Book Description

The immigrant ancestor, John (Johannes) Peltz (1714-1791) of Berleburg, Germany arrived at Philadelphia, Pa. at the age of twenty-six. He was married to Gertrude Gray (1717-1787). Family settled in Passyunk. Philip Peltz, D.D. (1823-1883), was born in Philadelphia, Pa., a son of Richard Peltz and Sarah Lentz. He married 1852 at Coxsackie Mary DeWitt (1819-1903), daughter of Rev. John DeWitt, D.D. and his first wife, Sarah Schoonmaker. She was born at Albany, N.Y. Mary DeWitt was also a widow of Stephen Van Dyck (d. 1846) of Coxsackie. The immigrant ancestor of the DeWitt family, Tjerck Claessen DeWitt (d. 1700), came to New Netherland from Grootholt in Zunderlandt. He married 1656 in New Amsterdam, Barbara Andriessen (d. 1714). They lived first in New York, then in 1657 removed to Albany, and in 1661 to Wiltwyck (Kingston), N.Y. One of his daughters, Gertruy (bap. 1668) married 1688, Hendrick Hendrickse Schoonmaker.