_Jacob DEMOUTH-THEMOUT __
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_Frederick Johann DEMOUTH Temout_|
| (1697 - 1766) m 1722 |
| |_Anna Elizabetha FEBERS _
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|--Adam DEMOUTH
| (1735 - 1797)
| _Johan Adam MULLER ______
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|_Annatie Charlotte MULLER _______|
m 1722 |
|_Anna Mary ______________
[2571]
February 10, 2006
Dear Children,
Tonight I want to tell you about our forefather,
Adam Demouth
1735 - 1790
When Frederick Demouth died his son Adam seems to have taken over the estate. Frederick's will indicated his two sons, Adam and Conrood, were to get equal amounts of property. Adam, right away, and Conrood was to come into his share when he married. The will was "proved" in 1766. A will is "proved" when it is submitted to an official who determines the will to be valid and issues a decree appointing an executor to administer the estate, all the stuff, left by the person who died. Frederick's will was proved 8 September 1766, when Adam was about 30 years old. But it may be that Adam inherited the bulk of the estate as I can find no further record of Conrood. Adam's two sisters each inherited two lots at NewFoundland, one of which had on it the famous stone house.
Adam married Charlotte Husk in 1755. He and Charlotte had only two children, Jacob and Anna. Jacob was born in 1755, I don't know when Anna was born. By the time Frederick died and Adam inherited his wealth, Adam was married and had at least one and probably two children.
Alex Fowler's Demouth Report tells us that Adam Demouth was one of the three wealthiest men in Pequannock Township in 1778. The Pequannock, New Jersey tax list of 1778-1780 gives us an idea of Adam's wealth. Here's what it says:
"1778-80 tax list - Adam Dmott -460(improved acres) worth 3000 #s, 102(unimproved acres) worth 200#s, 12 (horses), 20 (horned cattle), 15 (hogs), 3(slaves), 222(Pounds out at interest), Exempt ("Demout 562(acres), 8(horses), 12(horned cattle), 4(hogs), 2(slaves)"
The way I read this is the first set of things, up to the word exempt, is Adam's taxable property. For some unknown reason, unknown to us anyway, he didn't have to pay tax on the second set of things. So if you subtract the second set from the first set you'll find what he did have to pay tax on. It comes out to 4 horses, 8 horned cattle, 11 hogs, and one slave. Notice how they list the slaves right in there with the hogs and cattle.
Are you surprised to know one of our ancestors owned slaves? Slavery never was as common in the north as it was in the south. However, it did exist in all the colonies before the Revolutionary War. John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin owned slaves. William Penn, the great Quaker, owned slaves. People found ways to use the Bible to justify slavery and they wrote laws to protect it. And in New Jersey there was a higher proportion of slaves to the rest of the population, and slavery lasted longer than in other northern states. The rhetoric in the run-up to the Revolution helped to put an end to northern slavery. Many thinking people were sensitive to the paradox of "all men are created equal," and of claiming the natural human right of freedom for themselves while denying it for African people. People in the south were aware of these paradoxes also, but their economy was much more dependent on slavery so they found lots of ways to make excuses for slavery that didn't work in the north. In New Jersey slavery was officially abolished in 1804. Unofficially it continued until the end of the Civil War in 1865. But in 1766 when Adam inherited his father's slaves, slavery was still officially legal in New Jersey.
We really don't know much more than this about Adam. There is a document, dated 10 April 1790, releasing his estate to his two children, Jacob, and Anna who had married Adam Miller. They had worked out an agreement between themselves and Jacob ended up paying Anna 5 shillings to make it even. Jacob became the owner of the 512 acre homestead farm. I wonder what Anna got. Anyway, so Adam must have died shortly before 10 April 1790.
Adam is our Demouth ancestor who enjoyed the fruits of the efforts of father and grandfather to establish the wealthy estate. Adam was a good manager because he was able to pass the wealth on to his son and daughter. He was born in the colony of New Jersey, a subject of the English king. He died a citizen of the state of New Jersey in the United States of America. And like many of his neighbors, he was a slave owner.
