He was a Palatine immigrant. Johann Friderich Gonderman live in Eutzberg in the commune of Maulbrunner in the duchy of Wurtemberg. He was naturalized 8 or 9 September 1715 in Kingston, Ulster Co., NY, along with sons Johann Georg and Johann Conrad. Surname appears as Counterman, Countryman, Contryman, Couterman, Konterman, etc.