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Possible Paternal Link for Johannes "Jan" Pootman

Founder of the Mohawk Valley, New York, Pootman / Putman / Putnam Family in the USA

JAN POOTMAN was baptized on 28 Feb 1644 in Wijk en Aalburg, in what is now the Province of North-Brabant in The Netherlands. Jan Pootman's birthdate was likely to be on, or a few days prior to the 28 Feb 1644 date. Jan's father was Victor Pootman; his mother was Marie Davids (as was the custom, she kept her maiden name when she married). Jan's siblings were Geuntjen, David and Marija. Jan's parents were married in Wijk en Aalburg, Noord-Brabant, and Jan and his siblings were baptized, and most likely, born there.

This "new" information suggests that the family of Jan Pootman, the founder of the Dutch-American Pootman/Putman/Putnam family, has been found. If so, this would be an important discovery for genealogists and descendants, who have been seeking to confirm Jan Pootman's origin for 350 years. Further information is available to all who may wish to consider it, as shown on the following pages:

Related URLs:

Go to: http://www.traceyourdutchroots.com/prov/nb.html

o Under "Online Resources" mid-page, select Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum.

You will be automatically linked to http://www.bhic.nl/index.php?id=192

o On the navy bar of the BHIC page, select "Stamboom", then the first item in the drop-down box,

"Voorouders binnen Brabant".

You will be automatically linked to a BHIC search page.

o Then, enter "Pootman" in the box under "Achternaam" and click on "Zoeken".

The search results from page 1 of this document will appear. Click on each line of the search results to display or print the detailed data shown on the next two pages.

� Note �

This "new" information was found within the online records of the Brabant History Information Center in December 2009, by Katherine E. McMullen-Serrault, a direct descendant of Jan Pootman through her father, Carl Eugene Putman, EdD of Wisconsin. (Dr. Putman, an avid genealogical researcher of each of his family lines since the 1950's, is among the first participants in the Dutch-American Putman/Putnam Family DNA project.)

Having studied the work of others, Katherine continued to seek proof of Jan Pootman's origin. Katherine was particularly encouraged by Mark Putnam's work (www.putmanfamily.org), including Mark's emphasis on the use of Dutch naming conventions. During her extensive analysis of the various theories, she, like Mark, had discovered the web reference to Victor Pootman, schoolmaster in Aalburg, Noord-Brabant (shown at the end of this document). Genealogists will find that these "new" Noord-Brabant records are in line with both the reference to Victor Pootman having been a schoolmaster in Aalburg, and with Dutch naming conventions as expressed in the names of Jan Pootman of New York and his immediate descendants.

Traditionally, Jan Pootman's father has been said to have been a dominee (minister). Although we currently have no proof that Victor Pootman of Wijk en Aalburg, Noord Brabant was a dominee, historically, schoolmasters were under the supervision of the Church. At a minimum, Victor's work would have been closely related to that of a dominee.

Lending further credibility to the theory that the correct Pootman family has been found are various historical references to the places from which other of Jan Pootman's family members originated in North Brabant. There are many such references, one from Mark Putnam at www.putmanfamily.org under "Victor Pootman, Aalburg, The Netherlands", where he states: "Johannes and Cornelia Pootman's first son Arent married Elizabeth Akkerman who[se] family was from [the] area of S'Hertogenbosch just a few miles east of Aalburg. Also, Cornelia's stepfather Klaus Van Bokhoven was from Bokhoven, which is only a couple of miles east of Aalburg."

Mrs. McMullen-Serrault acknowledges that this discovery would not have been possible without the work of her father, as well as several other genealogists whose work is more widely known. Grateful acknowledgement is extended to the family of the late Warren T. Putman of California, to Mark Putnam of Michigan (www.putmanfamily.org), and to the researchers, compilers and authors referenced in their work, as well as to Bill Putman (www.billputman.com) and the many others who make family historical information available via the Web.

Something New

In February 2010, Ms. McMullen-Serrault received information from the BHIC that the source for the Victor Pootman and Marie Davids family records was an index prepared (by an unknown person) from the damaged original records. Unfortunately, no copies of the original records are available from the BHIC, as only the index was made available to them. All information available from the BHIC for these records is already reported within their Web database.

The Dutch-American Putman Linage in DNA

There are five Putman's [or Putnam's] whose YDNA match and who descend from Johannes Pootman and Cornelia Bradt of Schenectady, New York. Johannes Pootman was born in 1645 possibly in North Brabant, Holland.

