Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,748, Joseph Hager, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York

Hager, Joseph
Nancy

NUMBER
W. 25,748

CONTENTS
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4994
NEW YORK, NY
NANCY HAGER
Widow of JOSEPH HAGER
NY
who served in the Revolutionary War as a 
Private, Corporal, {Illegible] on the 4th day of March, 1848.
[illegible] the [illegible].
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows"
State of New York
County of Tompkins {squiggle line and notation of "SS" SEE COMMENTS for explanation of this notation] On this 17th day of August 1847 personally appeared before the subscribed judge of the said County Courts, in and for said County, Nancy Hager of the said county, aged seventy-nine years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, and when her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Joseph Hager, who was an invalid pensioner of the United States of the State of New York that of her husband's service, she cannot give a description, she having been married after the close of the Revolution, but that her said husband did perform service and was wounded in the Service in the war of the Revolution and received an Invalid pension.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Hager in June 1784 or 1785, that her husband, the said Joseph Hager died in May 1819 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety-four, to wit, at the time above stated.
Subscribed and Sworn before me Nancy Hager this 17th day of August 1827,
Alfred Wells
County Judge
I certify that the above named Nancy Hager is a respectable person, that she cannot from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
Alfred Wells
County Judge
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'43-9624
W 13450
Nancy Hager
widow of Joseph 
vs
aI 7 May 1838
Married before 1794
Husband died 1818
avmo. 
[illegible]
5 days  [illegible] 1.1
7 military Arfs 27.37
1 [illegible] pay [illegible]. 5.[illegible]
$33.9
for 4 march 1836 to 4 March 1841.
Admtd. - 3 March 43 NY
Mur 44. $133.69 per annum 4 March 43
His. W A Sackett
Seneca Falls
NY
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State of New York
Tompkins County Clerks office for J Norman Crittenden Clerk of said County do herby certify that Alfred Wells Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been made was at the date thereof a County Judge of said County commissioned and sworn and duly qualified to act as such any further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and firmly believe his signature to the jurat thereunto + the certificate thereunto written is genuine In testimony when I have hereunto set my hand + affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca this 17th Day of August AD 1847.
N. Crittenden
[text on side of page is illegible]
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State of New York
County of Tompkins} ss John Sayler, whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes + says that he was personally acquainted from thirty to forty years since with Joseph Hager, an invalid pensioner, + with his then wife, the present widow Nancy Hager the pension applicant who fo a pension that the said present applicant Nancy Hager is the identical person and widow of the said Joseph Hager, the late invalid pensioner, and that she is a widow, the said Joseph Hager died in 1818 subscribed and sworn before me this 16 day of August 1847.
John Sayler [signature]
Grover S Bailey
Justice of the Peace

State of New York,
County of Tompkins } ss  John Hager, whom I certify is a respectable person, age fifty-two years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that Joseph Hager, an invalid pensioner, was this deponent's father, and that Nancy Hager, the present applicant for a pension, is the deponent's mother, that this deponent's father died in 1818, leaving his widow, the above-named Nancy Hager, who still remains his widow.
Subscribed and Sworn before me this 16th Day of August 1847.
John Sayler, a Justice of the Peace of said County
John Hager [signature]
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State of New York
Tompkins County ss. I Norman Crittenden Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Grover S. Bailey Esq before whom the within affidavit of John Sayler purports to have been made was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County comprised and sworn and duly qualified to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believes his signature to the jurat then be genuine.
In testimony wherof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17th day of August 1847
N Crittenden 
Clerk

State of New York
Tompkins County ss I Norman Crittenden Clerk of said County do hereby certify that John Saylor Esq before whom the affidavit of John Hager purports to have been made was at the date of the [unknown] a Justice of the Peace in and for said County comprised and sworn and only qualified to act as such and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believes his signature to the jurat therto is genuine. In testimony whenof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this, 17th day of August AD 1847
N Crittenden Clerk
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Hager, Joseph
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class g, page 93.
Rank: Private.
Regt: Col. Vrooman's
Disability: Wounded in an action with the Indians by a musket ball.
When and where disabled: Nov. 10, 1781, head of the Delaware.
Residence: Schoharie.
Remarks: There are no militia rolls in this office.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete.
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May 22, 1906
WJH
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five percent per annum, viz:
1779 Oct 6 Juost Hager, private  
No. of Cert'e issued: 13395 £  00  10  08

1781 April 8 Joseph Hager, private 
No. of Cert'e issued:  13740  00 03 02

1781 April 8   Dv   Dv, private 
No. of Cert'e issued:  15865  00  07  01

1781 Nov 30 Joseph Hager, Corporal  
No. of Cert'e issued: 4231  19  19  00

1781 Dec 31  Dv  Dv, Corporal   
No. of Cert'e issued: 4270 02  18  08

£ 23  18  07

Intended to cover such service only as were performed at the same time and in the same company with Henry Hager.

