Jacob Linderman, possessed of the same sturdy spirit which animated his kinsman, the Great Reformer, to escape religions persecution expatriated himself, fleeing from his native Saxony to England, whence he came to this country. He first settled near Kingston, in Ulster county, New York, but subsequently removed to Orange County. He was prominent in public and religious affairs, and was an elder in the Presbyterian church.

The Linderman family was planted in Arnerica in about the first decade of the eighteenth century by Jacob Von Kinderman, or Linderman, who was a descendant of Margaretta Linderman, the wife of Hans Luther, and mother of Martin Luther.