Selected Families and Individuals
Source Citations
Andrew DECKER
1Reinhold, Lawrence , Garritt Vanderhoof and Charlotte Demouth, Email dated 11 Jan 2003 from Lawrence Reinhold to Dianne Stevens. "I would like to let you know that my family is related to Jacob and Deborah Demouth. A research I am using found probate documents for Phebe Adkins. Phebe s maiden name was Phebe Demouth. She first married Andrew Decker, and that is my line. Their still needs to be more research, but Phebe Demouth was the daughter of Frederick De Mott and Susanna Crane. Frederick De Mott was the son of Jacob De Mouth married to Deborah. This information came from the Family History of The Ancestors of Lois Eleanore Wells, written by Lois Wells Wilson.
Do you know anything about Andrew Decker married to Phebe De Mouth, also know as Phebe Adkins? I am currently doing research on this line.".
2Lonnie Demouth McManus, Ancestry website.
3Phebe Adkins papers received from Lawrence Rheinhold January 2003.
Phebe DEMOUTH
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannac, Ancestry p. 55 of 140, 7 Jul 1860.
3Phebe Adkins papers received from Lawrence Rheinhold January 2003. copy of death certificate.
4Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15, pgs. 49& 50 of 99.
5Lonnie 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.
6Lonnie DeMouth McManus . received 13 Jan 2006.
7Phebe Adkins papers received from Lawrence Rheinhold January 2003, copy death certif.
William ADKINS
1Application for Probate and Will of Phebe Adkins, 14 April 1890, Morris County Surrogate's Office, Morris County, New Jersey, Book D of Renumerations and Applications p. 17.
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Morris Co, NJ, Rockaway, Ancestry p. 55 of 140, 7 Jul 1860.
3Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15, pgs. 49& 50 of 99.
4Census, Federal - 1860 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannac, Ancestry p. 55 of 140.
5C Adkins, email of 23 Feb 2011. "William's actual date of death from his will is 8 Jun 1882."
6Ancestry.com, Message board, 7 Mar 2006. "The cemetery is the Rockaway Valley Cemetery just outside of Boonton, NJ. It's a very old cemetery. William Adkins and Phoebe Demouth (who is one of my ancestors) are both buried there. Paula."
7Morris Co, NJ marriage records, Book E, p. 90. "Married at boonton Falls Mr. Wm Adkins to Mrs. Phebe Decker Dec 25th 1845 both of Boonton.
The above marriages were all solemized by me. Daniel E. Magie
Pastor of Presbyterian Church
Boonton Falls Morris Co., New Jersey." Part of book and page number are cut off. This is my best guess.
Phebe DEMOUTH
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannac, Ancestry p. 55 of 140, 7 Jul 1860.
3Phebe Adkins papers received from Lawrence Rheinhold January 2003. copy of death certificate.
4Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15, pgs. 49& 50 of 99.
5Lonnie 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.
6Lonnie DeMouth McManus . received 13 Jan 2006.
7Phebe Adkins papers received from Lawrence Rheinhold January 2003, copy death certif.
8Morris Co, NJ marriage records, Book E, p. 90. "Married at boonton Falls Mr. Wm Adkins to Mrs. Phebe Decker Dec 25th 1845 both of Boonton.
The above marriages were all solemized by me. Daniel E. Magie
Pastor of Presbyterian Church
Boonton Falls Morris Co., New Jersey." Part of book and page number are cut off. This is my best guess.
Ward ADKINS
1Application for Probate and Will of Phebe Adkins, 14 April 1890, Morris County Surrogate's Office, Morris County, New Jersey, Book D of Renumerations and Applications p. 17.
2Census, Federal - 1860 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannac, p. 56 of 140, 7 Jul 1860.
Frederick ADKINS
1Application for Probate and Will of Phebe Adkins, 14 April 1890, Morris County Surrogate's Office, Morris County, New Jersey, Book D of Renumerations and Applications p. 17.
Charles ADKINS
1Application for Probate and Will of Phebe Adkins, 14 April 1890, Morris County Surrogate's Office, Morris County, New Jersey, Book D of Renumerations and Applications p. 17.
2Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15, p. 56 of 140.
Decatur ADKINS
1Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15, pgs. 49 & 50 of 99.
