The following is from Rootsweb "Demouth" Message Board:
East Proprietors, NJ Survey Book
Author: Janet Bornhoeft Date: 5 Mar 2001 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: DeMouth, DeModt, Hartshome, Lemuel Cobb, Berry, DeckerHi- At the New Jersey Archives, Trenton, I found some survey deeds involving DeMouths of Morris Co, NJ. 1. Lemuel Cobb surveyed for himself a tract between Stony Brook and Bloomingdale, Pequannack beginning at a tract returned to Hendry DeModt, Henry Berry, and Jacob Berry on 8 Nov 1762. Also a tract by/in "Bruen's Meadow Lot returned to George Ryerson 27 March 1754. This survey was witnessed and dated 5 Oct 1804. 2. 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. My Deckers in 1793 onward had land next to DeMouths. Can anyone connect the above early DeMouths/DeModts to the other names mentioned and then to the Deckers? Thanks for any help. Janet Bornhoeft
1860 census shows he is a farmer with real property worth $1000 and personal of $400.
Per 1850 the following children are reported which must have come from a previous marriage: William Adkins Jr., John, Susan, Morris, Nicholas, and Abraham.
The following is from Rootsweb "Demouth" Message Board:
East Proprietors, NJ Survey Book
Author: Janet Bornhoeft Date: 5 Mar 2001 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: DeMouth, DeModt, Hartshome, Lemuel Cobb, Berry, DeckerHi- At the New Jersey Archives, Trenton, I found some survey deeds involving DeMouths of Morris Co, NJ. 1. Lemuel Cobb surveyed for himself a tract between Stony Brook and Bloomingdale, Pequannack beginning at a tract returned to Hendry DeModt, Henry Berry, and Jacob Berry on 8 Nov 1762. Also a tract by/in "Bruen's Meadow Lot returned to George Ryerson 27 March 1754. This survey was witnessed and dated 5 Oct 1804. 2. 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. My Deckers in 1793 onward had land next to DeMouths. Can anyone connect the above early DeMouths/DeModts to the other names mentioned and then to the Deckers? Thanks for any help. Janet Bornhoeft
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1850 Census lists occupation as Wheelwright, value of estate - $125.
Also listed with the family are Nathaniel Ryerson, age 22, wheelwright
and Frances Maticke (?) age 23, blacksmith.1860 Census - Decatur and his family are living with a group of people in the home of Isaac Banta. It looks like a rooming house-type of arrangement. Decatur lists his occupation as wheelwright.
per Lonnie: He appears on 13 Jul 1870 census in Boonton as a carriage maker.
Caroline was a twin with John.
email from M D Bybee 1/27/2013
I am trying to sort out the conflicting information I have on the Kayhart family- I start with Frederick b 1757 the story goes he was born on the Dutch ship coming across the Atlantic- You show only 1 marr for him, to Margaret Vanderhoof -- I also have seen information he was also married to Nancy Duffy and even others say her name was Nancy DeMouth.
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Theodore was the son of Hiram Denman and Sarah Hardy of White Oak Ridge per Lonnie papers.
Civil War death per Wells source
per Civil War Pension file the Theodore Denman who was in the Illinois 107th listed his wife Margaret as his beneficiary.
Sergeant w. Co A, 12th Illinois Infantry
and Co K, 107th Illinois InfantryAccording to "The Roll Family Windmill" a tree on Ancestry.com, this Theodore Denman was an only child.
I have a record of a marriage of Margaret Demouth and Theodore F. Denman (sp?) on 8 DEC 1852 by Daniel E. Megie, pastor 1st _____ Church, Boonton, NJ
1850 Census essex Co., NJ, Newark, East Ward lists a Margaret Demouth, age 18, born NJ, living with George Dunn, age 59, and his two (probable) daughters.
Margaret and Mr. Denman lived in Cerro Gordo, Illinois.