Four of the tests were done at Family Tree DNA and one was done at Ancestry.com.

Using the Haplo-I Subclade Predictor that is located on the Internet and putting in the values for using the first 37 Markers tested, it shows that the Dutch-American Putman YDNA is I1 M253-AS10 with an 80% probability. However, when inputting the one test with 67 Markers there is a 60% probability that the Putman YDNA is I1 M253 AS Gen and a 10% probability that it is AS10. So, it would seem that the Dutch-American Putman family is AS Gen or Anglo-Saxon General.

The spreadsheet below shows the Y-DNA sequence of three Putnam's tested at Family Tree DNA whose ancestor was Johannes Pootman along with the sequence for the Anglo-Saxon General [GPPYF].

The origin of M253-ASGen is Netherlands, Denmark, and Northern Germany.

My information comes from http://ysearch.org

(1) DD8VD is a descendant of Arent the son of Johannes Pootman

(2) 79VEY is a descendant of Lodewyck a son of Arent the son of Johannes Pootman]

(3) GTZGV is a descendant of Victor the son of Johannes Pootman

(4) VA25H is a descendant of David the son of Johannes Pootman.

And, finally at Ancestry.com is another match for Cornelius another son of Johannes Pootman.

All the alleles match except the following that help to describe the different branches of the Pootman, Putman, Putnam family that came to American from Holland:

(1) DD8VD, a descendant of Arent Janse Pootman, has a CDYa = 36 and 442 = 11. These values would likely describe members of the line of Arent Janse Pootman.

(2) 79VEY, a descendant of Lodewyck Arentse Putman, has a 437 = 15 and 576 = 17 that sets him apart from Arent's other line, above. 79VEY values are not shown below in the chart.

(3) GTZGV, a descendant of Victor Janse Pootman, seems to have the original Pootman values or that of Johannes Pootman.

(4) VA25H, a descendant of David Janse Pootman, has 385b = 15. This value describes possibly the line of David Janse Pootman.

(5) There is a descendant of Cornelius Janse Pootman whose Y-DNA marker values are at Ancestry.com who has a 442 value of 17.

These mutations may have been 50 to 350 years old.

User ID	Last Name	Origin	3 9 3	3 9 0	1 9	3 9 1	3 8 5 a	3 8 5 b	4 2 6	3 8 8	4 3 9	3 8 9 \| 1	3 9 2	3 8 9 \| 2	4 5 8	4 5 9 a	4 5 9 b	4 5 5	4 5 4	4 4 7	4 3 7	4 4 8	4 4 9	4 6 4 a	4 6 4 b	4 6 4 c	4 6 4 d	4 6 0	H 4	Y C A I I a	Y C A I I b	4 5 6	6 0 7	5 7 6	5 7 0	C D Y a	C D Y b	4 4 2	4 3 8
GTZGV	Putman	Netherlands	13	22	14	10	13	14	11	14	12	13	11	29	14	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	28	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14	16	20	35	36	12	10
DD8VD	Putnam	Hamm, Westphalia, Germany	13	22	14	10	13	14	11	14	12	13	11	29	14	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	28	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14	16	20	36	36	11	10
GPPYF	M253-ASGen	Netherlands	13	22	14	10	13	14	11	14	11	12	11	28	15	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	28	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14					12
VA25H	Putnam	Netherlands	13	22	14	10	13	15	11	14	12	13	11	29	14	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	28	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14	16	20	35	36	12	10

GPPYF shows the AS General Y-DNA Sequence of 439 = 11, 389-1 = 12, 389-2 = 28, and 458 = 15. For these markers, Johannes Pootman likely had 12, 13, 29, and 14.

These four markers are mutations from the AS General.

It will be nice when we can identify to which Germanic tribe we belong. That's just down the road a bit! I've made an attempt in the next article.

The Pootman line in DNA is as follows:

Haplogroup IAssociated with the Gravettian Stone Culture. 24,000 years, ago.

I1 M253 AS General439 = 11. 389-1 = 12. 398-2 = 28. 458 = 15. 16,000 years, ago.

I1 M253-ASGen-Ancient Pootman 389-1 = 13. 389-2 = 29?

Johannes Pootman439 = 12. 458 = 14?

Arent Janse Pootman

Descendant of Arent CDYa = 36. DYS442 = 11. 300 years, ago.

