1Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".2Census, Federal - 1900 - Passaic Co., NJ, Little Falls, ED # 87, Ancestry P. 19 of 59.
3Census, Federal - 1850 - Passaic, New Jersey, Aquackanonk, Ancestry p. 51 of 76.
4Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, internet.
5Ancestry.com, register of the First Reformed Church of Little Falls, NJ; p.187, 12 Nov 1853.
1Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".2Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, internet.
3Ancestry.com, register of the First Reformed Church of Little Falls, NJ; p.187, 12 Nov 1853.
1Crayon, Percy, Rockaway Records of Morris County NJ Families, Rockaway Publishing Company, Rockaway NJ: 1902, P. 752, 5 Jul 1870. "The DeMont Family
In my collections made in the centennial year (1876) some account of the DeMouth family were given to me by a member of that family, which I do not find in the Morris County history, which I will make mention here that the record may be preserved.
The DeMont, or DeMouth family were formerly residents of France, French Hugenots who fled from France on account of their Protestant faith and removed to Hanover in Germany, and from thence emigrated to America in June, 1709, and became the first settlers of Rockaway Valley, of this township. They were the first white settlers in the valley, and this family was in possession of old papers and deeds dating from 1709 to 1730, and an old relic, a razor hone of petrified wood, which came over with the family, and had traditionally been preserved in the family a long time during their residence in France. Several other relics were well preserved and of great antiquity.
The early family records had been lost, but history mentions Frederick, and Jacob a probable son. They were also among the earliest settlers at New Foundland in this (Rockaway) township. The mythical inscription "P. x S. 1773" on the triangular stone above the door of the old stone house now owned by Theodore Brown, may be interpreted that the building was erected by Peter Snyder in 1773. It was an addition to the original stone house built just 40 years previous upon the lands owned by a member of the DeMouth family, who located there from Rockaway Valley about 1730, and inherited by the wife of Peter Snyder, who was a daughter of this early settler at New Foundland.
Mr. Thomas DeMouth, who gave me this information, lived and owned lands where the Clinton Reservoir now is, these lands being occupied by his father, Thomas, a descendant of the original family in America. He was born (the elder Thomas DeMouth - DZS) Sept. 2, 1804, died July 2, 1881. Married Betsey Levi, of Litchfield, Ct. Her people were among the first settlers of that county. She was born Oct. 1, 1799, died Sept. 8, 1887. Both buried at Oak Ridge. Children: Wesley, who served in the war '61-5; Electa, married Rev. Peter D. Vreeland, Nov. 12, 1856; Elizabeth, married Patrick Burns Nov. 16, 1867; Thomas, Jr., born Oct 4, 1838, died Aug. 4, 1858; Hiram, born Mar.30, 1840, married Stagg, died about 1880; Abner and Minerva." citation from pages 87 - 88.
Regarding the authors reference to the DeMouths fleeing from France to Hanover in Germany, I believe he may have been confused by a record found in Morris County of the Demouths living at Hanover, New Jersey. Refer to "The Palatine Families of New York" by Percy Crayon p. 144, "Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731." Eulenkill and Hanover refer to a place of Palatine settlement in New Jersey.2Census, Federal - 1870 - Passaic Co, NJ, West Milford Twsp.
3Census, Federal - 1880 - Passaic Co, NJ, West Milford Twsp, p. 346D.
4Census, Federal - 1860 - Passaic Co, NJ, W Milford, p.665; Ancestry p. 369.
5Census, Federal - 1870 - Passaic Co, NJ, West Milford Twsp, p.752; Ancestry p. 34.
1Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".
1Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".2Obituary, of wife.
3Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11200245, internet.
4Lonnie DeMouth McManus .
5Findagrave.
1Crayon, Percy, Rockaway Records of Morris County NJ Families, Rockaway Publishing Company, Rockaway NJ: 1902. "The DeMont Family
In my collections made in the centennial year (1876) some account of the DeMouth family were given to me by a member of that family, which I do not find in the Morris County history, which I will make mention here that the record may be preserved.
