Person:Andrew Putman (3)

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SOURCE: Check the "German-Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick, Maryland, Parish Records Book I, 1741-1811, page 53. Also, the Estate of Andreas Buttman, Land Records of Washington Co., Maryland, Book H-8, pages 73-75, signed by heirs Adam and Catherine Schneider, 16 November 1792. Orphan Court Docket, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 5, 1845-1878, pages 274-277, estate of Adam Schneider and heir, Magdalena Lichtenberger. Letters of Attorney - heirs of Adam Schneider appoint attorney to manage rents due his estate. And, the Somerset County Historical Society Survey of Union Cemetery, Somerset, Pennsylvania, plot #486.

Andrew Putman came to America, arriving on September 17, 1753, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Andrew Putman is likely the Andrew Putman that was naturalized September 24, 1762, a resident of Frederick County and a member of the German Reformed Church at Frederick Town, Maryland. He obtained land by original grant and purchased 142 acres in all, which he called "Partnership" and "Resurvey on Root's Hill" near Eakles Mills, Maryland.

In his will dated February 4, 1777 and probated and recorded June 14, 1777, he names his wife Catharine and children John, Peter, Elizabeth, Mary (called Magdalena), Mary Ann (called Amelia), Catherine, Susannah and Andrew Putman.

From Bill Putman's website <www.billputman.com/German%20andrew.pdf> 7 Aug 2005: In addition to our English Putman/Putnam families, there are two other large groups of Putmans in America. One German and one Dutch. This is a brief early history of the German Putman Family in America.

    As with our family, many early settlers in America could not read nor write and their names were recorded the way the sounded to county court clerks who wrote up the early deeds and other papers. It seems that the German Putmans descend from a family in the German Palatinate originally spelled Boutemont which was French and then later 'Germanized' to Buttman, and then 'Anglicized' in America to Putman as the German B sounds like the English P. Boutemont was pronounced Bootmon which changed quickly to Putman here.

The first of the family to come to America was Andreas or Andrew. He came on the ship Osgood and landed in Philadelphia on September 29, 1750.

    On September 25, 1751 Philip Boudemont arrived in Philadelphia on the Phoenix from Rotterdam by way of Portsmouth, England.
    Based on a great deal of research by Dick Heller of Mission, Texas and Patricia McKinna of Houston, Texas, Bettie Cornell of Frederick, Maryland, and Bill and Betty Eynon we are able to begin to sort out the early history of this family.
    The Boudemonts were French Huguenots that had fled just across the border into Germany in the early 1600s. The name was originally Boutemont and that was changed into the more Germanic spelling like many others in the Paletinate area of Southwest Germany on the French Border.
    The earliest member of the family we can trace was Jacob Boudemont.

PALATINATES: The Palatinates was a principality in what is today Germay. It was located west of the Rhine River and south of the Mosel River, and it bordered France on its west side. During the 1800's it was the Pfalz province of the Kingdom of Bavaria and today it is the state of Rheinland-Pfalz. The physical borders of this principality along with the borders of the rest of the German states during the 1700's and 1800's were in constant change due to wars and mergers <information from Eric Johnson>.

According to the book "The Ancestors and Descendants of John Weyandt of Harrison county, Ohio" written by Eric E. Johnson in January 2001, and privately published: Andrew Putman's family lineage was of "a French Protestant family which had been expelled from France after 1685, and who had settled in what is now southwestern Germany. The family remained in that area for a couple of generations and they adopted the language and customs of their new home.

