- GFG # C 3
- Peter Getman was born in 1750 on the 11th day of May. His sponsors were Peter Peiffer and Mary Margaret Getman (source undocumented)
- Peter in 1777 entered as a Private in the militia company of Captain Frederick Getman in Colonel Peter Bellinger's Regiment in General Herkimer's Brigade and served therein from the time of the battle at Oriskany until the close of the War at different periods. (Clyde Getman)
- 1790 Census - German Flatts, Montgomery, NY - Getman, Peter, 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16, 3 females.
- Presumed to be the person listed here - 1810 census, Manheim, Montgomery, NY - Peter Getman, 2 males under 10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 16-25, 1 male over 45, 2 females under 10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female over 45.
- 1820 census, Frankfort, Herkimer, NY - Peter Getman, 1 male 16-18, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 male over 45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 16-26, 1 female over 45, 3 males engaged in agriculture.
- The Hatch papers indicate this couple had another daughter Anna Eve, born 5 Sep. 1788. This seems to have been a missidentification of Anna Eve Getman (GFG # B23), daughter of Johann Peter Getman and Elisabeth Richter.[WG]
- Evidence also limits the number of Peter and Ann Elizabeth's children to seven; and those seven C19 through C25. Although C26 through C29 are identifiable persons, their parentage cannot now be definately determined. (Borden Getman) [The 1850 Frankfort census indicates these three children to have been members of this family WG]
- PENSION APPLICATION #W16267 OF ANNA ELIZABETH FRANK GETMAN, WIDOW OF PETER GETMAN
M-804/Roll #1063, National Archives, Laguna Nigel, California
Typed by P. Hacker November 2001 (Fort Klock Web Page)State of New York
Herkimer County
On the 27th day of October 1838 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the Said County of Herkimer, Andrew Piper who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and swear that he was well acquainted with Peter Getman during the Revolutionary War that the said Peter Getman together with this deponent belonged to the Militia Company under the command of Captain Frederick Getman in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Peter Bellinger in General Nicholas Herkimer's Brigade that the precise time the said Peter Getman entered into service and the particular tours he performed, this deponent at this late period is unable to state, he however distinctly recollects his being at the Battle at Oriskany in August 1777 in which engagement this deponent also participated ------------after which this deponent having enlisted into the regular Service of the United States has not the means of knowing so well the services of the said Peter Getman but he has no hesitation to say he believes he did as much service as any other militia soldier belonging to the said regiment as he was a man of age in the year 1776 and he continued ready to do his duty until the close of the war being a true friend to his Country and a good Soldier. And this deponent farther ---that he was also well acquainted with Ann Elisabeth Getman during the said Revolutionary War, that he was present at her marriage with the said Peter Getman, that he is still acquainted with her and knows her to be the same person----in the annexed family record as having been married as aforesaid to the said Peter Getman on the 9th day of January 1783, and that since his death she has remained and now is his widow and further this deponent says not.Subscribed and sworn to this
day and year above written before me
--the words as -in tour at Fort -- Andrew (x-his mark) Piper
were interlined before execution
Gaylord Campbell, J. Peace---
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Andrew Piper and that he is a man of truth and veracity and that his statement as above is entitled to full credit & the reason the said Andrew Piper did not write his name is in consequence of an injury in his right hand.
Gaylord Campbell, J. Peace
State of New York
Herkimer CountyOn this 27th day of October 1838 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Jacob Getman who being duly sworn, doth depose and swears that he is the son of Peter Getman, that the annexed family record is the original one kept and had in possession of his father since he this deponent has an recollection and tht since his death the same has been in his possession of the family and in the house of this deponent and further he says not -
Subscribed and sworn to this Jacob Getman
27th day of October 1838 as above written
before me
Gaylord Campbell J. PeaceI hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Jacob Getman that he is a man of truth and veracity and that his statement as above is entitled to full credit.
Gaylord Campbell J. Peace
State of New York
Herkimer County---
On this 21 day of November 1838 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Herkimer, John Frank who being duly sworn doth depose and swear that he was well acquainted with Peter Getman during the Revolutionary War, that he was enrolled as a private soldier in the Militia Company of Captain Frederick Getman in Colonel Peter Bellingers Regiment and General Nicholas Herkimer's Brigade at the commencement of the war in the 1776, he being then a man of age and from that period to the close of the said war the said Peter Getman continued in the said company and rendered as much service (in the opinion of this deponent as any other militia soldier in said regiment being always a true man to his Country and a good soldier.) And this deponent further sears that although he cannot now state the particular tour or the length of each he can state distinctly and of his own knowledge that he does not recollect of any tour of service performed by himself during the whole war that the said Peter Getman was not in the same service and performed the same --of the tour with this deponent, which can -- -- reference being tied to the original declaration of this deponent for a pension and the proof herunto annexed now on file at the War Department, and this deponent further swears that he was -well acquainted with Ann Elisabeth Getman now an applicant for a pension as the widow of the above named Peter Getman and that I am still acquainted with her, that I am knowing to their marriage having myself asked her fathers consent for the marriage and since the death of said Peter Getman she has remained his widow until lthe present time in a further -- -- --
Subscribed and sworn to this John Frank
Day and year above written
Before me
John A. Rasbach, J. PeaceI hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named John Frank and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statement as above is entitled to fall credit.
J. A Rasbach, Justice
State of New York
Fulton County Associated with Montgomery for Judicial Purposes---
On this 22nd day of December 1838 personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Montgomery (being a court of record), Elisabeth Getman a resident of the town of Ephratah in the County of Fulton aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn, according to the law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That She is the widow of Peter Getman who was a private in the war of the Revolution. That from the best of her knowledge and the proof she has been able to procure her said husband then a resident of the Town of Frankfort in the County ofHerkimer and State of New York in the year 1777 entered the service of the United States as a private in the Militia Company under the command of Captain Frederick Getman in Colonel Peter Bellingers Regiment in General Herkimers Brigade and served therein from the time of the Battle at Oriskany until the close of the war at different periods which service she has reason to believe will appear by reference to records of the War Department and the proof hereto annexed and on which she notes her claim. She farther declares that she was married to the said Peter Getman on the ninth day of January, Seventeen hundred and Eight-three, that her husband the aforesaid Peter Getman died on the twenty seventh day of December Eighteen hundred twenty six, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four -at the time above stated.
