David Janse Pootman

Known as Potman, Pottman, Portman, and Putman

      David Janse Pootman was born in November 1684 according to the  Traphagen Bible at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.  David’s daughter Cornelia married Rolf Hendrickse Traphagen and the bible once belonged to that family.  

     David was born in Schenectady, New York.

     By 1705, David Pootman with his two sister's Maria Janse Pootman who married Steven Bedeut and Catherine Janse Pootman who married Cornelius Post removed to Gowanus, New York, which is now the City of Brooklyn.  David probably was connected with Adam Brower and the Brower Mill, which was the largest enterprise in Gowanus.

     While in Gowanus, David probably also became connected with Mathius Van Horne, Mathius Van Blaricum, and Evert Van Gelder.

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

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

     According to Mr. Sissler of New Jersey, a local historian of Somerset County and a land deed that he discovered, David married a Helena who last name is unknown.

     According to De Witt Putman, an 1800's history of the Putman family, David married Elizabeth Beekman in Albany, New York.  This information was published by De Witt in the local Schenectady news paper; however, if it is true, Elizabeth may have been David's second wife.  David may have married first Helena Evertse Van Gelder. 

     Henry Martinse Beekman and Anna Peterse Quackenbush in the very early 1700s were residents of Schodack, New York.  They removed about 1710 to Raritan, Somerset County, New Jersey.  Possibly, David married second Lydia, their daughter, although there is no record of the marriage.  Henry and Anna had a daughter named Magdelena, whose name may be shortened to Helena; however, Magdelena was born about 1700 and too young to have married David.  David's first child Cornelia was born in Monmounth County, New Jersey, in 1711.  Also, David Potman's second daughter was named Fyke.  The name Fyke was not used in the Beekman family. 

     Mr. Sissler has said that David Potman married a Helena.  He found this information when researching the Traphegan family.  The names Fyke and Helena were used in the Evert Henderickse Van Gelder family, and with other evidence, its seems, David Potman may have married Helena Van Gelder a daughter of Evert Henderickson. 

     Evert Henderickse Van Gelder married Fyke Brower who married second Mathius Van Horne.  Mathius Van Horne convey land to David Potman along with this son about 1722 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, for a small amount of money just  before these families removed tothe White House/Potterstown area in Readington Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.  This closeness between the Fyke Brower and David Potman seems to indicate that she was his mother-in-law.

     Since David's second daughter was named Fyke, David's mother-in-law was almost certainly named Fyke.

     David was also a witness to the baptism of Evert Tiis the son of Jan Tiis in Monmouth County in 1715.  Usually, relatives were sponsors so it seems that David was connected with Jan Tiis by married both having the married daughters it seems of Evert Van Gelder and Fyke Brower. 

     The known hildren of David P otman 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 was named it would seem Johannes Davidse Pootman or possibly Evert Davidse Pootman [Abram seems to have been used on occassions for the name Evert].  David's third son likely would have been named Victor Davidse Pootman.

     Cornelia Davidse Potman was named for her paternal grandmother Cornelia Bradt.  Cornelia Davidse Potman married first Rudolf Traphagen and had Sarah and Henry.  The Traphegans and Beekmans were close and likly neighbors.  Cornelia married second Christopher Voght after David Pootman removed to Potterstown likely from Upper Freehold.

     Fyke Davidse Pootman and married Thomas Auten and may have died young.  They had at least one daughter Helena who married Oliver Goldry, Jr.  So, we here have support that Fyke Pootman's mother was a Helena.

     From Gowanus, New York, David Pootman may have removed first to Wickatunk, New Jersey, which is in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, and just across the bay from Gowanus.  The Middletown Dutch Reformed Church was organized about 1710.

     David Potman may have went up the Matawan River to Wickatunk with the Barber, Tice, Van Horne, and Van Gelder families and lived at first in the neighborhood of today's Tice Road, which borders Middlesex and Monmouth Counties not far from Deep Brook.  Possibly, they lived near the Patrick Kinnan family who also had land in the area.   David Potman's grandson Peter Putman marry Sarah Kinnan.

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

     David Potman and Jan Tiis seem to have been brother-in-laws.

     About 1718, the Kinnan, Tice, Van Horne, Holmes, and Potman families removed from Wickatunk to Upper Freehold Township, which was not far from Trenton.  The main church there was the Presbyterian Church and called the Cream Ridge Church.  The Van Horns and Pootmans lived together, it seems, in Upper Freehold.  They likely lived near the Tice and Kinnan families and along the maing road from Perth Amboy to Burlington.

     About 1722, at the time the Van Horns and Potmans removed to the Potterstown and White House area.

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

     From the 1741 Census of Hunterdon County, it seems David Potman lived near Potterstown.

     Potterstown may have been named for David although it is said the town received it name from early pottery in the town.

     Ephraim Henderickse Van Gelder seems to have used the name Evert, Ephram, and even Abram.  The name Abraham is seen in the grandchildren of Cornelia Potman and Ralph Traphegan.  It was not a common Traphegan name, and the name appears to come from the Potman family and Ephraim VanGelder.

     About 1760, Victor Pottman 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.  The Barber family also married into the Brower family.

     Mathius, or Tice, Lubbertse seems to have been the father of Jan, Derrick, and Peter Tice who bought land in Wickatunk in 1710 and later removed to Upper Freehold, New Jersey.

     The only occurrence of the name Evert in the Kings County 1687 Census Rolls was that of Ephraim  Henderickse.  In 1687, Ephraim, or Evert, was a neighbor of Mathys Cornelisen Van Horne. 

     The Browers and Van Horns were millers, and it seem that was also the trade of David Pootman.

     Jan Tice, or Thiessen, had a son Evert baptized in 1711 in Monmouth County, New Jersey and in 1713 a son John.  It was said that Jan married Sarah Holmes. 

     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.

     This story seems to produce an early neighborhood and reference for a John Tysson, which who probably lived near Wickatunk.  The Kinnan family also seems to have been mentioned.

     Cornelia Potman, 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.

     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 Adam Brower Van Berkhoven's will.  It mentions 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 other 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 [which is  a form of Helena or Lena] 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 Helena Van Gelder was born.  The will of Adam Brower states that Fyke had a daughter Magdelena or Helena.

     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.  