Andrew Butman was born in Rorhback, Germany in the German Palatinate region near the French border on 10 June 1716 as "Andreas Boudemont." On January 10, 1747, at the Reformed Church in Rohrback, he was married to Catherine Barbara Bourgey, daughter of Nicholas Bourgey, a resident of nearby Mohrfelden. These villages are in southwestern Germany, halfway between Kaiserslautern and Karlsrhue, not far from the French border. These two names seem to be French. Large numbers of French Huguenots had fled to Germany in the late 1600s when the French Protestants were being persecuted for their beliefs. (Source: Bill Putman's website <http://www.billputman.com/GERMAN.htm> which quotes Dick Heller's work "The Putman Family of Root's Hill and Partnership farms, near Eakle's Mills, Washington County, MD; and their descent from French Waldensians by way of Rohrback [Kreis Bergzaber], Pfalz, Germany." Published Mission, Texas: 1998).

Andrew and Catherine came to America on the ship "Osgood" which left Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and arrived at Philadelphia on 29 September 1750. The ships manifest listed his name as "Andre Baudemont" but his surname was anglicized to "Putman shortly after arrival in Pennsylvania. It is not known where the family lived in America between 1750 and 1754. They probably stayed in one of the German settlements in Pennsylvania for a short time before moving on to Maryland. Andrew's brother, Philip, had come to America in 1743 and he had moved to Frederick County, Maryland where he purchased land in both 1754 and 1765. Most likely Andrew was working as a laborer in Frederick County between 1750 and 1754, renting a place, a house, or a farm, and saving money to buy his own property.

Andrew applied for a warrant for a 64-acre tract of land called "Tow" on 9 April 1754 in Frederick County, Maryland (Source: Dick Heller's book mentioned above). The tract was surveyed on 1 July 1754. Andrew's property was located about three miles east of Boonsboro, Washington County, on the east side of the South Mountains in Frederick County. The tract overlooked the Grindstone Run of the Catoctin River. The warrant states that Andrew was a resident of Frederick County, so he was either living with his brother or he was renting property before July 1762. He received the patent or deed for his property on 29 September 1762. A yearly rent of two shillings and seven pence was established in this document (Source: "Descendants of Jacob Boudemont" descendancy information for Elaine O'Donnell of Flushing, New York).

Between 1623 and 1776, Maryland was using the proprietary land system that was being used in England. Under this system the Lord Baltimore's (the Calvert family) owned all of the land in Maryland. Large tracts of land in western Maryland were leased to a selected few wealthy men who in turn leased parts of their estates to the new settlers and then collected yearly rents form them. Even though a person could technically buy and sell land, the person did not actually own the land; he only bought or sold a lease. This system collapsed at the beginning of the Revolution and lease owners received a full ownership deed for their leased property without any yearly rents assessed. It was only after 1776 that people could own their own land in Maryland (Source: Eric Johnson's book "Ancestors and Descendants of John Weyandt of Harrison County, Ohio" 2001).

Reverend Otterbein of the Frederick Town Reformed Church in Frederick County, Maryland baptized Andrew on 5 September 1762 and Andrew was naturalized on 24 September 1762 (Source: "Patent and certificate for Philip Butman" tract "Second Choice", Frederick County, Maryland).

Andrew sold his lease for "Tow" to Wendle Frushour on 20 November 1766 for 60 pounds. Catherine released her dower rights. Andrew leased a 50-acre section of the "Resurvey of Root's Hill" called "Partnership" from Joshua Chapline on 18 December 1769 on the west side of the South Mountains near Eakle's Mills. This area would become Washington County in 1776. He paid 85 pounds for this property . Here Andrew and his family settled -- 12 miles south of Eakle's Mills near Sharpsburg, Maryland. He obtained land by original grants and purchases, 142 acres in all.

Andrew Putman died between 4 February 1777, the date of his will, and 14 June 1777, the date that the will was recorded. Most likely he died in the first week of June. He was 66 years of age. Samuel Baker and Conrad Snavely gave witness to the courts on 14 June 1777 stating that Andrew Putman was dead before this date.

Catherine is listed in the 1783 tax assessment of Washington County, Maryland. She is listed as owning "Rock Hill" and having 96 acres in woods, 10 acres in meadows and 40 acres arable ground. She also had eight beef cattle. The assessment is in error for she actually had inherited a part of the "Resurvey of Root's Hill" from her husband.

