When David Dutcher was born on 21 December 1774, in Greenwich, Charlotte, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Barent De Duyster, was 41 and his mother, Antjen Hegeman, was 33. He married Jemima Jane Ratcliff about 1805, in Ross, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 6 May 1845, in High Point, Moniteau, Missouri, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in High Point, Moniteau, Missouri, United States.
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Americanized form of Dutch Duyster or Duijster, a nickname from Middle Dutch duuster, duister ‘gloomy’, also ‘stupid’, or of Duitscher ‘German’, a cognate of 2 below.
Americanized form of German Deutscher ‘German’.
History: Many, if not the majority, of the Dutchers trace their origin to Willem Janszen de Duijster (Duyster) or De Duitscher (De Duytscher), born 1601 in the Netherlands, died 1674 in New York, NY, and his two sons, Jan and Roelof. The original name their family (Willem's father) used back in the Netherlands, was reportedly Van Heerden.
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