John DECKER
1Application for Probate and Will of Phebe Adkins, 14 April 1890, 14 Apr 1890, Morris County Surrogate's Office, Morris County, New Jersey, Book D of Renumerations and Applications p. 17.
2Phebe Adkins papers received from Lawrence Rheinhold January 2003, Listing of Rockaway Valley Church Cemetery.
Mary J.
1Phebe Adkins papers received from Lawrence Rheinhold January 2003, Listing of Rockaway Valley Church Cemetery.
Decatur DEMOUTH
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ, , 22 Feb 2001.
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.
4Census, Federal - 1860 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannac, Ancestry p. 94 of 140.
5Census, Federal - 1830 - Morris Co., NJ, Pequanac Twsp, Ancestry image p. 53.
6Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ.
7Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ.
8Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ.
Catherine KAVANA
1Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15.
2Riley, Kevin, Olive Tree Genealogy, , 22 Feb 2001.
3Census, Federal - 1860 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannac, Ancestry p. 94 of 140.
4Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ, .
5Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ.
6Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ.
Caroline DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15.
2Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ, .
3Riley, Kevin, Montville Reformed Cemetery, NJ.
Frederick KAYHART
1Gervase, Jason, Kayhart, Demouth, Ancestry.com - message Board, 22 Mar 1999.
VANDERHOOF
1Gervase, Jason, Kayhart, Demouth, Ancestry.com - message Board, 22 Mar 1999.
Theodore Frederick DENMAN
1Schulz, Margaret, Malinda Kayhart and Jirah Demouth, Ancestry.com Message Board.
2Morris Co, NJ marriage records.
3Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Received in Lonnie Demouth Packet 23 Jan 2006, 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).".
4Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells. In the papers received from Lonnie McManus, 23 Jan 2006.
5Ancestry.com, Sefton-Friars Family tree.
6Morris Co, NJ marriage records.
Margaret DEMOUTH
1Lonnie DeMouth McManus Papers Received 23 Jan 2006.
2Census, Federal 1910, Detroit Ward 17, Wayne, Michigan. "Name: Margaret Denman
Age in 1910: 76
Birth Year: abt 1834
Birthplace: New Jersey
Home in 1910: Detroit Ward 17, Wayne, Michigan
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Grandmother
[Grandmother, Grandma (Grandmother)]
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: New Jersey
Mother's Birthplace: New Jersey
Household Members:
Name Age
Reginald E Wells 29
Fay E Wells 23
Lois Wells 2
Eloise Wells 0
[11/12]
Margaret Denman 76."
3Lonnie 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.".
4Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, p. 68, 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).". This paper is in the before Jacob Demouth file in a brown envelop of papers sent to me by Lawrence Reinhold.
5Lonnie DeMouth McManus .
6Morris Co, NJ marriage records.
Eugene DENMAN
1Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).". Contained in the papers received from Lonnie McManus on 23 Jan 2006.
William DENMAN
1Lois Wells Wilson, edited by Warren E. Wilson, 1989, Family History of the Ancestors of Lois Eleanor Wells, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. "Early records, and the De Mouths themselves, frequently spelled the name differently, so it was necessary to search for information on these ancestors under such spellings as De Muth, Demont, De Mont, Dumont, Demit, Demet, Demott, De Mott, De Met, Demun, Demund, Demut, De Mutt, Dumon, Dumond, Dumot, Du Mott, Du Mond, De Muthe, and De Mouth. In France the name was often written "de Mathe", as is shown in more than one transaction we found. In "Notorial Records from 1603 to 1665" Pierre Sanxy is listed as attorney for Joachim and Clorinde de Mathe, his wife. (Our branch of the family always pronounced the name to rhyme with "Vermouth" regardless of how it was spelled.)
The earliest De Muths came over before the Huguenot troubles in France, colonized the Bergen, N.J. area and had large landholdings dating from 1624 in and near Boonton, N.J. The De Mott Hill and Cemetery there still exist. They say that Abner De Mouth lived like a feudal lord; he had 7000 acres of land, had his own brewery and his own blacksmith shop, all on his own place.