From Lonnie DeMouth McManus Papers Received 23 Jan 2006:
"Margaret De Muth, eldest child of Jirah and Malinda Carhart De Muth, had her granddaughter, Fay Elsie Lindley, living with her for many years. Fay was overjoyed when Uncle Theo, Margaret's brother came back East from South Dakota on a trip. He had been in Deadwood for many years with his brother, Carnot, who had settled there permanently. Fay asked him all about the wild, wild West and wanted to know if Buffalo Bill had really done all that wild stuff that she had heard' about. Theo said, "Cody was out there a spell, and, being a showman, he had to make things sound exciting, of course." She asked Theo if he had ever had to use a gun. He answered, "I never had to shoot a gun but once." By the time she realized that a good story must have lain hidden behind that answer.. Theo had gone back west to Deadwood and she never saw him again.
Carnot De Moth had sent his sister, Margaret, some commemorative china with scalloped pink borders and, at the center of each plate, an engraving of the Deadwood Stage Coach. On that slim basis, coupled with a few family stories of Carnot's life out there, her great grandchildren convinced themselves and their schoolmates that their greatuncle had been friends with Buffalo Bill and had driven the stagecoach in the picture and had been a pony express rider with Kit Carson. They were sure that he had had to fight off Indians every day of his life. They felt clothed in glamour by the possession of such an exotic relative. When, one day, their great-grandmother told them that greatuncle Carnot was only a quiet businessman, they were stunned and felt quite denuded. It was small consolation to learn that he had genuinely known Kit Carson and that his general store in Deadwood was the stagecoach station."
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died as a young unmarried man.
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Probable daughter for Jirah and Malinda.
on 1850 census Amanda is listed as 13 years old and living with the family of Ebenezer Smith. Morris Co., Hanover twsp, p. 130.She is listed as Jirah's daughter in the Lonnie DeMouth McManus Demouth History.
Wells says she and Robert had 4 children.
Civil War 39th NJ Infantry, Co K
After Civil War he moved west with brother Cornat (Frank). They owned businesses in Deadwood, SD.
Theodore and Lucinda lived in Palo Alto Co., Iowa and Cook Co, IL per Marsha Bybee note on Gensearch Forum from 20 Apr 2000.
The following is from "Taped Interview with Harry K. Hartley, age 86, 410 Adams Block, Deadwood, South Dakota, July 12, 1969" as reported by Lois Wells Wilson and sent to me by Lonnie Demouth McManus in January 2006.
The De Mouth Family
July 12, 1969We went to the Museum in Deadwood, seeking background information on Carnot and Theodore De Mouth, my great-grand-uncles. The curator, Kathryn, said that the oldest resident lived across the street. She telephoned and he came over to talk with us. He turned out to be Uncle Carnot's son-in-law. What luck! Harry Hartley talked and we taped his memories:
Mr. Frank De Mothe. I knew his name was really Carnot De Mouth but "Frank" was easier to say and he used that name here. Everybody called him Frank De Mothe. He and his brother Theodore, came out here before the Civil War and had the only store in town, and ran the stagecoach line, and supplied the miners, and brought in the gold to the assay office. They both went back home and served in the war of 1861-1865. They then went to Chicago and were in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. And I guess they came back here right afterwards, before 1876 at least. I don't know the dates now, I don't have them in mind anyway.
And he had this store; as far as I know it was, well, a general store - had furniture and everything else - kind of a bazaar. And the front porch was the stage-coach depot. It was on the first floor of that building across the street. It was called "De Moth's Ark". He did some placer mining and one thing and another at first. Everything in Deadwood dates back to '76. Frank grubstaked a lot of miners. He told me about the little mining claims and how closely they were guarded. People would hear a rumor that some unidentified neighbor was going to start out to a new opening that he had in mind. So they would all watch one another very cautiously and jealously and get ready to follow the other fellow and find out where he was going. Mr. De Mouth said most of these rumors were false. But they would watch one another for weeks at a time, camping beside one another, hoping to find out where gold was to be found. A favorite place was Bear Butte, but they never found any trace of gold there.
