DeWitt Name Study

Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: DeWitt De Witt DeWit

Contents 1 How to Participate 2 Goals 3 Task List 4 Research Notes 5 Resources 6 DNA

How to Participate

Please contact the Study's coordinator Mary Koeven or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Goals

• Connect all unconnected profiles into the tree with the surname DeWitt, De Witt, Dewit, or other variants.
• Trace descendants of Early Dutch Settlers of the United States, such as Tjerck Claeszen De Witt

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Task List

Unconnected profiles

• Dewitt
• De witt
• Dewit

Unsourced profiles

• Dewitt
• Dewit

Orphaned profiles

• Dewitt
• Dewit

Research Notes

• Andrew John Dewitt was born about 1826 in Ohio, married Huldah Stowe in 1850 in Huron Ohio. Y-DNA tests suggest he was a descendant of Tjerck Claeszen De Witt, but have not been able to identify his parents.

Other DeWitts have similar brick walls. Write about yours here.

Resources

• Tjerck Claessen DeWitt and family research notes on MrJumbo's Genealogy page - Tjerck Claessen DeWitt (c. 1618-1700/1) was an early Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam, now New York
• DeWitt Family genealogy by Burr Cook - Descendancy of New Amsterdam DeWitts, starting with Jan DeWitt, grandfather of Tjerek Claese DeWitt
• DeWitt Family Papers, 1750-1890 at the New York State Library - description of letters and miscellaneous papers of a prominent DeWitt family in Duchess County, New York.
• Genealogy of the DeWitt Family of Melaka - South African DeWitts, who also have ties to New Amsterdam

DNA

• Dewitt DNA connections: list of WikiTree profiles that are connected to WikiTree users who have taken DNA tests.
• DeWitt Y-DNA project on Family Tree DNA