Elisabeth (X - her mark) Getman
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
before John Hand a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of the County of MontgomeryI hereby certify that the above named Elisabeth Getman (as she --) makes a mark as her signature by reason of never having learned to write - And I further certify that she is unable to attend court by reason of bodily infirmity -I am acquainted with her and know her -- --& the statements by her made in said declaration are entitled to full credit.
John Hand a Judge of the County Court
Of the County of Montgomery (& Fulton)
State of New York
Montgomery County---
Clerks Office I do hereby certify that John Hand Esquire whose name is subscribed to the ----- of the foregoing affidavit and proceedings was -- of the date of the service. A Judge of the County Court of the County of Montgomery duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature to the service is genuine. In Testimony where of I have --- --set my hand and applied my Seal of Office this 27th day of December A.D. 1838
A. J. Comrie, ClerkThere is a statement which is barely readable indicating that Peter was inscribed on the roll of Albany at the rate of 25 dollars 22 cents per annum commence on the ???day of March 1836. It also indicates that Peter was admitted as a private serving 7 months and 17 days
Peter Getman was born in the 1750 on the 11th day of May.
His sponsors were Peter Peiffer and Mary Margaret GetmanHe was married to Anna Elisabeth Frank in the year 1783 on the 9th January.
Their Sponsors were Timothy Frank and his wife Anna Elisabeth. She was bom in the year 1763 on the 5th day of September.There was a Daughter bom to them in the year 1783 on the 13'11 September named Mary Catharine, her Sponsors were Conradt and Mary Catharine Frank.
There was another Daughter named Elisabeth born in the year 1785 on the 9thOctober - her Sponsors Frederick Frank and his wife Elisabeth. Again a Son named Conradt was born in the year 1787 on the 17th August, Sponsors Conradt Getman and his wife Mary. My Son Jacob Getman was born in the year 1789 on the 31st day of August - Sponsors Jacob Edick and Mary Catharine Frank. My Son Christopher is born in the year 1792 on the 9th day of February, Sponsors Conrads Folts and his wife Anna. Another Daughter Anna Margaret bom in the year 1793 on the 1st day of May - Sponsors Jacob Folts and Anna Margaret Garlock. My Daughter Catharine was born in the year 1795 on the 24th October Sponsors George Weaver and his wife Catharine.
State of New York
Montgomery County
On this 11th day of February 1839 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County John Anthony Beck who being duly sworn doth depose and swear that he is well acquainted with and understands the German Language and that the above is a true translation of the Family record of Peter Getman into the English language and is hereto attached with two ?--.Sworn and subscribed before me this 11th day of February 1839.
John A. Beck---
Laurence Marcellus J.Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with John Anthony Beck that he is a man of--and veracity and a creditable witness that his statement is entitled to full credit. Laurence Marcellus J.P.State of New York
Herkimer County
On this 16th day of February 1839 personally appeared before the undersigned ajustice of the Peace in and for said county John Frank who being duly sworn doth depose and say that altho he cannot state with precision all the different tours of service performed by Peter Getman during the Revolutionary War, yet if his memory serves him and to the best of his recollection the said Peter Getman was in actual service in all the following tours and in which this deponent also served, vis in the fall of the year 1776 marched from Fort Herkimer to Stone Arabia on an alarm was on duty four days in the winter following the regiment of Colonel Bellinger was ordered and sent from Herkimer to Caughnawaga to oppose Sr. John Johnson and was on duty five days in August following the Brigade of General Herkimer. Marched to Fort Stanwix, and were engaged in a tour of service of almost thirty days from the time of rendevous until discharged. It was during this tour the action was had at Oriskany and the Brigade was commanded by General Herkimer in person in 1778. A tour to ---town of three days at the German Flatts, one month in guarding boats on the Mohawk River from Herkimer to Fort Stanwix five days and were stationed in Fort Herkimer where they performed garrison duty for at least two months. This deponent further swears that the said Peter Getman was a man true to his country's cause and continued at his post (not having removed) during the whole war and as this deponent knows did more service than specified in this his affidavit especially in the years 1779 and 1780 and to the close of the war all which this deponent understands appears on the records at the War Department and further this deponent says not --this was a war was as ---- in the above before execution(?)
John FrankSworn to and subscribed this
16th day of February 1839 before
John H Rasbach Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with John Frank the above named deponent and that he is a man of truth and veracity and his statement is entitled to credit.
John H. Rasbach J.P.
State of New York
Herkimer County. I, John Dygert Clerk of said county do certify that John H Rasbach Esqr before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been taken, Was at the date thereof a justice of the Peace and -for said county duly elected and qualified, And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe the signature to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 16th February 1839.
J Dygert, Clerk---
State of New York
Herkimer County
Be it known that before the subscriber personally appeared John Frank who being duly sworn doth depose and say that Peter Getman in all the service sworn to by this deponent on the sixteenth day of February 1839 for and in behalf of Elisabeth Getman his widow on her application for a pension was rendered in the Company of Captain Frederick Getman and under his immediate command and in Colonel Peter Bellingers Regiment of Militia, vis one tour of four days to Stone Arabia in 1776, one tour of five days to Caughnawaga in the winter of 76 & 77, one tour thirty days to Oriskany 1777, one tour of three days to ---town in 1778, one tour of one month at Fort Herkimer, one tour guarding boats - five days and again at Fort Herkimer two months.
Subscribed and sworn to John Frank
This 15th day of March
1839 before me and I farther certify that I am well acquainted with the said John Frank and that his statements are entitled to full credit.
-------Judge of Herkimer
County Court
Marriage Notes for Peter Frederick Getman and Anna Elisabeth Frank
- Marriage recorded with the Baptismal Records, German Flatts Reformed Church, German Flatts, Herkimer, County, New York
- GFG # C 19
- GFG - C 21
- Conrad does not seem to be indicated in the 1790 census.
- GFG - C 29
- Presumed to have died in his youth.
- GFG - C
- This Frederick Getman is not included in the 1975 Getman Genealogy. His record and that of his father were intermingled. The have been corrected in this database. [WG]
- 1800 census, Warren, Herkimer, NY - Frederick Getman, 1 male undere 10, 1 male 10-16, 1 male over 45; 1 female under 10, 1 female 10-16, 1 female over 45. (listed next to his brother-in-law Gershon Skinner and near his brother John)
- 1810 census, Warren, Herkimer, NY, Frederick Getman, 1 male 16-25, 1 male over 45, 1 female 10-16, 1 female 26-44.
