When Arent Victorse Putman was born on 2 April 1719, in Schenectady, New York, United States, his father, Victor Janse Putman, was 37 and his mother, Margrietje Mabie, was 31. He had at least 5 sons and 6 daughters with Elisabeth Jocobse Peek. He died on 22 May 1780, at the age of 61.
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New York is the 11th state.
English: variant of Pitman .
Dutch: from put ‘pit’ or ‘well’ + man ‘man’, a topographic name for someone who lived by such a feature, or a habitational name derived from a minor place called with the term.
Americanized form of German Buttmann: of French (Huguenot) origin, from Boudemont, unexplained. Compare Butman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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