That's just a little incident about the mining. I don't think he was connected directly in any mining, financially or anything. Many years later he had a feed store, feed and flour, and was affiliated with the Tri-State people, millers in the locality. Tri-State was, and sti11 is, a large milling concern, now mostly located in Rapid City.
Frank was a Civil War veteran. I believe he was pretty young at the time of the war. But that's about all I know of his early history. He didn't talk about the past very much even as well as I knew him.
He and his wife were buried in Mount Mariah Cemetery. Mrs. De Mothe was. Perla Gilman. The Gilmans came out, not in '76, but maybe '77. And he's the one who engineered and built a great part of the road between Sturgis and Deadwood - the road you may have come over, up through Boulder Canyon. And that was a toll road. He operated that as a toll road there for years.
Now Mr. Gilman's buried up at Mount Mariah, and his wife, Mrs. Gilman, and two brothers of his, all originally in the Gilman lot up there. And when Mr. De Mothe died we buried him in the same lot. And then Mrs. De Mothe, we buried her beside him. Then when Maybelle, my wife, the De Mothe's only child, died, I asked our son and daughter where would be the best place for us to have her buried, and they both wanted her to be buried in the same lot - the lot's rather crowded but she's there. So then, the four Gilmans are up there and Mr. and Mrs. De Mothe, and my wife, my previous wife, Maybelle De Mothe, are all up there in that lot, pretty crowded. Mrs. De Mothe was Episcopal. She belonged to St. John's Guild.
They had perpetual care up there but it was abandoned when they started building a road for tourists down below it. It is actually part of the Homestake mine up there. That hill over there to the right used to be a bald spot but they found a way to grow trees on it. Maybelle got five deeds for houses. Frank and his wife both had a lot of them.
I previously had been very anxious to show friends and distant relatives around the Hills because I like the Black Hills and think a lot of them. I have been in Deadwood since 1910, but last year they wouldn't let me have a license anymore, so it just broke me up, and I said, "If they take my license away, I don't care to live here anymore." Anyway, I had the car, a Buick, which I was very proud of, and gave it to my daughter-inlaw. Our son, Archie Hartley, is now at Colorado Springs, or anyway, in Cheyenne Mountain, where he has his office. He's a representative of the Western Union of NORAD, Combat Operations Center for NORAD. And from his desk out there he has wires directly to the President's office, when he is there. Archie's wife liked the car and would drive us around some, through Colorado, especially. Instead of, well, he always had to go to the mountain every day with the Chrysler, so I asked her if she would like to have my car, and she was very pleased to get it.
I don't know what more to tell you about Mr. De Mothe. The Gilmans' home was directly across the street from our home on Lincoln Avenue. We lived in one of the De Mothe houses up there he had five right there. She died in one of those houses, right across, which has since been torn down. Mrs. Gilman and, I suppose, other Gilmans were born there.
Now that pretty near winds me up. I can't think of anything more. There are little things here that belonged in the De Mothe family. I put them in the museum because people think more of them there.
One is a big copper kettle about bushel size and that is the last thing I brought over here, and I asked Kathryn, who runs this museum if she wanted this old kettle. I don't know of what value it is to a museum. She said yes. I don't know where it is, maybe downstairs in the vault - rather a store room place to chuck things when she doesn't know just where to put them. . . .
Margaret De Muth, eldest child of Jirah and Malinda Carhart De Muth, had her granddaughter, Fay Elsie Lindley, living with her for many years. Fay was overjoyed when Uncle Theo, Margaret's brother came back East from South Dakota on a trip. He had been in Deadwood for many years with his brother, Carnot, who had settled there permanently. Fay asked him all about the wild, wild West and wanted to know if Buffalo Bill had really done all that wild stuff that she had heard' about. Theo said, "Cody was out there a spell, and, being a showman, he had to make things sound exciting, of course." She asked Theo if he had ever had to use a gun. He answered, "I never had to shoot a gun but once." By the time she realized that a good story must have lain hidden behind that answer.. Theo had gone back west to Deadwood and she never saw him again.
