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Bill
Putman's Research: |
Putnam/Putman is an anglicization adopted by decendants of three European families: the de Puttenham family of Puttenham, Hertfordshire, UK, the Boutemont/Putman family of Germany, and the Poutman/Putman family of Holland. (Bill Putman has more information on this on his site.) We are descended from Philip Putman, or Putnam, who was born June 17, 1779, in Montgomery County, New York. We've never determined the names of Philip's parents, but the Putman/Putnams of Montgomery Co. were decendants of Johannes "Jan" Poutman or Pootman or Potman, who was born in 1645 in Leydon, the Netherlands. (More information on the Dutch Putmans.) Johannes came to Albany, New York as an apprentice when he was sixteen years old, and later married Cornelia Andriese Bratt, who was born in 1655 in Rensselaer County. Cornelia was the daughter of the Vice Governor of Rensselaerwyck. Jan and Cornelia were murdered by Indians on February 9, 1690 in Schenectady, Albany Co., New York. The raid, known as the Schenectady Massacre, was a precursor of the French and Indian War, and was led by Count Frontenac, governor of New France and founder of present-day Kingston, Ontario. "Their bloody raid left nearly eighty houses of young Schnectady reduced to ashes and rubble. Most of the inhabitants lay dead in the winter night." (Marnie Reed Crowell, North to the St. Lawrence, 1975). The six children of Jan and Cornelia -- Arent, Marite, Victor, David, Cornelius, and Catalyntje -- evidently survived the massacre. More information about the Schenectady Massacre is available here.
Phillip Putman/Putnam
settled in the town of Lyme, Jefferson County, New York, about 1800 and
his descendants have lived there since. In 1803, when James LeRay de Chaumont
traveled into the wilderness to survey his newly purchased lands in Jefferson
County, his canoe party "was obliged to stop at Gravelly Point [Cape
Vincent], two miles above Putnam's [on Point Peninsula] where they pitched
their tent...." (Thomas Wood Clarke, Emigres in the Wilderness,
1941.)
Philip Putman
served in the New York militia under Captain George Snell and saw action
in the battle of Sackett's Harbor on May 28, 1813. Philip's son Aaron (Arent) survived four wives. His fourth wife, Eliza
Henderson Horne had previously been married to Nicholas Horne, who was
killed in a logging accident on Wolfe Island, Ontario. She had 2 sons
and was 29 when she married the three times-widowed Aaron, then 49. She
and Aaron had three sons: Walter Manfred (1873), Philip and Wallace. They
were living on Carleton Island when young Philip died.
In 1896 Walter Manfred married Fannie Wells (1875), of Perch River.
Their children were Gretta, born Dec. 9, 1896, and Garry, born Feb 26,
1899. Garry and his wife Laura Irene Hentze had eight children: Hilda,
Gretta, Ivan, Hentze, Janet, Jean, Walter (1939), and Dean. Walter is
the only child still surviving.
In 1966 Walter married Phyllis Stumpf (1933) of Cape Vincent. Their children
are Julie (1967), Margaret (1969), and William (1970-1982).
If you're
interested in the Putnam/Putman genealogy or would like to compare research,
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