THE DUTCH PUTMAN FAMILY
Johannes
Putman of New York
There are three
major groups of families in America with the name of PUTMAN and PUTNAM. One English, one German and one Dutch in
origins. This is a brief early history of the Dutch Putman family that
descended from Johannes Putman or Poutman who was born in the Netherlands and
came to America in about 1660.
Most of the
information contained here comes from several works. The History of the Putman family in the Netherlands written
in 1736 by Adolph Hendrick Putman and translated by DeWitt C. Putman and found
in of Eben Putnam's Putnam Leaflets,
volume 7, May of 1899; Genealogy
of David Putman and his Descendants written in 1916 by George W.
Putman; The Putmans of the Mohawk Valley, found in the works of Eben
Putman, A History of the Putnam Family
in England and America, volume II,
1908; and from a compilation of information by Warren T. Putman written in
1989, The Putman Family New York and
Beyond. Most recent information
comes from the research of Warren Putman of Rio Linda, California and from Mark
Putnam of Caro, Michigan. I am especially in debt to good old Warren.
A fair amount is
known about Johannes or Jan Putman, but nothing is positive about his parents
or his ancestors. From piecing together bits of letters and information gleaned
by DeWitt Putman in the late 1800s, it appears that the earliest known
forebearer of Jan Putman was one Rutger Putman, Jan's great grandfather.
The
Dutch Putman Family
WARREN PUTMAN'S GENEALOGY