Here's how we're related to Adam Demouth. Adam married Charlotte Husk and had Jacob Demouth. Jacob married Deborah and had John Demouth. John married Mariah Levi and had another Jacob Demouth. That Jacob Demouth married Cordelia Martindale and had Samuel Demouth. Sam married Elzora Pierce and had Thelma Demouth. Thelma married Forrest Zimmerman and had Dianne Zimmerman. Dianne married Paul Stevens and had Dawne Stevens. Dawne married Jason Pamplin and had . . . Sarah, Hannah, Timmy and Becky! So Hooray for Adam Demouth. We needed him even if he did own slaves. I hope he treated them well.
Love,
Granny
All the references to Adam (3) have been posthumous ones: in MC Deeds E?90, dated April 10, 1790, "...Adam Miller and and Anna his wife, late Anna Demouth of Pequannock Township of the first part and Jacob Demouth of the second part...whereas Adam Demouth deceased...died intestate and at the same time was seized of considerable estate both real and personal in the County of Morris and elsewhere and whereas the same descended to his two children Jacob Demouth and Anna Demouth now Anna Miller..." This was a quit-claim deed releasing to Jacob 512 acres of the homestead farm of Adam Demouth, his father. Other deeds bearing out the above genealogical data were recorded in Morris County in 1797 (c.f. MC Deeds C/289; D/362; D/364).
The following is from Rootsweb "Demouth" Message Board:
East Proprietors, NJ Survey Book
Author: Janet Bornhoeft Date: 5 Mar 2001 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: DeMouth, DeModt, Hartshome, Lemuel Cobb, Berry, Decker
Hi- At the New Jersey Archives, Trenton, I found some survey deeds involving DeMouths of Morris Co, NJ. 1. Lemuel Cobb surveyed for himself a tract between Stony Brook and Bloomingdale, Pequannack beginning at a tract returned to Hendry DeModt, Henry Berry, and Jacob Berry on 8 Nov 1762. Also a tract by/in "Bruen's Meadow Lot returned to George Ryerson 27 March 1754. This survey was witnessed and dated 5 Oct 1804. 2. Lemuel Cobb surveyed for the heirs or assigns of Hugh Hartshome at the request of Frederick DeMouth all that tract adjoining the farm of Adam DeMouth in Pequanack, Morris Co which was surveyed 12 May, 1715 for Gov William Penn. Also a tract situate on NE side of the Green Pond, Pequannack returned 14 September, 1751. The heirs of Hugh Hartshone/Hartshome claim right to these through a certificate of Mislocation to them at the request of Frederick Demouth dated 26 December 1761. This was witnessed 27 Nov. 1786. My Deckers in 1793 onward had land next to DeMouths. Can anyone connect the above early DeMouths/DeModts to the other names mentioned and then to the Deckers? Thanks for any help. Janet Bornhoeft
This deed appears to be a settlement of property between Jacob Demouth and Anna Miller, formerly Anna Demouth, "the two children of Adam Demouth, deceased, who died intestate, 'seized of a considerable estate both real and personal in the County of Morris and elsewhere'(Sussex County)."
[11117] record was submitted by Marsha Bybee
_John KALT __________
| (1813 - 1890) m 1848
_August KALT _________|
| (1856 - ....) m 1891 |
| |_Christianna THIES __
| (1818 - 1880) m 1848
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|--Leonard C. KALT
| (1893 - ....)
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|_Anna Amelia CARLTON _|
(1870 - ....) m 1891 |
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Kalt, August Head b. Aug 1856 age 43 m. 9 yrs WI GER GER Farmer Own Farm Mort.
Anna A. C. wife Nov 1870 29 9 4 Chil born/ 3 living Eng Eng Eng Imm 1889
Albert V. son Feb 1892 8 WI WI Eng
Leonard C. son Oct 1893 6 same
Edith E. dau Apr 1896 3 "
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Kalt, Leonard C. Head rents radio farm age 36 m. age 24 WI WI Eng Occ: General Farmer
Hazel M. wife 32 20 TX WI KS
Helen M. dau 10 WI WI TX
Lloyd E. son 7 WI WI TX
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_Dennis MOTT ________|
| (1957 - ....) m 1980|
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|--Jessica MOTT
| (1987 - ....)
| _Donald Robert WHEELER _
| | (1943 - ....) m 1961
|_Cheri Lynn WHEELER _|
(1962 - ....) m 1980|
|_Patricia Ann WARDLE ___+
(1943 - ....) m 1961
Greenwood cemetery has Abner Peterson (1855-1936)