Fyke Brower and Ephraim Van Gelder's son Jacobus Van Gelder baptized in 1678 married first Divertje Thyssen.  Divertje, Debbra, 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 probably was a brother to Divertje.

     The name Divertje was common in the Lubbert Van Blarcom family.  Lubbert married Divertje Corneliuse.  Tryntje Lubbertse above may have been a sister of Thys Lubbertse and aunt to the children.

     Divertje Tijssen may have been 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, Tys was baptized with parents of Dirck Tyssen and Annetje with Tijme Valentine and Trijntie Lubbertse as witnesses. 

     Also at the same church, September 19, 1708, Tijs was baptized with Jan Tijsse and Jannetje as parents and Barent Cool and Feytje Matisse as witnesses. 

     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 [Evertse] Van Gelder 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. 

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 northeast 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.

     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. 

     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.

     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.

     Mrs. 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)

     Elizabeth Victor Potman the daughter of Victor Potman and Margaret Wies was baptized April 28, 1751, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield, Pennsylvania.

     Her sponsors were Jacob Van Der Roof and his wife.

 

Sarah (Victor, David, Johannes)

     Saertje, or Sarah, Victor Potman the daughter of Victor Potman and Margaret Wiser, or Wies, was baptized August 12, 1753, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield, Pennsylvania. 

     She did not have sponsors.

 

John (Victor, David, Johannes)

     Victor [Davidse] Potman and Margaret Wies seemed to have had a son named John [Victorse] Potman who lived in Upper Mount Bethel, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

      John Potman was listed in the 1775 Census of the Hunter Settlement.  Those listed near John were the following:

     Marr, Thomas

     Marr, William

     Marr, David

     Santee, Valentine

     Mordan, Ralph

     Potman, John

     Colvert, Joseph

     McNeal, Hector

     Beer, William

     Beer, Robert

     Otter, Darick

     The Hunter Settlement was located in Mount Bethel Township.  In the 1772 Proprietary Tax Rates, John “Patman” was listed as a laborer in Mount Bethel.  In 1785, Andrew Patman a young man was also listed in Mount Bethel.

     Because it seems that the Putman family lived in Slateford, Pennsylvania, with the Andrew Neu family and John Victorse Potman seems to have had a son named Andrew, John Victorse Potman may have married a daughter of Andrew Neu, or Nye

     David Johannes Pootman of Potterstown, New Jersey, the son of Johannes Pootman and Cornelia Bradt seems to have used the spellings Patman, Pateman, and Potman for his surname.

     There was no John Potman in the 1790 Pennsylvania Census for Northampton County, but there was a John Pottman in Luzerne County.  This was probably John Potman, Patman, of the Hunter Settlement, who by then had removed west to Luzerne County. 

     In the 1800 Census of Luzerne, John “Patman,” is listed with himself over the age of 45, or born before 1755, with two males between 26 and 45 years of age or born between 1755 and 1776.  There were two daughters and a wife over the age of 45.   John Patman or Potman lived in Nescopeck next to James McNeal and James Santee.  The McNeal's and Santee's intermarried, and James Santee was the son of Valentine Santee the 1775 neighbor of John Potman of the Hunter Settlement or Upper Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania.

     The 1810 Census of the Town of Olean, Niagara County, New York, which was later set off as the Town of Olean, Cattaraugus County, included John Putman, Jn. Putman, and Peter Putman.  John and Peter seem to be brothers while John Putman, Sr., seems to have been their father and the John Potman of Hunters Settlement, Pennsylvania.

     Peter Putman according to History of Cattaraugus County, New York, grew up in the "Delaware River Country."  This was probably the Upper Mount Bethel area of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where Victor David Potman and Margaret Wiser lived and seem to have left land to a John Potman.

     Peter Putman of Cattaraugus County, New York, also used the name Potman.

     Peter had a son named Victor, which according to the way the Dutch named their children indicates that Peter was a descendant of a Victor.

          Children:

1.      Probably Andrew Patman.  Andrew “Patman” was listed as a young man in Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in the 1785 Proprietary Tax Tables.  Andrew would have been born about 1768.

2.      John, Jr..  In 1800, John lived in the Town of Olean, Niagara County, New York, which was later set off to Cattaraugus County.  John was born about 1772.

          3.      Probably Peter.  Born in 1775 and raised along the Delaware River Valley, he removed by 1800 to an area of Town of Olean, Niagara County, new York, which was later set off as the Town of Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County.

4.   Probably Elizabeth.  She was born in Pennsylvania and married a Sims. 

 

Peter (Victor, David, Johannes)

     Peter [Victorse] Potman, or Putman, was born during the French and Indian War in 1760.

     Peter Putman of Sandyston, New Jersey, was probably the son of Victor Potman and Margaret Wies.  It was customary in the eighteenth century to name the first-born male child after his paternal or maternal grandfather, and since Peter Putman named his first son Victor, Peter Putman's parents were almost certainly Victor Potman and Margaret Wies.  

     During the Revolution, Peter enlisted March 5, 1778, in the Continental Army and served as a private in Captain Holmes' Company, Colonel Elias Dayton’s Third Battalion, in the New Jersey Continental Line, and June 28, 1778, he fought at the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, which was the turning point of the war.

Peter Putman later was at the smaller Battle of Pompton Plains, New Jersey. 

He was discharged from the military at the Princeton Hospital October 1, 1780.  He then served as a captain in the Sussex County State Militia.

      Peter married Sarah Cannan, or Kinnan, March 20, 1780, in Wantage Township according to his pension record.  Sarah was born in June 1761 possibly the daughter of John Kinnan and Martha Marvin.  It appears the Putman in his early live with or in the neighborhood of Johannes [Davidse] Potman in southern Wantage Township near it's border with Frankford, Lafayette, and Hardston.

      Lafayette Township seems to have included Isaac Kinnan, who was in the 1810 Militia of Sussex County.  Isaac was probably the brother, or nephew, of Sarah Kinnan who married Peter Putman.

      Peter and Sarah were residents of Wantage during the Revolution, but by 1793 they removed to Sandyston where they would purchase land along the Delaware River.

      A land deed between Henry Cuyler, perhaps Collier, of Greenbush, Renesselerwick County, New York, and Peter Putman dated May 19, 1800, indicates that Henry Cuyler had purchased 1,500 acres of land along the Delaware River in Sandyston, New Jersey (from James Parker of Perth Amboy), and on this date conveyed 152 acres to Peter Putman.  Witnesses to the transaction were Even Bevens, Mathias Clark, and Thomas Anderson the later an officer of the High Court of Chancery.  Consideration was 152 Pounds, or 1 Pound per acre.