The DeMont, or DeMouth family were formerly residents of France, French Hugenots who fled from France on account of their Protestant faith and removed to Hanover in Germany, and from thence emigrated to America in June, 1709, and became the first settlers of Rockaway Valley, of this township. They were the first white settlers in the valley, and this family was in possession of old papers and deeds dating from 1709 to 1730, and an old relic, a razor hone of petrified wood, which came over with the family, and had traditionally been preserved in the family a long time during their residence in France. Several other relics were well preserved and of great antiquity.
The early family records had been lost, but history mentions Frederick, and Jacob a probable son. They were also among the earliest settlers at New Foundland in this (Rockaway) township. The mythical inscription "P. x S. 1773" on the triangular stone above the door of the old stone house now owned by Theodore Brown, may be interpreted that the building was erected by Peter Snyder in 1773. It was an addition to the original stone house built just 40 years previous upon the lands owned by a member of the DeMouth family, who located there from Rockaway Valley about 1730, and inherited by the wife of Peter Snyder, who was a daughter of this early settler at New Foundland.
Mr. Thomas DeMouth, who gave me this information, lived and owned lands where the Clinton Reservoir now is, these lands being occupied by his father, Thomas, a descendant of the original family in America. He was born (the elder Thomas DeMouth - DZS) Sept. 2, 1804, died July 2, 1881. Married Betsey Levi, of Litchfield, Ct. Her people were among the first settlers of that county. She was born Oct. 1, 1799, died Sept. 8, 1887. Both buried at Oak Ridge. Children: Wesley, who served in the war '61-5; Electa, married Rev. Peter D. Vreeland, Nov. 12, 1856; Elizabeth, married Patrick Burns Nov. 16, 1867; Thomas, Jr., born Oct 4, 1838, died Aug. 4, 1858; Hiram, born Mar.30, 1840, married Stagg, died about 1880; Abner and Minerva." citation from pages 87 - 88.
Regarding the authors reference to the DeMouths fleeing from France to Hanover in Germany, I believe he may have been confused by a record found in Morris County of the Demouths living at Hanover, New Jersey. Refer to "The Palatine Families of New York" by Percy Crayon p. 144, "Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731." Eulenkill and Hanover refer to a place of Palatine settlement in New Jersey.2Census, Federal - 1860 - Passaic Co, NJ, W Milford, p.665; Ancestry p. 369.
3Obituary, Unknown newspaper. "Mrs. Elizabeth Burns
Mrs. Elizabeth Burns, widow of Patrick Burn, died this (Thursday) morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. Minerva Auman, of Unionville avenue, after an illnessw of over a year from bronchial asthma and heqart trouble. Mrs. Burns was in her severty third year and was born in Newfoundland, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Levi Demount. I : 1867 she was united in marriage at Oak Ridge with Patrick Burns, and since that time had made her home in Sussex, with the exception of a short time at Papakating. Mr. Burns died January 17, 1914. The survivors are one daughter, Maggie J., wife of George W. Sutton, and one son, Robert Burns, both of Sussex; a twin sister, Mrs. Minerva Auman, and another sister, Mrs. Electa Vreeland, of Newfoundland. Funeral services will be held a5t the house Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. J. Easley, pastor of the Sussex M.E.Church, of which she was a member, will officiate. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery."4Census, Federal - 1860 - Passaic Co, NJ, W Milford, p.665; Ancestry p. 369.
5Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11200426, internet.
6Obituary.
7Findagrave.
8Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".9Findagrave.
1Findagrave, http://www.findagrave.com/, p.11200426, internet.
1Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".2Census, Federal - 1880 - MorrisCo, New Jersey, Lyonsville, Fam. Hist. Lib film #1254793; NA film # T9-0793; p. 512B, Familysearch.com.
3Census, Federal - 1880 - MorrisCo, New Jersey, Lyonsville, Fam. Hist. Lib film #1254793; NA film # T9-0793; p. 512B.
4Ancestry.com, Adkins Family tree. "Morris County, New Jersey
New Jersey Index to Marriage Records, May 1848 - May 1878; Bk. BO, Pg. 207."
