Quote: "Johannes, (Arent, Jan), baptised 21 October, 1711; killed by indians in the
Revolution. His wife died when her son, Aaron (Arent) was six years of age. Ernestus Putman, of New Madison, OH, writing in 1829 and again in 1834, gives the following account of his grandfather and his family. "My grandfather's name was John Putman, I do not know my grandmother's name, she died when my father was but six years old. They lived in the western part of New York, which was then a wilderness. Grandfather being unable to keep the family together, I have knowledge of but five of the nine, my father now living at Schenectady, uncles David and Henry, and my aunts Mary and Sarah. A short time after the commencement of the Revolution, my grandfather and David were captured by the Indians and the old man, not well able to travel, killed. David they kept three years, when he made his escape and came home. He after- ward went into some of the New England states and there married. He was killed in a well, while cleaning it. I do not know what became of his children. Uncle Henry went to Canada. He and wife are dead leaving descendants there." Ernestus left Schenectady about 1800. Children, (nine in all), born in "Western New York." Arent, born 13 June, 1745, living in 1829; died 1 August, 1830, aet. 85y/1m/18d.; David, married after 1778; had children; died previous to 1800 Henry, died in Canada, previous to 1800. Mary and Sarah. End quote.