Our direct ancestral De Mouths were Huguenots, natives of France who fled from there at the time of Louis XIV when he revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. (The Edict had been promulgated by Henry IV in 1598 and had given the Huguenots almost a hundred years of peace.) The Revocation created a period called the "Reign of Terror" by those who endured the persecution, who had all their property confiscated, who were forbidden to worship as Protestants and whose lives were threatened if they failed to conform or tried to escape. Their ministers were nearly all executed. Fortunate escapees fled to Germany and Holland.
Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany and fled to Holland. They waited there ten years for any of their retainers who might wish to accompany them to the New World and who might find ways to escape from France to join them. One of the brothers received a large land grant from Holland to property up beyond Boonton in New Jersey. In 1709 these three families came to America. Some settled in the Boonton area where earlier De Mouths had colonized; the little towns and hills and cemeteries thereabouts still bear the family name. Others settled down in Somerset and they gradually spread out all over Rockaway Valley.
Many early family records have now been lost but history records that two of these brothers, Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, from 1709 to 1730 recorded legal papers and deeds to property at New Foundland in Rockaway Township and elsewhere in Rockaway Valley. The records. refer to them as "Jacob and Frederick De Mouth, first settlers of Rockaway Valley". These records spell their names variously as De Mathe, De Mott, De Mouth, De Muthe or De Muth. In 1730 Jacob built a sturdy house of stone for his family not far from New Foundland near the site of the old Clinton Reservoir. His grandson, also named Jacob, is the first of our De Mouth ancestors in America for whom we have exact and complete dates: he was born in 1763 and died March 22, 1835.
The old stone house was occupied for a time by a De Mouth daughter whose husband, Peter Snyder, built an addition to the house and a new entry way. Above the door he set a triangular stone with the Mysterious-looking inscription P.X.S. 1773. It was occupied by our direct ancestors for five generations. The last to live there before it was destroyed was Margaret De Mouth who married Theodore Denman in 1854. Her daughter, Suzanne Denman, as a very young woman, went to visit the site and got the above information from the man who occupied the next farm, Thomas De Mouth. . . Suzanne (Suzanne Denman Vincett, who first researched genealogical data for this book and who collected most of the data).". Contained in the papers received from Lonnie McManus on 23 Jan 2006.
Robert MCLAIN
1Schulz, Margaret, Malinda Kayhart and Jirah Demouth, Ancestry.com Message Board, 15 Dec 2000.
2Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
Amanda DEMOUTH
1Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".
2Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co., NJ, Hanover, Ancestry image - page 1, Ancestry.com.
Henry D. MCLAIN
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
Elizabeth MCLAIN
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
Arthur D. MCLAIN
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
Robert MCLAIN
1Ancestry.com, Adkins Family Tree.
Theodore Frank DEMOUTH
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15.
3Schulz, Margaret, Malinda Kayhart and Jirah Demouth, Ancestry.com Message Board, 15 Dec 2000.
4Census, Federal - 1895 - Palo Alto Co., Iowa, Fairfield twsp. "106 4 21 DeMouth Theodore 47 M M New Jersey *er Co. K New Jersey Infantry 107 4 21 DeMouth Lou 36 F M Ills Christian * House 108 4 21 DeMouth Frank 19 M S 109 4 21 DeMouth Edith 17 F S 110 4 21 DeMouth Walter 11 M S 111 4 21 DeMouth Clarance 8 M S 112 4 21 DeMouth Mable 5 F S Palo Alto Co Ia." PALO ALTO COUNTY IOWA -- 1895 CENSUS -- FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP
Transcribed by Catherine Joynt Labath
Verified by Catherine Joynt Labath
August 2000
Approx. 725 names
K E Y
LN . . . . . . Line Number
Pa . . . . . . Printed Page Number
DW . . . . . . Dwelling Number
AG . . . . . . Age
X . . . . . . Sex
M . . . . . . Marital Status
BIRTH . . . . State or Country born in
U . . . . . . Un-naturalized foreigner
b . . . . . . Born in 1894
d . . . . . . Died in 1894
NOTES:
Tight binding-cannot read cols. 14-16.
