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Albert Alvin BARBER
1Joseph L. Barber - 1827, in "Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties Wisconsin" posted on Ancestry.com Message Board by Pat. "Submitter: Pat
Subject: Joseph L. Barber - 1827
Message: From the Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin
Joseph L. Barber, of section 10, range 2, Weston Township, Clark County, was born in Essex County, New Jersey, October 10, 1827, the son of John S. and Abigail (Kinneman) Barber, both natives of New Jersey; the former was a shoemaker by trade. They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom still survive. Our subject's grandfather, John S. Barber, was a Hessian, and came to this country to fight against the Americans in the Revolutionary War, but deserted by jumping off a man-of-war, swam to the shore and joined Washington's army, in which he was an officer until the close of the war. His wife cooked many meals for Washington, as the great General made his headquarters at their house while he was in winter quarters near Morristown, New Jersey. She drew a large pension, and died about thirty-five years ago, at the age of ninety-seven years.
The subject of this sketch learned the ship-carpenter's trade, at the age of twenty-two years. He went to Chemung County, New York, where his brothes and sisters still reside. One brother (Abbott) is a wealthy man and a Knight of the Red Cross Mason. Mr. Barber came to Calumet County, Wisconsin, in 1851, where he bought land, but afterward returned to the East, and worked at his trade until 1854. In that year he came again to this State and settled on a farm, which was covered with heavy timber. He was a soldier in the late war, in Company D, Sixteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving one year, and participated in the battles of Savannah, Fort McAllister and others. His hearing was affected in the army, as was also his heart and lungs, and on account of the two latter, draws a small pension. Mr. Barber came to this county in 1884, settling on his present farm of eighty acres, forty of which is cleared.
He was married in New Jersey, in July, 1847, to Frances Elizabeth Demouth, a native of New Jersey and daughter of John and Maria (Levi) Demouth. Mr. and Mrs. Barber have had eleven children, seven of whom still survive, namely: Hannah, Samantha, Theodore, Joseph, Frank, Lillie and Albert. Hannah married George Smith of Boyd, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, and they have two children-George and Mary. Hannah has a high school education, and has taught seven years. Samanth married Sanford Chase of Jefferson County, New York and they have four children: Joseph S., Edward A., Frances C. and John L. Theodore is principal of the Alma Center School of Jackson County; was married to Flora Mc Carty and has one child-Joseph. Joseph married Sina Fadner, lives in Eau Claire, and has two children-Carl F. and an infant girl. Frank is principal of the Melrose High School, Jackson County, and is a graduate of the Neillsville High School, in both English and German. Lillie is a teacher also. Albert married Alamanz Demouth, resides in Hayton, Calumet County, Wisconsin, and has three children-George A., Lillian and Eva. Mr. Barber is a Mason socially, and politically a Republican. He has held the offices of Supervisor, Assessor, Constable, and Clerk of School Board. Mrs. Barber is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.".
2Census, Federal - 1880 - Calumet Co, WI, Charlestown, Ancestry p. 8.
3Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, batch # C00308-4; source file # 1299482; ref # item 4 p 121. WI births 1826-1926 Middle name.
4Census, Federal - 1900 - Clark Co, WI, Weston. "
Name: Albert Barber
Titles:
Residence: Weston town, Clark, Wisconsin
Birth Date: Nov 1861
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relationship to Head-of-Household: Self
Spouse Name: Mary L Barber b. May 1868
Spouse Titles:
Spouse Birth Place: British India; parents born England
Father Name:
Father Titles:
Father Birthplace: New York
Mother Name:
Mother Titles:
Mother Birthplace: New Jersey
Race or Color (expanded): White
Head-of-household Name:
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 6
Estimated Marriage Year: 1894
Mother How Many Children: 5
Number Living Children: 3
Immigration Year: 1890
Enumeration District: 0032
Sheet Number and Letter: 6A
Household ID: 103
Reference Number: 13
GSU Film Number: 1241781
Image Number: 00480
Household Gender Age
Albert Barber M
Spouse Mary L Barber F
Child George E Barber M b. Sep 1883 WI
Child Lilla Barber F b. May 1886WI
Child Eva M Barber F b. Nov 1887WI
Child Rhoda C Barber F b. Mar 1891 MI
Child Myrtle A-B Barber F b. Feb 1896 WI
Child Milton R Barber M b. Nov 1998 WI."
5State of Oregon, Oregon Death Certificate, state file # 310; local reistrar's # 134.
6Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
Groom's Name: Alfred A. Barber
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Charlestown, Calumet Co.
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Alononza Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 29 Nov 1882
Marriage Place: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Jos. L. Barber
Groom's Mother's Name: Francis Demouth
Bride's Father's Name: Samuel Demounth
Bride's Mother's Name: Elizabeth Mcmunn
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status: Unknown
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status: Single
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00338-7
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275830
Reference Number: p 336 cn 02808."
Almanza DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 4, 1 Jun 1870.
2Joseph L. Barber - 1827, in "Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties Wisconsin" posted on Ancestry.com Message Board by Pat. "Submitter: Pat
Subject: Joseph L. Barber - 1827
Message: From the Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin
Joseph L. Barber, of section 10, range 2, Weston Township, Clark County, was born in Essex County, New Jersey, October 10, 1827, the son of John S. and Abigail (Kinneman) Barber, both natives of New Jersey; the former was a shoemaker by trade. They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom still survive. Our subject's grandfather, John S. Barber, was a Hessian, and came to this country to fight against the Americans in the Revolutionary War, but deserted by jumping off a man-of-war, swam to the shore and joined Washington's army, in which he was an officer until the close of the war. His wife cooked many meals for Washington, as the great General made his headquarters at their house while he was in winter quarters near Morristown, New Jersey. She drew a large pension, and died about thirty-five years ago, at the age of ninety-seven years.
The subject of this sketch learned the ship-carpenter's trade, at the age of twenty-two years. He went to Chemung County, New York, where his brothes and sisters still reside. One brother (Abbott) is a wealthy man and a Knight of the Red Cross Mason. Mr. Barber came to Calumet County, Wisconsin, in 1851, where he bought land, but afterward returned to the East, and worked at his trade until 1854. In that year he came again to this State and settled on a farm, which was covered with heavy timber. He was a soldier in the late war, in Company D, Sixteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving one year, and participated in the battles of Savannah, Fort McAllister and others. His hearing was affected in the army, as was also his heart and lungs, and on account of the two latter, draws a small pension. Mr. Barber came to this county in 1884, settling on his present farm of eighty acres, forty of which is cleared.
He was married in New Jersey, in July, 1847, to Frances Elizabeth Demouth, a native of New Jersey and daughter of John and Maria (Levi) Demouth. Mr. and Mrs. Barber have had eleven children, seven of whom still survive, namely: Hannah, Samantha, Theodore, Joseph, Frank, Lillie and Albert. Hannah married George Smith of Boyd, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, and they have two children-George and Mary. Hannah has a high school education, and has taught seven years. Samanth married Sanford Chase of Jefferson County, New York and they have four children: Joseph S., Edward A., Frances C. and John L. Theodore is principal of the Alma Center School of Jackson County; was married to Flora Mc Carty and has one child-Joseph. Joseph married Sina Fadner, lives in Eau Claire, and has two children-Carl F. and an infant girl. Frank is principal of the Melrose High School, Jackson County, and is a graduate of the Neillsville High School, in both English and German. Lillie is a teacher also. Albert married Alamanz Demouth, resides in Hayton, Calumet County, Wisconsin, and has three children-George A., Lillian and Eva. Mr. Barber is a Mason socially, and politically a Republican. He has held the offices of Supervisor, Assessor, Constable, and Clerk of School Board. Mrs. Barber is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.".
3Census, Federal - 1880 - Calumet Co, WI, Charlestown, Ancestry p. 8.
4Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., Ancestry p. 4 of 32.
5Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, batch # C00308-4; source file # 1299482; ref # item 4 p 121. WI birthe 1826 - 1926.
6Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
Groom's Name: Alfred A. Barber
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Charlestown, Calumet Co.
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Alononza Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 29 Nov 1882
Marriage Place: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Jos. L. Barber
Groom's Mother's Name: Francis Demouth
Bride's Father's Name: Samuel Demounth
Bride's Mother's Name: Elizabeth Mcmunn
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status: Unknown
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status: Single
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00338-7
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275830
Reference Number: p 336 cn 02808."
George A. BARBER
1Joseph L. Barber - 1827, in "Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties Wisconsin" posted on Ancestry.com Message Board by Pat. "Submitter: Pat
Subject: Joseph L. Barber - 1827
Message: From the Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin
Joseph L. Barber, of section 10, range 2, Weston Township, Clark County, was born in Essex County, New Jersey, October 10, 1827, the son of John S. and Abigail (Kinneman) Barber, both natives of New Jersey; the former was a shoemaker by trade. They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom still survive. Our subject's grandfather, John S. Barber, was a Hessian, and came to this country to fight against the Americans in the Revolutionary War, but deserted by jumping off a man-of-war, swam to the shore and joined Washington's army, in which he was an officer until the close of the war. His wife cooked many meals for Washington, as the great General made his headquarters at their house while he was in winter quarters near Morristown, New Jersey. She drew a large pension, and died about thirty-five years ago, at the age of ninety-seven years.
The subject of this sketch learned the ship-carpenter's trade, at the age of twenty-two years. He went to Chemung County, New York, where his brothes and sisters still reside. One brother (Abbott) is a wealthy man and a Knight of the Red Cross Mason. Mr. Barber came to Calumet County, Wisconsin, in 1851, where he bought land, but afterward returned to the East, and worked at his trade until 1854. In that year he came again to this State and settled on a farm, which was covered with heavy timber. He was a soldier in the late war, in Company D, Sixteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving one year, and participated in the battles of Savannah, Fort McAllister and others. His hearing was affected in the army, as was also his heart and lungs, and on account of the two latter, draws a small pension. Mr. Barber came to this county in 1884, settling on his present farm of eighty acres, forty of which is cleared.
He was married in New Jersey, in July, 1847, to Frances Elizabeth Demouth, a native of New Jersey and daughter of John and Maria (Levi) Demouth. Mr. and Mrs. Barber have had eleven children, seven of whom still survive, namely: Hannah, Samantha, Theodore, Joseph, Frank, Lillie and Albert. Hannah married George Smith of Boyd, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, and they have two children-George and Mary. Hannah has a high school education, and has taught seven years. Samanth married Sanford Chase of Jefferson County, New York and they have four children: Joseph S., Edward A., Frances C. and John L. Theodore is principal of the Alma Center School of Jackson County; was married to Flora Mc Carty and has one child-Joseph. Joseph married Sina Fadner, lives in Eau Claire, and has two children-Carl F. and an infant girl. Frank is principal of the Melrose High School, Jackson County, and is a graduate of the Neillsville High School, in both English and German. Lillie is a teacher also. Albert married Alamanz Demouth, resides in Hayton, Calumet County, Wisconsin, and has three children-George A., Lillian and Eva. Mr. Barber is a Mason socially, and politically a Republican. He has held the offices of Supervisor, Assessor, Constable, and Clerk of School Board. Mrs. Barber is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.".
