thomas Quick was a neighbor of Andrew Nye who lived at Slateford. 

            The will of Eleanor Robeson [mother of Rachel Emmens and] wife of Edward Robeson, or Robertson, of Knowlton Township, [Warren County], was proved November 24, ?, and mentions Thomas Quick’s four children.  Also named were daughter Eleanor, who married George Morden . . ..

            Thomas Quick was a weaver.  Thomas Quick's father was a blacksmith, and Edward Robertson was also a blacksmith.  

            The book Dansbury Diaries, a journal about the missionary work of the Moravian Church in Northampton County, gives an good description of early life near Paulin's Kill:

Diary of Sven Roseen – 1749. 

        December 30, 1748. Francis Jones came to me early, and with him I went for the purpose of dispensing the sacrament of baptism in the name of Jesus.  I felt the Savior near, and when I came, across the flooded creeks and through the difficult Gap without any trouble, to the home of the candidate for baptism.  The father was not home.  We remained here during the afternoon.  In the evening, the father, John Andreas Neu, reached home . . ..

        December 31, 1748.  This John Andreas Neu fetched his neighbor Thomas Quick, and his wife Rachel, as witnesses of the baptism . . ..  In the neighborhood there is another still younger child, which the mother would gladly have baptized by us.  The father was water-bound on the other side of Paulins Creek . . ..

        February 14, 1749.  . . As I stopped at John Baker’s on the way to Paulins Kill, I heard and saw how his Susanna loves the Savoir, and enjoys hearing about Him.  . . . The Savoir helped me well across the creek at Aaron Du Pue’s, and also over the naturally difficult passage through the Gap in the Blue Mountains, where the Delaware has thrown great broken blocks of ice upon the path.  . . On the south side of the Blue Mountains, along the Delaware, I came to Andreas New . . ..  The last time, he had told me of a neighbor of his who also wished that his child might be baptized.  Now that Neu said nothing about it, I was silent, and commended the matter to the Savoir.  When I reached the fence of this same neighbor, he was just arriving at his home, and he asked whether I were the minister and whether I would not baptized his two children.  I went with him into the house, and as I came in the children were very friendly toward me.  I considered the request and thought of the text of the day and the words of the Savoir, and how . . that I should meet the father of the children.  And, so had the neighbors of Neu called, Thomas Quick and Richard Howel.  Both the Howels had been good friends of Shaw in Walpack, and were now living on the other side of the Delaware, where Paulins Creek empties into the river.

Diary of Joseph Powell – 1765.

        November 24, 1765.  . . Leaving Mr. Van Vliet journeyed to Mr. Shoemaker in Lower Smithfield.  From thence traveled 9 miles down the Delaware through the Water Gap, crossing the river at Mr. Victor’s.  Found Mrs. Victor quite recovered of her three months’ illness, which they said began at the time Brother Powel preached there 6 weeks ago.  From thence journeyed 2 miles to Mr. Elliston, where having dined, came in the evening to Sam Green, where he abode some days.

           It appears that the entry in the Dansbury Diaries about Mr. and Mrs. Victor is in fact describing Mr. and Mrs. Victor Potman.  Mrs. Victor lived nine miles down river of Shoemakers, which would place her residence at Slateford on the west bank of the Delaware River opposite and two miles above Paulin's Kill.   The Neu Neighborhood.

The Neu [Quick, Marshall, and Potman] Neighborhood is in the center of the map.

            Dansbury Diaries also says Captain John Van Etten’s First Company consisting of 44 men was raised January 12, 1756, near “The Forks of the Delaware” and had a John Kinnan and John Stull as Sergeants and Thomas Quick as a private.  On the list of enrollees, Thomas Quick’s name was crossed out, which indicated that he died during the French and Indian War.  Indians killed Thomas Quick in February 1756 after which his wife Rachael Emmons seems to have removed back to her mother's home in Greenwich Township, Warren County, which may have at that time included Knowlton Township.

            During this time there were other residents of Slateford, Edward Marshall and his wife Elizabeth Weiser, or Wiser, the daughter of Nicholas Weiser, or Fennersville, or Sciota, Pennsylvania, which is just a few miles to the west over the Blue Mountians.

            Mr.s Victor, Victor Davidse Potman's wife Margaret Wiser appear to have been a daughter of Nicholas Weiser.  

            Victor Potman’s second daughter, Elizabeth, was baptized April 28, 1751, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield and had Jacob Van Der Roof as her sponsor.  In the 1772 Census of Hardyston Township, which included Wantage Township, Jacob Van der Roof is listed as a freeholder.

            The Minute Book of Sussex County, describes early court cases in Sussex County, and shows a court case in August 1764 that includes Jacob Ford and Matthew Bush vs. Jacob Ruff, who was a special bail for George Wisner.

            Another case in May 1764 shows Gysbard Van Gorden vs. George Wisner.  

            Jacob Van der Roof perhaps was a Van Der Hoeven [Hoff].  

            There were Van Der Ruff’s who later lived in the neighborhood of Bevens, New Jersey.  Peter Putman, whose first son was named Victor, lived in Bevens when the 1793 Military Census was taken.  Peter was a resident of Wantage during the Revolutionary War or about 1776. 

            In August 1765, the administrator of the estate of Mathias Barbar of Hardwick Township, Sussex County [now Warren], New Jersey, Joseph Dawson, brought a law suit against Victor Pottman for the sum of L 50, which was a considerable amount of money at the time.  The county seat of Sussex and Warren Counties, then only Sussex, was being formed in Hardwick Township in Johnstown.