The 1793 Military Census of New Jersey shows the Peter Putman Homestead as located in the Beven’s Post Office area north of Peter’s Valley.  Peter Putman had the following neighbors:

      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

Garret Van de Ruff

Isaac Van Auken

John Patton

      Even Bevens was of Welsh ancestry and came to Sandyston Township, probably, from Morris County, after the American Revolution according to History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey.  James Bevens, the father of Victor Bevens, was born in 1800.  James Bevens was the son of Even Bevens and a Carmer.  Perhaps, a Carmer married a sister of Peter [Victor] Potman. 

Grantors sold land to Peter and Sarah in 1801 and 1808.

      In a June 20, 1808, deed, Peter and Sarah Putman of Sandyston, New Jersey, conveyed 141 perches of land in Sandyston to James Van Auken of the Township of Montague.  The consideration was $1,500.   Witnesses were Jacob Hornbeck and Isaac Van Auken.  The land sold butted the southeast corner of 52 acres Peter Putman had previously sold to Andrew Dingman and he to Jacob Smith.

      Following the paths of other Revolutionary War veterans of Sussex County, by 1810 Peter Putman may have removed to Seneca County, New York, where a Peter Putman was listed in that year’s census near Joseph Cannan in the Town of Ulysses.  Ulysses became a part of Tompkins County.  Joseph would have a son named Isaac Putman Kinnan.

      In 1820 Peter Putman was listed in the Town of Wayne, Steuben County, later the Town of Barrington, Yates County, where according to History of Yates County, New York, Joseph Kinnan, and his wife, and Peter Putnam, and his wife, helped in the founding of the Methodist Church of Barrington in 1810.

      Joseph Kinnan was born in New Jersey in 1780 and married Mary Saunders, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1783.  They had three sons born in the Town of Ulysses, New York, in 1804, 1806, and 1810. Mary Saunders seems to have been a daughter of John Sanders and his wife, Ms. Price, or Monroe County, Pennsylvania, just across the Delaware River from Bevens, New Jersey.

      Peter Putman and his sons probably worked in the lumber woods during the winter months and farmed during the summer.  Lumbering was a common occupation of Steuben County.  Loggers constructed rafts of lumber on Mud Lake just south of Barrington and floated them down the Susquehanna River to Pennsylvania and Maryland.

      After Peter died, October 3, 1835, at age 75, Sarah received Peter's Revolutionary War pension.  August 30, 1838, Sarah at 76 years 2 months was living with her son David Putman in Barrington.  She afterward lived with her son, Peter, Jr., and died at his home in Springwater, New York, November 22, 1841, at 80 years old.

     Peter Putman was involved in court cases with John Clay.

Children:

1.   Victor.  Victor was born October 26, 1782, in New Jersey.

2.   John.  John was baptized September 27, 1785, at the Dutch Reformed or Congregational Church of Walpack, Sussex County, New Jersey.  

3.   Peter.  Peter was born in 1788 in New Jersey. 

4.   David.  He was born about 1790 in New Jersey.  

5.   Isaac.  Isaac was born in 1797 in New Jersey.  He seems to have been named for an Issaac Kinnan.

 

Sarah (John?, John, David, Johannes)

     According to History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey, Sarah Putman was born November 12, 1779, in New Jersey.

     Sara Putman seems to have been a daughter of John and Sina Putman of New Jersey.

     Sara Putman married July 1801 to William Synder who was born March 6, 1780 in New Jersey.  He was called "Captain Snyder," throughout his life.  William was a noted farmer, a Democrat in politics, and took a deep interest in and was a liberal contributor to churches and charitable efforts.

     Sarah and William lived in Lafayette Township, just west of Hardyston Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.

Sarah and William's children are listed in The History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey.  A sketch in that work of Sarah's daughter, Catherine Putman Adams, says that the Sarah’s "ancestors were the Putnam’s of Connecticut."  This was a common claim the Dutch Putman’s of Northwestern New Jersey made but seems to be inaccurate.

      The order of naming of the children suggests that Sarah’s father was John.  John was also a common name for grandchildren.

Sarah died July 1, 1849, and her obituary was published in the New Jersey Herald, Newton, NJ, which read:

"Died. In Lafayette on the 1st., Sarah, wife of Captain William Snider, aged 78 years,"

     This obituary places her birth in 1771.  

Children:

1.   Margaret.

2.   John.  John married Sarah Warbass.

3.   Rachel.

4.   Effa.  Effa married Jacob Hiles.

5.   Catherine.  Catherine married Daniel C. Adams.  History of Sussex and Warren Cos., New Jersey, described the family as follows:

            The Adams family was probably one of the oldest in Knowlton . . . Daniel C. Adams was born on the old homestead in Knowlton 18 September 1807.  After the death of his father, he went to live with his maternal grandfather, in Hardwick, where he remained until his sixteenth year, when he commenced to learn the trade of tanning and currying with A. McCoy, at Martin's Creek near Easton, Pennsylvania, remaining three years.  After that he went to New York State; first to Green County, and then to Batavia and Elba, New York, working on farms and at his trade.  He then went to Canada for a short time, and then to Aurora, New York, where he followed tanning and currying, working for A.  Cross.  Wishing to find out about his brother, he went to Philadelphia then he removed to Lafayette, Sussex County, where he entered into partnership with his uncle, J. Lundy.  They carried on currying, harness and shoemaking until 1834, afterwards removed to Knowlton.  In 1833, he married Catherine, daugther of William Synder of Lafayette.  Her maternal ancestors were the Putnam’s of Connecticut [probably not true].

            In politics, D. C. Adams was always since the formation of the Republican Party a consistent supporter of the same, but never sought office.  He was for many years a farmer, and his farms were in as high a state of cultivation as any in the county.  He and his family were members of the Society of Friends.

Children:

1.   George C.  He married in 1879 Elizabeth Strahan of Cuba, New York, who died the same year.  George removed to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and later owned the Hainesburg gristmill, Knowlton.