2Census, Federal - 1900 - Clark Co, WI, Weston, Ancestry p. 11 of 20. "Residence: Weston town, Clark, Wisconsin
Birth Date: Nov 1861
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relationship to Head-of-Household: Self
Spouse Name: Mary L Barber b. May 1868
Spouse Titles:
Spouse Birth Place: British India; parents born England
Father Name:
Father Titles:
Father Birthplace: New York
Mother Name:
Mother Titles:
Mother Birthplace: New Jersey
Race or Color (expanded): White
Head-of-household Name:
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 6
Estimated Marriage Year: 1894
Mother How Many Children: 5
Number Living Children: 3
Immigration Year: 1890
Enumeration District: 0032
Sheet Number and Letter: 6A
Household ID: 103
Reference Number: 13
GSU Film Number: 1241781
Image Number: 00480
Household Gender Age
Albert Barber M
Spouse Mary L Barber F
Child George E Barber M b. Sep 1883 WI
Child Lilla Barber F b. May 1886WI
Child Eva M Barber F b. Nov 1887WI
Child Rhoda C Barber F b. Mar 1891 MI
Child Myrtle A-B Barber F b. Feb 1896 WI
Child Milton R Barber M b. Nov 1998 WI."
3Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Deworth in entry for George Barber, "British Columbia, Death Registrations, 1872-1986"
name: George Barber
event: Death
event date: 15 Nov 1919
event place: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
gender: Male
age: 36
marital status: Single
birth date: 02 Sep 1883
birthplace: , Wisconsin
father: Albert Barber
mother: Deworth
spouse:
indian band/tribe:
british columbia archives film number: B13115
film number: 1927143
digital folder number: 004437643
image number: 00954
registration number: 71912
Citing this Record
"British Columbia, Death Registrations, 1872-1986," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FL2S-BLT : accessed 09 Dec 2012), Deworth in entry for George Barber, 1919."
4Census, Federal - 1900 - Clark Co, WI, Weston.
5Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Deworth in entry for George Barber, "British Columbia, Death Registrations, 1872-1986"
name: George Barber
event: Death
event date: 15 Nov 1919
event place: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
gender: Male
age: 36
marital status: Single
birth date: 02 Sep 1883
birthplace: , Wisconsin
father: Albert Barber
mother: Deworth
spouse:
indian band/tribe:
british columbia archives film number: B13115
film number: 1927143
digital folder number: 004437643
image number: 00954
registration number: 71912
Citing this Record
"British Columbia, Death Registrations, 1872-1986," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FL2S-BLT : accessed 09 Dec 2012), Deworth in entry for George Barber, 1919.".
Lillian Delilah BARBER
1Joseph L. Barber - 1827, in "Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties Wisconsin" posted on Ancestry.com Message Board by Pat. "Submitter: Pat
Subject: Joseph L. Barber - 1827
Message: From the Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin
Joseph L. Barber, of section 10, range 2, Weston Township, Clark County, was born in Essex County, New Jersey, October 10, 1827, the son of John S. and Abigail (Kinneman) Barber, both natives of New Jersey; the former was a shoemaker by trade. They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom still survive. Our subject's grandfather, John S. Barber, was a Hessian, and came to this country to fight against the Americans in the Revolutionary War, but deserted by jumping off a man-of-war, swam to the shore and joined Washington's army, in which he was an officer until the close of the war. His wife cooked many meals for Washington, as the great General made his headquarters at their house while he was in winter quarters near Morristown, New Jersey. She drew a large pension, and died about thirty-five years ago, at the age of ninety-seven years.
The subject of this sketch learned the ship-carpenter's trade, at the age of twenty-two years. He went to Chemung County, New York, where his brothes and sisters still reside. One brother (Abbott) is a wealthy man and a Knight of the Red Cross Mason. Mr. Barber came to Calumet County, Wisconsin, in 1851, where he bought land, but afterward returned to the East, and worked at his trade until 1854. In that year he came again to this State and settled on a farm, which was covered with heavy timber. He was a soldier in the late war, in Company D, Sixteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, serving one year, and participated in the battles of Savannah, Fort McAllister and others. His hearing was affected in the army, as was also his heart and lungs, and on account of the two latter, draws a small pension. Mr. Barber came to this county in 1884, settling on his present farm of eighty acres, forty of which is cleared.
He was married in New Jersey, in July, 1847, to Frances Elizabeth Demouth, a native of New Jersey and daughter of John and Maria (Levi) Demouth. Mr. and Mrs. Barber have had eleven children, seven of whom still survive, namely: Hannah, Samantha, Theodore, Joseph, Frank, Lillie and Albert. Hannah married George Smith of Boyd, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, and they have two children-George and Mary. Hannah has a high school education, and has taught seven years. Samanth married Sanford Chase of Jefferson County, New York and they have four children: Joseph S., Edward A., Frances C. and John L. Theodore is principal of the Alma Center School of Jackson County; was married to Flora Mc Carty and has one child-Joseph. Joseph married Sina Fadner, lives in Eau Claire, and has two children-Carl F. and an infant girl. Frank is principal of the Melrose High School, Jackson County, and is a graduate of the Neillsville High School, in both English and German. Lillie is a teacher also. Albert married Alamanz Demouth, resides in Hayton, Calumet County, Wisconsin, and has three children-George A., Lillian and Eva. Mr. Barber is a Mason socially, and politically a Republican. He has held the offices of Supervisor, Assessor, Constable, and Clerk of School Board. Mrs. Barber is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.".
2Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, batch # C00308-4; source file # 1299482; ref # item 4 p 121. WI births and Christenings 1826-1926.
3M Celius, , sent photo of death certificate.
Theodore BOOHER
1Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, WI Marriages 1836-1930.
2Wisconsin index of Marriages before1907, vol 4 # 68.
3Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
Groom's Name: Theodore Booher
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Dodge Co.
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Elsie Jane Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 27 Feb 1881
Marriage Place: Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Henry Booher
Groom's Mother's Name: Libbie Booher
Bride's Father's Name: John Mcmunn
Bride's Mother's Name: Phoebe Mcmunn
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00336-8
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1266977
Reference Number: rn00221."
Elsey Jane MCMUNN
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 84, 8 Jun 1870.
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129 (Ancestry p. 8 of 24). Elsey J. is listed as "Jane".
3Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., Ancestry p. 24 of 32.
4Wisconsin index of Marriages before1907, vol 4 # 68.
5Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
Groom's Name: Theodore Booher
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Dodge Co.
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Elsie Jane Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 27 Feb 1881
Marriage Place: Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Henry Booher
Groom's Mother's Name: Libbie Booher
Bride's Father's Name: John Mcmunn
Bride's Mother's Name: Phoebe Mcmunn
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00336-8
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1266977
Reference Number: rn00221."
Ira B. PAYNE
1Wisconsin index of Marriages before1907, vol 1, # 275.
2Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
Groom's Name: Ira B. Payne
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Horsehead, New York
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Jamie L. Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 20 Jan 1879
Marriage Place: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Edward Payne
Groom's Mother's Name: Delia Payne
Bride's Father's Name: James Demouth
Bride's Mother's Name: Elsie Demouth
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status: Unknown
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status: Unknown
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00338-7
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275830
Reference Number: p 275 cn 02473."
Jennie Lena DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp., p. 84, 8 Jun 1870.
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Calumet Co., WI, Charlestown twsp, p. 129 (Ancestry p. 8 of 24).
3Wisconsin index of Marriages before1907, vol 1, # 275.
4Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com. "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
Groom's Name: Ira B. Payne
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Horsehead, New York
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Jamie L. Demouth
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 20 Jan 1879
Marriage Place: Charlestown, Calumet, Wisconsin
Groom's Father's Name: Edward Payne
Groom's Mother's Name: Delia Payne
Bride's Father's Name: James Demouth
Bride's Mother's Name: Elsie Demouth
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status: Unknown
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status: Unknown
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00338-7
System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
Source Film Number: 1275830
Reference Number: p 275 cn 02473."
Albert Peter ZIMMERMAN
1Forrest Zimmerman, Zimmerman Family Tree, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. One night about 1958, Dianne had been asking her dad about the Zimmerman family. Forrest got out a large piece of drafting paper and methodically laid out the whole family beginning with Christian Zimmerman and Elizabeth Kneil, Forrest's great-grandfather. The tree covers five generations. There are a few blanks. Apparently they didn't keep up too well with the family of Forrest's great-uncle, Henry Zimmerman. There are 175 names on the tree. Forrest drew it from memory. The funny part is this. Forrest never wanted to have anything to do with his cousins. Dianne only remembers meeting one of them ever.
2Census, Federal - 1880 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp. ED86, 436D. "Zimmermon, Philip self age 29 Can Darmstadt Darmstadt Occ: Farmer
Ernestine wife 27 Prussia Prussia Prussia Keeping House
Anna dau 5 MN Can Prussia
Julius son 3 " " "
Albert son 2 " " "
Larson Chris other 23 Norway Nor Nor works on farm."
3Zimmerman History Packet Received from J. Rose 26 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. This booklet was assembled by Rolland Zimmerman after his visit with his family to Altheim in 1983.
4Annie Marie Zimmerman Nelson, Zimmerman Family History and Stories;forward by Allan Leslie VanLehn, Unpublished work (c) 2008 by (ALVL), Ch. 6; p. 3, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. excerpts copied with permission. "My brother Albert who had bought one of
my father's farms northeast of Frankford, Minnesota, sold that place and retired from active farm work
not long before he was seventy years old. His health was very bad and he was almost an invalid for a
number of years. He suffered from the results of a bad injury which he received while he was still in his
teens. I mentioned this in a former chapter. He also had several operations for cancer of the prostate
gland. When he left the farm he moved into the home in Spring Valley which my parents had built and
which now belongs to my sisters. We had hoped that the doctors might be able to help him, but on the
twelfth of December 1951 he passed peacefully away after a long hard illness, at the age of 73. ...Albert was always a kind and
dear man and will be missed greatly by his many friends and relatives, especially his sisters and his
brother."
5Annie Marie Zimmerman Nelson, Zimmerman Family History and Stories;forward by Allan Leslie VanLehn, p. 32. "My brother, Albert, had a serious accident the fall that [Williams Jennings] Bryan was running for president on the “16 to 1” platform. As the brothers were returning from q political rally the horse ran away and threw the boys out, breaking Albert's leg near the hip, and injured him otherwise so that he never completely recovered. He was in bed for months, at first hovering between life and death. Then the knitting of the bone was not as it should be and was a problem to the doctors for weeks. It was a long and painful siege of sickness but in due time he did get better."
6Census, Federal - 1880 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp. ED86.
7Philip Zimmerman Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. Bible date looks like 29 Apr 1878.
8Philip Zimmerman Family Bible.
9Philip Zimmerman Family Bible.
Anna THOMPSON
1Census, Federal - 1920 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp ED34.
2Forrest Zimmerman, Zimmerman Family Tree, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. One night about 1958, Dianne had been asking her dad about the Zimmerman family. Forrest got out a large piece of drafting paper and methodically laid out the whole family beginning with Christian Zimmerman and Elizabeth Kneil, Forrest's great-grandfather. The tree covers five generations. There are a few blanks. Apparently they didn't keep up too well with the family of Forrest's great-uncle, Henry Zimmerman. There are 175 names on the tree. Forrest drew it from memory. The funny part is this. Forrest never wanted to have anything to do with his cousins. Dianne only remembers meeting one of them ever.
Myrtle Ernestine ZIMMERMAN
1Census, Federal - 1920 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp ED34.
2Forrest Zimmerman, Zimmerman Family Tree, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. One night about 1958, Dianne had been asking her dad about the Zimmerman family. Forrest got out a large piece of drafting paper and methodically laid out the whole family beginning with Christian Zimmerman and Elizabeth Kneil, Forrest's great-grandfather. The tree covers five generations. There are a few blanks. Apparently they didn't keep up too well with the family of Forrest's great-uncle, Henry Zimmerman. There are 175 names on the tree. Forrest drew it from memory. The funny part is this. Forrest never wanted to have anything to do with his cousins. Dianne only remembers meeting one of them ever.
