The significance of some of these names is very apparent, i instance, Maritje, after the great-grandmother ; Meynotie, for Ik grandmother; William, Jr., for the father ; Salem, from the fact the. for a period about the time of the birth of that son the family, drive:! away from their home here, sought safety in the town of Salem; and Deliverance, as a recognition that at last the Revolutionary war had come to a successful termination and they were delivered from tlu-ir cruel enemies, or possibly he was named for his grandfather, Deliffercns Conkling.
Capt. Dutcher willed that his property be kept together under the direction of his wife for the bringing up of his family while "she shall remain my widow." After that his farm to be equally divide', between his five sons.
Win. Dutcher, 2d, married Anna Van Wart, daughter of Isaac Van Wart, one of the captors of Andre, and had William A., who married Rosetta Odell, daughter of Abraham and Christena Van Wart Odell, and had Clinton, who resided at St! Louis, and daughters Anna, Caroline and Elizabeth. Wm. Dutcher, 2d, also had son Abram who married Caroline Martling and had William, Thomas, Esther, Caroline E. , who is the widow of De Witt Clinton Graham and resides in New York; Mary E. ; Arabella; Geo. W. , who married Annie, daughter of Isaac See, and lived at Arlington, N. J. ; Samuel, who went to South America, and Susie, wife of A. B. Hall, Esq., of New York.