Lodewyck Arentse Pootman 437 = 15. 576 = 17

Victor Janse Pootman Same as Johannes Pootman

David Janse Pootman 385b = 15 300 years, ago.

Cornelius Janse Pootman DYS439 = 17 300 years, ago.

The progenitor of Haplogroup I is Super-haplogroup F that originated in Europe 45,000 years, ago. Before that, 60,000 years ago, was the Super-haplogroup J, which is considered to the "Adam" halpo-type.

The origin of Haplogroup I seems to have been in the Western Balkans, and descends from one person who lived there before the last glacial maximum.

To view results from the Putnam DNA Project click Results.

I would encourage anyone who is a Dutch-American Putman or any other Putnam/Putman who is a male [with the surname Putnam/Putman] to have their Y-DNA tested to expand the database.

You get the best rates as a member of the Putnam DNA Project Group: Recruitment.

The Pootmans: The Chattii, Batavii, and Salii

     Our early Poortman or Pootman ancestor was a member it appears of a Germanic tribe of Belgium or the Netherland. He may have been a member of the Chatti, Batavii, or Salii tribe.

     The Batavii were originally part of the Chatti tribe. The Batavii migrated between 100 BC and 50 BC from North Hessen to the island now called Betuwe, which was between the Waal and Rhine Rivers in the Roman province of Lower Germany now called South Holland and North Brabant. The Batavii were excellent horsemen.  The Batavii tribe was mentioned in The Notitia Dignitatum of the 5th Century AD. The Batavians revolted in 69 AD under the Batavian leader called Gaius, or Claudius, Julius Civilis near the border between Germany and the Netherlands or near Nijmegen. At that time the stronghold was called Noviomagus Batavodurum.

     The Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, who were reportedly formed together from the Batavians, Frisians, Franks, and Saxons.

     The Batavians were mentioned by Julius Caesur in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentary on the Belgic Wars].  Caesur indicated the Batavii were living on an island in the Rhine River where it splits with one arm being the Waal and the other the Old Rhine.  This high bank of the Waal offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenanum [Germania Beyond the Rhine]. The site was recognized first by Drusus who built a fortress, or castra, and a headquarters, or praetorium. The headquarters was used until the Batavian revolt.

     The Batavii lived in small villages made up of 6 to 12 houses in the fertile lands between the rivers. They were farmers and cattle-raisers and were also equestrians.  At what is now Nijmegen a Roman administrative center was built called Oppidum Batavorum. Oppidum meant fortified warehouse. Here the tribe's treasures were stored. This centre was destroyed in the Batavian Revolt.

     The Batavians were still mentioned in 355 during the reign of Constantius II. Their island was then dominated by the Salii a Frankish tribe that had sought Roman protection on the island in 297 AD after having been expelled from their own country by the Saxons.  Constantius Gallus added inhabitants of Batavia to his legions.  It is assumed the Batavii merged with the Salii shortly before or after, and after having been expelled by another tribe, perhaps the Chamavi after 358 AD, they shared a migration to Toxandria, which today is called Brabant.

     The Chattae or Chatti tribe occupied today's central and northern Hesse region. It is thought that the name Hesse comes from this tribe. The Chatti also occupied parts of Lower Saxony and were the mother tribe of the Batavii, or Batavians, who left the Chatti tribe after a quarrel. The Chatti were one of the tribes that banded to together to defeat Varrus’ legions at the Herrmannschlacht in 9 AD, which kept Rome out of Germany. Later, the Chatti were incorporated into the Franks.

     The Salii were, it appears also called the Sicambri. The name meant "those who lived near the [salt] sea".

     The Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally lived north of the limes [border region] in the coastal area above the Rhine River in northern Netherlands. The Merovingian kings were of Salians. From the 3rd century on, the Salian Franks appear in records as warlike Germanic people and pirates, and as allies of the Romans. They were the first Germanic tribe from beyond the limes that settled permanently on Roman land.

     The Salians fully adopted the Frankish identity and ceased to appear by their original name from the 5th century onward, when they evolved into the Franks before the Ripuarian Franks were mentioned.

     [This information was found at Wikipedia].