2.   W. S.  Died in 1863.

3.   John.  John lived in Philadelphia.

4.   Sarah.

6.   Sarah.  Sarah married Robert M. Ogden.

7.   Mary.

8.   William.  History of Sussex and Warren Cos., New Jersey, says:

            William Synder was born in Lafayette, October 4, 1817.  He remained on the farm at home until he reached his majority, and for a few years afterwards he worked his father's farm on shares.  On January 1, 1842, he married May J., daugther of Samuel and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Kays, of Hardyston, Sussex County, New Jersey; she was born 1 May 1821.  They have had six children . . ..

Children:

1.   Samuel.  He served 3 years in the Union Army during the Civil War.

2.   Raymond.  He married Kate Roof, daughter of Christopher Roof.

3.   John.

4.   Laura.  Laura married Henry Huston of Newton, New Jersey.

5.   William.

9.   Elizabeth.  She married Henry C. Northrup.

10.  Eva.

 

John (John, John?, David, Johannes)

     The John Putman was born in 1774 in New Jersey and removed to Steuben County, New York, by 1810.  He is listed in the 1810 New York Census as John Potman.

     John Putman seems to be a son of John Putman, Sr., of Sussex County, New Jersey who left a will administered there by Sina Putman.  John Jr. was a fellow bondsman in the will.

     Francis Price, Justice of the Peace for the Township of Frankford, Sussex County, New Jersey, married John Putman and Jane Stull June 18, 1797. 

     John Putman was enumerated in the 1810 New York Census in the Town of Reading, Steuben County, as John Potman.  According to the tradition of the family, John and Jane first lived on the Preemption Road, which now forms the border between Schuyler and Steuben Counties.

     His household contained two males that were born between 1800 and 1810 perhaps a John and Daniel; two males between born between 1790 and 1800 probably Peter and Andrew; one male between thirty and forty years old—John born in 1774; one female under ten, Sarah; and finally one females born between thirty and forty, Janet 1776.

In the 1820 New York Census, John was again listed in the Town of Wayne, Steuben County, New York.  This census shows John and Janet Putman next to David Gardner.

During the 1830 New York Census, John and Janet seem to be missing.  The home they lived in 1820 next to David Gardner seems to be occupied by a possible John Putman, Jr.,. 

      By the 1840 New York Census, John and Janet were living in the Town of Reading.

And, during the 1850 New York Census, John and Janet Putman were enumerated in the Town of Tyrone, Steuben County.  The 1850 New York Census shows that John was born in New Jersey in 1774, and Jane was born in 1776 in New Jersey.

The tradition of the family was that the Putman’s were Dutch from New Jersey.

John was a farmer, which was the common occupation of nearly 85% of the population, then.

The 1855 New York State Census shows John but not the 1860, which seems to indicate that John Putman died between those dates.  His last residence was Schuyler County, which was taken from Steuben County and included the Town of Tyrone.

John and Jane lived in Monterey, New York.

      John purchased land in the Town of Tyrone, Steuben County, from Nicolas and Cornelius Low of the City of New York November 21, 1834, for $160.00.

Children:

1.      Peter.  Peter reportedly moved to Ohio when young and all trace of him was lost.

2.      Andrew.  Andrew Putman was born in 1799 in New Jersey.  Andrew married Submit Caswell in 1820.  She was born in 1799 in Massachusetts.  During the 1820 New York Census, they lived in the Town of Wayne, Steuben County, and in the 1830 New York Census Andrew was on a page with John and Janed Putman in the Town of Tyrone, Steuben County.  In 1840 Andrew was a resident of Urbana.  During the 1850 New York Census, Andrew and Submit lived in the Town of Orange.  Andrew Sr. died in 1864 and was buried at the Altay Baptist Church Cemetery where his wife was also later buried in 1891.

Children:

1.   Jacob.  He was born in 1818 in New York and lived in the Town of Urbana, Steuben County, New York, during the 1840 New York Census near Andrew and Daniel Putman.  According to the 1850 New York Census, Jacob married Louisa who was born in 1816 in Rhode Island.  They lived then in the Town of Orange, Steuben County.

Children:

1.   Meander.  He was born in 1841 in New York.

2.   Kyle.  He was born in 1842 in New York.

3.   George M.  George was born in 1844 in New York.

4.   Emeline E.  She was born in 1816 in New York.

5.   Mary.  She was born in 1848 in New York.

2.      James.

3.      Norman.

4.      Linve.

5.      Enos.

6.      Euphamia.  Euphamia was born 1832 in New York.

7.      Paulina.  She was born in 1834 in New York.

8.      Thomas.  He was born in 1835 in New York.

9.      Ebenezer.  Eben was born in 1837 in New York.

10.    Lyman.  He was born in 1842 in New York.

11.    Andrew.  Andrew was born in 1842 in New York.

3.   Possibly John, Jr..  John would have been born in 1804 in New Jersey.  It seems John lived on the Old Homestead of John and Janet Putman next to David Gardner in the Town of Tyrone when the 1830 New York Census was taken. 

4.   Daniel.  He was born between 1804 and 1810.  Daniel third son of John and Jane Putman married perhaps a Temperance and had two children. Andrew and Sarah Jane. Daniel was killed by a falling tree and his wife died soon afterward. A Daniel Putman died December 21, 1841, at the age of 35 years 3 months and 4 days and was buried at the Baptist Cemetery of Dundee, NY. 

Children:

1.   Andrew.  Andrew was adopted by a family named Bliven. He married and was killed in the Civil War. He left on daughter Frankie who married C. Robinson. They had three children: Floyd, Eva, and Lena.  An Andrew Putman was buried at the Baptist Cemetery of Dundee, NY, having died at the age of  24 years.  He was killed at Union Mills, VA,  during the Civil War: Co. B, 126th NY.

2.   Sarah Jane.  Sarah Jane was raised by her grandparents. She married Henry Lasey, and they had three children: Charles, Amelia, and Edward.

Charles Lasey married Emma Perry. They had four children: Maud, Leah, Arline, and Flora. Maud married Allen Powell. They have one child Edith. Leah married James Mullay. They have two children: Charles and Catherine. Arline married William Glynn. They have two children: Robert adn Betty. Flora married Berlin Gardner.

Amelia Lasey daughter of Sarah Jane married Eli Parker. They had two children: Bertha and Harry. Bertha married Ethan Littel. They had two children Dorothy and Arlien.

Edward Lasey the son of Sarah Jane married Nellie Lettel.