3Philip Zimmerman Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
4Minnesota Death Index.
Philip Martin ZIMMERMAN
1Census, Federal - 1920 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp ED34, p. 5A, 26 Jan 1920.
2Forrest Zimmerman, Zimmerman Family Tree, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. One night about 1958, Dianne had been asking her dad about the Zimmerman family. Forrest got out a large piece of drafting paper and methodically laid out the whole family beginning with Christian Zimmerman and Elizabeth Kneil, Forrest's great-grandfather. The tree covers five generations. There are a few blanks. Apparently they didn't keep up too well with the family of Forrest's great-uncle, Henry Zimmerman. There are 175 names on the tree. Forrest drew it from memory. The funny part is this. Forrest never wanted to have anything to do with his cousins. Dianne only remembers meeting one of them ever.
3Annie Marie Zimmerman Nelson, Zimmerman Family History and Stories;forward by Allan Leslie VanLehn, Unpublished work (c) 2008 by (ALVL), ch 6; p. 3, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. excerpts copied with permission. "Philip, the son, was in the Navy in World
War II and spent some time on the island of Iceland which was a rather novel experience. Just before his
father's death he had a position with a highway company in Colorado but gave up his job to spend the
time with his father and help care for him the last few months of his life."
4Census, Federal 1940, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota. "Name: Philip M Zimmerman
Respondent: Yes
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1911
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Minnesota
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Harmon Place
House Number: 1403
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935: Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 5B
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 179
Occupation: Asst Financial Director
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 15
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 60
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 1400
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Philip M Zimmerman 29."
5Philip Zimmerman Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
6Social Security Death Index.
7Ancestry.com, US Veterans Gravesites.
Eve
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Fillmore Co., MN, Preston Twsp, Preston Village.
Maggie HOPP
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Fillmore Co., MN, Preston Twsp, Preston Village.
Kattie HOPP
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Fillmore Co., MN, Preston Twsp, Preston Village.
Michael HOPP
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Fillmore Co., MN, Preston Twsp, Preston Village.
George HOPP
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Fillmore Co., MN, Preston Twsp, Preston Village.
John HOPP
1Census, Federal - 1870 - Fillmore Co., MN, Preston Twsp, Preston Village.
Edward Walter ZIMMERMAN
1Census, Federal - 1900 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp ED 37, p. 8B, Jun 1900.
2Census, Federal - 1910 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp. ED 35, p. 1B, 30 Apr 1910.
3Census, Federal - 1920 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp ED34, p. 5B, 22 Jan 1920.
4Forrest Zimmerman, Zimmerman Family Tree, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. One night about 1958, Dianne had been asking her dad about the Zimmerman family. Forrest got out a large piece of drafting paper and methodically laid out the whole family beginning with Christian Zimmerman and Elizabeth Kneil, Forrest's great-grandfather. The tree covers five generations. There are a few blanks. Apparently they didn't keep up too well with the family of Forrest's great-uncle, Henry Zimmerman. There are 175 names on the tree. Forrest drew it from memory. The funny part is this. Forrest never wanted to have anything to do with his cousins. Dianne only remembers meeting one of them ever.
5Zimmerman History Packet Received from J. Rose 26 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. This booklet was assembled by Rolland Zimmerman after his visit with his family to Altheim in 1983.
6Annie Marie Zimmerman Nelson, Zimmerman Family History and Stories;forward by Allan Leslie VanLehn, Unpublished work (c) 2008 by (ALVL), Ch. 6; p. 3, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. excerpts copied with permission. "My brother Edward, who bought the beautiful home where I spent my childhood days, sold the
place in 1943 and bought a home in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he now lives. The old home that he
sold has lost most of its wild beauty and charm but is still attractive to me because of the old memories
that it always brings back. His two sons, Charles and Dean, are both married and have families of their
own."
7Census, Federal 1930, Spring Valley, Fillmore, Minnesota. "Name: Edward W Zimmerman
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1887
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: White
Home in 1930: Spring Valley, Fillmore, Minnesota
Map of Home: View Map
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Tressa A Zimmerman
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Occupation: Farmer
Education:
Military service:
Rent/home value:
Age at first marriage:
Parents' birthplace:
View Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Edward W Zimmerman 43
Tressa A Zimmerman 38
Charles E Zimmerman 15
Marie E Zimmerman 11
Dean T Zimmerman 8."
8Census, Federal 1940, Spring Valley, Fillmore, Minnesota. "Name: Edward Zimmerman
Respondent: Yes
Age: 54
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Minnesota
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Spring Valley, Fillmore, Minnesota
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Inferred Residence in 1935: Spring Valley, Fillmore, Minnesota
Residence in 1935: Same House
Resident on farm in 1935: Yes
Sheet Number: 2A
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 21
Occupation: Farmer
House Owned or Rented: Owned
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 1000
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: College, 1st year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 60
Class of Worker: Working on own account
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income Other Sources: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Edward Zimmerman 54
Teresa Zimmerman 48."
9Philip Zimmerman Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
10Philip Zimmerman Family Bible.
11Zimmerman History Packet Received from J. Rose 26 Feb 2005.
Theresa TABOR
1Census, Federal - 1920 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp ED34, p. 5B, 22 Jan 1920.
2Forrest Zimmerman, Zimmerman Family Tree, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. One night about 1958, Dianne had been asking her dad about the Zimmerman family. Forrest got out a large piece of drafting paper and methodically laid out the whole family beginning with Christian Zimmerman and Elizabeth Kneil, Forrest's great-grandfather. The tree covers five generations. There are a few blanks. Apparently they didn't keep up too well with the family of Forrest's great-uncle, Henry Zimmerman. There are 175 names on the tree. Forrest drew it from memory. The funny part is this. Forrest never wanted to have anything to do with his cousins. Dianne only remembers meeting one of them ever.
3Zimmerman History Packet Received from J. Rose 26 Feb 2005, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. This booklet was assembled by Rolland Zimmerman after his visit with his family to Altheim in 1983.
Charles Edward ZIMMERMAN
1Census, Federal - 1920 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp ED34, p. 5B, 22 Jan 1920.
2Forrest Zimmerman, Zimmerman Family Tree, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. One night about 1958, Dianne had been asking her dad about the Zimmerman family. Forrest got out a large piece of drafting paper and methodically laid out the whole family beginning with Christian Zimmerman and Elizabeth Kneil, Forrest's great-grandfather. The tree covers five generations. There are a few blanks. Apparently they didn't keep up too well with the family of Forrest's great-uncle, Henry Zimmerman. There are 175 names on the tree. Forrest drew it from memory. The funny part is this. Forrest never wanted to have anything to do with his cousins. Dianne only remembers meeting one of them ever.
3Philip Zimmerman Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
4Philip Zimmerman Family Bible.
5Social Security Death Index.
Marie Esther ZIMMERMAN
1Census, Federal - 1920 - Fillmore Co., MN, Spring Valley Twsp ED34, p. 5B, 22 Jan 1920.
2Philip Zimmerman Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
3Philip Zimmerman Family Bible.
4Social Security Death Index.
Dean Tabor ZIMMERMAN
1Philip Zimmerman Family Bible, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711.
2Philip Zimmerman Family Bible.
3Social Security Death Index.
Frederick Johann DEMOUTH Temout
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Pequannock Town Book 1741-1754. "8 MAR 1743 Fredrick Temout was appointed Colector (taxes?) for the town of Pequanock, NJ.
He was appointed again in 1753 and 1754."
3Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work. "The first reference to Jacob (1) I have yet found is contained in Morris County Deeds, Book A, page 70 (abb. MC Deeds A/70) dated December 30, 1730, in which Jacob Temout and Elizabeth his wife convey some land near Montville, N. J., to Mathew Van Duyne. In this deed it is stated that Jacob Temout purchased the land on December 5, 1722, from John Koarta; also that previous to 1730, Jacob had sold 100 acres to his son Frederick(2)."
4Jean Ricker, Boonton Township Official Website - History , http://www.boontontownship.com/index.htm. "Boonton Township's recorded history began about 1710 when William Penn, the Quaker land speculator, located in the northern valley his Lot No. 48, which contained by actual survey 1,430 prime field and woodland acres. James Bollen, whose bordering "plantation" stretching south toward the Tourne was described as "situate on the fork of Rockaway with an Indian plantation in it," mapped his 1,507 acres in 1715. In 1765 David Ogden purchased from Burnet and Skinner the Great Boonton Tract of 3~656.97 acres. When the Township of Boonton was created in 1867 by "An Act to Divide the Township of Pequannoc in the County of Morris" most of Penn's Lot No. 48 and parts of the Bollen and Great Boonton Tracts fell within our boundary. Boonton Township's official birthday is April 11, 1867.
The first settler of proper record was Frederick DeMouth of French Huguenot extraction. By 1758 his Rockaway Valley plantation within the Penn Lot comprised 672 acres, and it was on this land that the large Stickle, Bott and Kincaid farms were to prosper in the far distant future. Frederick Miller of German Palatine birth bought extensive land (later day Dixon acres) within the Bollen piece at 13 shillings per acre. These founding families were closely followed by the Hoplers, Van Winkles, Cooks, Scotts, Peers, Stickles and Kanouses."
5Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report. "As to Frederick (2), I find a record of a marriage in the Hackensack R.D. Church for Frederick Temout, young man, born in "Hedenborgh" (Edinborough ?), banns published April 14, 1722, both living in "Geemepogh" (Communipaw, Jersey City). This may or may not be Frederick (2), son of Jacob (1), but the probable age (young man) and the spelling of the name make it a strong probability. Since the marriage took place several months before Jacob (1) purchased land in Morris County, their residence, Communipaw, is not out of order. If my conjecture - that this is Frederick (2) - is correct, then this tells from what city - Darmstadt - the Demouths came from.
To continue with the references to Frederick (2), the next thing I find is a deed filed in the vaults of the Secretary of the State of New Jersey at Trenton. In this deed, dated Sept. 27, 1748 filed in Book G-2, page 111, Frederick Demouth and four others were granted 422.70 acres by John Burnett and Samuel Neville. This land was on Rockaway River, but its exact location I haven't dtermined. Again, on July 10, 1750, Frederick purchased 614 acres of land (c.f. G-2, p. 518), this time mainly in Rockaway Valley which is very near Boonton. Purchase was made on May 1, 1758, (Trenton's Deedss p. 394) of 655 acres in Rockaway Valley from Thomas and Richard Penn (sons of Wm. Penn to whom the tract was laid out in 1730. Upon acquiring this tract, Frederick (2) established his home and his farm there. We know that this Frederick who bought the Penn tract was your ancestor, as will be shown below, but we are less sure that he was the same Frederick referred to in the Hackensack marriages or that he was the son of Jacob (1). However, he was referred to in the Trenton deeds as "Frederick Temout" and his mark was "FD." This fact is not without significance, even if it does not constitute proof.
The next pertinent reference to Frederick (2) is his will dated Feb. 5, 1763, and proved Sept. 8, 1766. (N.J. Archives, 1st series Vol. XXXIII, p. 423) In his will he gives his wife Charlotte the use of all his real and personal property while his widow. "...Sons, Adam and Conrood, my plantation where I dwell, of 600 acres, and also land by Rockaway River, of 80 acres, and all other lands, except 4 lots at Newfoundland. When son, Conrood, shall get merried he is to have a setout equal to his brother and sisters. Daughters, Elizabeth and Catherine, 4 lots at Newfoundland. Executors - my two sons, Adam and Conrood." (Trenton Wills I, p. 56) The testators name was given as "Frederick Temout."