- In 1812 the Township of Columbia was separated from the Township of Warren. the Getman property was included in this separation.
- 1820 census, Columbia, Herkimer, NY, Getman Frederick - 3 males under 10, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 26-45, 1 male over 45, 1 female 10-16, 2 females 26-45, 1 female over 45, 1 engaged in agriculture.
- "Frederick Getman and Christian Edick were captured, June 1782, during the burning of the Ellis grist-mill at Little Falls, when it was raided by Tories and Indians. This was the last principal engagement of the Revolution. "Getman and Edick, jumped into the raceway and endeavored to conceal themselves, but the burning mill disclosed their hiding place and they were taken prisoners" (History of Herkimer County, 1893, G.A. Hardin and F.H. Willard, pg. 64)
- "This man, son of Captain Frederick, inherited land in the Burnetsfield Patent, and lived in a house across the road and a little eastward from the Haner settlement school house in Columbia. He served in the Revolution in the 4th Tryon Co. Militia, his property was destroyed and he was a claimant for damages." (Hatch)
- Suffers at German Flatts ... who were burned off and lost their effects by the enemy: ...Getman, Frederick, Jr. above [16 years of age] 2, under [16 years of age] 1. (Destruction of Herkimer, petition dated Sep 18, 1778, Book of Names, The Enterprise and News, St. Johnsville, NY, pub 1933)
- "There were in the before mentioned loft of the mill, Gershon Skinner and Frederick Fox, the millers, Christian Edick, Frederick Getman, Lawrence Harter, Peter Orendorf, Jacob Petrie, Daniel Petrie, Marks and Joan Rasbach, Thomas Shoemaker and Peter Woleben, citizens and seven regular soldiers. The door which was invariably secured with lock and bolt, and further guarded by an enormous chest containing the mill tools, was forced open by means of an immense iron bar, which Mr Skinner's descendants affirming they compelled a man whom they had taken prisoner, to bring all the way from Canada. The frightened inmates endeavored to escape by jumping from the windows. Skinner had a hand to hand fight with four savages in the dark and received nine tomahawk wounds mostly about the head, after which he and Fox secreted themselves under the waterwheel- Skinner being in the water over his shoulders. Christian Edick and Frederick Getman leaped into the raceway above the mill keeping as much out of sight under water as possible but the light from the burning mill to which the torch had been applied soon revealed their agnatic rendezvous, and they were made prisoners together with eight or ten soldiers." (Hatch)
- Simms relates the above tale in "Frontiersmen of New York, Vol 2, pg. 616. He provides a date of June 1782 for the event.
- Marie may have been born in Holland during the family's journey to America.
- 1840 Columbia census - Mary Getman, 1 female 30-40, 1 female 70-80, Mary Getman ae 74 Revolutionary war pensioner.- Hatch identifies an additiona daughter Elizabeth (GFG # C 7) "We only know that this spinster married Norman Sharp and lived south of Columbia Center on the east side of the road on the hill south of the Warren McCredy Homestead but no sign of a human habitation remains." (Hatch)
- NOTE - The Elizabeth Getman, who married Edward Norman Sharp, born in 1813 and moved west was GFG # A113 a daughter of Frederick Getman and Mary Bierman, not this person as indicated by Hatch. [WG]
- GFG # C12
- GFG # C2
- AKA: Liz (?)
- Getman Genealogy give DOB as 1757 and DOD 1836
The Battle of Oriskany: "Blood Shed a Stream Running Down"
[Painting] Battle of Oriskany. Painted by Frederick C. Yohn, 1977.
(Courtesy of Utica Public Library)
"That the late Incursions of the Enemy & their Savages into the said county [Tryon], & upon a part of the County of Albany have reduced the Inhabitants to the utmost distress. The Harvests not yet gathered in are rotting upon the ground. The Grass uncut. The fallow Grounds not yet ploughed. The Cattle in a great measure destroyed."¹
For hundreds of years, central and western New York had been inhabited by the six member nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. During the colonial period the French, the Dutch, and the British coveted its strategic location along an important fur trade route. The Mohawk Valley's rich farmland also yielded great quantities of food, and the land attracted European settlers. By the time of the Revolutionary War, Dutch, German, Irish, Scotch, and British settlers prospered from lucrative trade and productive farms.
Yet the whole area suffered from long-established prejudices and hatred between groups and individuals. When war broke out, European Americans and American Indians fought each other for control of New York's political power, land, and commerce. The sentiments quoted above would be repeated time and time again as personal vendettas and reprisals escalated to bloody massacres and battles. No episode better captures the brutal civil war in the Mohawk Valley than the Battle of Oriskany on August 6, 1777, where neighbor fighting neighbor transformed a quiet ravine into a bloody slaughterhouse.
¹William Harper and Fredrick Fisher to Gov. George Clinton, August 28, 1777 from Public Papers of George Clinton, Vol. 2 (Albany: State of New York, 1900).
- AKA: McLeod Folts
- May have been a Sergeant of the Tryon County Militia, 4th Regiment during battle of Oriskany, 6 Aug 1777
- "… the colonists took prompt steps after the close of the war to organize their militia for protection against future aggression … In 1786 the local militia of German Flats and Kingsland districts was reorganized and officered as follows:
Field and Regimental Staff - Henry Staring, lieutenant colonel; Peter Weaver, Major 1st battalion; Patrick Campbell, major 2nd battalion; John Frank adjutant; Melchert Folts, paymaster; William Petry, surgeon.
1st company - Jacob Petrie, captain; Dederick Petrie, lieutenant; William Feeter, ensign.
2d company - John Meyer, captain; William Clapsaddle, lieutenant; Henry Frank, ensign.
3d company - Adam Staring, captain; Ludwick Campbell, lieutenant; Lawrence Harter, ensign.
4th company - Peter P. Bellinger, captain; Jost Herkimer, lieutenant; Peter Fox, ensign.
5th company - Michael Meyer, captain; Peter F. Bellinger, lieutenant; George Weaver, ensign.
6th company - William Colbreath, captain; Daniel C. White, lieutenant; George J Weaver , ensign.