 

5.   Eben.  Eben was born in New York in 1810/11 and married Elizabeth Townsend who was born in 1810/11 in New York.  During the 1850 New York Census, they were listed next to John and Jane Putman in the Town of Tyrone, Steuben County.  Eben and Elizabeth went to Missouri before the Civil War but returned to New York about 1868.  They were on the trail in a covered wagon for five weeks.  They had one adopted daughter Lillian.  Elizabeth died in 1881. 

6.   Sarah.  She was born in 1804-1810 in New York and married Jacob Smith.  Sarah had a daughter named Jane after her grandmother Jane Stoll.

Children:

1.      Mary.

2.      John.

3.      Jane.

4.      Alida.

 

Henry (John?, John?, David, Johannes)

     Henry Putman seems to be listed in the 1810 Census of Seneca County, New York.

     He was born about 1780 and married Sarah Dunn in 1802 in New Jersey.  Both were born in New Jersey. 

     Many people from New Jersey removed into the Seneca area shortly after the American Revolution.  Henry Putman seems to have been a son of John and Sina Putnam of New Jersey and a brother to John Putnam of Steuben and Schuyler Counties.  The name Sina, perhaps also spelled Cennentha, seems to be common to this family.

     John Putnam left an intestate will in Newtown, New Jersey, in 1798, which was administered by Sina Putman, probably his wife.

     John Putman, Jr., was a fellow bondsman.

     In New Jersey, February 14, 1802, Valentine's Day, Henry Putman married Sarah Dunn. 

     By 1810 they seem to be in Romulus, Seneca Co, New York, where a Henry Putman is enumerated.  In the 1820 census, Sarah Putman seems to be listed alone in the Town of Ovid, Seneca County.  Henry probably died by 1820.

     Henry and Sarah Dunn-Putman had a daughter named Ann Cenantha Putman who moved to Michigan.

     Anna Cennentha Putman was born in New Jersey, married Jacob Burton in Ovid, New York, and raised a family there before coming to Oakland County, Michigan, about 1833. 

     Anna Cennentha seems to have been named after Sina Putman her grandmother.

     Sarah Dunn-Putman in late life lived with her daughter Ann Putman-Burton in Michigan.

 Children:

1.   Anna.  Anna Cennentha Putman was born in 1807 in New Jersey and married Jacob Burton in 1826.  They had children in the Town of Ovid, Seneca County, New York, and removed to Michigan about 1833.  In Michigan, Jacob and Anna lived first in Lyon Township, Oakland County, then Brighton Township, Livingston County.  Jacob was born June 20, 1803, and died July 24, 1888, in Brighton Township, Livingston County.  Anna was born February 14, 1807, in New Jersey and died October 15, 1898, in Brighton Township.

Children:

1.   Putman.  He was born June 5, 1826 in Ovid, New York.  Married Cynthia C. Clark and died September 17, 1911 in Gaines, Genesee County, Michigan.

2.   Martin.  Born in 1829 in Seneca County, New York and died before 1888.

3.      Sarah.  Born in 1831 in Seneca County, New York, she married possibly Cyrenus Morgan.

4.      Daniel.  Daniel was born in 1834 in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan.  He married a Rachel and died September 1, 1901 in Williamston, Ingham County, Michigan.

5.      Susan.  She was born in 1835 in Oakland County, Michigan.

6.      Sophia.  She was born May 31, 1837, in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan, married February 28, 1866 Francis Whitmore, and died in 1920.

7.      Louise.  She was born in 1839 in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan.  She died March 14, 1915 in Gaines Township, Genesee County, Michigan.

8.      Esther.  She was born December 4, 1843, in South Lyon, Oakland County, Michigan.  She married July 17, 1864, to William Harrison Crippen, and died February 14, 1908, in Brighton Township, Livingston County.

2.      Probably, John.  John married Emily Johnson in New York State.  She was born in 1808 in New York.  They eventually removed to Leoni Township, Jackson County, Michigan.  In the 1830 census, John and Emily are hard to find.  Tradition says that about 1833 John and Emily Putman removed from Rochester, New York, and traveled to Oakland County, Michigan, where they stayed a few years before moving on to Jackson County.  Perhaps, Rochester was in fact Romulus.  John died in Leoni in 1885.

Children:

1.      Eli.  He was born in 1829 in New York.

2.      Henry.  Henry was born in 1832 in New York.

3.      William H.  He was born in 1834 in Michigan and died in 1856.

4.      Jane.  She was born in 1836 in Michigan.

5.      Merrit.  He was born in 1839 in Michigan.

6.      Thompson.  He was born in 1848 in Michigan.

 

Peter (John, Victor, David, Johannes)

     Peter Putman according to History of Cattaraugus County, New York grew up in the "Delaware River country."  This was likely the Mount Bethel area of Northampton, Pennsylvania, where it seems Victor David Potman and Margaret Wiser lived.

     The 1810 Census of New York in the Town of Olean, Niagara County, which was later set off to Cattaraugus County, lists John Putman, Jn. Putman, and Peter Putman.  John and Peter seem to be brothers with John Putman, Sr., as the father. 

     Peter Putnam, or Potman, of Cattaraugus, County, New York, was born about 1775 along the Delaware River and raised there. 

Peter was likely a son of John [Victor] Potman of the Hunter Settlement.

Peter had a younger son named younger Victor, which according to the way the Dutch named their children indicated that Peter was a second-generation descendant of a Victor Potman.

     During the 1880 New York Census, Peter's son, John of Franklinville, said his parents were born in Pennsylvania.

     The records of the Maplehurst Cemetery in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, New York, indicate Peter was born January 7, 1775.

     Early Settlers says that in 1824 the following people meet in Franklinville, New York, to vote to ordain James Reed and engage him for a year at $150:  Charles Hatch, Ira Burlingame, and Peter Potman.

     This Peter Potman seems to be Peter Putnam of Hinsdale, and the name Potman indicates that Peter was of Dutch ancestry.