It is my guess that one of the two daughters married Peter Snyder whose father had been a business associate of Frederick. This might account for the Peter Snyder house at Newfoundland being referred to as the Demouth place."
6Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. "Name: Johann Friederich Dimouth
Arrival Year: 1710
Arrival Place: New York, New York
Family Members: Wife Dimouth, Anna Elisabetha Febers; Child Dimouth, Anna Dorothea; Child Dimouth, Anna Maria; Child Dimouth, Johann Friederich
Source Publication Code: 3620.1
Primary Immigrant: Dimouth, Jacob
Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of mention in the New World. A few are date of intent to emigrate. Number on the Hunter Lists, birth dates, family relationships, and places of origin may also be provided. Exhaustive information on more than 500
Source Bibliography: JONES, HENRY Z., JR. The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, Volume I. Universal City, CA: Author, PO Box 8341, Universal City, CA, 1985. 624p.
Page: 144."
7Stone Cottage, www.gti.net/rocktwp/5throw.html. "Stone Cottage Sewed by: Barbara Hastey
The interesting history of the Stone Cottage dates back to the mid- 18th century. It was originally two small dwelling houses with a carriage drive between them.
The oldest house was erected around 1740 by the DeMouth family whose ancestors, fleeing from Europe because of religious persecution, settled first in Rockaway Valley and later moved to this northernmost section of Rockaway Township. Both sections at the time were Pequannock Township.
Their daughter married Peter Snyder who erected the second house in 1732. The first house was inherited by the Snyders who remodeled it and joined both together to make one house and added a second story in 1820. An inscription above the door reads "P X S 1773."
The kitchen and dining rooms which were located in the cellar of the Stone Cottage had a fireplace with a capacity for burning eight-feet long logs, two other fireplaces were on the first floor and the walls of the building were two feet thick.
Various owners occupied the building until 1968 when it was purchased by Theodore Brown who kept possession of it until 1914. Mr. Brown made land improvements during his occupancy.
The Neward Watershed purchased the property in 1914 and were the current owners in 1976.
According to local legend, slaves were kept by the original owners and are buried somewhere on this property. In addition, the first dwelling on this site was a log cabin built about 1700 and later burned to the ground by the Indians." This site describes the Rockaway Township Bicentennial Quilt.
8Lois 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).".
9edited by A. Van Doren Honeyman VOL IV, p. 423, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, VOL IV, p. 423, 5 Feb 1763, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "1763, Feb.5 Temout Frederick, of Pequannock, Morris Co., yeoman: will of. Wife, Charlotte, use of my real and personal while my widow. Sons, Adam and Conrood, my plantation where I dwell, of 600 acres, and also land by Rockaway River, of 50 acres, and all other lands, except 4 lots at New Foundland. When son, Conrood, shall get married, he is to have a setout, equal to his brother and sisters. Daughters, Elizabeth and Catharine, 4 lots at New Foundland. Executors - my two sons, Adam and Conrood. Witnesses - John Van Winkle, Frederick Miller, Ezekiel Cheever. Proved Sept. 8, 1766 Lib. I, p. 56." In Demouth Papers received from Linnea Foster, December 2003.
10Ancestry.com, message board, Jan 2003. " Lemuel Cobb surveyed for the heirs or assigns of Hugh Hartshome at the request of Frederick DeMouth all that tract adjoining the farm of Adam DeMouth in Pequanack, Morris Co which was surveyed 12 May, 1715 for Gov William Penn. Also a tract situate on NE side of the Green Pond, Pequannack returned 14 September, 1751. The heirs of Hugh Hartshone/Hartshome claim right to these through a certificate of Mislocation to them at the request of Frederick Demouth dated 26 December 1761. This was witnessed 27 Nov. 1786."
11Munsell, History of Morris County, New Jersey, 1882, Rootsweb.com/~njmorris/.
12Halsey, Edmund D., History of Morris County, pgs. 331-363. "Frederick Miller lived further down the valley; on the property owned by William M. Dixon at the time of his death. Part of the Miller house is yet standing. William Dixon, son-in-law of Miller, also lived in that neighborhood. Frederick Demouth, or Demoth, as it was originally called, lived further down the valley, and was a farmer of considerable means and style for those early days." This citing is from the chapter "Rockaway" by James H. Neighbour.
13Crayon, 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.
14Frederick Temout Will, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "Will of Frederick Demouth 1697 - 1766
Frederick Temouts Will
Morris
Provid Sept. 8, 1766
Engrosed (?)
215 N
Ricorded(?) in I of Wills s(?) 56.th(?)
Original is housed as "Frederick Temout Will" Morris County Original 215N, New Jersey Archives, Trenton, NJ.
In the name of God, Amen. This fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand and Seven Hundred Ninty and Three, I Frederick Temout of Paquanaik in the County of Morris and Province of New Jersey Yeoman being of Sound Mind and Memory Do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament.
Imprimis(?) I Will and Order that all my just Debts and faneral Charges be first paid out of my Moveable Estate.
Item. I give and bequeath unto Charlotte my dearly beloved wife the Sole Benefit use and Improvement of all my Estate Real Personal and Mixt during her remaining my Widow.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Sons Adam and Coonrod all my Plantation whereon I now dwell containing by Estimation Six Hundred Acres be the same or be it less, also my lot of Land by Rockeway River containing Fifty Acres with all and Singular their Appurtenances also all and Singular my other Lands, and rights for Lands whatsoever and wheresoever (excepting the four Lotts at New found Land in this present Will hereafter given to my two daughters Elizabeth and Catherine) To have and to hold to them in equal Portions and Divisions according to Quantity and Quality to them and to their Heirs forever after their Mother's decease or Next Marriage. Also I give to my Son Adam the Negro Man called Jo which he now has in Posesion, and I give to my son Coonrod Thirty Pounds Monet at Eight Shell' the Ounce, and when he shall be married a Setting out equal to what his Brother and Sisters have allready had as near as may be, to be paid to him out of my Moveable Estate. Also I give to my two Sons Adam and Coonrod the One equal halfe part of all the rest of my Moveable Estate equally to be divided between them after my wife's Decease or Next Marriage.
Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughters Elizabeth and Catherine my four Lotts of Land at Newfound Land equally to be divided between them, also one equal half Part of all my personal Estate, after Conroods thirty Pounds, and setting out at marriage is first taken out, and Adams negro afore mentioned, equally to be divided between them, and to have, and to hold to them and to their Heirs forever, and my will is that Elizabeth's Negro wench be deemed a part of her Dividend of the moveable Estate and valued at Forty Pounds and Catherine's Wench to be deemed a part of her share of the moveable Estate and valued at Thirty five Pounds. The Division to be made after my Wife's Decease or next Marriage.
Item. Further my Will is that if either of my sons shall decease, without Issue that his Portion shall go to his surviving Brother and his Heirs, and if either of my Daughters shall die without Issue that her Portion shall go to her Surviving Sister and her Heirs. Also my Desire is that in the Division of my other Negroes they shall be favored in choosing their Masters as much as may be.
Item. I Constitute Make and Ordain my Two Sons Adam and Coonrod to be Sole Executors of this My last Will and Testament hereby authorizing and impowring them to act jointly or severally in all things Relative to the Execution of this my last Will and Testament.
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced
and Declared by the P(or J?). Frederick Temout his
to be his last Will and Testament in the } Frederick FD Temout
Presence of us the Subscribers l mark
John Vanwinkle sw Provd by Oath of John Vanwinkle
& Frederick Miller
Frederick Miller sw Ex Qua_ Adam Temout the ___E________
Ezekiel Cheever
Be it Remembered that on the eighth day of September 1766. John VanW@inkle, Frederick Miller two of the Witnesses to the within Will _____ appeared before me Lewis Ogden ______ authorized to prove Wills of qual___ Ex____ __. and they being duly sworn on the holy E_____ to ___ depose that they were present ___ Frederick Temout the Testator(?) in the within written _________ name sign and seal the said Informant heard him publish pronounce and ______ this same to be his last Will and Testament and that at ____ ___ ____ the said Testator was of sound _________ mind & memory to the best of their Knoledge & Understanding & this is the same ______ Ezekial Cheever was present & signed as did they each sign his Name as __ in the said _______ ___________ Lewis Ogden Suorg (?)
Be it also remembered that at the same time Adam Temout the surviving Ex_____ within named personally came before me_________ __________ to ______ Ex_______ of the within Will and Testament according to Law.
Lewis Ogden Suorg (?)." "_____" undecipherable word
(?) guess by transcriber
Original is in the New Jersey Archives in Trenton, NJ
This transcription done by Dianne Z. Stevens, Feb 2014.
15Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch.com, (AFN: 1C4R-JKM) .
16Jones,Henry Z. Jr., Palatine Families of New York, The, Universal City, CA 1985, p.144. "Jacob Demuth (Hunter Lists #118) Jacob Demuth made his first appearance on the Hunter lIsts 1 July 1710 with 4 pers. over 10 yrs. of age and 2 pers. under 10 yrs. The household showed 5 pers over 10yrs. and 1 under 10 on 4 Oct 1710, 4 pers. over 10 yrs. and 1 under 10 on 31 Dec 1710, and then 5 pers. over 10 yrs. of age 24 June 1711. Jacob Dimouth, 1 man, 1 lad aged 9 to 15, 1 woman, and 2 maids aged 9 to 15, were in Ulster Co. in 1710/11 (West Camp Census). Jacob Yeymout/Zeymout was noted on the Ramapo Tract in N.J. in 1714 (Ramapo Tract Acct. Bk.). Jacob Demuth and his wife with 3 Ch. were at Hackensack ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register); There was also a Jacob Demuth with wife Anna Elisabetha and 3 ch. at Beckmansland mentioned in Simmendinger. Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731 (Albany Protocol, p. 19) He md. 1st Anna Elisabetha (Febers?); he may have been the Jacob Tymouth widower, who md. Barbar Parleman, widow, in 1735 (Pompton Plains Ref. Chbk.) or the Jacob Themout, widower of Hooghwyzel, Darmstad, Germany, who md. Barbara Thewalt, widow, b. Moxter, Germany, in 1736 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk. ) . Issue with 1st wife:
1) Anna Dorothea (HJ), md. Johann Peter Friederich June 1717 (N.Y. City Luth. Chbk.).
2) Anna Maria (HJ), conf. at Newtown 12 June 1712 (West Camp Luth. Chbk.). She md. Martin Van Duyn (HJ), and they were sp. by Jacob Themoth and Elis. Febers in 1728 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk.).
3) Johann Frederich (HJ), conf. Easter 1714 (West Camp Luth. CXhbk.). Fredrik Temont, single man b. Darmstadt, md. 14 April 1722 Annatie Miller, single woman b. Hedenborgh (Hackensack Ref. Chbk.): her full name was Annatie Charlotte Muller (HJ). Issue:
i)Cornad, bpt. 4 weeks old 6 March 1733/34 on the Eulenkill - sp.: Jacob Demuth and wife Elisabeth (N.Y. Cuty Luth. Chbk.).
ii) Elisabetha, b. 29 Oct. 1735 and bpt. on the Eulenkill - sp.: Pieter Friederich and wife Anna Dorothea (N.Y.City Luth. Chbk.).". West Camp Lutheran Churchbook cited.
17Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report.
18Jones,Henry Z. Jr., Palatine Families of New York, The, p.144. Jones cites a Hackensack Reformed Church record.
19Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report.