Besides the above a company of cavalry was organized under the command of Captain Hudson, of what is now the town of Danube…
(History of Herkimer County, 1893, G.A. Hardin and F.H. Willard, pg. 66)- (Folts, Melchoir of Frankfort. Said to have commanded Henry Herter's Company after the captain moved to Columbia county. See pension W25951)
- He was possibly buried in the Old Herkimer Cemetery, this was converted to a public park in 1898, Village of Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York
- GFG # C4
- Hatch identifies her as Elizabeth Getman.
- Veteran of the Revolutionary War (History of Herkimer County, New York - 1893 - Hardin)
- 1800 Census, Warren, Herkimer, NY - Skinner, Gersham, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 16-26, 1 male over 45, 2 females under 10, 2 females 10-16, 1 female 16-26, 1 female over 45.- In October of 1781 a farmer by the name of Demooth, residing north of what is now Herkimer, was captured during a war party at Little Falls and carried off to Canada. He claimed that he was loyal to the Crown, joined the expedition that attacked the Little Falls grist mill, and deserted to his own side in the ensuing battle. He told how the expedition had intended to attack Fort Herkimer but on approaching in the darkness, found there were few soldiers and a wedding party was in progress. During the scene of havoc Mr. Gersham Skinner managed to escape (but not without having received very severe wounds, the effect of which were felt during his lifetime), by groping his way in the dark, between the knives and hatchets of the Indians and secretly hiding in the raceway, until the Indians had accomplished their work of destruction of the mill and were gone. Mr. Skinner then made his way, although in severe pain, to Fort Dayton in the village of Herkimer. (Gersham Skinner came from Connecticut and died in the Town of Columbia on March 3, 1824.)
- Many women and children as well as part of the men who were in the mill that horrible night of the attack were carried into captivity. However, some of them decided to part with their lives amongst the cries. Among those was Daniel Petrie, son of Joseph Petrie, one of the founders of Herkimer village. Mr. Petrie was recognized by some of his relatives who had attached themselves to the Tories and accompanied the invaders in the attack, was implored to surrender and promised good treatment if he would, but the old man scorned and refused to yield after repeatedly discharging his musket. He continued his struggle to fight using the butt end of his musket until he was overpowered by extreme force. He was led out upon the rocks, bound, and tortured to death by arrows, tomahawks and scalping knives of the barbarians. In a horribly mangled condition, he was found a day or two later by some of the men who had gone down from Fort Dayton and buried the bodies of those slain in the disastrous attack at the scene. In April, 1783, Captain Thompson passed through the Mohawk Valley and brought word of the signing of the Peace Treaty which made the United States free. The people confined at Fort Dayton and Herkimer where overjoyed and happy to be able to return to their burned homes to start life over again. (uncited source)- "The subject of this sketch was a Revolutionary soldier who held an Adjutants commission in the army, lived at Little Falls and he and Frederick Fox were the millers at a grist mill on Furnace Creek, belonging to a now resident Scotch gentleman named Alexander Ellice, the only mill in 1782 which the enemy had not succeeded in destroying.
It was stockaded during the war, and was the main dependance of the garrisons at Forts Dayton and Herkimer, and of all the inhabitants of that part of the valley, many from more distant points staying over night for which purpose the attic of the mill was utilized.
Early in June, previous to the visit of General George Washington to this part of the valley, June 30, 1782, a party of Indians and tories from Canada, several hundred strong, descended the valley for the purpose of storming Fort Herkimer, and destroying the mill. It happened that on that day the heads of several families from the vicinity of the Fort had gone to the mill six miles distant and nearly all the small garrison had accompanied them for protection, a fact which it is believed was conveyed to them by some resident tory or neutral. It chanced, however, that one Frederick Smith had that day been married and with his bride was at the garrison, where at nightfall a genuine vigorous horning was in full progress as the wily enemy stole cautiously near. Although very few men were left, (Says Simms in his second volume of Frontiersmen) scores of women and children were still inmates and such a din, made by the blowing of horns, thumping of tin pans brass kettles and the like, was never before heard in the Mohawk valley. Every woman and child had an instrument of noise while a man named Fulmer played the fiddle in the concert. It may be of interest to those of the present day to know that Mrs. Henry McNeil of the County seat is a descendent of this early wedded pair who were so vigorously serenaded.
The enemy approaching near enough to hear the wonderful hubbub, and unable rightly to divine its cause, believed it to be a rejoicing over the arrival of fresh troops and proceeded down the valley to the mill. There were in the before mentioned loft of the mill, Gershon Skinner and Frederick Fox, the millers, Christian Edick, Frederick Getman, Lawrence Harter, Peter Orendorf, Jacob Petrie, Daniel Petrie, Marks and Joan Rasbach, Thomas Shoemaker and Peter Woleben, citizens and seven regular soldiers. The door which was invariably secured with lock and bolt, and further guarded by an enormous chest containing the mill tools, was forced open by means of an immense iron bar, which Mr Skinner's descendants affirming they compelled a man whom they had taken prisoner, to bring all the way from Canada. The frightened inmates endeavored to escape by jumping from the windows. Skinner had a hand to hand fight with four savages in the dark and received nine tomahawk wounds mostly about the head, after which he and Fox secreted themselves under the waterwheel- Skinner being in the water over his shoulders. Christian Edick and Frederick Getman leaped into the raceway above the mill keeping as much out of sight under water as possible but the light from the burning mill to which the torch had been applied soon revealed their agnatic rendezvous, and they were made prisoners together with eight or ten soldiers.
Daniel Petrie was savagely butchered and his heart and liver hung upon a fence post. The men under the wheel were protected by it from the heat and burning firebrands. Skinner was so blinded by his wounds and the effects of the cold water upon them that it was noon of the following day before he dared creep forth, not knowing but that at any moment he might be killed or taken prisoner. He crawled to the woods nearby where he soon regained his faculties but always wore a skull cap to protect his scarred and sensitive head. He removed from Little Falls to the town of Schuyler and thence accompanied by his son John to Columbia where he cleared and settled on the farm south of Columbia Center where he passed the remainder of his life and which in later years was occupied by Benjamin Skinner, a grandson."
(Hatch)
- GFG - C 5
- Member Tryon County Militia, 4th Regiment
- 1790 Census - Montgomery County, NY - Getman Conradt 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16, 2 females.