1Civil War Pension Index, per Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com. "Name: Thomas Demouth
Widow: Susan Demouth
Comments: Daniel P. Merrett, Gdn."2Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.". "Thomas DeMouth, son of James of Meriden, aged about 33, died January 26, 1863 at U. S. General Hospital, Washington, D.C. and is buried at Military Asylum Cemetery, D.C. He left a widow Susan Greenswicke DeMouth and two children, Martha and Vinnir." Thomas Demouth is mentioned in a copy of a letter sent to me by Lonnie Mc Manus Demouth on 19 Jan 2006. The letter is dated October 4, 1944 and is from Grace P. (?) Rose, Librarian, Morristown, N.J., to PFC Victor E. DeMouth, Ward 100, Hospital #2, Fort Bragg, N.C.. It is in response to his query for info on his ancestors James DeMouth and Elizabeth LaZaur (?).3Ancestry.com, Adkins Family tree.
4Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
5Ancestry.com, Adkins Family tree. "Morris County, New Jersey
New Jersey Index to Marriage Records, May 1848 - May 1878; Bk. BO, Pg. 207."
1Census, Federal - 1880 - MorrisCo, New Jersey, Lyonsville, Fam. Hist. Lib film #1254793; NA film # T9-0793; p. 512B, Familysearch.com.
1Census, Federal - 1880 - MorrisCo, New Jersey, Lyonsville, Fam. Hist. Lib film #1254793; NA film # T9-0793; p. 512B, Familysearch.com.
2Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
1Bybee, Marsha
, internet. 2Census, Federal - 1910 - Lawrence Co., South Dakota, Deadwood 4th ward, ED #43, sheet 15B (Ancestry p. 12 of 26).
3Census, Federal - 1900 - Lawrence, SD, Deadwood.
4South Dakota Death Index, 1905 - 1955, certif # 77213.
5Census, Federal - 1910 - Lawrence Co., South Dakota, Deadwood 4th ward, ED #43, sheet 15B (Ancestry p. 12 of 26), 2 May 1910.
1Census, Federal - 1900 - Lawrence, SD, Deadwood, sheet 15B (Ancestry p. 12 of 26).
2South Dakota Death Index, 1905 - 1955, certif. # 176186.
3Census, Federal - 1910 - Lawrence Co., South Dakota, Deadwood 4th ward, ED #43, sheet 15B (Ancestry p. 12 of 26), 2 May 1910.
1Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".2Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).". "John A. Hopkins
John was born in 1829 in Rockaway Twp., New Jersey. Parents names not known. He died September 30, 1906 and is buried in the Marcella Cemetery, Marcella, Rockaway Twp., NJ.
He married Elizabeth Demouth in 1856 at Lyonville, Rockaway Twp., N.J. She was born in 1833 place and parents not known. She died March 2, 1896 and is buried in the Marcella Cemetery, Marcella, Rockaway Twp., NJ.
Their children
1. Louisa Hopkins, B. 4-6-1859 M. William C. Smith
2. Silas Hopkins, B. 12-30-1862
3. Annie Hopkins B. 11-20-1865
4. Fanny Hopkins B. 12-30-1868
5. Jesse Hopkins B. 4-9-1871
6. Janie (John Jr.) B. 6-9-1874
John enrolled Sept.3, 1862 in Newark, NJ and was mustered in Sept. 19, 1862 at Camp Frelinghuysen, NJ as a
private in Company I-27th N.J.V.
He was discharged Feb. 5, 1863 at Baltimore, MD. John stood 5'11 1/2" tall and had a rudy complexion, with black hair and blue eyes.
His occupation was listed as being a bloomer at a forge. Later he was a miner blacksmith.
John became disabled by typhoid fever followed by deafness, rendering him quite hard of hearing. This was contracted while at Arlington Heights, Maryland on or aobut Dec. 10, 1862. Contracted while on guard duty and pickett duty caused by exposure and hardship.
He received a pension #3098-123.
From Rockaway NJ Notes
R.A. Illig." This source cites "Rockaway NJ Notes" by R. A. Illig for information on the Hopkins family.
1Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co., NJ, Rockaway Twsp.
2Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".3Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).".4Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co., NJ, Rockaway Twsp.
5Lonnie DeMouth McManus . received 13 Jan 2006.
6Lonnie DeMouth McManus . received 13 Jan 2006.
1Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).".
1Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).".
1Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).".
1Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).".
1Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).".