Annatie Charlotte Eleanora Miller MULLER
1Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
2Jones,Henry Z. Jr., Palatine Families of New York, The, Universal City, CA 1985. "Jacob Demuth (Hunter Lists #118) Jacob Demuth made his first appearance on the Hunter lIsts 1 July 1710 with 4 pers. over 10 yrs. of age and 2 pers. under 10 yrs. The household showed 5 pers over 10yrs. and 1 under 10 on 4 Oct 1710, 4 pers. over 10 yrs. and 1 under 10 on 31 Dec 1710, and then 5 pers. over 10 yrs. of age 24 June 1711. Jacob Dimouth, 1 man, 1 lad aged 9 to 15, 1 woman, and 2 maids aged 9 to 15, were in Ulster Co. in 1710/11 (West Camp Census). Jacob Yeymout/Zeymout was noted on the Ramapo Tract in N.J. in 1714 (Ramapo Tract Acct. Bk.). Jacob Demuth and his wife with 3 Ch. were at Hackensack ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register); There was also a Jacob Demuth with wife Anna Elisabetha and 3 ch. at Beckmansland mentioned in Simmendinger. Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731 (Albany Protocol, p. 19) He md. 1st Anna Elisabetha (Febers?); he may have been the Jacob Tymouth widower, who md. Barbar Parleman, widow, in 1735 (Pompton Plains Ref. Chbk.) or the Jacob Themout, widower of Hooghwyzel, Darmstad, Germany, who md. Barbara Thewalt, widow, b. Moxter, Germany, in 1736 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk. ) . Issue with 1st wife:
1) Anna Dorothea (HJ), md. Johann Peter Friederich June 1717 (N.Y. City Luth. Chbk.).
2) Anna Maria (HJ), conf. at Newtown 12 June 1712 (West Camp Luth. Chbk.). She md. Martin Van Duyn (HJ), and they were sp. by Jacob Themoth and Elis. Febers in 1728 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk.).
3) Johann Frederich (HJ), conf. Easter 1714 (West Camp Luth. CXhbk.). Fredrik Temont, single man b. Darmstadt, md. 14 April 1722 Annatie Miller, single woman b. Hedenborgh (Hackensack Ref. Chbk.): her full name was Annatie Charlotte Muller (HJ). Issue:
i)Cornad, bpt. 4 weeks old 6 March 1733/34 on the Eulenkill - sp.: Jacob Demuth and wife Elisabeth (N.Y. Cuty Luth. Chbk.).
ii) Elisabetha, b. 29 Oct. 1735 and bpt. on the Eulenkill - sp.: Pieter Friederich and wife Anna Dorothea (N.Y.City Luth. Chbk.).".
3Ancestry.com, Family tree of http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/45430914/family?fpid=6362113488.
4Jones,Henry Z. Jr., Palatine Families of New York, The, p.144. Jones cites a Hackensack Reformed Church record.
5Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report.
Conrood DEMOUTH
1Jones,Henry Z. Jr., Palatine Families of New York, The, Universal City, CA 1985. "Jacob Demuth (Hunter Lists #118) Jacob Demuth made his first appearance on the Hunter lIsts 1 July 1710 with 4 pers. over 10 yrs. of age and 2 pers. under 10 yrs. The household showed 5 pers over 10yrs. and 1 under 10 on 4 Oct 1710, 4 pers. over 10 yrs. and 1 under 10 on 31 Dec 1710, and then 5 pers. over 10 yrs. of age 24 June 1711. Jacob Dimouth, 1 man, 1 lad aged 9 to 15, 1 woman, and 2 maids aged 9 to 15, were in Ulster Co. in 1710/11 (West Camp Census). Jacob Yeymout/Zeymout was noted on the Ramapo Tract in N.J. in 1714 (Ramapo Tract Acct. Bk.). Jacob Demuth and his wife with 3 Ch. were at Hackensack ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register); There was also a Jacob Demuth with wife Anna Elisabetha and 3 ch. at Beckmansland mentioned in Simmendinger. Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731 (Albany Protocol, p. 19) He md. 1st Anna Elisabetha (Febers?); he may have been the Jacob Tymouth widower, who md. Barbar Parleman, widow, in 1735 (Pompton Plains Ref. Chbk.) or the Jacob Themout, widower of Hooghwyzel, Darmstad, Germany, who md. Barbara Thewalt, widow, b. Moxter, Germany, in 1736 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk. ) . Issue with 1st wife:
1) Anna Dorothea (HJ), md. Johann Peter Friederich June 1717 (N.Y. City Luth. Chbk.).
2) Anna Maria (HJ), conf. at Newtown 12 June 1712 (West Camp Luth. Chbk.). She md. Martin Van Duyn (HJ), and they were sp. by Jacob Themoth and Elis. Febers in 1728 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk.).
3) Johann Frederich (HJ), conf. Easter 1714 (West Camp Luth. CXhbk.). Fredrik Temont, single man b. Darmstadt, md. 14 April 1722 Annatie Miller, single woman b. Hedenborgh (Hackensack Ref. Chbk.): her full name was Annatie Charlotte Muller (HJ). Issue:
i)Cornad, bpt. 4 weeks old 6 March 1733/34 on the Eulenkill - sp.: Jacob Demuth and wife Elisabeth (N.Y. Cuty Luth. Chbk.).
ii) Elisabetha, b. 29 Oct. 1735 and bpt. on the Eulenkill - sp.: Pieter Friederich and wife Anna Dorothea (N.Y.City Luth. Chbk.).".
2Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
3Jones,Henry Z. Jr., Palatine Families of New York, The, p. 144. NY Church records are cited..
4Frederick Temout Will, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "Will of Frederick Demouth 1697 - 1766
Frederick Temouts Will
Morris
Provid Sept. 8, 1766
Engrosed (?)
215 N
Ricorded(?) in I of Wills s(?) 56.th(?)
Original is housed as "Frederick Temout Will" Morris County Original 215N, New Jersey Archives, Trenton, NJ.
In the name of God, Amen. This fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand and Seven Hundred Ninty and Three, I Frederick Temout of Paquanaik in the County of Morris and Province of New Jersey Yeoman being of Sound Mind and Memory Do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament.
Imprimis(?) I Will and Order that all my just Debts and faneral Charges be first paid out of my Moveable Estate.
Item. I give and bequeath unto Charlotte my dearly beloved wife the Sole Benefit use and Improvement of all my Estate Real Personal and Mixt during her remaining my Widow.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Sons Adam and Coonrod all my Plantation whereon I now dwell containing by Estimation Six Hundred Acres be the same or be it less, also my lot of Land by Rockeway River containing Fifty Acres with all and Singular their Appurtenances also all and Singular my other Lands, and rights for Lands whatsoever and wheresoever (excepting the four Lotts at New found Land in this present Will hereafter given to my two daughters Elizabeth and Catherine) To have and to hold to them in equal Portions and Divisions according to Quantity and Quality to them and to their Heirs forever after their Mother's decease or Next Marriage. Also I give to my Son Adam the Negro Man called Jo which he now has in Posesion, and I give to my son Coonrod Thirty Pounds Monet at Eight Shell' the Ounce, and when he shall be married a Setting out equal to what his Brother and Sisters have allready had as near as may be, to be paid to him out of my Moveable Estate. Also I give to my two Sons Adam and Coonrod the One equal halfe part of all the rest of my Moveable Estate equally to be divided between them after my wife's Decease or Next Marriage.
Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughters Elizabeth and Catherine my four Lotts of Land at Newfound Land equally to be divided between them, also one equal half Part of all my personal Estate, after Conroods thirty Pounds, and setting out at marriage is first taken out, and Adams negro afore mentioned, equally to be divided between them, and to have, and to hold to them and to their Heirs forever, and my will is that Elizabeth's Negro wench be deemed a part of her Dividend of the moveable Estate and valued at Forty Pounds and Catherine's Wench to be deemed a part of her share of the moveable Estate and valued at Thirty five Pounds. The Division to be made after my Wife's Decease or next Marriage.
Item. Further my Will is that if either of my sons shall decease, without Issue that his Portion shall go to his surviving Brother and his Heirs, and if either of my Daughters shall die without Issue that her Portion shall go to her Surviving Sister and her Heirs. Also my Desire is that in the Division of my other Negroes they shall be favored in choosing their Masters as much as may be.
Item. I Constitute Make and Ordain my Two Sons Adam and Coonrod to be Sole Executors of this My last Will and Testament hereby authorizing and impowring them to act jointly or severally in all things Relative to the Execution of this my last Will and Testament.
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced
and Declared by the P(or J?). Frederick Temout his
to be his last Will and Testament in the } Frederick FD Temout
Presence of us the Subscribers l mark
John Vanwinkle sw Provd by Oath of John Vanwinkle
& Frederick Miller
Frederick Miller sw Ex Qua_ Adam Temout the ___E________
Ezekiel Cheever
Be it Remembered that on the eighth day of September 1766. John VanW@inkle, Frederick Miller two of the Witnesses to the within Will _____ appeared before me Lewis Ogden ______ authorized to prove Wills of qual___ Ex____ __. and they being duly sworn on the holy E_____ to ___ depose that they were present ___ Frederick Temout the Testator(?) in the within written _________ name sign and seal the said Informant heard him publish pronounce and ______ this same to be his last Will and Testament and that at ____ ___ ____ the said Testator was of sound _________ mind & memory to the best of their Knoledge & Understanding & this is the same ______ Ezekial Cheever was present & signed as did they each sign his Name as __ in the said _______ ___________ Lewis Ogden Suorg (?)
Be it also remembered that at the same time Adam Temout the surviving Ex_____ within named personally came before me_________ __________ to ______ Ex_______ of the within Will and Testament according to Law.
Lewis Ogden Suorg (?)." "_____" undecipherable word
(?) guess by transcriber
Original is in the New Jersey Archives in Trenton, NJ
This transcription done by Dianne Z. Stevens, Feb 2014. ""Be it also remembered that at the same time Adam Temout the surviving Ex_____ within named personally came before me_________ __________ to ______ Ex_______ of the within Will and Testament according to Law.
"."
Adam MILLER
1Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
2Ancestry.com, Family History and Genealogy Message Board. Millers IN 1833 WILL, Acct of FAMILY
karennj13
Posted: 29 Aug 2010 3:09AM GMT.
Anna DEMOUTH
1Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
2Ancestry.com, family tree o fkarennj13. "The Oscar A. Kincaid Home
of History
Listed on the State and National Registers
of Historic Places
Headquarters: Historical Society of
Boonton Township
591 Powerville Rd. 973-263-0907
In 1785 Adam Miller Jr. and his wife, Anna Demouth Miller, built the earliest section of the dwelling which stands today as the second oldest frame building indigenous to Boonton Township. The little house did not face the road, because at that early date there was no designated road to the property.
John Decker, Oscar Kincaid Jr.'s great-great-grandfather, purchased the home and forge site in 1833 from then owner William Scott. Forge man and farmer, John Decker became a man of substance, adding extensive acreage to his original purchase. His forge iron came from the Hibernia mines, and the shipments from his forge to New York were made via the Morris Canal. John Decker enlarged the small original house in 1837 when the side-hall main block was added. The addition's most remarkable feature is the ingenious and idiosyncratic portrait created in spiteful retaliation by a dismissed contractor. This "decoration" is now considered a unique example of naive and whimsical folk art. Amazingly, throughout the past 174 years of the house's existence and occupation, the hallway decoration was never painted out and lost.
