Arent (David) Victorse Putman

birth 19/4/ or 3/10/1715 and death october 1781 not accepted.
14/12/1718 birth date?

Arent (Victor, Johannes)

    Arent Victorse Potman was baptized February 14, 1719, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady.

He married August 5, 1743, Elizabeth Peek. Elizabeth was the daughter of Jacobus Peek and Margariet Cornelise Van Slyck and was born February 20, 1721, and baptized December 3, 1723, at the Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady.
Arent and Elizabeth Putman lived on the south side the Mohawk River close to Fort Hunter where Arent was an inn keeper. As an inn keeper he may have had a brewery, blacksmith shop, or similar supports for the inn.
By 1764, Arent and his family removed across the Mohawk River to Tribes Hill where they lived in a stone house.
Sir John Johnson's mansion was just a short distance away. Johnson was a prominent figure in New York previous to the American Revolution, and Arent's daughter Cornelia, also known as Clarissa, had two children by William Johnson a noted Loyalist of the Revolution.
May 22, 1780, the Native American band of Brant and Loyalists killed Arent at Tribes Hill on one of Sir John Johnson's raids through the Mohawk Valley.
Children:
1. Margrietje. Margaret was baptized 26 February 1744 at the Schenectady Dutch Reformed Church.
2. Jacobus. He was baptized 19 January 1746 at the Schenectady Dutch Reformed Church.

3. Victor. He was baptized 20 May 1748 at the Schenectady Dutch Reformed Church.

4. Cornelia. She was born 29 January 1751 and was baptized 19 January 1752 by a missionary of the New York Trinity Church.

5. Sara. Sara was baptized 1 March 1754 by a missionary of the New York Trinity Church.

6. Ann. Ann was baptized 8 August 1756 by a missionary of the New York Trinity Church.

7. Cornelis. He was baptized in May 1758 at the Schenectady Dutch Reformed Church and 29 June 1760 by a missionary of the New York Trinity Church.

8. Maria. She was baptized 21 January 1763 at the Schenectady Dutch Reformed Church.

9. John. John was born 1 March 1766.

  Catherine (Victor, Johannes) 

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