Getman Family Genealogy FROM A SINGLE TREE...GROWS A FOREST! Welcome to the Getman Family of America 5 page website! Visitor No: Getman Historical Marker Ephratah, Fulton County, New York SITE OF HOME - OF - FREDERICK GETMAN CAME TO AMERICA IN 1710 NATURALIZED ON NOVEMBER 22, 1715 PURCHASED 600 ACRES OF LAND IN STONE ARABIA PATENT AND SETTLED HERE IN 1720 HIS SONS AND DESCENDANTS WERE PROMINENT IN EARLY CIVIL AND MILITARY LIFE OF COLONY AND STATE ERECTED BY STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND DESCENDANTS OF FREDERICK GETMAN 1934 Descendants of Frederick Getman Generation No. 1 Frederick Getman , son of Casper and Maria Barbara Getman, was born 1693 in Palatinate, German Pfalz, Germany, and died 1781 in Ephratah, New York. He married Mary Johanna Bierman,1720, in Stone Arabia, Montgomery Co, New York, daughter of Johannes Bierman and Maria Barbara. She was born 1697 in Herkimer/ Montgomery , New York, and died Aft. 1740. Frederick Getman petitioned the court to become a citizen in Mayor's Court, Albany, NY, November 22, 1715 and settled in Stone Arabia, NY where many of his descendents still live. Frederick Getman (at that time written Kittman / Gettmann) and Johannes Bearman (Bierman) together bought, in 1743, from Hendrick Sic, lots 92, 94, 96 and 98 of the Stone Arabia patent. Frederick Getman subsequently purchased Johannes Bearman’s interest in the property. Frederick Getman had four sons born here – Frederick Jr., George, John and Christian, all of whom participated in the French war previous to 1757. Christian Getman was also captain of a company of Rangers in the Revolutionary war. George Getman succeeded his father, Frederick, in possession of the homestead. He raised five sons, all of whom served the patriot cause during the Revolution. One of them, George Jr., held a lieutenant’s commission and was under Col. Willett. He inherited the old farm. His five sons were all soldiers in the war of 1812. One of them, Frederick, remained on the homestead, where he was born eighty-six years prior, and is still active and vigorous in body and mind. He is the father of ex-sheriff Oliver Getman, of Ephratah village. There is yet growing on the old farm a noble maple tree, shown in the engraving of the place, from which Frederick Getman made sugar 160 years ago, and which has since yielded its sweets to the successive generations of the family. It is eighteen feet in circumference, and produced sixty-seven gallons of sap in the spring of 1877. The Frederick Getman Homestead Route 10 Epharatah, Fulton County NY as seen in the year 2000! Getman Family Burial Grounds Frederick Getman Homestead Ephratah, Fulton County, NY as seen in the year 2000! The Getman Burial Grounds Benjamin & Oliver Getman Patent Ephratah, Fulton County New York as seen in the year 2000. Ephratah Rural Cemetery Ephratah, Fulton County, NY where many of the Getman descendants are buried.