- 1800 Census, Warren, Herkimer, NY - Getman, Conrad, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 10-16, 1 female 16-26, 1 female 26-45
- 1810 census, Warren, Herkimer, NY - Conrad Getman, 1 male under 10, 1 male 16-25, 1 male over 45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 10-15, 2 females 16-25, 1 female over 45 (recording line slopes downward)
- In 1812 the Township of Columbia was separated from the Township of Warren. the Getman property was included in this separation.
- 1820 census, Columbia, Herkimer, NY - Conrad Getman, 1 male under 10, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 male over 45, 1 female under 10, 3 females 16-26, 1 female over 45, 2 persons engaged in agriculture, 1 free black male under 14.
- 1830 Columbia census - Conrad Getman, 1 male 70-80, 1 female 20-30, 1 female 60-70.
- Their home was a house which stood at the north foot of Orandorf Hill which was later moved across the road when it became the house of Geo. Merwill and his sons. Here Timothy Frank and his wife died and were buried neath the shadow of a wide spreading apple tree. (Hatch)
- ... when Conrad Getman died Mar. 30, 1836 he was buried in the family plot on the farm of his son-in-law Conrad Helmer. At this time the bodies of Timothy Frank who died about 1820 and Anna Elizabeth his wife who died Aug. 4, 1803, were also removed to the same place but their unmarked graves were after a time forgotten, but as Timothy Frank had served in the French and Indian War and in the Revolution, the graves have been rescued from oblivion, and suitably marked in 1914. (Hatch)
- These graves are in the Helmer cemetery a few rods north of the Conrad Helmer homestead on the Mohawk road. (Hatch)
- Burial location presumed to be with her husband.
- GFG # C37
- presumed to have died as an infant. based on the 1790 and 1800 census reports[WG]
- GFG - C 42
- What happend to her?
- GFG # C6
- Alt DOD: 1826 (GFG)
- They lived South of Ilion, Herkimer County, New York.
- Tradition has it that John Getman was buried in the Kinne Cemetery in Litchfield not far from where he lived. His wife died at Fish Creek at the home of her granddaughter by her former marriage. (Hatch)
- 1790 census, German Flatts, Montgomery, NY - Getman John, 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16, 2 females.
- 1800 census, Frankfort, Herkimer, NY, p 417. John Getman - 3 males under 10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 216-44, 2 females under 10, 1 female 26-44.
- 1810 census, German Flatts, Herkimer, NY, p 419 - John Getman, 2 males under 10, 1 male over 45, 1 female 26-44.
- 1820 census, Frankfort, Herkimer, NY, p 61 - John Getman, 1 male 1-under 16, 1 male 16-26, 1 male over 45, 1 female under 10, 1 female over 45, 2 males engaged in agriculture.
- 1830 census, Frankfort, Herkimer, NY, p 149 - John Getman, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 60-70, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 60-70.
- Not included in the Getman Genealogy pub. 1975
- If we allow a year between Johan Frederick becoming a widower and remarrying, it is presumed that Maria Frank most likely died prior to June, 1788, most likely as the result of childbirth.
- The above presumptions only allow time for the birth of one child. Based on this, an alternative solution is needed to explain the parentage of Katherine Getman, GFG # C44. It is presumed that, Maria Frank had two children, Johannes D and Abbie, and that she probably died as the result of childbirth in the summer of 1788.
- Was Maria Katherine a multiple birth (most likely option) or did her father remarry within a year of her mother's death? [WG]
- GFG # C45
- DOB derived.
- GFG # C 49
- GFG # C52
- What happened to him?
- AKA: Stehlin
- GFG # C54
- What happened to him?
- GFG - B 2
- AKA: Lewis, Lodowick
- GFG - B 14
- Living with his brother frederick and his family during the 1850 census.
- GFG - B 15
- AKA: Blank
Marriage Notes for Catharine Rickard and George Adam Ver Plank
- Alt. marriage date 17 Aug. 1804
- GFG - B 3
- He served as a private in the 2nd Regiment, Tryon County Milita, under the command of Colonel Klock.
- A monument indicates that he joined Milita at age 16 to go in search of indians.
- 1800 Palatine Census - Peter Getman, 1 male under 10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 26-44, 1 female under 10, 2 females 16-25, 1 female 26-44, 1 other free person.
- 1830 census, Ephratah, Montgomery, NY, Peter Getman, 1 male 60-70, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 60-70.****
Pension Affidavit of Peter GetmanState of New York
Montgomery County
On this 20th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Aaron Staring, Abraham Morell, Samuel A. Gilbert, John Hand, and Henry J. Dievendorf, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting, Peter Getman, a resident of Ephratah in the County of Montgomery and State of New York, aged Sixty Eight Years and Eight months, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832__ That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated__ That in the month of April 1779 he was enrolled in the militia company of Captain Henry Miller in Col. Klock's Regiment and marched with said company to the Royal Grant and was there stationed to guard the then new Settlement from the numerous maraudering parties of Tories and Indians that were at that time infesting the country under Butler and Brant or their emissaries. That he continued in said Miller's Company until the spring of 1780. That in April of that year he enlisted into the Company of Captain John Casselman. This was a company of rangers raised by order of the Committee of Tryon County and attached to the regiment of Col. Jacob Klock, the officers in this company were at the time the applicant enlisted John Casselman Captain, Adam Empie Lieut., and George Getman Ensign. That the services tendered while in this company were, the company was divided and a part stationed at Fort Paris under Capt Casselman, a part at the Forts on the Mohawk River under Lieut. Empie, and a part at a Block House in the north Settlement of Palatine under Ensign Getman from which station parties (called Scouting parties) were sent to range and watch the movements of the hostile Indians and Tories and to give an alarm in case of danger, that this applicant enlisted in said company for two years and served the full period of his said Enlistment, that while he was in this company he was the whole time in actual service, going on Scouts both in summer and winter or when not in this service was with the company at the Forts or in other service as ordered by the Captain or other superior officer, that he was at the Battle at Stone Arabia, and saw Col. Brown after he was slain and assisted at the funeral, this was in October 1780. That this applicant was also (while in Capt. Casselman's Company) at the Battle at Johnstown on the 22nd October 1781. That when his term of service expired in Capt. Casselman's Company in March 1782. The applicant enlisted into accompany of nine months men under the command of Capt. French in Col. Willets Regiment. That he enlisted into said company about the 1st April 1782 at the Block House in Palatine and marched from there to Fort House near the east Canada Creek and from there to Fort Herkimer and was there stationed going duty at garrison and going on Scouting parties from the Fort at Herkimer to Fort Stanwix and the Oneida Lake and the interior and the then wilderness towards the River St. Lawrence until the 1st Jany 1783 when he was discharged and returned to his home at Stone Arabia__. He knows of no more or other Testimony than the affidavit hereunto annexed, all from his fellow Soldiers and who served with in the revolutionary war.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the roll of any agency of any State__ To the questions directed to be propounded he answers___1st he was born in the now town of Ephratah, County of Montgomery and State of New York on the 5th day of January 1764__ He has a record of his age made by his Father in his Bible. It is now at the house of Mr. Philip Empie in the Town of Ephratah. He lived at Stone Arabia (now Palatine) when he entered the service__ After the Revolutionary war he continued to live with his father at Stone Arabia about four years. He then married and then settled in now Ephratah (then Palatine) about four miles from his father, then removed to Manheim, Herkimer County, lived there seven years and has resided since that time in Ephratah his present place of residence__ He was first enrolled as a militia Soldier in Capt. Henry Miller's Company and afterwards enlisted into he Companies of Captains Casselman and French as stated above__ He served with Col. Willet, Col. Klock, Major Fink, Col. Brown, and the officers in the stations along the Mohawk River and in Tryon County.Sworn to and subscribed this s/ Peter Getman
21st day of September 1832.s/ Geo. D. Ferguson, Clerk
Transcribed by Clyde J. Getman, 7 July 2002
- She had a Revolutionary War widow's pension of $40.00 - #W19495
- Getman Genealogy indicated DOD as 22 May 1845, however she seems to appear in the 1850 census living with her son Lewis.
