Burna K. Jamieson
See also Penn Dutchers
Seeking the parents of a William DUTCHER and wife Mary LEWIS. William b. 1754, probably in Dutchess Co. William.'s father may have been named David. William m. Mary LEWIS in 1785. By 1790 probably in PA. Children: Mary (b. 1792 ), David (b. 1794), Lewis (b. 1795), Elizabeth (b. 1797), Margaret (b. 1805), Sarah A., Rachel, and Jacob. Possibly a child named Moses also. Family in Shamokin Twp., Northumberland Co., PA in 1820 census and on tax lists there 1813 - 1823. Widow DUTCHER listed on tax records 1824 and 1825.
Wed, 01 Oct 97
Subject: William Dutcher
My gg-grandmother was Margaret DUTCHER (b. 1805 NY or PA), dau of William DUTCHER and Mary LEWIS.
William was born 20Dec1754 in Dutchess County and married Mary there in 1785. William's father is supposed to have been a David DUTCHER, and his siblings supposedly were Margaret (b.1743), Bront (b.1746), and David, jr. (b. 1750). This information comes from, what I think may be, a very flawed family genealogy written in the late 1800s.
In Griffin's work, I found the same names - William, Margaret, Barend, and David - a generation earlier (b. 1715 - 1733), the children of David Duytser (#13) and Eliz Davenport.
The only David I found who might fit is #35 - b. 1709, m. 1735 Petronella Vredenburg in Rhinebeck; they had three children born 1736 - 1741. Since there were no further children listed by Griffin, she may have died, and he married again. Supposedly, William's father David married a widow named Elizabeth in 1742.
Does anyone have suggestions or HELP?
Thanks, Burna K. Jamieson
I checked Griffin for #44 David; and thanks, I hadn't noticed that possibility.
Regarding the IGI submission re David Dutcher & Ann Elizabeth Brower - again, thanks for the suggestion, but I have found that to be a dead end. I spent considerable time pursuing that avenue in the FHC in Salt Lake, but could find nothing in the church records that gave a source. I suspect that the information came from the same family genealogy that my grandmother gave me, and, which I think, is flawed. According to it, Ann Brower was the widow of a Jacob Quackenbush, would have been 48 when she married David Dutcher, and then had 4 children when she was between the ages of 48 and 60, with my William born when she was 60. Even my grandmother wrote a note saying "something wrong here" when she sent the papers to me. Since then I have been in contact with William Bogardus, author of Bogardus and Brower materials, who says that the Quackenbush line is well documented with no second marriage mentioned for Ann, and his Brower work does not show her marriage to David Dutcher.
Burna
Centre County, PA I am trying determine who the parents of a Jacob TREASTER were. He was born in 1799 in/near Centre County. Jacob married Margaret DUTCHER from Northumberland County in 1826. I believe they were in Potter Twp. in the 1830 Census. They sold property in Centre County in 1841 and moved west. Their children born in Centre County were Catherine (b. 1826), Rebecca (b. 1828), Mary (b. 1830), William (b. 1834), Isaac (b. 1836), and Amelia & Lucy (twins b. 1839). Jacob died in 1863 and Margaret in 1859; they are buried in the Orangeville Cemetery, Oneco Township, Stephenson Co., IL.
Burna