Carnot De Moth had sent his sister, Margaret, some commemorative china with scalloped pink borders and, at the center of each plate, an engraving of the Deadwood Stage Coach. On that slim basis, coupled with a few family stories of Carnot's life out there, her great grandchildren convinced themselves and their schoolmates that their greatuncle had been friends with Buffalo Bill and had driven the stagecoach in the picture and had been a pony express rider with Kit Carson. They were sure that he had had to fight off Indians every day of his life. They felt clothed in glamour by the possession of such an exotic relative. When, one day, their great-grandmother told them that greatuncle Carnot was only a quiet businessman, they were stunned and felt quite denuded. It was small consolation to learn that he had genuinely known Kit Carson and that his general store in Deadwood was the stagecoach station.
"Leroy" is per WWI reg. card. Also, as of June 1917 he lived at 122 S. Adams, Mason City, Iowa. He is working as an auto machinist for George Kinderbuscht in Mason City, Iowa. He is tall, of medium build with blue eyes and lt. brown hair. He is single.
Taylortown per marriage record
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"Towerville" is per marriage record. May have been Powerville.
Marriage Notes for Frederick DeMouth and Jane VANDERHOOF-1199
I have a marriage record for a Frederick Demouth of Taylortown and Jane Vanderhoof of Towerville (sp?) both of Morris Co., NJ married by Rev. Ed P. Cook 24 Nov 1851.
Adkins familytree posted on Ancestry.com lists Jacob's death as 1736 in Rockaway Valley, Morris, NJ. I do not know what her source is for this info.
Some place Hoogwyzel in Holland. All the people I've known whose names begin 'Hoo' have been of Durch origin.
January 31, 2006
Dear Children,
Tonight I want to tell you about the first Demouth ancestor that we know anything about. He was
Jacob Demouth
(16xx - 17xx)Our immigrant DeMouth ancestor was Jacob who came to America in about 1710. I have discovered there are several very different ideas about Jacob's background.Many sources say Jacob was a French Huguenot. The Huguenots were French Protestants, members of the reformed church founded by John Calvin in the year 1550. France was a very Catholic country. Since Huguenots did not believe they needed the church to intercede between the individual Christian and God, the Catholic church did not like Huguenots and therefore the government of France did not like them. For the next almost 50 years the French Wars of Religion ensued in which many Huguenots lost their lives. Then a remarkable thing happened. King Henry IV decided France had had quite enough of the Wars of Religion and the Huguenots could live peacefully and practice their religion in 20 specific French towns. His Proclamation, called the Edict of Nantes, lasted for 87 years. Though there were many violations of the Edict, life was more peaceful for the Huguenots than it was before the Edict or than it was after 1685 when King Louis XIV declared an end to the Edict of Nantes. What happened next was called, "The Reign of Terror." Huguenot homes and churches were burned and many of the people were killed or tortured or sold into slavery. Those who were able fled the country. If the Demouths were originally French Huguenots, they escaped from the reign of Terror and fled to Germany.
There is another story that the Demouths came from Holland. Lois Wells Wilson has our Demouths coming from France to Holland. Here is her version:
"Three De Mott brothers and other members of their family escaped from Brittany (that's part of France) 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."
We should consider this information because it was said to have come from Thomas Demouth (b.1804) a descendant who had lived his whole life in the area, even in the same house, as our immigrant forefather Jacob. May Sommers in her Demouth history also says they came from Holland.Mr. George DeMuth has studied the history of the name "DeMuth," of which Demouth is thought to be a variation. He believes the name is definitely German and has a religious souce. The word Demuth in German means humility, an uncomfortable virtue in German culture. He connects the name backwards through history to the Waldensians in the Rhine Valley who were attracted to the teachings of Jan Huss, 1409. Huss tried to take church teachings back to their Biblical roots by emphasizing simple living and humility. Demuth as a name simply means "the humble one." Mr. DeMuth also says these folks who followed this religion lived mainly in the Rhine Valley along the border with France and that there were intermarriages with Huguenots. You can read more of Mr. DeMuth's interesting ideas in the sources that come after this story.
