Andrew Putman

Andreas Boudemont

• Birth: June 10 1716 - Rohrbach, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
• Baptism: Sep 5 1762 Frederick Town, Maryland
• Death: June 14 1777 - Sharpsburg Twp., Washington Co., Maryland
• Burial: Kefauver's Apple Orchard, Washington Co., Maryland
• parents: Phillipe Boudemont & Maria Magdalene Buchell
• Wife: Catherine Barbara Bourgey Best known as Andrew Putnam

Much of this well documented information comes from an early history by the Reverend E.C. Wyand around 1915, about the "Andrew Putman, Christian Wyandt, and Adam Snyder Families", and from a later "Genealogy of the Putmans", written in 1949 by Charls Ross Schultz. Recent work by Dick Heller have added much to this information base Research back in Rohrbach by Bill and Betty Eynon have filled in more details.

The early history of the family by Dick Heller, of Mission, Texas and Patricia McKinna of Houston, Texas, as well as by Bettie Cornell of Frederick, Maryland, and by Bill and Betty Eynon were able to begin to sort out the early history of this part of the family.

The first of the family to arrive in the States was Andrew or Andreas, on the ship "Osgood", through Philadelphia, on September 29, 1750. Philip arrived on the ship, the "Phoenix", from Rotterdam, Germany, through Portsmouth, England.

The early Boudemonts were French Huegenots,who fled across the border into Germany in the early 1600's. The Huegenots, forced from France for their religious beliefs, fled just across the border to the German Palatinates region of Southwest Germany, just across the border from France.The earliest member of the family that could be traced was Philips(Phillippe's) and Andrew's(Andreas') father, JACOB BOUDEMONT.

As with many early settlers on this continent, our early ancestors could barely, if at all, read or write, and on entry through our ports, their names were recorded as they sounded phonetically in early deeds and papers by English speaking clerks, The early French spelling, Boudemont or Boutemont, was Germanicized on arrival in the Palatinates as Buttman, and on arrival to early America, quickly Anglicized to Puttman or Putman, as the German, "B" sounded like the English, "P".

After Andrew's death, most of the family moved north across the Pennsylvania border, and settled in lower Somerset County, then lateron to Ohio and points outward

Andrew Putman was born in Rohrbach in the German Palatinate region near the French border on June 10, 1716 as Andreas Boudemont. The name was Anglicized to Putman shortly after arrival in Pennsylvania.

I have the following from Mrs. Della Shafer of Haysville, Kansas written in the PUTMAN FAMILY NEWSLETTER published by Warren Putman:

"Our ancestor ANDREW PUTMAN was born in Rohrbach in the Bavarian Palatinate on June 10, 1716, the son of Philip and Maria Magdalene BOUDEMONT. On January 10, 1747, at the Reformed Church in Rohrbach, he was married to Catherine Barbara BOURGEY, daughter of Nicholas BOURGEY, a resident of nearby Mohrfelden.

These villages are in southwestern Germany, halfway between Kaiserslautern and Karlsrhue not far from the French border. You will note that these two names seem to be French. Large numbers of French Huguenots had fled to Germany in the late 1600s when the French Protestants were being persecuted for their beliefs."

As with our family, many early settlers in America could not read nor write and their names were recorded the way the sounded to county court clerks who wrote up the early deeds and other papers. It seems that the German Putmans descend from a family in the German Palatinate originally spelled Boutemont which was French and then later 'Germanized' to Buttman, and then 'Anglicized' in America to Putman as the German B sounds like the English P. Boutemont was pronounced Bootmon which changed quickly to Putman here.

The first of the family to come to America was Andreas or Andrew. He came on the ship Osgood and landed in Philadelphia on September 29, 1750.

On September 25, 1751 Philip Boudemont arrived in Philadelphia on the Phoenix from Rotterdam by way of Portsmouth, England.

Name: Andreas Butmann

Year: 1753

Place: Washington CO., Maryland

Family Members: Wife Catharina; Child Elisabeth; Child Peter; Child John

Source Publication Code: 3570.4

Primary Immigrant: Butmann, Andreas

Annotation: Date of arrival with port or place of settlement, a few are date and place of first mention of residence in New World. Listings of mostly Mennonite German immigrants, the majority were from Baden-Durlach in the Palatinate.

Source Bibliography: JOHNSON, MRS. ARTA F., editor. "Immigrant Ancestors." In The Palatine Immigrant. Vol. 8:1 (Summer 1982), pp. 20-25; vol. 8:2 (Autumn 1982), pp. 80-87; vol. 8:3 (Winter 1983), pp. 139-144; vol. 8:4 (Spring 1983), pp. 186-191.

Page: 84

Emigrated from Rotterdam, Germany October 7, 1743. Settled in Washington County, Maryland before 1770, which at the time was still wild frontier. He purchased a 50 acre parcel called “Partnership” 1769. He had eight children.

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 29 2018, 0:56:59 UTC

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