WILL OF ANDREW PUTMAN [pg 20 of the book ?S?SA BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ANDREW PUTMAN (Buttman, Putnam) CHRISTIAN WYANDT (Weyandt, Weygandt, Voint, Wyand) AND ADAM SNYDER (Schneider) FAMILIES of WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND?T by E. Clayton Wyand, A. M.] In the name of God, Amen, I, Andrew Putman, of Washington County, and Province of Maryland, being Sick and weak in Body, but of sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, viz.: first and punctually I recommend my Soul to Almighty God who gave it me, and my Body to be buried in decent order at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named, and as to the worldly Estate it has pleased God to bestow on me, I give and bequeath as follow: Imprimis: I will that all my Just Debts and funeral charges be first paid, then, I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Wife Catherine the use of all my Estate, Real and Personal, for and during her Natural Life in case she remains a widow, but if she marrys I do allow that my Estate may be Immediately sold to the best advantage (excepting her thirds) and distributing amongst my children in the same manner as is hereinafter mentioned, allowing her, my said wife, fifty pounds good and lawful money of Pennsylvania over and above her thirds if she doth marry. Item: I give and bequeath unto my sons John Twenty-give pounds of the above currency, and to my sons Peter and Andrew Twenty pounds each over and above any of the rest of my children. Item: I also give and bequeath unto my children John, Peter, Elizabeth, Mary, Maryann, Catherine, Susannah and Andrew all the remainder of my estate. Real and Personal, to be sold at the death or marriage of my wife Catherine, which should happen first, and the Money to be equally divided amongst them. Lastly, I do contribute and appoint my trusty Friends, Samu'l Baker and Conrad Schnebly Executors of this my last Will and Testament, making void all other Wills by me heretofore made. In Testimony whereof I, the said Andrew Putman, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this fourth day of February, in the year of Our Lord Seventeen hundred and Seventy-seven. Signed, Sealed and delivered to be the last Will and Testament of the Testator, in presence of us who have signed at the Testator's request and in his presence. N.B. -- The name Catherine was interlined between the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth line before the signing and sealing thereof. HENRY GEETING, JOHN TOLTS, PETER SHALLY. ANDREW PUTMAN. [SEAL]

From "The Ancestors and Descendants of John Weyandt of Harrison county, Ohio" written by Eric E. Johnson in January 2001, and privately published: On behalf of the family, Andrew's oldest son, John, transferred the "Resurvey of Root's Hill" which included "Partnership" to his brother-in-law, Christian Wyand, on 29 August 1792. This transaction involved 142 1/4 acres of land. In this deed it stated that Andrew Putman leased the rest of the "Resurvey of Root's Hill" totalling 92 1/4 acres from Joshua Chapline on 13 August 1771. This resurvey was originally a part of a 300-acre piece of preperty granted to Moses Chapline on 31 December 1760. Moses may have been the father of Joshua. This is an extremely interesting deed. Andrew's Will prohibited the selling of the land until his wife Catherine died or remarried. If she died then the property would be sold and the monies from the sale would be divided among his children. If Catherine remarried then she would keep one-third of the estate and the rest of the estate would be sold and the monies divided among the children. Christian Wyand probably wanted to own this property much earlier but he could not purchase this property until after his mother-in-law died or remarried. If she remarried then he could only purchase two-thirds of the property and her new husband would have control over the remaiining third. In this deed it is stated "Catherine Butman is yet alive and remains a widow." The family circumvented the Will by deeding the property to Christian Wyandt without an exchange of money. The land was not sold to Christian but was given to him by the heirs of Andrew Putman. There was probably an agreement between Christian and his wife Amelia, and her brothers and sisters, over the future of the property. By 1792 all of Catherine's children except Amelia had either moved to Pennsylvania or to Baltimore County, Maryland. Christian and Amelia probably agreed to take care of Catherine in her old age in turn for a legal deed to the property. Once Catherine died then Christian would send to each of Amelia's brothers and sisters their share of the previously agreed upon price of the farm. This is only speculation but it may not be that far from the truth. The farm stayed intact and 'in' the family. Catherine was taken care of in her old age. The other children were free to live in Pennsylvania and Baltimore County without having to worry about the property, or their mother. The final proof to this theory is a quitclaim deed that was recorded by Christian Wyand on 9 April 1793. In Clayton Wyand's book this document is listed as a land deed, which it is not. There is no legal description of the property's area and there is no transfer of monies in this document, which would have made it a property deed. All of Amelia's brothers and sisters gave up their rights to their father's property to Christian when they signed this document. The quitclaim was dated 16 November 1792. A notarized release dated 16 November 1792 was sesnt from Bedford County, Pennsylvania in which the siblings of Amelia gave their consent to the quitclaim. A similar document dated 14 December 1792 arrived from Baltimore City with the consent of Henry and Susanna Baker for the release. At this time in history Baltimore City was still a part of Baltimore County and the city was the county seat.