5Obituary. "Theo. Demouth, 80 Passes Quickly
Drops Dead in His Garage. Civil War Veteran. Was a Sterling Citizen
Our citizens were painfully surprised to learn of the sudden death of Theo. DeMouth, which occurred at his home at Cylinder Friday afternoon of last week. He was about as usual and was doing some work in his garage when death came. A number of neighboring ladies had called on Mrs. DeMouth to spend the afternoon. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kliegl, a granddaughter of Mr. DeMouth, came into the house and told her mamma that her grandfather had fallen on the floor. She repeated the statement and her mother made an investigation. Her father was found lifeless. Heart failure had taken him. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon. Services were conducted at the M. E. church at that place. Rev. Stevens officiated. He paid a well deserved tribute to the worth of Mr. DeMouth as a Christian gentleman and as a neighbor and citizen. The burial was in Evergreen cemetery south of this city. There was a large assemblage of relatives and old neighbors. The pall bearers were L. N. Sprout, Geo. Wright, Henry Dresach, Arley Chism, Gay Larson and Mark Frederick.
Mr. DeMouth was born at Boonton, Morris County, New Jersey, Oct. 28, 1847. He had almost reached his 80th year. He was married at Harlan, Illinois, May 24, 1974 to Lucinda Foster. Mr. and Mrs. DeMouth celebrated their golden wedding a few years ago. Mr. DeMouth is survived by his widoww, one daughter and three sons. The daughter is Mrs. Mabel Kliegl of Emmetsburg. Another daughter, Mrs. Edith Wells, passed away January 21, 1903. The sons are Frank of Ankeny, Walter of Storm Lake, and Clarence of Atlantic. Mr. and Mrs. DeMouth came to this county in 1887. They settled on a farm a mile east of Cylinder. In 1900 they moved to Cylinder where they subsequently resided. When the rural mail route was established at that place Mr. DeMouth was appointed carrier. He held the position until 1920. He was an active an valued member of the I.O.O.F. He also served in the U.S. army during the Civil War.
Mr. DeMouth was one of the most upright, dependable, patriotic citizens of Palo Alto county. His record during the Civil War was one of heroic service and high honor. He fought bravely in several battles in the vicinity of Washington and Richmond for several months before the end of the great engagement. Stronghold after stronghold was blown up by the Confederates and the situation for the Union soldiers was at times very hazardous. He visited the historic battlegrounds a few years ago on his way to Florida to spend the winter. He was in the graqnd review at Washington after the close of the never-to-be-forgotten struggle. As a private citizen Mr. DeMouth was farseeing, energetic, frugal and successful. He and Mrs. DeMouth were the parents of an excellent family. The deceased was warm hearted, genial, kind, hospitable and neighborly. He was enterprising and supported warmly up-to-date undertakings. He was liberal and broad-minded in his views on public matters and he was willing to give and take. The writer often met him and conversed with him about his trips from place to place after he retired from the active affairs of life. We admired him for his many fine traits and we learn with profound regret of his sudden taking off. Our sympathy goes out to Mrs. DeMouth and to the deserving sons and daughters in their bereavement." From an unknown newspaper. Posted on Ancestry.com.
6Bybee, Marsha.
7Bybee, Marsha.
8Lonnie DeMouth McManus . In an Email received 13 Jan 2006. Lonnie writes about this source: "Just to let you know I can't confirm that everything in that history is true
since I did not put it together-Pete Hraber sent it to me.".
Lucinda May FOSTER
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Ancestry.com, family tree of Mike Buye. Mike gives death date 31 Dec 1935
Marsha's was 1 Jan 1936.
Clarence Leroy DEMOUTH
1Bybee, Marsha, internet.
2Social Security Death Index.
Frederick DEMOUTH
1Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15.
2Census, Federal - 1850 - Morris Co, NJ, Pequannock Twsp - District # 15.
3New Jersey Marriage Records.
Jane VANDERHOOF
1New Jersey Marriage Records.
2New Jersey Marriage Records.
3New Jersey Marriage Records.
Araminta DEMOUTH
1Rootsweb, http://www.rootsweb.com, Morris Co., NJ Genweb; Demouth Cemetery.
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."
16Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report.
Barbara THEWALT
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. "He may have been the Jacob Themout, widower of Hooghwyael, Darmstadt Germany, who md. Barbara Thewalt, widow b. Moxter, Germany, in 1736 (Acquackanonk Ref. Chbk.)."
2Fowler, Alex. D., Boonton, NJ, Demouth Report.