Descendants of Garret & Katherine TRAVIS
First Generation 
1. Garret TRAVIS was born about 16401 and died after 1707 in Rye, Westchester, New York, USA.1
Garret was called "The Dutchman" and they settled in Putman County, west of Oscawana Lake in the town of Putman Valley about 1750.
There is a more simple explanation about why Garret Travis was called the "Dutch man". He really was Dutch. Garret is not an English name, but Gerrit is a common Dutch name. I have seen the transcript you cite and the belief he is English is based on no evidence. The original records regarding Garret have his last name spelled many ways including Treffers. The English courts simply noted his ethnicity and gave us an important clue to who he was, not where he was from. After all, the Pilgrims, who spent years in Holland before coming to Plymoth, were always considered English, never called the Dutch even though the younger children learned Dutch. Passage from one country to another would not have given one a new identity. If Garret were English, it would have been a great insult to refer to him as the Dutchman. One of the reasons it maybe so difficult to find Garret before 1657 in the records is because his last name was a Dutch patrionimic. Travis became the last name as a matter of English need and requirement. Travis is an English, Welsh, and Irish name and would have been familiar to English authorities and thus assigned in a loose approximation in what was the name Garret used. This would not have been unusual at all as a practice of New Haven Colony. This happened all over New Netherlands when the English finally took control in 1663.
Other esources: "Descendants of Garrett Travis of Westchester County, New York" by Maxine Phelps, Lines, (Main Author) The film # is 1035740 Item 40 US/CAN film Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Garret married Katherine (__?__). Katherine died after 1707.1
Children from this marriage were:
2 M i. John TRAVIS was born about 1663 in , Westchester, New York, USA.1
+ 3 M ii. Philip TRAVIS was born about 1665 in , Westchester, New York, USA1 and died after 1716 in , Westchester, New York, USA.2
+ 4 M iii. Robert TRAVIS was born about 1668 in , Westchester, New York, USA.1
5 F iv. Hannah TRAVIS was born about 1669 in , Westchester, New York, USA.1
+ 6 M v. James TRAVIS was born about 1871 in , Westchester, New York, USA.1
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