Victor Davidse (Putman) Potman (bef. 1721)

Born before 9 Apr 1721 in Marlboro, Cumberland, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Wieser — married [date unknown] in New Jersey, United States

Descendants

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Biography

Note

Note: The data presented on the Putman family was obtained from Mark Putnam, who publishes the Putman Family Bulletin. One of his publications, "Descendants of David Janse Putman, son of Johannes Pootman of Schenectady, New York", covers the present ancestral line. More information about this fmaily is available on Mark Putnam's web page at http://www.putmanfamily.org/David.htm (available in October 2008).

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 (Dutch Reformed Church of Freehold and Middleton, near Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey). While young, his family moved to Readington township, Somerset, New Jersey. In about 1745, he married Margaret Wies, who may have been the daughter of Nicholas Wies. Margaret's name is also found in the records as Greitje Wiser.

In 1749, Victor and Margaret Potman lived in the Minisink Valley of the Delaware River, possibly on the New Jersey side above the Water Gap, across the river at Smithfield, Pennsylvania. Their three daughters were baptized at the Dutch Reformed Church of Smithfield, Pennsylvania which served both banks of the Delaware River. Victor was attracted to the Minisink Valley after the "Walking Purchase of 1737" opened the Pennsylvania side to settlement. Four Dutch Reformed Churches were founded in the Minisink Valley. By 1756, the settlements on the New Jersey side of the river were more numerous.

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.

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. 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

Between 1756 and 1761, the French and Indian War caused most of the settlers to flee the west bank of the Delaware River and find refuge in simple forts on the east side. The Dominie of the Dutch Reformed Churches fled the Minisink Valley and went to the North Branch Church in Somerset County, New Jersey. Probably due to the French and Indian War, there are no records for the births of their sons, John and Peter.

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.

Victor and Margaret Potman probably died and were buried in Sussex County, New Jersey.

Christening

Christening:

Date: 9 APR 1721

Place: Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey

Burial

Burial:

Place: Sussex, New Jersey, United States

Reference

Reference: 7233

Marriage

Husband: Victor Davidse Putman

Wife: Margaret Wieser

Child: Maria Putman

Child: Elizabeth Putman

Child: Sarah Putman

Child: David Putman

Child: Johannes Putman

Child: Peter Victorse Putman

Marriage:

Date: ABT 1745

Place: New Jersey, United States

Could not parse date out of ABT 1745.

Sources

See also: https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=barr1990&id=I58162

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