Jacob Victor Pootman

 Jacob (Victor, Johannes) 

    Jacob Victorse Potman was baptized March 23, 1717, at the Schenectady Reformed Dutch Church.  Witnesses were Helmer Vedder Annatje Vedder.  

Jacob Putman married Ann Newkirk February 3, 1744. It seems that her father was either Garret Newkirck or Adam Newkirk.

 Gerrit Newkirk, fourth child of Arie, and Lysbeth Lambertse, was born in Hurley, Ulster County, New York before May 30, 1697. He was married in Abany, New York, October 19, 1718. Information available states that he also died on that date, indicating that he either had whale of a honeymoon, or a typographical error occurred. The latter is likely, as his children were born after this date, and he would have died at the age of 21 and left no children. He married Anna Vischer, born 1696 in Hurley. Their children include: Elizabeth, Ary, Johannes, Anna, Garret, Cornelius, Jacob and William.

The name Ary seem to be in English Adrian, which might also have been Adam.
The early census "Freeholders of the City and County of Albany, 1763," shows Jacob as a resident of Mohawk, NY. Mohawk was then the area south of the Mohawk River and west of Schenectady.
In 1759, Jacob and Ann Potman were sponsors at the Dutch Reformed Church of Caughnawaga at the baptism of John the son of Cornelius V. Putman and Elizabeth Pruyn according to a paper at the Schenectady Historical Society, Schenectady, NY,