- Barker identifies her parents as Ludwig Rickert and Catherine Conrad.
- Simms incorrectly identifies her husband as George Getman.
- The following extract identifies Elizabeth's father as Captain Nicholas Richter.Pension abstract for Peter Shite.
Shite, Peter, b. [date not stated], Long Island, N. Y.; resident of
Ephratah, Montgomery Co., N.Y. for sixty years on 7/22/1830. Peter served as a private in CApt. Nicholas Richter's Co., Col. Jacob Klock's 2nd Regt., Tryon County Militia on various tours of duty from the spring of 1777; [Elsie Getman, dau. of Capa. Nicholas Richter, deceased, and wife of Peter Getman, gave the following deposition in Montgomery Co., N.Y. on 12/31/1828], to wit.: "on the 20th day of April [1778] at or near the house of said Capt. Richter in the then County of Tryon, .. That Peter Shite was one of said party of Militia under the command of said Capt. Richter [which] was in a Skirmish [which] took place between a party of Indians and Tories onone side and a party of Militia on the other side [Peter Shite] was wounded in the right arm by a ball passing through the same, that the Father [Capt. Richter) of this deponent received a wound in the same Skirmish [and] that her mother also received a wound in the
leg at the same time by a ball"; Peter also fought in the battle of
Oriskany. (RWPA: #S11375Copied from Maryly B. Penrose, Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley
Families, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1990, Vol. 2, p. 730.****
Pension Affidavit of Elizabeth GetmanState of New York
County of MontgomeryOn this 16th day of March 1847, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the County Courts in and for aforesaid County Elizabeth Getmann (or Kitman) a resident of the town of Ephratah in the County of Fulton formerly Montgomery aforesaid, aged Eighty-four years on the 28th day of February last past, and she being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed in July 1838, intitled "an act granting half pay and pensions for certain widows" & acts explanatory of, amending & extending the same. That she is the widow of Peter Getman who served in the war of the revolution as herein after stated. That she was married to said Peter Getman on the tenth day of March in the year on thousand seven hundred and eighty-five by the Rev. Mr. Rees, at his house, Pastor of the Lutheran Church at Stone Arabia. That previous to her said marriage she resided in Dillenburgh in the District of Palatine N.Y. and her maiden name was Elizabeth Richter (or Rightor). That her husband the said Peter Getman died on the twenty second day of May, one thousand eight-hundred & forty-five. That since his death she has remained single and unmarried and is still his widow & unmarried.
That her said husband Peter Getman was a pensioner of the United States under the act of 7th June 1832, at the rate of $80 per annum on account of his services in the war of the revolution. Declarant is unable to specify said services, but remembers hearing her said husband say many years ago & before any pension laws were passed that he served at Stone Arabia when that place and others along the Mohawk Valley were destroyed by the British & their Indian & Tory allies__ That he served under Captain Kasselman or Casselman on several occasions, under Captain French & Colonel Willett, also at Sacondaga & Johnstown & Fort Herkimer and other forts along the said Valley. That her husband the said Peter Getman was a son of Christian Getman, Captain of a Company of Rangers during said war.
And this Declarant further saith, that she had children by said Peter Getman as follows__
A son named Peter who was born on the 29th day of July one thousand seven hundred & ninety-two__ another son named Arendt who was born on the 7th of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four__ a daughter named Mary born 19th September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, Anna born September 4th one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight ______ and further Declarant saith not.Subscribed and sworn the day & her
year first aforesaid in open Elizabeth X Getman
court as aforesaid___ marks/ M. Brumley, Clerk
Transcribed by Clyde J. Getman, 7 July 2002
- GFG - B 25
-GFG - B 26
- GFG - B 31
- GFG - B 32
- GFG - B 33
- GFG - B 5
- AKA: Joseph
- Possibly the son of Frederick - Schaul/Schull/Scholl
- John Jost entered the military in 1775 and served at various times until the end of the war; he held the ranks of corporal, ensign and lieutenant during the war. (RWPA: #W16396, per Penrose, CMVH 2: 704].
- Cf. Simms, FNY, vol 2, p 116.
-served as a corporal, sergeant, ensign, and second lieutenant in Captain Nicholas Richter's Company of the Palatine District Regiment of Militia during the early years of the war.
- ...while ensign was directed by General Herkimer to escort and protect the baggage waggons . . .on their march...to Oriskany. . . was not actually engaged in the battle, that when his company came up . . . were stationed to protect the baggage waggons. [Johnson, The Bloodied Mohawk, p 546]
After Richter's company was disbanded in 1781 he moved with his family to Albany; in 1782 and 1783 he served with Capt. Nicholas Staat's company of the Second Rensselaerwyck Regiment. [Johnson, p 546]
John Jost had married Catherine, only daughter of Heinrich Winkell about 1773 (Beers, p 153). No Heinrich found, may be Johannes; John Jost's wife named Elizabeth in 1783 GFR record. Names possibly John Henry and Catherine Elizabeth [CJG].