If Catherine was still alive she would have also been a part of this release since she was entitled to one-third of the estate. Most likely Catherine died betwen 29 August 1792 (the date of the previous deed) and 16 November 1792. She probably died sometime in October, at the age of 76 years. Christian needed a quitclaim deed since his property deed to the "Resurvey of Root's Hill" did not show an exchange of monies for transaction. The quitclaim gave him the full rights to his property without having to worry about any future legal matters with his in-laws.

SOURCE: the book "A Brief History of the Andrew Puttman, Christian Wyandt and Adam Snyder Families of Washington County, Maryland" written by E. Clayton Wyand. Published by Hagerstown Bookbinding and Printing Company, Hagerstown, Maryland 1909. -- pdf file of scanned book in possession of Lana Archibald. Numerous photos of the family and homestead are included.

E. Clayton Wyand also wrote a family history in Thomas Williams' "A History of Washington County, Maryland." on pages 1210 - 1215.  Published by Regional Publishing Company of Baltimore, Maryland in 1968.  The book also has two photos, one of the Putman home and one of his son-in-law Christian Wyand's home.  Only the foundation of the Putman home survives today.

RESEARCH LEAD: Dick Heller published two family histories, the first entitled "The Putman Family of Root's Hill and Partnership farms, near Eakle's Mills, Washington County, MD: and their descent from French Waldensians by way of Rohrback (Kreis Bergsabern), Pfalz, Germany" [published Mission, Texas: 1998] and the second entitled, "The Weyandt Family of Eakle's Mills, Washington County, MD, and Monroe Twp., Harrison County, OH" [published Mission, Texas: 1995].

RESEARCH LEAD: Esther Weygandt Powell included a chapter on the Weyandt-Putman families in her 1965 book entitled, "The Weygandt -- Frase -- Bechtel Family Record 1523 - 1965" Her chapter is an extract from Clayton Wyand's book.

RESEARCH LEAD: Keith Dull included a section in his 1996 book entitled "Early Families of Somerset and Fayette Counties" on the Wyand and Putman families [Family Line Publications, Westminster, Maryland: 1996, pp. 20-37, Phillip Boudemont, and Christian Wyandt].