     I think it is interesting that the YDNA of the Pootman family is close to the YDNA of the Selinger and Franck families. Perhaps, just a coincidence:

User ID	Last Name	Origin	3 9 3	3 9 0	1 9	3 9 1	3 8 5 a	3 8 5 b	4 2 6	3 8 8	4 3 9	3 8 9 \| 1	3 9 2	3 8 9 \| 2	4 5 8	4 5 9 a	4 5 9 b	4 5 5	4 5 4	4 4 7	4 3 7	4 4 8	4 4 9	4 6 4 a	4 6 4 b	4 6 4 c	4 6 4 d	4 6 0	H 4	Y C A I I a	Y C A I I b	4 5 6	6 0 7	5 7 6	5 7 0	C D Y a	C D Y b	4 4 2	4 3 8	4 2 5	4 4 4	4 4 6
GTZGV	Putman	Netherlands	13	22	14	10	13	14	11	14	12	13	11	29	14	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	28	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14	16	20	35	36	12	10
MEFFZ	Selinger (slow mutating markers)	Merdingen, Baden-Wurttenberg, Germany	13	22	15	10			11	14		13	11	29				8	11	23	16	20						11	10	19	21	14	14					12	10	12	12	14
XBS7P	Franck	Sangerhausen, Sachsen/Saxony, Germany	13	22	14	10	13	14	11	14	11	13	11	29

Salland is a historical region in the west and north of the Dutch province of Overijssel through which the Ijssel River runs. The Ijssel was named for the Sali People so it seems. It is likely that the Salian Franks originated from Salland.

David Potman / Pottman / Portman

Potterstown, New Jersey

There is a site on the internet about the Christopher Voght family of Clinton, New Jersey. Christopher Voght married Cornelia Davidse Pottman, Potman, or Portman, the daughter of David Pottman who was a son of Johannes and Cornelia Pootman of Schenectady, New York.

The David Janse Pootman family used the name Portman according to the Voght record.

In the article on the Voght's . . . http://hunterdonhomes.com/history/TheVoughtHouse.pdf . . . it says that David Potman deeded his homestead to Henry R. Traphegan his grandson. Christopher Vought lived between Potterstown and New Germantown [Oldwick], New Jersey. David Pottman it appears lived next to Christopher Voght or just below today's McCrea Mills, New Jersey, and just northeast of Potterstown. David lived along the middle brook of the Rockaway Creek. Just below the David Pottman plantation was the Van Horne Plantation located at what is today White House, New Jersey.

Christopher Vought removed a few miles west to the South Branch of the Raritan River and north of Clinton, New Jersey.

The 1741 Census of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, shows David Potman living in Readington Township near Potterstown by the order of the inhabitants. It would seems that Potterstown was named for David Pottman.

Cornelia Potman married first Ralph Traphegan by who she had two children: Sarah and Henry. Sarah married Gerrit Covenhoven or Conover. Sarah inherited or purchased a division of the David Potman Plantation with her brother Henry. Northeast of Potterstown is Covenhoven Road, which was probably at one time near of next to the Potman Plantation.

I received and an email that stated that David Potman owned land of Mathius Corneliusen [Van Horne] in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, [about 1722]. From the deed, the Potman Lot was contained within Mathius' property. David's land consisted of about 10 acres while Mathius had about 200 acres. Mathius Corneliusen's wife was Fyke Adamse Brower who married first Evert Hendrickson Van Gelder. Fyke and Evert it appears had a daughter Helena who may have married David Pottman and received the lot of land for a nominal price. The location of the Potman and Van Horne lands were likely near Centerville, NJ.

The Van Horne's about 1722 removed to White House about the same time that David removed to Potterstown. Potterstown is just upstream from White House and on Rockaway Creek.

David Pottman's Plantation near Potterstown may have rested in both Readington and Tewksbury Townships.

In the 1741 Hunterdon Census, David Potman is listed in Readington while Simon Voght, Christopher Voght's father is listed in Lebanon Township.

The Putman Family Name Once Was Pootman

Which Meant Portman or Gateman

An email correspondent from Europe told me that the Pootman family name means Portman . . . or a person who keeps guard at a gate or port . . . a person who may also be called a castle or city gateman.

Many of the Pootmann's of the area near Duisburg, Germany, in the early records of the 1600's also used the name Poortmann. When you check the internet for early Pootmann, the names Poortman and Pootman are used interchangeably. The "r" in Poortman was apparently dropped.

Other names similar to Poortman in Dutch are De Poorter and De Pooter . . . and Van Der Poorten and Van Der Pooten. However, the later names seem to mean a citizen of a burg or city and not necessarily a gateman.