What we know from early records is that Jacob's son Frederick was born in Darmstadt, Germany in about 1697. And there is a record of a marriage between Jacob and Barbara Thewalt in 1736 saying Jacob was a widower from Hooghwysel, Darmstadt, Germany. Darmstadt is a city in Germany in the Rhine Valley. Hooghwysel I have looked and looked for. There is a village about 25 miles north of Darmstadt called Hoch Weisel. I think Hoch Weisel and Hooghwysel may be one and the same. We know our Demouths came over with the Palatines who were from the Rhine River Valley in Germany.
So while we know they lived for a time in or near Darmstadt, we should also keep our minds open to the possibility that they lived for a time in Holland and that they may, or may not, have been Huguenots. Some future researcher will be able to untangle this more fully than I have been able to.
Because of Mr. Henry Z. Jones Jr's research we know that Jacob and his family came to America in 1709 or 1710 with a group of people called the Palatines. So now I'm going to tell you a little bit about the Palatines.Darmstadt is in an area of Germany near the Rhine River that was known as the Palatinate. It is a very beautiful and fertile area that was fought over for centuries by the Germans and French and even Dutch, English, and Spanish. During the 1600's the Palatine people endured terrible hardships and oppression brought on by religious and political wars. Even the weather turned against the people. In 1708-09 the winter was so cold birds were said to freeze on the wing. This was the final straw for the Palatines. Queen Anne in England agreed that any Palatines that traveled down the Rhine River (which would be north) to Rotterdam, (that's a city in Holland,) would be transported to England. And come they did, by the thousands! And Jacob Demouth and his small family were among them. Once in England they were herded into old wharehouses where they starved and waited for the authorities to decide what to do with them. They were given bread but never enough. Finally in December 1709 or January 1710 Jacob and his family boarded a boat for New York. On the boats conditions were even worse. There was a convoy of ten ships carrying 2,814 Palatines. There were rats, wormy food, dirty water, and poor sanitation. Many became ill with Typhoid Fever and other illnesses. 446 people died during the voyage and 250 more died soon after their arrival.
But Jacob and his wife Elizabetha, and three children, Johann Frederich, Anna Dorothea, and Anna Maria, survived.
Governor Hunter of New York purchased 6000 acres along the Hudson River for the Palatines. Our Demouths settled in a part called West Camp on the west bank of the Hudson River. Rachel Meyer in an article on Rootsweb called Who were the Palatines? describes the daily life of our Demouths in the camp.
"The settlers built rough huts and cabins to stave off the winter months. . . Cooking was done in large outside community stone ovens. House furniture, tables and chairs were carved out of the forest timber. The assignment to each family of such a small plot of ground (7 acres) seemed like an insult to these men who had been among the best farmers in Europe."
We don't know how long Jacob and his family stayed in the camp. We do know they were there in July 1710, and 1711. If you look at a map of New York and New Jersey you will see the west bank of the Hudson down near New York City is already in New Jersey. There are several references to Jacob in New Jersey. (See Jones.) By 1731 there is a record of Jacob in Eulenkill which was the early name of an area right near Boonton. There is also a record of Jacob Demuth and wife Elisabeth being sponsors for the child Conrad, son of Frederick b. Darmstadt, on 6 Mar 1733/34. Conrad is named as an heir in the will of our Frederick.These records point up one of the problems of genealogy. Lois Wells Wilson described the problem thus: "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.'" In America the name was also written Dimouth, Zeymout, Tymouth, Temont, and Themoth to name a few. I think Alex Fowler described the reason behind all these spellings when he wrote, "You will appreciate that the spelling of 'Temout' for Demouth is probably the English phonetics of the Dutch pronunciation of the French name." Besides, folks weren't so particular about spelling back then. If you could write at all you were thought to be an educated person. That our Jacob was in that category is supported by Mr. Fowler's observation of a land deed, "Jacob signed his name but Elizabeth made her mark."
