Abraham S. Ditmars

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Husband Abraham S. Ditmars ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Abraham D. Ditmars 3
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1 F [Unk] Ditmars ³

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            AKA: Susan Ditmus 4
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         Spouse: Darius Mead (1810-1845) 4 5

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2 F Caroline Ditmars ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Long Island, NY
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           Died: Jun 1878 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Hon. Lansing Wetmore (1792-1857) 6
           Marr: 1816 - Warren Co, PA 1

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3 M Abraham Ditmars, Jr. ⁷

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General Notes: Husband - Abraham S. Ditmars

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He came to Sugar Grove, Warren County, Pennsylvania, from Long Island in the spring of 1814, on the advertisement and personal importunities of Agent Sacket, of the Holland Land Company, exchanging a farm in Long Island valued at $15,000 for three thousand acres of wild land in Warren County (and something was given him "to boot"). He selected every alternate tract between what became Sugar Grove village and Lottsville, after viewing the country in 1813, and established his residence on the top of the hill immediately west of the village. The hardships which he suffered in making the long and perilous journey from Long Island were akin to those that all the pioneers were forced to brave. He brought his family across the Delaware from New Jersey at Easton, traveled thence to Belfonte, and by a rough road to a point opposite Holman's Ferry, on the Allegheny River. There he crossed the river and went to the site of Titusville, thence through a trackless wilderness to the rude house of James White, on the Big Brokenstraw; thence to the Widow Mead's, and, by an unfrequented and almost impassable road through Chandler's Valley, to his destination. His family consisted of his wife, two sons, and five daughters. They were on the road from the 10th of May to the 19th of June, and stayed two nights in the woods on the Allegheny Mountains, and one night between Titusville and Brokenstraw. At the beginning of the journey they had two good teams and wagons. At the termination they had the fore wheels of one wagon only, and those were nearly a wreck, the family having to travel on foot most of the distance from Brokenstraw. The personal effects were afterward gathered up with great cost and difficulty.
Mr. Ditmars has been described as a large, athletic man, six feet in height, erect and well proportioned, of gentlemanly bearing, an open countenance, large, dark-blue eyes, heavy jutting eyebrows, and a heavy voice. He was convivial to a fault.
After living in the town a number of years, he returned to Long Island.

1 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 656.

2 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 110.

3 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 424.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 724.

5 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 459, 480.

6 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 425, 656.

7 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 425.