Information on the Internet indicates in Professor Debrabandere book of Belgium names the names Potmans and Pothman are also variants of Poortman. Use of these names goes back to about the year 1200 AD.

In American, there are occurrences where the Dutch-American Pootman family used the last name Poortman. Rhoda J. Ensweiler Cline in her book on the Putman family said that Johannes Pootman's last name was also spelled Poortman. In the Baptism Record of Schenectady Reformed Church, 1694-1811, it lists Teunis Pootman [Putman] as Teunis Poortman at a Barheit/Putman baptism in 1742.

It seems that descendants of Johannes Pootman's son Cornelius Janse Pootman used the last name Portman or Poortman. Cornelius Portman who was listed in the 1790 New York Census was a Putman.

The gate or port of Deist, Brabant.

This is the gate or port of Diest, Brabant. At a similar gate, our early Pootman [Poortman] ancestor would have worked.

Victor Pootman

Aalburg, The Netherlands

From the naming of his children, Johannes "Jan" Pootman's father would have been a Victor Pootman.

Johannes' first son Arent was named for Cornelia Arentse Bradt's father Arent Andries Bradt. The next son of Johannes and Cornelia Pootman was named Victor, which indicates that Johannes' father was a Victor, also.

Johannes Pootman's father was according to tradition a dominee, or minister, in The Netherlands. Perhaps, he was a schoolmaster. During the early years of Aalburg, Netherlands, a dominee was hard to find, and school master functioned in the the role of a dominee.

About the time Johannes "Jan" Pootman was born, 1642-, Victor Pootman was a schoolmaster in Aalburg, North Brabant, Netherlands. The names Victor and Pootman are very uncommon, so it would seems that Johannes Pootman was connected with Victor Pootman of Aalburg, which was then a part of South Holland, Victor Pootman and Marie Davids of Aalburg had a son Jan baptized February 28, 1644, who seems to have been our Johannes "Jan" Pootman who immigrated to America about 1661 at about 16 years of age.

Johannes and Cornelia Pootman's first son Arent married Elizabeth Akkerman who family was from S'Hertogenbosch a few miles east of Aalburg. Cornelia Bradt's stepfather Klaus Van Bokhoven was from Bokhoven, which is only a couple of miles east of Aalburg.

Was Johannes Pootman the son of Victor Pootman of Aalburg? It's seems certain!

Jan Pootman's baptism was recorded in the Lutheran Baptismal Book, which may indicated that his parents were from Germany.

Land of Kleve, Germany

Home of Many Pootmann's

The "Homeland" of the Dutch-American Putman family may have been the ancient Land of Cleve, Germany, which at one time included parts of North Brabant.

Cleve is Latin for "cliff".

On the Internet, I've discovered that the last name Pootmann was common in the neighborhood of Voerde, Germany, in the early 1600's. Wilhelmus Pootman in 1683 was "Vesalia Clivensis, Ex classibus ibidem promotus". "Vesalia Clivenis" is Latin and means the Town of Wesel in the Duchy of Cleve.

In 1614, a Marijtje Jans Pootman married Jan van Roocke in Leiden, South Holland. Marijtje Jans was probably the sister of Garret Janse Pootman. Maritje was born in the Kettwig, Duchy of Cleve. Kettwig is near the cities of Essen and Duisburg, Germany, at the bottom of the old Duchy of Cleve.

Voerde includes the suburbs of Stockum, Spellen, and Goetterswickerhamm. In the late 1600's and early 1700's, there were Pootmanns in these towns. Voerde is in the northern part of the Old Dutch of Cleve.

From Familysearch.org., we find that Gordt [Gerrit] Pootman was baptized at the Freimersheim Church, which is on the Rhine River just above Duisburg. Gordt Pootman seems have lived at Goetterswickerhamm.

There were also a few Pootmans or Poortmans who lived in East Flanders or Belgium near Aarschott

Pootman / Postman

The immigrant ancestor of the American Putman family was Johannes Pootman -- 1645-1690. The name Pootman comes from Poortman meaning Gateman to a Castle. The German word "porto" means postage.

Norwegian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674, says that name Putman was originally Postman. In Dutch, a messenger is a "bode", and in German he was called a "bote". The root is the Dutch word "bod", which means to bid, or command, from which we get English bode. In Sweden, a porter is called a "stadsbud". A few Dutch-American Pootman's, or Putman's, who attended the German Lutheran Church of Herkimer County, New York, in the 1800's, spelled their name Bodman and Bottman.