     Most information about Peter Putman and Mary Walters, his wife, comes from two sources:  History of Cattaraugus County, New York describes them as follows:

     Peter Putnam, who claimed to have been a lineal descendant of General Putnam of Revolutionary fame, came from the Delaware River country and settled in Almond, Allegany County, New York, in 1802.  His marriage was the first in that township.  In 1810, he sold out his improvements, invested his money in a raft, and, leaving his wife at Olean, proceeded down the Allegany and Ohio Rivers to Cincinnati.  Having sold his lumber, he bought a wagon and span of horses in Cincinnati, and drove back to Olean.  January 1, 1811, he arrived on Lot 42, Township 3, Range 3, and immediately began cutting logs for a house.  When he had the requisite number prepared, the Indians, who were encamped in considerable numbers near by, assisted him to build it.  He built the first framed barn in the town in 1816.  His son, John Putnam, who was born August 10, 1811, is believed to have been the first male child born in Hinsdale . . ..

     Peter Putnam does not seem to be a lineal descendant of General Israel Putnam of Pomfret, Connecticut, but was of Dutch ancestry.  Being a relative of General Israel Putnam seems to have been a claim common among to the New Jersey Potman’s.

     Peter was a logger and rafter--an occupation common to people in the areas in which he lived.  History of Cattaraugus County tells a somewhat different story as the above about Peter and Mary Walters Putman.  This one says that the entire family went on the rafting trip to Cincinnati, Ohio.

     Peter Putnam . . . in 1804 married Mary Walters in Almond, Allegany County.  In 1810, he went to Olean, where he made a raft and with his family aboard and his brother [probably John] for a pilot started down the Allegheny, intending to sell his lumber in Cincinnati and settle there.  In that city, his family was all ill with fever and ague.  With them, he returned to Olean with a span of horses and a wagon loaded with his property.  January 1, 1811, he settled in the woods where George Scott now lives.  His nearest neighbor on the south was at Olean and on the north at Franklinville.  He raised a log house with the help of Indians who camped nearby.  He was a great hunter, was an industrious pioneer, planted the second orchard in Cattaraugus County, and raised the first frame barn in Hinsdale.  He died in February 1844; Mrs. Putnam died December 22, 1842.

     Peter Putman died February 23, 1843, and was buried at Maplehurst Cemetery, Hinsdale, New York.

Children:

1.   Rebecca.  Rebecca was born in 1808 and married Henry Gross.  She died November 1870 at age 62 and was buried in the Maplehurst Cemetery, Hinsdale, New York, in the Putnam Family Plot.

2.   John.  History of Cattaraugus County describes John as follows:

            John Putnam, oldest son of Peter, was born in the log cabin on the homestead August 10, 1811, and is distinguished as the first white child born in Hinsdale.  January 1, 1939, he married Sarah A. Learn, and January 5, 1841 their son Joseph M. C. was born.  Mrs. Putnam died January 15, 1841.  May 8, 1843, he married, second, Mary A. Learn.  At his marriage, Mr. Putnam settled on the homestead; in 1840, he rented that and settled on a farm in Humphrey.  His health failed in 1877, and they moved onto the home Mrs. Putnam had purchased at Scott's Corner.  .  . .  Mr. Putnam was justice of the peace in Humphrey sixteen consecutive years.

2.   Victor.  Victor was born August 22, 1820, in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, New York, and first married Adaline E. Hardy who was born July 21, 1824, in Cavendish, Vermont.  He married second Veletta Allen.  In 1850, Victor was a resident of Carroll County, Illinois, but soon removed to De Kalb County, Illinois, where he died February 8, 1903. 

Children, by Adaline Hardy:

1.   Caroline Sylvira.  She was born March 21, 1845 in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, New York.

2.   Christopher.  He was born November 30, 1846, in Carroll County, Illinois.

3.   Phoebe Clementine.  Phoebe was born November 23, 1848, in Ogle County, Illinois, and married George Fox August 24, 1867, in Ogle County

4.   William Peter.  He was born March 1, 1850, in Ogle County, Illinois, and married Evarett Bridge November 22, 1876/2.  She was born March 28, 1858, in De Kalb County, Illinois.  William died May 5, 1926, in Savannah, Missouri; Evarett died January 8, 1944, in Atchison, Kansas.

Children:

1.   Clarence Israel.

2.   Charles Arthur.

3.   Nellie Elizabeth.

4.   Ira Reed.

5.   Albert Edward.

6.   Orville Hugh.

5.   Mary Jarusha.  Mary was born August 11, 1853 in Carroll County, Illinois, and died October 12, 1853.

6.   John Pascal.  John was born July 6, 1855, in Ogle County, Illinois, and died October 19, 1855.

7.   Francis Victor.  Francis was born November 20, 1856, in Ogle County, Illinois, and died June 7, 1857.

8.   David Edward Victor.  Edward was born January 1, 1860, in Ogle County, Illinois.

 

Victor (Peter, Victor, David, Johannes)

     Victor Putman the son of Peter Putman and Sarah Kinnan was born October 26, 1782, in New Jersey. 

     He reportedly married Elizabeth Kline the Jonas Kline of Ulster County, New York.  She was born January 20, 1791, at New Hurley, Ulster County, and baptized April 17, 1791, at the New Hurley Dutch Reformed Church.

     In 1810 Victor lived in the Town of Wayne, Steuben County. 

     February 24, 1823, the Town of Barrington, Yates County, which separated from Wayne, elected Victor an Overseer of the Poor at the town's first organizational meeting.

     Victor seems to have lived just northwest of the Village of Wayne.

     About 1835, Victor and Elizabeth removed to the Town of Canadice, Ontario County, where Victor worked as a licensed liquor seller and operated a small tavern on the Harvey Place. 

There they were listed next to Peter W. Putman, Victor’s nephew, when the 1840 census was taken. 

Victor died May 21, 1845, at age 62; Elizabeth died May 4, 1862, at 71 years of age.  Both were buried at Canadice Cemetery.

It may have been that Elizabeth was the daughter of Jonas Partridge a neighbor of Victor Putman in 1830.

Children:

1.   Moria.  Maria was baptized April 1, 1809, at the Walpack Congregation Church, Sussex County, New Jersey.

2.   Spencer.  Spencer was born about 1811.

3.   Jonas.  Jonas was born in 1813 in New York.

4.   John.  John was born in 1818 in New York.

 

John (Peter, Victor, David, Johannes)

      John Putman was the son of Peter Potman and Sarah Canaan and was baptized September 27, 1785, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Walpack, Sussex County, New Jersey.  The church was also known as the Walpack Congregational Church.