RESEARCH LEAD: Also see these sources, which were used in the book by Eric E. Johnson -- 1. Morrow, Dale Walton and Deborah Jensen Morrow, "Wills of Washington County, Maryland" (Family Line Publications, Westminster, Maryland: 1992). 2. Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus, M.S., M.D., "Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church from Original Sources, volume 1 (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland: 1985). 3. Williams, Thomas J.C., "A History of Washington County, Maryland" (Regional Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland: 1968). 4. Powell, Esther Weygandt, "The Weygandt -- Frase -- Bechtel Family Records 1523 - 1965, (1965) . Includes a section on the family of Amelia Putman Wyand. 5. "The Churches of Hagerstown" <http://www.fred.net/nhhs/atlas/church2> 6. "Western Maryland Genealogy", volume 7, number 4, October 1991, Donna Valley Russell, editor (Catoctin Press, Middletown, Maryland. 7. Holdcraft, Jacob Mehrline, "Names in Stone, 75,000 Cemetery Inscriptions ffrom Frederick County, Maryland" (Genealogical Publishign Company, Baltimore, Maryland: 1985). 8. Morrow, Dale W., "Washington County, Maryland, Cemetery Records" (Family Line Publications, Westminster, Maryland: 1993). 9. Morrow, Dale Walton and Deborah Jensen Morrow, "Washington County, Maryland, Marriages: An Index 1799 - 1860 (Family Line Publications, Westminster, Maryland: 1992). 10. Laurel Messenger, August 1977 (Historical and Genealogical Society of Somerset County, Pennsylvania) pp. 209-210 "Pioneer Bruners of Somerset County".

WILL: Andrew's oldest son, John, deeded the "Resurvey of Root's Hill," which included "Partnership" to Christian Wyand on 29 August 1792. There was no exchange of monies listed in this deed. Andrew's Will states that his property could not be sold until either his wife Catherine died or she remarried. None of his children would inherit the estate but they would receive the proceeds from the sale of the property. The family circumvented the Will by deeding the estate to Christian Wyand without payment. Christian Wyand obtained a quitclaim deed from the heirs of Andrew Putman on 16 November 1792. The quitclaim deed was recorded on 9 April 1793. A quitclaim deed releases a claim to an estate or property by an individual or individuals to another person. In this case, the heirs of Andrew Putman surrendered their rights to their father's estate. Listed as heirs on this quitclaim deed were John and Elizabeth Dull, Henry and Magdalene Brunner, Adam and Catherine Schneider, Andrew and Amelia Puttman, Peter and Elizabeth Buttman, all of milford Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and Henry and Susanna Baker of Baltimore County, Maryland. SOURCES: "Deed from John Putman to Christian Wyant" (dated 29 Sep 1792) Washington County Circuit Court, Hagerstown, Maryland and "Quitclaim Deed for Andrew Buttman, et al, to Christian Wyand" (dated 16 Nov 1792, recorded 9 April 1793) Washington County Clerk of Courts, Hagerstown, Maryland.

Andrew Putman was too old for service in the Revolutionary War, but two of his sons enlisted in General Washington's army and took part in a number of battles. By the end of the Revolutionary War, most of Andrew Putman's children had moved to Milford Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The Milford township would later be transferred to Somerset County when this county was erected in 1795.