- Hanjost Sholl Co-adminstrator of estate of Johannes Winkell in 1789.
(The above notes assembled by Clyde J Getman)
- GFG - B
- GFG - B 40
- possibly the Christian Shall buried at Indian Castle who is listed as follows, - Christian died Feb 6, 1845, age 45 years 8 mos
- GFG - B
- GFG - B
- GFG - B
- GFG - B
- GFG - B 7
- 1800 Palatine census - Christian Getman 2nd, 1 male under 10, 1 male 16-25, 1 male 26-44, 1 female under 10, 1 female 26-44.
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Last Will and Testament of Christian Getman (1772-1809)The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of God free and independent: To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern, send Greeting: Know ye that at Johnstown in the County of Montgomery before James Lansing Esq: Surrogate of our said County, the last Will and Testament of Christian Gitman deceased, (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) was proved and is now approved and allowed of by us and the said deceased having whilst he lived and at the time of his death, Goods Chattels or Credits within this State, by means whereof the proving and registering the said Will and the granting Administration of all and singular the said Goods, Chattels and Credits, and also the auditing, allowing and final discharging the Account thereof, doth belong unto us; the Administration of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said deceased, and any way concerning his Will, is granted unto Jacob Gitman and Lodewick Rickert Executors in the said Will named, they being first duly sworn well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make and exhibit a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the said Goods Chattels and Credits, and also to render a just and true Account thereof, when thereunto required. In testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness James Lansing Esquire Surrogate of the said County at Johnstown the twenty seventh Day of September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and nine, and of our Independence the thirty fourth.
James Lansing
In the name of God amen, I Christian Gitman of the Town Palatine County of Montgomery & State of New Yok being very weak & sick of body but of perfect Mind and Memory thanks be given unto God calling unto Mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the Hand of almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent christian burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. First I give and bequeath to Mary my dearly beloved Wife the full command of my Estate while she shall remain my Widow Also I give to my well beloved Sones Abraham Peter and Josept thirty three Acres and a third of Land to each whereupon they are to give Christian, Jacob & Joshua common Education and put them to a Trade as soon as they become of a suitable age as they shall chuse and at the age of twenty one Years pay to each of them fifty Dollars. I likewise bequeath to my oldest Daughter Anne one Cow and one Sheep whenever she shall be married. I also bequeath to my Daughter Elizebeth one Cow and one Sheep to be given to her on the Day of her marriage, and good common Education. And I hereby constitute and appoint my Brother Jacob Gitman and Lodewick Record as my Executors to settle my Estate. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies and Bequests and Executors by me in any wise before named willed and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this nineteenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine.
His
Christian X Gitman L.S.
MarkSigned sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Christian Gitman as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us, who in presence and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names. Johan Jost Scholl, Abraham Smith, Moses Whitney.
Be it remembered that on the twenty seventh Day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine, personally appeard before me James Lansing Surrogate of the County of Montgomery, Johan Jost Scholl and Moses Whitney, who being duly sworn, severally depose and say, that they saw Christian Giman sign and seal and heard him publish and declare the within Instrument, as and for his last Will and Testament: That the said Christian Gitman was at the time thereof (according to the best of the knowledge and Belief of these Deponents) of sound and disposing Mind Memory and Understanding: That the Names of these Deponents, subscribed thereto, are respectively their own proper writing: That they saw Abraham Smith subscribe his Name thereto; and that they together with the said Abraham Smith, subscribed their Names thereto as Witnesses to the execution thereof, in the presence of the Testator.
James LansingThe preceding are true Copies of the last Will and testament of Christian Gitman deceased, of the Certificate of the proof thereof, and of the letters testamentary thereon.
Registered the 27th Day of September 1809
James Lansing SurrogateBe it also remembered that on the said twenty seventh Day of September last mentioned, personally appeared before me the said Surrogate Jacob Gitman & Lodewick Rickert Executors in the last Will and Testament of the said Christian Gitman deceased named, and were duly sworn as Executors.
James Lansing
Transcribed by Clyde J. Getman, 24 September 2000
- GFG - B 42
- AKA: Eva
- What Happend to her?
- GFG B 44
- GFG - B 8
- 1820 census, Palatine, Montgomery, NY - Getman Jacob, 3 males under 10, 2 males 10-16, 1 male 16-18, 1 male 18-26, 1 male over 45, 2 females under 10, 1 female 26-45, 1 female over 45.
- 1830 census, Ephratah, Montogmery, NY - Jacob Getman, 2 males under 5, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 20-30, 1 male 50-60, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 15-20, 1 female 20-30. [Jacob Getman widower, and family were evidently living with his son Andrew and family] [WG] (listed next to Benjamin Getman)
- 1840 census, Fulton Co, NY - Jacob Getman, 1 male under 5, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 20-30, 1 male 30-40, 1 male 70-80, 1 female 15-20, 1 female 20-30, 1 female 30-40.
- First wife presumed based on the marriage records of the Stone Arabia, Dutch Reformed Church - No other source identifies Elizabeth as his wife. No other Jacob Getman of marriageable age is known.
- Round Barn Cemetery is located on State Route 10 in the township of Stone Arabia, Montgomery County, just south of the town line for Ephratah Township, Fulton County. It can be identified by the Getman Monument erected there in 1935. The cemetery has long been known as the "Round Barn Cemetery" because the farm buildings included a round barn. The barn burned, and most of the other farm buildings are also gone.
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THE ROUND BARNThe round barn was located on Route 10 south of Ephratah and was a landmark. It was designed and built for Levi Yauney in the late 1800's. It had a round cupola and the roof consisted of eight pie-shaped wedges. The only windows were in the basement which had a dirt floor. The second story was reached by a ramp and so constructed that one could drive around the center of the interior, with hay mows and grainery toward the outer wall. A windmill once furnished power for pumping water. The barn, also known as an octagon barn burned in 1948.
Seven generations of Getmans had resided on this farm."
(Our Yesterday and Todays, in the Town of Ephratah - Bicentenial Publication, 1976)
- GFG - B 51
- 1850 census, Minden, Montgomery, NY, fam # 86 - Benjamin J Getman, ae 45; Laborer with property valued at $2000, born in NY; Rebecca, ae 42, born in NY.