John Putman married Sarah Martin the daughter of Mulford Martin and Betsey Rolph of New Jersey.  In the 1810 NY Census, John Putman is likely listed in his father's household, not yet married, in Ulysses, Seneca Co, NY, near the Ephriam Rolph family.  John would married a grand-daughter of Ephriam's Sarah or Sally Martin the daughter of Mulford Martin and Betsey Rolph about 1811.  The area inwhich the Rolp's and Putman's lived in Seneca Co., NY, today is known as Applegate Corners.

During the 1820 NY Census, John Putman was living in Barrington, Yates Co., NY, and in 1830 it seems he is lived in the “Houck Neighborhood,” a couple of miles northwest of the Village of Wayne, New York. 

    The Town of Wayne was noted for its pine lumber.  Large rafts of lumber were floated down Mud Lake below the Village of Wayne on to the Susquehanna River.  These rafts were built between 1810 and 1830.

      John Putman and Sarah moved in 1834 to Delhi, Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada, the year their assumed son William C. Putman was born. 

      John Putman seems to have followed the lumber trade to Delhi as there was a logging boom in Delhi at the time—possibly the largest trade in lumber was taking place in the area at that time in North America. 

      November 1, 1839, the Middleton Baptist Church of Delhi elected Deacons Frederick Sovereign, Deacon William McLennen, and John Putman to attend a council to ordinate Samuel Smith. 

      On July 22, 1842, John and Isaac Kinnan Putman pledged an oath of allegiance to Canada.

      Sarah Putman died in Delhi December 21, 1860, at 69 years of age.

      John died in Delhi May 10, 1863, at age 78.

      Both John and Sarah were buried at the Middleton Township Cemetery; however, the land was later sold, and their double headstone was removed a short distance to the Delhi Cemetery.  The inscription on the headstone read "John and Sarah Putnam."

Children:

1.      Peter W.  Peter was born in 1812 in New York.  Peter married Amelia Pierce.  Peter and Amelia were listed in 1850 in the Town of Yorkshire, Cattaraugus County, New York.  Amelia died April 12, 1864.  Peter W. Putman died at 70 years of age on July 4, 1882.  Both were buried at Delhi Cemetery, Delhi, Ontario, Canada.

Children:

1.      Elizabeth.  She was born in 1837 in New York and died July 12, 1855.

2.      Sarah E.  Sarah was born in 1835 in New York and married Mahlon B. Edison February 20, 1854, in Ontario, Canada.

3.      Albert.  Albert was born in 1839 in New York and married Hannah E. Howey September 24, 1861.

4.      Amelia.  She was born in 1841 in New York and married Thomas Boyd August 27, 1872.

5.      James.  He was born in 1844 in New York.

6.      Francis.  Francis was born in 1846 in New York.

7.      Marion.  Marion was born in 1855.  Married a Witherby.

8.      T. B.

2.      Mulford Martin.  Mulford was born in 1816 in New York.  He married first Elizabeth Barnes and second Elizabeth Jane Edison February 18, 1857, in Delhi, Ontario, Canada.  Elizabeth Edison was the daughter of Samuel Edison Sr. and Elizabeth Cook.  She was an aunt to Thomas Alva Edison the inventor.  John and Sarah Putman Mulford’s parent’s were staying with him when the 1851 Ontario Census was taken.  Elizabeth Barnes and Mulford Putman were innkeepers of the Francisco House in Delhi.  Elizabeth Barnes died January 13, 1855.  Mulford was buried at St. Luke’s, Vienna Township, Elgin County The Tilsonburg Observer reported April 1, 1892:

M. M. Putnam is still very low.  John Putnam returned to his home in Marquette, Michigan, on Saturday.  Samuel Putnam is at his hone here as is also his sister Mrs. A. Suffel.

Children by Elizabeth Barnes:

1.      Malvina M.  She was born in 1839.

2.      John W.  He was born in 1840 and lived in Marquette, Michigan.

3.      Josephine.  She was born in 1843.  Josephine married William Forbes December 26, 1866.

4.      Ellen.  Ellen was born in 1847.  She married George Forbes June 11, 1870.

5.      Ellis.  Ellis was born in 1855.

Children by Elizabeth Edison:

6.      Charles W.  Born in 1857 and died October 1, 1863.

7.      Samuel E.  He was born in 1859.

8.      Lillian H.  Lillian was born in 1865.  She married Alfred P. Suffel.  They settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

9.      Lizzie F.  She married Charles Dure.

10.  Carrie W.  She died May 18, 1870.

11.  Cora.  She was born in 1870.

3.      Elizabeth.  She was born in 1818 in New York and married Alexander Sovereign of Fredericksburg, now Delhi, Windham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.  Alexander was the son of Frederick Sovereign and Jane Hutchinson of Delhi.  Alexander died August 15, 1907.  Both he and Elizabeth Putman-were buried in the Delhi Cemetery.

Children:

1.      Mary J.  Born in 1840 in Canada.

2.      Frederick.  Died April 3, 1846.

3.      Roselia.  Died May 10, 1845.

4.      Rachel E.  Born in 1845 in Canada.  Died September 18, 1850.

5.      Gertrude.  Born in 1851 in Canada.

6.      Amart Ann.  Died April 3, 1849.

7.      Sarah.  Born in 1853 in Canada.

8.      Nancy A.  Born in 1855 in Canada.

9.      Valzora.  Born in 1857 in Canada.

10.  Hattie.  Born in 1859 in Canada.

11.  Alexander A.  Born in 1863 in Canada.

12.  Wilber.  Born in 1868 in Canada.

13.  Fannie.  Born in 1871 in Canada

  4.       Isaac Kinnan.  He was born in 1819 in New York.  Isaac married Theodotia who was born in the Unitied States in 1825..

Children:

1.      James.  Born in 1843.

2.      John.  Born in 1845

  5.      Rebecca.  Rebecca was born August 26, 1822, in New York.  She died July 14, 1852.  She married Mark Reavely.

6.      Mary.  Mary was born June 4, 1825, in New York.  She married John Hubbard of Delhi, Ontario, Canada.  John was born November 28, 1820 and died January 30, 1916.  Mary died September 21, 1912.  Mary's death record indicated that her mother's last name was Martin.