FARMING and OTHER OCCUPATIONS: "Up until the late 1800's farms were small and the farmers in most cases could barely grow enough food for their own families and animals. If they had a good year they may have been able to sell some of the surplus. Most of the surplus produced was placed in storage in case the next year's crop was not successful. From early tax records we learn that even though a farmer may own 200 acres of land, only a percentage was under cultivation. Farmers needed woods on their property. Woods were a source of fuel, building materials and food. Berries, nuts and herbs were gathered and small animals and birds were killed. An occasional deer graced the dinner table. Beef cattle were not found on the average farm. Normally a farmer had a cow or two to supply dairy products for the family. The main meat was a hog. It takes only nine months to raise a hog before it is ready to be sold or eaten. A beef cattle takes over two years before it is ready to be sold and pasture lands are needed for grazing. A hog needs only a pen. The larger estate farms and plantations in the east provided the cities with meat and produce. These large landowners hired many laborers in order to cultivate the lands and to raise the livestock. The small farmers may have been able to sell their surplus products locally in the neighborhood villages. Besides operating a farm, the farmers were also carpenters adn blacksmiths. The farmer was only as good as the tools that he was able to use and purchase. In most cases the farmer was only able to repair iron items, not make new ones. Each farmer had a trade from which he made money. Money was needed to buy what a farmer could not make or produce. The planting and harvesting of crops did not take that much time out of the year, so the rest of the year was spent maintaining the farm and working a trade. When a new area of the country was opened for settlement, fur trapping was normally the primary trade. As the area became more heavily settled, then the area became a farming community in which each farmer contributed to the community with a unique trade. Some were blacksmiths, weavers, tailors, tinsmiths, shoemakers, etc. Each son was taught a particular trade. If a farmer could not teach his son a particular trade, then that son was apprenticed to another farmer who practiced that trade. Many of the sons and grandsons of a farmer elected not to farm and they moved to a newly formed village to practice their trade...Wills and family biographies may mention the trade of a particular farmer. The best source to establish a person's trade is in a distribution of the estate proceedings. This is a court-ordered inventory of a person's effects with a going market price for each item listed. These proceedings are used in order to determine what can be sold to pay off creditors and how to divide the personal effects among the heirs. Trade implements may or may not be listed in these inventories." From "Ancestors and Descendants of John Weyandt of Harrison County, Ohio" by Eric E. Johnson, January 2001.

BURIAL: The fence and tombstones were removed from the family cemetery in the mid-1800's and the cemetery was plowed under.

FAMILY MIGRATION: When the children of Andrew Putman grew to adulthood these men and women found it necessary to move away from the Keedysville-Eakle's Mills area of Washington County, Maryland. When the grandsons became of age the farms could no longer be divided and still remain a farm. A farm has to have enough acreage in order to produce crops and livestock and thereby remain profitable. The first wave of Putmans to leave Maryland occurred at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Andrew's daughter, Maria Magdalena Putman Bruner and her in-laws were the first to go, founding the town of Brunnerstown, where the city of Somerset, Pennsylvania now stands. By 1785 most of Maria Magdalena's siblings also moved to this county. Only Amelia & Christian Wyand, and Susanna & Henry Baker stayed in Maryland.

Andrew Butman was born in Germany but came to America about 1760, settling 12 miles south of Eaklis Mills near Sharpsburg, Maryland. He obtained land by "original grants and purchases, 142 acres in all, whcih he called Partnership and Resurvey on Root Hill."

The book "A History of Washington County, Maryland" by Thomas J C. Williams, published 1968, reports on page 1211: "Christian Wyand, Andrew Putman and Adam Snyder (Schneider) were in all probability friends in Germany, and joined hands in venturing over the sea, to the new country. Putman and Snyder were probably men of family, while Wyand was a youth. Putman was no doubt, the leader, for the Putmans were a brave and adventurous people, as is seen by the records of Israel and Rufus, who settled in Massachusetts, and served in the Revolutionary War with such bravery that their names are hearth-stone names. At the sale of the Putman estate, his children left Washington County, Maryland and joined the Wyand pioneers, going first to Pennsylvania, and thence to Stark County, Ohio, where they are well remembered as "the pioneers." The children of Andrew and Catherine Putman were remarkable for the great age which they all attained. Most of them lived to be seventy-five, several reached eighty, ninety-one, ninety-seven and one rounded out a full century. "

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1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Eric E. Johnson, "Ancestors and Descendants of John Weyandt of Harrison County, Ohio" (privately published Jan
   pg 23.
2. ↑ Bill Putman, "The German Putman Family" (Online. (www.billputman.com/GERMAN.htm); also (al7fi.abts.net/putman/
   pg 2 of "Andrew Buttman of Maryland".
3. ↑ Web site.

   by Bill Putman <www.billputman.com/German%andrew.pdf> 8 Aug 2005.

4. ↑ Eric E. Johnson, "Ancestors and Descendants of John Weyandt of Harrison County, Ohio" (privately published Jan
   pg. 6.