Individual Details
Asaph PUTNAM
(11 Sep 1724 - 6 Aug 1796)
He appeared on the 1790 census in Pittstown, Rensswlaer, NY. The census info was 1-0-0. He was buried in the Old Croosboro Cemetery in Pittstown. The gravemarker is located in an overgrown piece of private property. The inscription reads: Asaph Putnam, Died August 6th, 1796, Aged 71 Years 10 Months and 25 Days, Behold vain man Through Gods wise plan Thy limits can't be past May mum'rous year Have filled their sheres And I'm cut down at last. Patriot. Asaph was the second child of Isaac and Anna (Fuller). He was born on September 11, 1724 in Salem Village, Mass. When his father bought land and relocated to Sutton, Asaph was no more than two or three years old (i.e., about 1727). His older brother Phineas and younger sister Anna were also very young at the time. In Sutton the family continued to grow and by 1739 Asaph was one of nine children. Asaph remained in Sutton and married Sarah Park, the daughter of Jonathan Park. The marriage took place on September 7, 1743, four days before his nineteenth birthday. In the years that followed Sarah gave birth to five children, all of them boys. There is no record of Asaph's family in Sutton's town books after 1760. Asaph's name appears next in the town of Queensbury, N.Y. (present day Glens Falls). In 1766 he was listed as the Town Clerk and Constable and his son as Pathmaster. It appears he was active in the Society of Friends which was a
Quaker religious organization. He apparently moved from Queensbury to
Lansingburgh, N.Y (near Troy), sometime after 1777. In the Surrogate Office of Rensselaer County, N.Y. the estate file for Asaph sheds some light on his latter years. The record shows that at the time of his death he resided in Pittstown (northeast of Lansingburgh). Rebecca Putnam was named as administratrix which suggests that Asaph remarried and that Rebecca was his second wife. In the estate file there was no reference to other family members or persons having the name Putnam. The bond for the administrix was dated August 17, 1796 and an inventory was available dated February 9, 1797. He died on August 6, 1796 at age 71. Dave Putnam of Ontario, Canada located his grave marker in an overgrown piece of private property.
Salem Vital Records has the birth in Sutton, MA.
The grave marker is located in an overgrown piece of private property. The inscription reads: Asaph Putnam, Died August 6th, 1796, Aged 71 Years 10 Months and 25 Days, Behold vain man Through Gods wise plan Thy limits can't be past May mum'rous year Have filled their spheres And I'm cut down at last.
The census information is 1-0-0.
He was married to Sarah Park daughter of Jonathan Park and Abigail Smith, on 7 Sep 1743 in Sutton. She was born 8 May 1724 in Newton, Middlesex, MA. She died about 1770 in prob Queensbury, Warren, NY
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History of Sutton p 709
Asaph 5 (Isaac 4 , Edward 3 , Thomas 2 , John 1 ), m. Sarah, dau. of Jona. Park, Sept. 7, 1743. There is no record of his family on the town books, and it is thought that he left town previously to 1760. From the record of the church it appears he had five children baptized, viz : 1, Abijah, bapt. Oct. 21, 1744 ; 2, Asaph, bapt. June 18, 1749; 3, Jonas, bapt. Aug. 16, 1752; 4, Ephron, bapt. July 7, 1756 ; 5, Park, bapt. July 7, 1756.
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Events
| Birth | 11 Sep 1724 | Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |  | ||
| Baptism | 20 Sep 1724 | Salem Village, Essex, MA | | ||
| Marriage | 7 Sep 1743 | Sutton, British America - Sarah Park |  | | |
| Census | 1790 | Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., NY | | ||
| Death | 6 Aug 1796 | Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., NY | | ||
| Burial | Old Cooksboro Cemetery, Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., NY | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Park (1724 - 1770) |
| Child | Abijah PUTNAM ( - ) |
| Child | Capt Asaph PUTNAM (1749 - 1820) |
| Child | Jonas PUTNAM (1752 - 1790) |
| Child | Ephron PUTNAM (1754 - ) |
| Child | Parks PUTNAM (1756 - ) |
| Father | Isaac Putnam (1698 - 1757) |
| Mother | Anna Fuller (1701 - 1754) |
| Sibling | Susanna Putnam (1728 - ) |
| Sibling | Phineas PUTNAM (1722 - 1795) |
| Sibling | Anna Putnam (1726 - ) |
| Sibling | Nathan Putnam (1730 - 1813) |
| Sibling | Edward Putnam (1733 - ) |
| Sibling | Isaac Putnam (1734 - ) |
| Sibling | Lydia Putnam (1736 - ) |
| Sibling | Captain Daniel Putnam (1739 - ) |
Notes
Marriage
Biographical Sketches of Worcester County, MAImage 337-42/960
(V) Asaph Putnam, son of Isaac (4) married
p. 340
Sarah Park in 1743. The church records show that they hadthe following family: Abijah, baptized Oct 21, 1744; Asaph, baptized July 7,1756.
Endnotes
1. Eben Putnam. A History of the Putnam Family in England and America: recording the ancestry and descendants of John Putnam of Danvers, Mass., Jan Poutman of Albany, N. Y., Thomas Putnam of Hartford, Conn. (Salem, MA, Salem Press, 1891-1908); 2 volumes, p. 84.
2. Franklin P. Rice , compiler, Vital Records of Sutton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Systematic History Fund, 1907), p 132.
3. Eben Putnam. A History of the Putnam Family in England and America: recording the ancestry and descendants of John Putnam of Danvers, Mass., Jan Poutman of Albany, N. Y., Thomas Putnam of Hartford, Conn. (Salem, MA, Salem Press, 1891-1908); 2 volumes, p. 84.
4. The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Salem, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA, 1918), Vol. 2, p. 208.
5. Ancestry.com, "Worcester County, Massachusetts Memoirs, Volume I-II," digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed ); Original data: Ellery Bicknell Crane, ed. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County Massachusetts with a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity. Vol. I-II. New York, NY, USA: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907.; Page 337-342, Ancestry images 337-342/960.
6. Census Record, p. 32.
7. Grave Marker.
8. Observed grave marker, Observed grave marker.