About 1730 Jacob built the old stone house. This is how Lois Wells tells it.
"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. . . 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, (thought to mean built by Peter Snyder in 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 wrote a poem about the house. Here it is:
THE OLD HOUSE AND STONEY BROOK BRIDGE
I will sing you a song about Stoney Brook Bridge And the rivulet running below;
There my dear mother played when a child on the ridge,
Or basked in the warm evening glow:
Great Grandmother had a stone house at the place
That is now called the old Reservoir,
While in Rockaway Vale lay the first of our race,
Who had come to the spot long before.There was Abner De Mouth with his mill and his shop
On his seven thousand acres of land,
Who invited the ministers always to stop
When they preached to the small zealous band;
There were other historical spots I have seen,
As I traveled the vale, ridge to ridge,
But the place that I love beyond others, I ween,
Are the Old Home and Stoney Brook Bridge.Old Stone House on the Hill, where my mother was born,
And her own mother played when a child,
Where the golden rod blew in the glorious morn,
And love was a thing undefiled,
Thou art sacred to me and enshrined in my soul,
And my plea ever is to be true,
To the prayers that went up to the heavenly goal
From the hearts that were sheltered by you!Susan Denman Vincett
I think Susan may have been a little confused about Abner and the 7000 acres. Jacob had a grandson, Adam, who may have lived there and was a quite wealthy man. But I believe his estate was more like 600 acres than 7000. Another description of the old stone house came from a site describing the Rockaway Township Bicentennial Quilt which included the house on one square. (web address: www.gti.net/rocktwp/5throw.html)
"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. "Percy Crayon as well tells about the old stone house and a famous relic.
"This family was in the possession of . . .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."We don't know when Jacob died. No record of a will has been found. But he left his estate to his son Frederick, whose story will be next.
What of Anna Dorothea and Anna Maria? Anna Maria married Martin Van Duyne in 1728. I have been in contact with one of her descendants, Cheryl Hahn. Anna Dorothea married Johann Peter Friederich. Anna Dorothea and Peter Friederich (It was normal in German families to give children two names and call them by the 2nd. Score one for the possible German heritage.) were sponsors for Johann Frederick's (call him Frederick) daughter Elisabetha when she was baptised on 29 Oct 1735. Our line continues with our ancestor, Frederick Demouth.
So this is the story of our immigrant Demouth ancestor, Jacob. He may have endured the suffering of the Huguenots and fled to Germany. He went from there to Holland and then to England. He came to America with the Palatines and endured all their troubles, including a horrible voyage. We know he was a somewhat educated man because he could write his name at a time when few could. He was able to preserve some wealth through all his struggles or else he was exceedingly hard working and resourceful after he arrived in America, or maybe both. After a very long journey that stretched at least from Germany to Holland to England to America, he finally found his home. In Morris County, New Jersey he built a beautiful estate which he left to his son. We can be very proud of our immigrant ancestor Jacob Demouth.
Here's how we are related to Jacob. Jacob had Johann Frederick Demouth, Frederick had Adam Demouth, Adam had Jacob Demouth, Jacob had John Demouth, John had Jacob Demouth, Jacob had Samuel De Mouth, Samuel had Thelma De Mouth, Thelma had Dianne Zimmerman, Dianne had Dawne Stevens, Dawne had . . . Sarah, Hannah, Timmy, and Becky Pamplin! And that's how you are related to the Huguenots and the Palatines!
Love, Granny
From Millers IN 1833 WILL, Acct of FAMILY; Ancestry.com
NOTES: The Beginning of the Mass Migration of PalatinesEngland 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.
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