            Perhaps, Victor was then a resident of the Johnstown area. 

            It seems descendants of both Victor [Davidse]  Potman and Johannes [Davidse] Potman removed to the area in Sussex County, New Jersey, where Frankford, Lafayette, Hardyston, and Wantage meet.  It is where the Stoll, Dun, Kinnan, and Snyder families lived.  These families married into the Putman family.

            Even Beven was a neighbor of Peter [Victorse] Putman in Sandyston, New Jersey, in 1793.  Even had a grandson named Victor.

            The 1793 New Jersey Military Census shows the following neighbors of Peter Putman in Sandyston Township:

        Jacob Carmer

        David Courtright

        Martin Van Dyke

        Cruibert Carmer

        John Carmer

        Abraham Carmer

        Even Beemen [probably, Even Bevens]

        Peter Putman 

        Samuel Fleming

        John Layton

        Thomas Layton

        Isaac Vanest

        Levy Rozencrans

        William Layton

        Samuel Clark

        Samuel Waldren

        David Van de Ruff 

        Gusbert Van Der Ruff 

        Garret Van de Ruff

        Isaac Van Auken

        John Patton 

        Joseph Vanuker

             Victor [Davidse] Potman seems to have had a son Johannes [Victorse] who remained in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River from Delaware [Station], New Jersey.  According to the “1775 Census of the Hunter Settlement,” a John Potman then lived there.  

            Peter [Victorse] Putnam of Sandyston seems to have been "connected" with the Johannes [Davidse] Putman family, which probably lived in western Hardyston Township, west of North Church near the line with Wantage and Lafayette. 

         Children:

    1.    Maria.  Maria Potman was baptized October 8, 1749, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield, Pennsylvania.  Her sponsors were Thomas Quick and Rachel Emmans.  

    2.    Elizabeth.  Elizabeth was baptized April 28, 1751, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield.  Her sponsors were Jacob Van Der Roof and his wife.  

    3.    Saertje.  Sarah was baptized August 12, 1753, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield.  Sarah did not have sponsors. 

    4.    Probably David.  Born about 1755.  Named for David Johannes Potman.  He may have died young.

    5.    Probably John.  Born about 1757.  Probably, named for maternal grandfather.  Lived in the Hunter Settlement, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. 

    6.    Probably Peter.  Born in 1760, married Sarah Kinnan in Wantage Township and lived in Sandyston Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.  

Elizabeth (John, David, Johannes)

        Early Germans of New Jersey says:

Rev. Samuel, Jr., born July 4, 1712, was the first minister of the Congregational Church of Chester [Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey], which he served for twenty years from 1753 to 1773.  He removed at a later date to Western Florida, now Mississippi, with his brother Richard and a number of other families.  He probably married Hannah Horton, daughter of Caleb.  Children: 1.  Samuel.  Married . . . [Elizabeth] Putnam.  2.  Nathan.  3.  Elijah.  4)  Stephen.  5.  Penelope.  6.  Hannah.

            Elizabeth was born about 1741.  Samuel Swayze, III, was born about 1737.  Because their first child was named John, it’s an easy guess that Elizabeth’s father was John Putnam or Potman.

            Samuel Swayze and his brother Richard were wealthy landowners in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey.  They purchased about 20,000 acres of land at $0.25 an acre near Natchez, Mississippi, which was then Florida, and in 1772 they formed a group that boarded a chartered clipper at Perth Amboy and headed for Baton Rouge.  After arriving at Baton Rouge, they proceeded in smaller boats to Lake Ponchatrian, went up the Mississippi River, and settled near Natchez.  Samuel was the first Methodist minister in Mississippi.  Samuel III also went along.

            There was a Samuel Swayze who lived near Christopher Voght in Lebanon Township  in the 1741 Hunterdon County Census.  Samuel Swayze seems to have live then in what is now Clinton Township probably on the east side of the South Branch of the Raritan River.   This was just opposite Spruce Run and near Hunt's Mills.

       Children:

        1.   John.  John was born about 1763.

        2.   Daniel Darling.  He was born about 1765.

        3.   James.  He was born about 1767.

        4.   Samuel P.  Samuel was born about 1769.

            5.      Elizabeth.  She was born about 1771 and married William Ed. Leland.

John (John, David, Johannes)

        John Putnam was listed as a resident of Hardyston Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, in the 1793 Military Census of New Jersey.  John seems to have been the son of John [Davidse] Putman, who may have been the John Poheman listed in Wantage Township in the 1793 Census.   John Poheman probably lived a mile or two west of John Putnam. 

        In the 1772 Census of Hardyston Township, a John Potts show up who may possibly have been John [Davidse] Putman.            

         John Putman, II, would have been born about 1750.

        Children:

            1.   John, Jr.  This was probably John Putman who was born about 1774 in New Jersey and married Jane Stall.  They removed to Tyrone Township, Schuyler County, New York, before 1810, where John was listed as John Potman.

          2.   Probably Sarah.  Sarah was born November 12, 1779, in New Jersey and married Captain William Snyder of Sussex County, New Jersey.  They remained in New Jersey.

       3.   Probably Henry.  Henry married Sarah Dunn. 

Maria (Victor, David, Johannes)

            Maria Victor Potman the daughter of Victor Potman and Margaret Wies was baptized October 8, 1749, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield, Pennsylvania.  

                Her sponsors were Thomas Quick and Rachel Emmans, who seem to have lived in Portland, Pennsylvania, and later Greenwich Township, Warren County, New Jersey.     

Elizabeth (Victor, David, Johannes)