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Title: Genealogy of the Surdam family
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Surdam, Charles Edward
Subjects: Suydam family (Tunis Pietersz Sardam, b. ca. 1661)
Publisher: (Morristown, N.J. : Jerseyman Press : Pierson & Surdam
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ebruary 12, 1874.They had no children. DANIEL SURDAM Daniel was the second son of Tunis and JaneSardam. The following interesting and well-writtenhistory of Daniel and his family was compiled byMatilda Freeman Gates from incidents relatedto her by her mother, Emily, and her grand-mother, Letty, and was read by her sister, Har-riet Freeman Shaw, at the first Surdam familyreunion, August 24, 1900: Our grandfather, Daniel Surdam, was born inConnecticut June 6th, 1777, less than a year after thedeclaration of American independence ; one of threebrothers and six sisters. Our grandmother, LettySlater, first saw the light on New Years Day of 17S1.We know little of her family except that she had onesister, Mrs. Wheeler, who afterward lived at Athenson the Hudson, and I think their widowed motherlived with her. There were cousins in Connecticut,one of whom married the Rev. D. P. Kidder of S. S.book fame, and one became Mrs. Webb of Washing-ton. The marriage of our grandparents occurred Dec. 76
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DANIEL 77 23rd, 179S, a few days before the bride reachedher eighteenth birthday. There is a family legendthat they went across the line into New York Statefor the ceremony, to avoid being published, ac-cording to Connecticut laws and customs. Theymade their home in Salisbury, and there six child-ren were born to them—Eliza, Jerusha, Jane Butch-er, Edward William, Letty Maria, and Martha Em-ily. When the youngest of these was a year and ahalf old, probably in the spring of 1813, they movedinto New York, living in Vernon, Oneida County,and Scipio, Cayuga County. A second son, DanielOrville, was born at Vernon in February, 1S14. In some of these years grandfather went into thearmy—was probably drafted; but the war closed andhe was released without notable service. The next move was to Marathon, a mile or moreabove the village, on the west side of the river. Inthese western homes they had visits from Indians ;though sometimes frightened they were not harmed.A third son, Charles Orson

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