The little ice cream stand, built by Oscar A. Kincaid, Sr., in the mid-to-late 1920's, is thought to be one of the oldest continually running country stands in New Jersey. In 1938 Oscar Kincaid Sr. entered the dairy business and added a room and large walk-in cooler to the small road stand to house his new endeavor. By 1944, the Kincaid's had reverted to general farming and adopted the name "Valley Farm" by which the house and farm are still recognized today. In 1980 it received the prestigious Century Farm Award given by the New Jersey Agriculture Society, the oldest farm organization in the country.
Oscar A. Kincaid, Jr., a well loved mayor of Boonton Township, died in November 2000. The historical Society of Boonton Township, with the enthusiastic support of friends, members, and neighbors, Purchased the house and road stand in 2003. Under its stewardshi, three phases of restoration have been completed at the house. Used for local history programs an exhibitions, it is also a popular venus for community events, fund raisers and art exhibits. The Oscar Kincaid Home of History welcomes visitors by appointment."
3karennj13, http://research.cousinsearchnetwo rk.com/1314.html .
4History of Decker Kincaid Farm, from Bookloet: "Pathways of History-a Museum Tour" held )ct 22/23, 2011 in NJ, Ancestry.com. Copied from the Ancestry Family Tree of 1-Day-O'Dea-Dow-Mead-Miller-Roome of NJ & Morse-Dent of NY State-3 MAIN(1)
see: Anna DeMouth - View media - Ancestry.com.mht. "The Oscar A. Kincaid Home of History
Listed in the State and National Registers of Historic Places
Headquarters: Historical Society of Boonton Township
591 Powerville Rd. 973-263-0907
In 1785, Adam Miller Jr. and his wife, Anna Demouth Miller, built the earliest section of the dwelling which stands today as the second oldest frame building indigenous to Boonton Township. The little home sis not face the road, because at that early date there was no designated road to the property.
John Decker, Oscar Kincaid Jr's great-great-grandfather, purchased the home and forge site in 1833 from then owner William Scott." There is a John Decker descended from Anna's brother Jacob Demouth.
Keturah MILLER
1Ancestry.com, family tree of karennj13.
Alexis MILLER
1Ancestry.com, family tree of karennj13.
Jacob DEMOUTH-THEMOUT
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Jones,Henry Z. Jr., Palatine Families of New York, The, Universal City, CA 1985. "Jacob Demuth (Hunter Lists #118) Jacob Demuth made his first appearance on the Hunter lIsts 1 July 1710 with 4 pers. over 10 yrs. of age and 2 pers. under 10 yrs. The household showed 5 pers over 10yrs. and 1 under 10 on 4 Oct 1710, 4 pers. over 10 yrs. and 1 under 10 on 31 Dec 1710, and then 5 pers. over 10 yrs. of age 24 June 1711. Jacob Dimouth, 1 man, 1 lad aged 9 to 15, 1 woman, and 2 maids aged 9 to 15, were in Ulster Co. in 1710/11 (West Camp Census). Jacob Yeymout/Zeymout was noted on the Ramapo Tract in N.J. in 1714 (Ramapo Tract Acct. Bk.). Jacob Demuth and his wife with 3 Ch. were at Hackensack ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register); There was also a Jacob Demuth with wife Anna Elisabetha and 3 ch. at Beckmansland mentioned in Simmendinger. Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731 (Albany Protocol, p. 19) He md. 1st Anna Elisabetha (Febers?); he may have been the Jacob Tymouth widower, who md. Barbar Parleman, widow, in 1735 (Pompton Plains Ref. Chbk.) or the Jacob Themout, widower of Hooghwyzel, Darmstad, Germany, who md. Barbara Thewalt, widow, b. Moxter, Germany, in 1736 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk. ) . Issue with 1st wife:
1) Anna Dorothea (HJ), md. Johann Peter Friederich June 1717 (N.Y. City Luth. Chbk.).
2) Anna Maria (HJ), conf. at Newtown 12 June 1712 (West Camp Luth. Chbk.). She md. Martin Van Duyn (HJ), and they were sp. by Jacob Themoth and Elis. Febers in 1728 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk.).
3) Johann Frederich (HJ), conf. Easter 1714 (West Camp Luth. CXhbk.). Fredrik Temont, single man b. Darmstadt, md. 14 April 1722 Annatie Miller, single woman b. Hedenborgh (Hackensack Ref. Chbk.): her full name was Annatie Charlotte Muller (HJ). Issue:
i)Cornad, bpt. 4 weeks old 6 March 1733/34 on the Eulenkill - sp.: Jacob Demuth and wife Elisabeth (N.Y. Cuty Luth. Chbk.).
ii) Elisabetha, b. 29 Oct. 1735 and bpt. on the Eulenkill - sp.: Pieter Friederich and wife Anna Dorothea (N.Y.City Luth. Chbk.).". "Jacob Demuth (Hunter Lists #118) Jacob Demuth made his first appearance on the Hunter lIsts 1 July 1710 with 4 pers. over 10 yrs. of age and 2 pers. under 10 yrs. The household showed 5 pers over 10yrs. and 1 under 10 on 4 Oct 1710, 4 pers. over 10 yrs. and 1 under 10 on 31 Dec 1710, and then 5 pers. over 10 yrs. of age 24 June 1711. Jacob Dimouth, 1 man, 1 lad aged 9 to 15, 1 woman, and 2 maids aged 9 to 15, were in Ulster Co. in 1710/11 (West Camp Census). Jacob Yeymout/Zeymout was noted on the Ramapo Tract in N.J. in 1714 (Ramapo Tract Acct. Bk.). Jacob Demuth and his wife with 3 Ch. were at Hackensack ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register); There was also a Jacob Demuth with wife Anna Elisabetha and 3 ch. at Beckmansland mentioned in Simmendinger. Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731 (Albany Protocol, p. 19) He md. 1st Anna Elisabetha (Febers?); he may have been the Jacob Tymouth widower, who md. Barbar Parleman, widow, in 1735 (Pompton Plains Ref. Chbk.) or the Jacob Themout, widower of Hooghwyzel, Darmstad, Germany, who md. Barbara Thewalt, widow, b. Moxter, Germany, in 1736 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk. ) . Issue with 1st wife:
1) Anna Dorothea (HJ), md. Johann Peter Friederich June 1717 (N.Y. City Luth. Chbk.).
2) Anna Maria (HJ), conf. at Newtown 12 June 1712 (West Camp Luth. Chbk.). She md. Martin Van Duyn (HJ), and they were sp. by Jacob Themoth and Elis. Febers in 1728 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk.).
3) Johann Frederich (HJ), conf. Easter 1714 (West Camp Luth. CXhbk.). Fredrik Temont, single man b. Darmstadt, md. 14 April 1722 Annatie Miller, single woman b. Hedenborgh (Hackensack Ref. Chbk.): her full name was Annatie Charlotte Muller (HJ). Issue:
i)Cornad, bpt. 4 weeks old 6 March 1733/34 on the Eulenkill - sp.: Jacob Demuth and wife Elisabeth (N.Y. Cuty Luth. Chbk.).
ii) Elisabetha, b. 29 Oct. 1735 and bpt. on the Eulenkill - sp.: Pieter Friederich and wife Anna Dorothea (N.Y.City Luth. Chbk.)."
3West Camp Census. "Statement of Heads of Palaten Famileys and Number of Persons in Both Towns of ye West Side Hudsons River. Winter 1710.
Dimouth, Jacob - 1 man, 1 lad (9-15), 1 Woman, 2 maids (girls 9-15), Total - 5." Statement of Heads of Palaten Famileys and Number of Persons in Both Towns of ye West Side Hudsons River. Winter 1710. "Dimouth, Jacob - 1 man, 1 lad (9-15), 1 Woman, 2 maids (girls 9-15), Total - 5."
4(Compiled by)Ehle, Boyd, C. E., Palatine Heads of Families from Governor Hunter's Ration Lists June 1710 to September 1714. "Compiled from the records in London and Presented to the Descendants of the Palatines by.". "Demuth, Jacob, (N)."
5Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work. "DeMouth Report
Alex D. Fowler
P.O. box 112
Boonton, N.J.
Sept 28, 1949
Mrs. Charles O. Webber
37 Fillmore Street
Denver 5, Colorado
Dear Mrs. Webber:
I am sorry you had to wait so long in hearing from me in regard to your inquiries of the Demouth family in Morris County. One reason for the delay, besides my vacation, was that it took me some time to analyze the various Demouth references I had already noted, and, moreover, I wanted to look up any further references in Trenton and Morristown when I recently made searches in those places. The net result of all this is that I can carry your Demouth line back positively two more generations and possibly three, and I believe I can clear up the question of the location of the old homestead.
Starting with the first Demouth, Jacob, of whom I have found records as early as 1722, your line would appear as follows: Jacob (1), Frederick (2), Adam (3), and Jacob (4). The last Jacob (4), you already know about; he was the father of your John and the grandfather of Semantha. In what follows I shall give you the data on each or at least give you as much as has a bearing on the genealogical aspects.
The first reference to Jacob (1) I have yet found is contained in Morris County Deeds, Book A, page 70 (abb. MC Deeds A/70) dated December 30, 1730, in which Jacob Temout and Elizabeth his wife convey some land near Montville, N. J., to Mathew Van Duyne. In this deed it is stated that Jacob Temout purchased the land on December 5, 1722, from John Koarta; also that previous to 1730, Jacob had sold 100 acres to his son Frederick(2). You will appreciate that the spelling of "Temout" for Demouth is probably the English phonetics of the Dutch pronunciation of the French name. Incidentally, Jacob (1) signed his name but Elizabeth made her mark. The land involved in the deed was not far from Pompton Plains where in 1736 was located the only Dutch Reformed church in this vicinity. Hence, when we find the first marriage performed in that church was Jacob Tymouth, widower, to Barbara Parleman, widow, in 1736, we are inclined to believe it to be your Jacob (1). There does not appear to be any record of a will filed for Jacob (1) in New J.
As to Frederick (2), I find a record of a marriage in the Hackensack R.D. Church for Frederick Temout, young man, born in "Hedenborgh" (Edinborough ?), banns published April 14, 1722, both living in "Geemepogh" (Communipaw, Jersey City). This may or may not be Frederick (2), son of Jacob (1), but the probable age (young man) and the spelling of the name make it a strong probability. Since the marriage took place several months before Jacob (1) purchased land in Morris County, their residence, Communipaw, is not out of order. If my conjecture - that this is Frederick (2) - is correct, then this tells from what city - Darmstadt - the Demouths came from.
To continue with the references to Frederick (2), the next thing I find is a deed filed in the vaults of the Secretary of the State of New Jersey at Trenton. In this deed, dated Sept. 27, 1748 filed in Book G-2, page 111, Frederick Demouth and four others were granted 422.70 acres by John Burnett and Samuel Neville. This land was on Rockaway River, but its exact location I haven't dtermined. Again, on July 10, 1750, Frederick purchased 614 acres of land (c.f. G-2, p. 518), this time mainly in Rockaway Valley which is very near Boonton. Purchase was made on May 1, 1758, (Trenton's Deedss p. 394) of 655 acres in Rockaway Valley from Thomas and Richard Penn (sons of Wm. Penn to whom the tract was laid out in 1730. Upon acquiring this tract, Frederick (2) established his home and his farm there. We know that this Frederick who bought the Penn tract was your ancestor, as will be shown below, but we are less sure that he was the same Frederick referred to in the Hackensack marriages or that he was the son of Jacob (1). However, he was referred to in the Trenton deeds as "Frederick Temout" and his mark was "FD." This fact is not without significance, even if it does not constitute proof.