Alkmaar, North Holland

The Dutch Mohawk Valley Putman family originally spelled their name Pootman. On the Vedder and Groat family websites our early surname is spelled Poetman. I have not found any reference in early records in which the Pootman family name was spelled Poutman except in the work of Eben Putnamm of New England. The name Pootman is pronounce like Boatman. At Google.com, if you type in the words "pootman holland", a listing for the Pootman, or Poeytman/Poitman, family, of North Holland, may come up. This Pootman family was recorded in the church inventory of the 1400's and 1500's in Alkmaar, North Holland.

Poentic Kill: Putman Creek

West of Schenectady, New York, runs Putnam Road where the children of Johannes and Cornelia Pootman first received grants of land from Queen Ann about 1710. Putnam Road runs along Poentic Creek. Putnam Road was "The Road to Mohawk Country" and ran a mile or so south of the Mohawk River.

Poentic Creek may have been an Indian name for the Pootman family, which was also known as Poetman.

The Putman family was known in the 1600's and early 1700's as the Pootman family. During the late 1700's, the name was changed to Pottman and Potman and on at least one occasion Puttman.

It was not until the American Revolutionary War, 1776, that the family began using the English rendition Putman. Some Pootmans' today also use the spelling Putnam.

My Putnam Family

According to my YDNA, the early Putmans of Tuscola County, MI, to which I belong descend from Johannes Pootman. I once asked my father from where did our family come. He said that his father, Claude, told him we were Scottish or Dutch. From my research, it appears that Claude's mother was of Scottish ancestry and his father was of Dutch ancestry.

Great Grandfather--William C. Putman in the 1880 Michigan Census indicated that his parents were from New Jersey, so it appears my family descends from Johannes and Cornelia Pootman's son David Pottman of Potterstown, NJ. David was born in the 1680's and died in 1761.

David Potman or Pootman also known as Portman probably had sons John and Victor.

It appears John Putnam [Potman] was associated with the Swayze and Hopkins families of Hopkins Corner, NJ, which is near Hamburg where it seems John's son John Putman II lived during the 1793 New Jersey Military Census.

Victor Pottman it appears had sons John V. Pottman and Peter V. Potman, or Pottman, and lived in the area near Portland, Pennsylvania, along the west bank of the Delaware River and likely later near Pleasant Grover, NJ, where John Davidse Putnam's daughter Elizabeth who married Samuel Swayze had a child born.

John V. Pottman remained near Portland, Pennsylvania until about 1790 when he removed to Luzerne County. In 1800, he is in Niagara County, New York.

Peter V. Putman [Potman] in 1793 lived near Bevens, New Jersey, opposite Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania.

Peter V. Putman and his children removed west of Porter's Corner, Yates County, New York, about 1815 after a sojourn in Seneca Co., NY, where Peter's son John Putman may have met Sarah [Sally] Martin the daughter of Mulford Martin of New Jersey.

John Putman [II] of Hardyston, New Jersey, married Sina and had son John [III] who married Jane Stull. The later two and their children removed to Schuyler County, New York, just below Porters Corners.

Great Grandfather William C. Putman came to Caro and Tuscola County, MI, in the mid-1850's when the Thumb of Michigan at the time it was the world's lumbering capital. William probably came from Delhi, Ontario, Canada, where his family worked in the lumber woods.

It seems that William C. Putman was born in 1834 near Porters Corners, removed to Ontario, and finally settled in Michigan. It seems William was the son of John Putman and Sarah "Sally" Martin who lived near Porters Corners and removed to Delhi, Ontario, about 1834 the year William was born.

William C. Putman worked on Ontario's Welland Canal probably as a stone mason.

As a witness to the purchase of his Homestead Property in Michigan, William C. Putman used Abel Eveland who lived just south of Porter's Corners, New York. Abel was the guardian of Francis Marion Goldry a descendant of David Pottman of Potterstown, New Jersey. David Potman's daughter Sophia, or Fyke, married Thomas Auten, and they had a daughter, Helena, who married Oliver Goltry.

Abel Eveland also had a daughter, Mary, who married a grandson of John Putman and Jane Stoll. Abel also had a son who married Harriet Stoll who was it appears was a close related of Jane Stoll.

The Putman Family Bulletin