- 1860 census, Minden, Montgomery, NY, fam # 465 - Benjamin Getman, ae 55, Retired Life, real estate valued at $3000 and personal property of $5000, born in NY; Rebecca, ae 53, born in NY.
- 1870 census, Minden, Montgomery, NY, fam # Getman Benjamin, ae 65, Retired Farmer with real estate valued at $10,000 and personal property of $6000, born in NY; Rebecca, ae 63, Keeping House, personal property valued at $1000, born in NY; Shults Betsy, ae 38, Domestic Servant, personal property valued at $500, born in NY.
- 1880 census ?- Death Announcement (The Radi, Canajoharie, NY, January 30, 1890)
—Benjamin Getman died on Thursday last, at his residence on Division street, at the age of eighty-five years. He had been interested in business here for fifty years, and leaves a considerable estate.
- GFG - B 52
- What happened to him?
- GFG - B 53
- GFG - B 57
- 1850 census, Johnstown, Fulton, NY, fam # 1493 - Daniel Getman, ae 31, Merchant with property valued at $1000, born in NY; Catherine, ae 30, born in NY; Gertrude Morris, ae 14, born in Holland (?); Aurih (?) male, Getman, ae 21, Merchant (relationship unknown).
- 1860 census, Johnstown, Fulton, NY, fam # 356 - Daniel Getman, ae 43, Dry Goods, real estate of $1500 and personal property of $1000, born in NY.
- 1870 census, Johnstown, Fulton, NY, fam # 89 - Getman Daniel, ae 52, Dry Goods Merchant with real estate valued at $5000, born in NY; Laura, ae 44, Keeping House, born in NY; Wessel Annie, ae 26, Dress Maker, born in NY; Crowley John C, ae 65, Tailor, born in Ireland.
- 1880 census, Johnstown, Fulton, NY (Church Street) fam # 342 - Getman Daniel, ae 62, Retired Merchant, born in NY, parents born in NY; Josephine, ae 24, wife, Keeps House, born in NY, parents born in NY.
- This Daniel is evidently not the person listed in the 1850 Stratford census, as Daniel Getman ae 30 Sawyer. (evidently working for John Robison (?) Lumberman.
- Is the second Daniel Getman listed in the family plot a son or possibly a duplicate listing?
- AKA: Betsey
- 1900 census, Johnstown (Ward 1), Fulton, NY, (24 North Melcher) fam # 10 - Andrews George S; ... Getman Josephine, sister-in-law, b. Dec 1857, ae 43, widow, born in NY, parnets born in NY, Sewing Machine Operator - gloves.
- Listed in the 1940 census.
- The couple identified as her parents may be her grandparents. they are buried in the same plot.
- 1870 census, Ephratah, Fulton, NY, fam # 245 - Getman Mariah, ae 66, Keeping House with real estate valued at $1500 and personal property of $500, unable to read and write; Wade, ae 25, farmer; Houck George, ae 46, carpenter (presumed son by first marriage).
- GFG - B 61
- GFG - B 10
- AKA: Johannes Adam Getman
- 1820 census, Palatine, Montgomery, NY - Getman Adam, 1 male under 10, 2 males 10-15, 1 male 26-45, 2 females under 10, 1 female 10-16, 1 female 26-45, 1 employed in agriculture.
- 1830 census, Ephratah, Montgomery, NY - Adam Getman, 2 males 5-10, 1 male 15-20, 1 male 20-30, 1 male 40-50, 1 female under 5, 2 females 10-15, 1 female 1 female 40-50.
- 1840 census, Futon Co, NY - Adam Getman, 2 males 15-20, 1 male 50-60, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 50-60.
- 1850 census, Ephrath, Fulton, NY, fam # 3126 - Adam Getman ae 67, Farmer with property valued at $13,500 - Mary ae 65 (wife) Joshua ae 29 Farmer (son), Catharine ae 27 (daughter-in-law), Charles ae 7, James ae 4, Mary ae 1 (grandchildren), Nathaniel ae 28 (son), Lucy Swart ae 10, Elisabeth Gray ae 16.
- 1860 census, Ephratah, Fulton, NY, fam # 768 - Adam Getman ae 76, Farmer with real estate valued at $6000 and personal property of $1000 - Nancy ae 76 (wife), Nathaniel Getman ae 36 Farmer (son), Mary M ae 35 (daughter-in-law), Harriet ae 3, Anna M ae 9/12 (grandchildren), Wm F Cool ae 13.
- 1841 History of Fulton County - 1892 - Washington Frothingham identifies him as a son of Christopher J Getman.
- At one time owned 500 acres of land at Ephratah. (1841 History of Fulton County - 1892 - Washington Frothingham)
- GFG - B 52
- GFG - B 65
- GFG - B 67
- Obituary (Amsterdam Evening Recorder, NY, Thursday, Feburary 23, 1905)
Mrs. Henrietta Putman, widow of the late George Putmau, died Friday, aged 81 years. She had nearly always been a resident of Ephratah, with the exception of a few years, when she lived at Fonda. She leaves one sister, Mrs. Seth Fox. of St. Johnsville. Mr. Putman early in life became a member of the Reformed church. Her funeral was held Tuesday from the home of Leander Getman, the Rev. W. H. Crawford, pastor of the M. E. church, officiating.
- 1850 census, Ephratah, Fulton, NY, fam # 2763 - George Putman, ae 35, Farmer, born in NY; Henriett, ae 35, born in NY.
- 1860 census, Mohawk, Montgomery, NY, fam # 883 - George Putnam, ae 46, Carpenter with real estate valued at $2000 and personal property of $300, born in NY; Henrietta, ae 42, born in NY.
- 1870 census, Mohawk, Montgomery, NY, fam # 267 - Putman George P, ae 56, Farmer, real estate of $2500, personal property of $500, born in NY; Henrietta, ae 52, wife, Keeping House, born in NY.
- 1880 census, Mohawk, Montgomery, NY, fam # 318 - Putman George P, ae 66, Farmer, born in NY, parents born in NY; Harriet (sic), ae 62, wife, Keeping House, born in NY, parents born in NY.- Death Notice (The Register, Fort Plain, NY, December 10, 1880)
George P. Putman, a well known farmer near Fonda, was killing hogs on Wednesday, when he was taken suddenly ill and died in a few moments. It was a case of heart disease.