The next pertinent reference to Frederick (2) is his will dated Feb. 5, 1763, and proved Sept. 8, 1766. (N.J. Archives, 1st series Vol. XXXIII, p. 423) In his will he gives his wife Charlotte the use of all his real and personal property while his widow. "...Sons, Adam and Conrood, my plantation where I dwell, of 600 acres, and also land by Rockaway River, of 80 acres, and all other lands, except 4 lots at Newfoundland. When son, Conrood, shall get merried he is to have a setout equal to his brother and sisters. Daughters, Elizabeth and Catherine, 4 lots at Newfoundland. Executors - my two sons, Adam and Conrood." (Trenton Wills I, p. 56) The testators name was given as "Frederick Temout."
It is my guess that one of the two daughters married Peter Snyder whose father had been a business associate of Frederick. This might account for the Peter Snyder house at Newfoundland being referred to as the Demouth place.
All the references to Adam (3) have been posthumous ones: in MC Deeds E?90, dated April 10, 1790, "...Adam Miller and and Anna his wife, late Anna Demouth of Pequannock Township of the first part and Jacob Demouth of the second part...whereas Adam Demouth deceased...died intestate and at the same time was seized of considerable estate both real and personal in the County of Morris and elsewhere and whereas the same descended to his two children Jacob Demouth and Anna Demouth now Anna Miller..." This was a quit-claim deed releasing to Jacob 512 acres of the homestead farm of Adam Demouth, his father. Other deeds bearing out the above genealogical data were recorded in Morris County in 1797 (c.f. MC Deeds C/289; D/362; D/364).
We thus have Jacob (4) obtaining the greater part of the homestead farm in Rockaway Valley. That he was your ancestor is proved by the following quit-claim deed (MC Deeds K-3/236, dated Feb. 16, 1836); "...Frederick Demouth Adam Demouth John Demouth Charlotte Demouth Richard Kayhart & Elizabeth his wife late Elizabeth Demouth of the Township of Pequanack and James Demouth and Jacob Demouth of the Township of Hanover...of the first part and Thomas Demouth of the Township of Pequanack ..of the second part..." The land conveyed was that already in Thomas' possession "..which descended to them as the heirs of Jacob Demouth, Esq.. late of Pequanack deceased...it being the homestead farm of the said Jacob Demouth, dec'd." The bounds of the farm are described in terms of adjacent farms well-known in Rockaway Valley. You will note that the above grantors and grantee are eight of the nine children (Mary excepted) named by you as children of your ancestor, Jacob Demouth. The location of this farm is within the old William Penn tract.
I found various references to Jacob (4) in Munsell's History of Morris County, New Jersey published in 1882, but most of them refer to his activities as Justice of the Peace over a 20-year perioddddfrom 1815 until his death - most of this you seem to have learned already. He is credited with being the founder of the Rockaway Valley Methodist Church (c.f. Centennial Pamphlet of that church, published Sept. 20, 1942).
There is still in Rockaway Valley what is known as the Demouth Cemetery in which the following tombstone inscriptions may be seen:
On one stone: Jacob Demouth d. Mar. 22, 1835, in 72nd year
Deborah, wf. of Jacob, d. Sept. 14, 1833 in 66th year
Frederick Demouth, d. Apr 26, 1836, in 46th year
Susannah, wid of Fred'ck, d. Apr 28, 1863
Elizabeth Demouth, d. June 26, 1869, age 45 yrs. 9m, 2d.
Jirah Demouth, d. May 20, 1854, age 42 yrs.
Malinda, wf. of Jirah, d. Jan. 15, 1849, age 35 yrs.
I was taken to the Demouth Cemetery by Mr. Frank Bott, an elderly resident near there, and he also pointed out to me the site of the old Demouth house which stood on the Butler road at a point due east of the cemetery. Mr Bott remembers seeing the remains of the foundations of the house, but there is no sign of them now.
The Frederick Demouth whose inscription is given above was undoubtedly the son of Jacob (4). His (Frederick's) will (MC Wills D/457 dated July 8, 1834; proved May 10, 1836) names his wife Susan; son Jirah (who was devised 12 acres); son Decatur (also 12 acres); and daughters Elizabeth and Susan (who were to receive $60 each when they married or when 21). Witnesses: James M. Fleming, Thomas Demouth, and John Demouth.
I have been unable to discover any relationship between the DeMotts of Pompton Plains and the Demouths of Rockaway Valley, although I have always suspected that there was a definite connection. None of the DeMott first names, except one jacob, are the same as those of the Demouths.
A few unsuccessful inquiries were made by me to find some local descendants of the Demouths. Mr Frank Bott knew of none and the telephone directory listed only one bearing the name of Demouth. That one was formerly a Boonton alderman who died just recently.
In Trenton I found, besides the deeds already mentioned, a list of tax rateables in Morris County. Among the rateables for the year 1778 were the following:
Adam D'Mouth, 460 acres improved land worth L 3000;
102 acres unimproved land worth L 200;
L 220 out at interest
Executors of Frederick Demout, one acre of improved land (no valuation)
L175 out at interest.
Adam Demouth in 1778 was rated one of the three wealthiest men in Pequannock Township.
On studying the various data I have given you, you will undoubtedly have many questions about the points which I have not made clear or which I have not considered. If so, please let me know and I shall try and answer them.
Yours very Truly,
A. D. F.
Alex D. Fowler, P.O. Box 112, Boonton, N.J."
6Crayon, 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. "The DeMont, or De Mouth 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 hence emigrated to America in June, 1709, and became the first white settlers in the Rockaway Valley, in this township. They were the first white settlers in the valley and this family was in the 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 of New Foundland in this (Rockaway) township. The mythical inscription "P.xS 1773" in the triangle 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 forty 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 settler at New Foundland."."
7Lois 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).". "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."
8Pat DeMuth Email,
18 Feb 2006, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "The following is a little about the
origin of the Demuth surname the prof. George DeMuth did some time ago. Note
the very last paragraph.
Origin Of The Demuth Surname
Some have suggested that Demuth is a French Huguenot name, this is a false
assumption. The name is common throughout Germany and especially in
Schlesien as well as Luxembourg. It has two different etymologies. The
first is from the Middle High German word "diemuot" or "demuot", being an
adjective meaning "condescending" or "modest". An example of this is in
1293, Heinrich dictus Diemuot, zu Oberried" (i.e. Heinrich the modest of
Oberried). It was common for descriptive adjectives to become surnames
during this early time period. In German dictionaries Demut means meekness
or humility.
The second origin for the name Demuth comes from a woman's first name. When
a son is referred to as son of Demut, in some cases it developed into a
surname, as in this example from Hessen records from 1336, "Emercho filius
Demudis, zu Niederingeheim" (i.e. Emercho son of Demudis, of
Niederingeheim).
According to German books on surnames, the name of Demuth might have
described a character trait: Demuth or Demut, as it has to be written since
the last German spelling reform in 1901, is the German word for "Humility".
Demuth was also in use as a female Christian name, and so the surname of
Demuth can also be matronymic, referring to a woman, probably a mother,
called Demuth. The surname of Demuth can also be the germanized from of the
French surname of Dumont. Dumont means "of the Mountain". Demuth does not
mean "of courage", as occasionally stated: the name is certainly not
composed of the Latin preposition 'de', the Latin word for "of", and "Muth"
or "Mut", as we have to spell it since 1901, the German word for courage,
related to the English word "mood".
Demuth, the Origin of the Name
By George R. DeMUTH
The following, though brief, covers many years and many countries. It is a
hypothesis based on the documented history of certain peoples. In what
follows, there is no way to avoid discussing Christianity, including the
organization of Western Christianity (as opposed to Orthodox or Coptic
Christianity), for Christianity and the church activities are important to
the name.
The name, Demuth: what does it mean and what is the origin of the word? It
came into German from Gothic as a word coined by the Christians in the first
five hundred years after Christ to express in the Gothic language the virtue
which we call "humbleness" or "humility" in English, stronger than our
current meaning of modesty. No word for it existed in Gothic. As an
example of its use in the Bible: Acts 20, verse 19: "I served the Lord with
great humility..." In Vulgate or church Latin, "...serviens Domino cum omni
humilitate..." In German, "...gedient mit aller Demuth..." The Gothic
language simply had no word for such a feeling or attitude. So the
translators made a word from "diener" and "muth" meaning the spirit of a
server of diener; the combination may have transiently been "dienmuth" but
it entered German from Gothic as Demuth.* It is a very uncommon German
family name.
How did this become our family name? The story, I believe, starts in the
11th century in Lombardy, northern Italy; but is easier to go backwards from
four or five centuries later. There is substantial evidence to support the
general hypothesis which follows; but, of course, we do not have the given
names of any of the individuals before 1650.
Let us start with the history of the Moravian Church (although not all,
maybe most Demuths were not Moravian members). This church was founded by
the followers of Jan or John HUSS, who in 1409 became Rector of Karl's
University in Prague, the very influential head of the country's main
university, when Prague was on of the, if not the leading city of Europe.
He attempted to bring about church reforms (this was a century before Martin
LUTHER), was highly respected, but thus gained enmity, and was martyred in
1415. He left many believers and they grew in number over the next century
and a half. Many non-Czechs were attracted, mostly Germans, and a very high
proportion of these were Waldensians.
Many of the Waldensians by then lived in the area of the Rhine, adjacent to
Alsace and Lorraine, in German speaking parts of Switzerland, and in the
southwest parts of modern Germany. Many were attracted to the teachings of
Huss, since they were and had been for centuries a religious group who were
trying to reform the Christian church as they saw it. I postulate that the
Moravian Church Demuths were former Waldensians. They definitely were of
German lineage. Other Waldensian Demuths, maybe the majority, remained in
that corner of Germany and nearby France. You may note that some of the
descendants of the latter group were later Roman Catholics. This is easily
explained. The religious of most people after the end of the Thirty Year
War (1648-Peace of Westphalia) was the religion of that Prince in whose
province they lived. If your prince was Catholic, you were Catholic; if he
was Lutheran, you were Lutheran, etc. except for the small number who went
"underground," which the Moravian Seed did.
Who were the Waldensians? They were a religious sect which was originally
composed of the followers of Peter WALDO, who was a religious reformer from
Lyon, France. He began preaching in about 1173 about the need to reform
Christian practices including the excesses of the papacy and of other church
leaders. His followers formed a substantial body of people in northern
Italy as well as in southern France. They gave up ostentatious dress and
pomp, and emphasized the Bible and the early church doctrine. Needless to
say, their efforts were not totally appreciated by the Pope, who was quite
worldly at this time. Tolerated for a while, the Waldensians eventually
were persecuted, many of them were driven into the foothills and valleys of
the Alps. Many then many moved north to northern France and spread into
what is now Germany. There are still, however, Waldensians in northern
Italy (approximately 20,000) as well as in southern France and other parts
of the world.
Now, how did the name Demuth become applied to some Waldensians? Not long
before the development of the Waldensian movement, there was in Lombardy
(part of Northern Italy) another dissident religious group equally strongly
troubled by the material and worldly policies of the Western Christian
church. These called themselves the Humiiati, the humble ones. At first,
they were tolerated by the Roman church. Later, they had some interchange
of membership with the Waldensians, but they remained for quite a while a
discrete group. At the end of the 12th century, the Pope decided to
eradicate them. Many were killed. But some of them then were or had
already been incorporated into the Waldensian sect.