Children:

1.      Martha.  Born in 1847 in Canada.  Died May 10, 1911.

2.      John A.  Born and died in 1850.

3.      Alexander C.  Born in 1853 and died in 1855.

7.      Probably.  William C.  William was born in New York in 1834, lived during his youth in Canada, and removed to Michigan as a young man where he settled in Wells Township, Tuscola County, shortly after 1856.  According to the 1880 MI Census, William C. Putman's parents were both born in New Jersey, and according to his death record William's parents were John and "Hosah" likely Sarah Putman of Ontario, CAN.

 

Peter (Peter, Victor, David, Johannes)

     Peter Putman was born in New Jersey in 1788 and about 1812 married Margaret Saunders who reportedly was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1788.

     By 1820, Peter and Margaret were living in the Town of Wayne [later Barrington], Steuben County, New York.

     Peter Putman, Jr., was elected a Constable at the first meeting of the Town of Barrington.

     Peter made a number of land transactions in Yates County

     By 1850, Peter and family were residents of Springwater, Ontario County, New York. 

     Peter died in Springwater September 21, 1855.  Margaret died in Springwater shortly afterward on the October 1, 1855.

            Children:

1.   Hetty.  Hetty was born in 1814 in Barrington, Yates County, New York, and reportedly married Peter Wyatt.

2.   Elijah.  Elijah was born in 1817 in Barrington, New York.  He married first Ms. Sweet and second Harriet Hotchkiss.  He lived in Wayne, Steuben County, New York, during the 1850 census.

Children:

1.   Elihu.  He was born in 1834 in New York.

2.   William.  William was born in 1836.

3.   Elias Gasper.  He was born in 1841 in New York and during the Civil War served as a 1st Sergt. in the 107th Infantry, Company H.  Elias enlisted July 25, 1862, served for three years, and was discharged June 5, 1865.

4.   George.  He was born in 1843 in New York.

5.   Mary.  She was born in 1845 in New York.

6.   Peter.  He was born in 1847 in New York.

7.   George H.  George was born in 1849 in New York.

3.   George William.  He was born November 19, 1819, in the Town of Barrington, New York, and married Helen Marr Burchlay March 1, 1855/56, in Antwerp, New York.  He died in March 1, 1865.

4.   Peter G.  Peter was born September 23, 1814, in the Town of Barrington, New York, and married Bridget S. Ellis reportedly on March 20, 1834, which seems a bit early for Bridget.  Bridget was born June 8, 1821, a daughter of Amos Ellis.  She died July 6, 1882, in Springwater, New York; Peter died December 28, 1895, in Pine Valley, New York.  Both were buried at the Himrod Cemetery, Himrod, New York.

Children:

1.   Martin.  He was born in 1840 and married Mary Roat.

2.   George.  He was born in 1842 and married Frances O. Clapp.

3.   Ellis.  He was born September 22, 1844, in Starkey, New York, and married Aura Angeline Myers September 16, 1868.  Ellis died January 27, 1892, in Gilman, now Issaquah, WA.

4.   Emeline.  She married John Lewis Sunderland.

5.   Hettie.  Hettie reportedly married William Semons.  Elgin County Marriage Register 1858-69, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada, records that Hatty Putnam, age 16, born in raised in Barrington, New York, married Albert Clines, age 22, of Delhi, Ontario, on April 16, 1865.  Hatty's parents were listed as Peter and Ellen.  "Ellen" was probably "Ellis."  Witnesses at Hettie's wedding were Delia Brown and Adolphus Cook.  Hatty died in Otterville, Ontario.

6.   Mira.  Mira married Ezra Coykendall.

7.   Arvilla.  She married Robert Burdge.

8.   Mary.  She married Frank Paddock and died December 22, 1927, in Waterloo, New York.

9.   Oden.  Odgen was born in 1857, married Carrie McLeod, and died in 1939.

10.  Dennis.  He was born December 25, 1862, in Starkey, New York.  Dennis married Estella M. McLead and died February 12, 1932.

11.  Magill.  May have been the 11th child.

5.   Minerva.  Minerva was born in August 13, 1823, in the Town of Barrington, Yates County, New York.  She married Alonso Snyder and died January 13, --.

6.   Esther.  Esther was born in 1824 in the Town of Barrington, Yates County, New York, and married John Hamilton Thrall.

7.   William.  William was born in 1826 in the Town of Barrington, New York.

8.   Elizabeth.  Elizabeth, or Betsy, was born in the Town of 1828 in Barrington, New York, and married Joseph C. Whitehead.

9.   Mary Jane.  She was born in 1832 in the Town of Barrington, New York, and married Henry Cooper.

10.  Sarah.  Sarah was born in 25 July 1834 in Barrington, New York, and died January 21, 1925, in Dansville, New York.

11.  Wesley.  Wesley was born in 1836 in the Town of Barrington, New York, and married Viola Cummings.

12.  Poss. Marcelis.  He was born in 1838 in New York.

 

David (Peter, Victor, David, Johannes)

     David Putman was born about 1790 in New Jersey.

     He removed to the Town of Barrington, Yates County, New York, by 1820, where he was living with his parents. .

     David bought and sold a number of parcels of land in Yates County, New York, with his brother, Peter, Jr.       

     He also helped with the founding of the Presbyterian Church of Barrington in 1830.  The church met at Warsaw but disbanded within a few years.

     On August 30, 1838, Sarah, David’s mother, at 76 years 2 months of age was living with her son David Putman in Barrington.  She afterward lived with her son, Peter, Jr., and died at his home in Springwater, New York November 22, 1841, at 80 years old.

     According to the Revolutionary War pension of Peter Putman, Sr., David died before 1855.

     He probably did not marry or had children.

 

Isaac (Peter, Victor, David, Johannes)

     Isaac Putman was born in 1797 in New Jersey. 

     He likely removed with his parents Peter and Sarah Canon, or Kinnan, Putnam, to the Town of Wayne, Steuben County, New York, about 1810.

     Isaac soon married and moved about 1825 to Ohio.

     In the 1850 Ohio Federal Census, Isaac Putman lived in Adams Township, Champaign County with wife Charlotte.  Charlotte was born in New York in 1803.

     During the 1860 Ohio Census, they are in Logan County.

     Children:

     1.   Possibly James M.  James was born in 1828 in Ohio married Margaret born in 1830 in Ohio.

     2.   William R.  William was born in 1832 in Ohio.

     3.   Joseph H.  Joseph was born in 1838 in Ohio.