My hypothesis is that when the Waldensians moved north and entered the
German speaking area, there was still an identifiable sub-group of them
(perhaps no many) who were still identified as Humiliati. These people
took, as a German surname, the close German trraduation diploma have a lower
case or small "m.' All legal papers were written with a small "m". And
yet, I know his father toyed with writing the name with a capital "M" (in
the margin of one of his books). I postulate that this may have been
influenced by his family having had two prior generations of marriages to
Huguenots, who were originally from northern France, Lorraine and the border
country. It is only a guess.
* [Foot Note: Professor Graf noted that it appeared to him that many
Germans, modern day and past found Demuth both difficult to acknowledge as a
virtue and an uncomfortable feeling.]
Sources:
Encyclopedia Brittanica (general)
Multimedia Encyclopedia (general)
The New Columbia Encyclopedia (general)
History of the Moravian Church (J. Taylor HAMILTON and Kenneth G. HAMILTON)
You Are My Witnesses, The Waldensians Across 800 years (Giorgio TOURN and
Associates)
Private Communication from Professor Otto GRAF (German and Linguistics)
Taken from an email, 28 Oct 2001
I have a hypothesis for which there is circumstantial evidence that the
Demuth name came indirectly from Humiliati, an Italian sect in the XIIth
century, who was called the humble ones. They joined the Waldensians, moved
to the Palatinate area. The Waldensians were early supporters of Jan Hus
(or Huss). Anyway, Demuth means the humble one. I have my own guess as to
the capitalization of the M by some (there were some French Hugenot
marriages).
George DeMuth."
9Pat DeMuth Email, 17 Feb 2006. "I am afraid I can't be of much help on this Demouth family. I am aware of
the West Camp family and have tried to locate their ancestor home of
Hooghwyzel/Hoch-Weisel/etc with no luck. Unfortunately there are some very
poorly researched books out there that have spread misleading information.
I have heard of the Huguenots tied to this family but have not traced the
source of it down. Most everything I have come across indicated they were
German Palatines NOT French, but I am far an expert of this family line."
10Demouth Papers Rec'd from Marsha Bybee Feb 22, 2002.
11Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Jacob Demuth. "Name: Jacob Demuth
Arrival Year: 1709
Arrival Place: New Jersey
Family Members: Wife & 3 children
Source Publication Code: 8480
Primary Immigrant: Demuth, Jacob
Annotation: Originally entitled, Warhoffte und glaubwuerdige Verzeichniss jeniger Personen.... Reutlingen, Germany: ca. 1717. Names and ages, pp. 11-19. Also printed in no. 4010, Knittle.
Source Bibliography: SIMMENDINGER, ULRICH. True and Authentic Register of Persons Still Living, by God's Grace, Who in the Year 1709, under the Wonderful Providences of the Lord Journeyed from Germany to America or New World and There Seek Their Piece of Bread at Various Places.... St. Johnsville, NY: The Enterprise and News, 1934. 20p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1962. Repr. 1984.
Page: 12."
12Ancestry.com, American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) about Jacob Demuth. "Name: Jacob Demuth
Birth Date: 1680
Birthplace: Ger, New York
Volume: 42
Page Number: 329
Reference: True and authentic reg. Of persons still living, who journeyed from Germany to Amer. By Ulrich Simmendinger. St. Johnsville, NY. 1934. (20p.):12."
13A Celebration of Legend, Fact and Spirit 1785 - 1985, Rockaway Valley United Methodist Church; 1985, Excerpts. "
"The Bergen Dutch Reformed Church records from 1664 - 1801 contain family names of Decker, DeGroot (DeGraw), Demouth, Van Winkel, Van der Hoof Vreeland and VanZile. The forefathers led active church lives, moved from the crowded Passaic and Hackensack Valleys to our corner of old Pequannockk, Hanover and Rockaway Townships and attended either the old BoonTown church close to the Parsippany border, or the "Pumptan" house of worship.
An earlier Jacob Demouth, great-grandfather of our church founder, was married in the "Pumpton" church in 1736, its founding year, by the Reverend Johannes Van Driessen, self-styled 'extra-ordinary Instructor.' Its ancient Kerck Boeck record includes the familiar names of Demouth, Decker, Miller. Gould, Van Winkel, Romine, Hiler, Vreeland Vanderhoof, Fredericks, Kock (Cook), Pier, Husk, Young, Crane, Smith, Van Zile, DeGraw, Sisco, Brown, Kerhart (Kayhart), Carmen, Taylor, Nix, Ryker, Rhinesmith, Mead, Witty, Ryerson, Conklin, Doland and Struble. ...
our citizens who travelled to BoonTown or the Plains for a good sermon in familiar Dutch (5) were left without consistent pastoral guidance. ..."."
14Ancestry.com, Message Boards: Re: Millers IN 1833 WILL, Acct of FAMILY . "NOTES: The Beginning of the Mass Migration of Palatines
England needed new colonists for their “New Kingdom” in America. The Palatines had heard about this wonderful land across the sea. About Spring of 1709, the families began to sail down the Rhine to Rotterdam. The trip took 6 weeks. From April to October 1709 at least 13,500 were transported across the English Channel from Holland to England at the expense of the British government. The name of most of the Ramapo (Ramapough) group appeared on the shipping list for July.
In December 1709, they boarded the ships and started along the coast of England but anchored several months and it was 10 April 1710 before they started across the ocean. There were 30 births at sea. The first ship arrived in NY in the middle of June. By July, 446 children and adults had died.
Three of those ships that arrived in June were the “Lyon” (?) and the “Lion of Leath” on 13 June 1710 and the “Lowestoffee” on 14 June 1710.
New York didn’t like the fact of all these people in poor health arriving in NY, so they were camped out on Governor’s Island. A change in government in London cut off support for the Palatines and on 12 September 1712, Governor Hunter told them they were on their on.
Some stayed on, but others moved north to Schoharie Co., NY, some went to PA and some went south to Raritan, Somerset Co., NJ. A group of about a dozen men moved their families to Ramapough (Ramapo). On 18 April 1713 this small group of German Lutheran Palatine men with their families and meager possessions arrived at Ramapo (now Mahwah, Bergen Co., NJ) Among the families, was Johan Adam Mueller (Muller/ Miller) and his wife, Anna Mary (Maria) Drauth and his children.
They settled in that area and organized into a congregation under Lutheran Pastor Justus Falckner.
In trying to locate the name of the place that Johannes Adam Miller and Anna Catharina Streit were married, Remobuch (Remobuack or Remebok), Bergen Co., NJ, I find “Campgaw near Remobuch NJ at Jacob DeMuth’s”. Campgaw is mostly in what is present day Franklin Lakes, but possibly also in present day Oakland, Mahwah, and Wyckoff.
Ramapough (Ramapo, and areas locations) was a precinct of Saddle River; also spelled Ramepough, Rammepough, Ramepogh, Rammepogh, Rammapough, Ramapogh, and then you have the Ramopock, Romopack, and Remopock.
SOURCE: According to the "Palatines & Airmont Lutheran Church History" at the Dutch Door Genealogy."
15Ancestry.com, American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) about Jacob Demuth. "Name: Jacob Demuth
Birth Date: 1680
Birthplace: Ger, New York
Volume: 42
Page Number: 329
Reference: True and authentic reg. Of persons still living, who journeyed from Germany to Amer. By Ulrich Simmendinger. St. Johnsville, NY. 1934. (20p.):12."
Anna Elizabetha FEBERS
1Jones,Henry Z. Jr., Palatine Families of New York, The, Universal City, CA 1985, p.144. "Jacob Demuth (Hunter Lists #118) Jacob Demuth made his first appearance on the Hunter lIsts 1 July 1710 with 4 pers. over 10 yrs. of age and 2 pers. under 10 yrs. The household showed 5 pers over 10yrs. and 1 under 10 on 4 Oct 1710, 4 pers. over 10 yrs. and 1 under 10 on 31 Dec 1710, and then 5 pers. over 10 yrs. of age 24 June 1711. Jacob Dimouth, 1 man, 1 lad aged 9 to 15, 1 woman, and 2 maids aged 9 to 15, were in Ulster Co. in 1710/11 (West Camp Census). Jacob Yeymout/Zeymout was noted on the Ramapo Tract in N.J. in 1714 (Ramapo Tract Acct. Bk.). Jacob Demuth and his wife with 3 Ch. were at Hackensack ca. 1716/17 (Simmendinger Register); There was also a Jacob Demuth with wife Anna Elisabetha and 3 ch. at Beckmansland mentioned in Simmendinger. Jacob Demuth of Eulenkil and Hanover appeared in Berkenmeyer's Protocol in 1731 (Albany Protocol, p. 19) He md. 1st Anna Elisabetha (Febers?); he may have been the Jacob Tymouth widower, who md. Barbar Parleman, widow, in 1735 (Pompton Plains Ref. Chbk.) or the Jacob Themout, widower of Hooghwyzel, Darmstad, Germany, who md. Barbara Thewalt, widow, b. Moxter, Germany, in 1736 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk. ) . Issue with 1st wife:
1) Anna Dorothea (HJ), md. Johann Peter Friederich June 1717 (N.Y. City Luth. Chbk.).
2) Anna Maria (HJ), conf. at Newtown 12 June 1712 (West Camp Luth. Chbk.). She md. Martin Van Duyn (HJ), and they were sp. by Jacob Themoth and Elis. Febers in 1728 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk.).
3) Johann Frederich (HJ), conf. Easter 1714 (West Camp Luth. CXhbk.). Fredrik Temont, single man b. Darmstadt, md. 14 April 1722 Annatie Miller, single woman b. Hedenborgh (Hackensack Ref. Chbk.): her full name was Annatie Charlotte Muller (HJ). Issue:
i)Cornad, bpt. 4 weeks old 6 March 1733/34 on the Eulenkill - sp.: Jacob Demuth and wife Elisabeth (N.Y. Cuty Luth. Chbk.).
ii) Elisabetha, b. 29 Oct. 1735 and bpt. on the Eulenkill - sp.: Pieter Friederich and wife Anna Dorothea (N.Y.City Luth. Chbk.).".
2Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
Jirah DEMOUTH
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
3Morris Co. Hall of Records - Deeds.
4Census, Federal - 1840 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequannock. "Lists Oliver Levi family with one male between 50 and 60, and one female between 40 and 50. Oliver is living next door to Isaac "Birgie", probable son-in-law.". "Census lists 1 male - 5 to 10 yrs, 1 male 20 - 30 yrs, 2 females under 5, 2 females 5 - 10 yrs, 1 female 20 - 30 yrs."
5Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15, Ancestry p. 42 of 99, 30 Aug 1850.
6Lonnie 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.". received 13 Jan 2006.
7Lonnie DeMouth McManus . received 13 Jan 2006.
8Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, Morris Co., NJ Genweb; Demouth Cemetery.
9Schulz, Margaret, Malinda Kayhart and Jirah Demouth, Ancestry.com Message Board, 15 Dec 2000.
Catherine Malinda KAYHART
1Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. This report was written in response to a letter from Mrs. Charles Webber of 10 Aug 1949. Mrs. Webber apparently hired Mr. Fowler to do genealogical research for her. In 2003 when I (Dianne Stevens) hired Linnea Foster to investigate the Levi connection, Linnea said that Mr. Foster was very highly regarded in New Jersey for his genealogy work.
2Gervase, Jason, Kayhart, Demouth, Ancestry.com - message Board.
3Lonnie DeMouth McManus Papers Received 23 Jan 2006, Demouth Cemetery list A.
4Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, Morris Co., NJ Genweb; Demouth Cemetery.
5Schulz, Margaret, Malinda Kayhart and Jirah Demouth, Ancestry.com Message Board, 15 Dec 2000.
Charles DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15.
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).". Contained in the papers received from Lonnie McManus on 23 Jan 2006.