STATE OF NEW-YORK
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, April 23rd 1849.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1.3.4. now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First - under Ensign Peter Van Antwerp in Col. Peter Vrooman's Regiment.
Second - under Captain Joseph Hager in Col. Peter Vrooman's Regiment.
Third - under Captain Joseph Hager in Col. Peter Vrooman's Regiment.
Fourth - under Captain Benjamin Dubois in Col. Marinus Willett's Regiment
Fifth  - under Captain Benjamin Dubois in Col. Marinus Willett's Regiment
Sixth [null]
Seventh  [null]
Eighth  [null]
Ninth  [null]
Tenth  [null]
Eleventh  [null]
Twelfth  [null]
Thirteenth  [null]
Fourteenth  [null]
Fifteenth  [null]
I have examined the rolls for the above, and find £23.18.07 1/3 to be correct.}
John Hancock
Examining Clerk.
W. Hunt, Comptroller.
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April 1784, entitled ""An act for the settlement of the pay Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five percent per annum, viz:
30th Nov. 1781, Joseph Hager, Corporal, 19.19.1 
31st December 1781, Joseph Hager, Corporal, 2.18.8
14th Sept. 1779, Joseph Heager, Sergeant, 13 4 and 5
1st December 1779, Joseph Heager, Private, 2 6 2-2/3
21st December 1780, Joseph Heager, Private, 1 12 0
8th April 1781, Joseph Heager, Private, 7 1-1/3
1st December 1780, Joseph Heager, Private, 12 5-1/3 

26.10.7 

STATE OF NEW-YORK, 33.78
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, 23rd Sept. 1847
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1. 3 & 4, now remaining in this
office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
First - under Captain Benjamin Dubois in Colonel Marinus Willett Regiment
Second - under Captain Benjamin Dubois in Colonel Marinus Willett Regiment
Third - under Ensign Peter Swart, in Colonel Peter Vrooman's Regiment
Fourth - under Captain Jacob Hager, in Colonel Peter Vrooman's Regiment
Fifth - under Captain Jacob Hager, in Colonel Peter Vrooman's Regiment
Sixth - under Captain Jacob Hager, in Colonel Peter Vrooman's Regiment
Seventh - under Lieutenant Corn Pl. Zeiche, in Colonel Peter Vrooman's Regiment
Eighth - [null]
Ninth - [null]
Tenth - [null]
Eleventh - [null] 
Twelfth - [null] 
Philip Phelps [illegible]
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8542 Albany, New York
Nancy Hager
widow of Joseph Hager
who was a Private, Corporal, and Sergeant
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 Dollars 69 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of May 1849 and sent to Honorable W. A Sackett
Seneca Falls, New York
Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 2 Page 259
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V
W 13450
Nancy Hager
NY
[illegible] Joy April 7 1847
[illegible] to Honorable Co T. Lawrence
April 5 - 1849
[illegible] to Honorable H.S. Conger April 3, 1849
Act 7 July 1838
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25,748
Nancy Hager
Bride of
Joseph Hager
Sergt Rev War
Act: Feb 2nd 1868
Index:--Vol. A, Page 319
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nancy Hager of New York
All 3 witnesses in this case testify to the fact, of their having known no Mrs. Joseph Hager than the soldiers, one of them with him [illegible].

Please [illegible] the within case to me
W. A. Sackett Sr. C
Seneca Falls N.Y.
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled ""An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five percent per annum, viz:

1779 October 6, Hendrik Heager - Private - No. of Certificates issued: 15396 - 10 10 118

1781 April 8, Henry Heager - Private -  - No. of Certificates issued: 13762 - 00 11 08

1781 April 8, Henry Heager - Private -  - No. of Certificates issued: 15878 - 01 04 10-2/3

1781 November 30, Henry Hager - Private - No. of Certificates issued: 4248 - 16 00 00

1781 December 31, Henry Hager - Private - No. of Certificates issued: - 4280 - 02 13 04

Total 21 00 06-2/3

Intended to cover such service only as were performed in the same company in which Joseph Hager served.

STATE OF NEW YORK.
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, April 23, 1849
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1.3.4 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First -- under Ensign Peter Van Antwerp in Colonel Peter Vrooman's Regiment

Second --  under Captain Jacob Heager in Colonel Dv Dv Regiment

Third -- under Dv Dv in Colonel Dv Dv Regiment

Fourth -- under Benjamin Dubois in Colonel Marinus Willett's Regiment

Fifth -- under Dv Dv in Colonel Dv Dv Regiment
Sixth [null / blank]
Seventh [null / blank]
Eighth [null / blank]
Ninth [null / blank]
Tenth [null / blank]
Eleventh [null / blank]
Twelfth [null / blank]
Thirteenth [null / blank]
Fourteenth [null / blank]
Fifteenth  [null / blank]

I have examined the rolls for the above, and
find £2.1.110.06-2/3 to be correct.
John Hancock
Examining Clerk.

W. Hunt Comptroller
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State of New York
County of Schoharie } SS
Catherine Barnes, Wife of David Barnes of the town of Cobleskill of said County, being duly sworn deposes and says that she was eighty-four years at the twenty-second day of  December 1847, and she further says that she was personally acquainted with Joseph Hager in the time of the Revolution war and that the said Joseph was a soldier under Colonel Vrooman, and belonged to Captain Jacob Hager's Company and served as such under [illegible] and she says that she further says that she was in the fort at Vrooman's [illegible] when said Joseph was brought in wounded and saw him there at other different times and that said Joseph was a son of Henry Hager of said County and that there was no other Joseph Hager, but the said Joseph before the revolution was in said County and this deponent was well acquainted with the Hager family and knows no other Joseph Hager and this deponent further says that the said Joseph Hager did do Levies in the Revolutionary war and was wounded in the said services and said deponent said Joseph when he was brought in the fort, wounded, for this deponent was at the said fort when he was shot in his shoulder and this deponent says that Joseph was a good and faithful soldier and that said Joseph
was called out a number of times to her
knowledge, and she also remembers when [illegible] Vrooman was killed by the Indians with a wooden hammer.

Sworn and subscribed
Before me this 15th day of July 1848
Catherine Barnes [signature denoted as "her mark X"]

Peter Vanbrugh,  Justice of the Peace
in and for Schoharie County
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I further certify that I am personally 
acquainted with the said Catherine Barnes
and that she is of sound mind and
memory and that the said deponent is a 
respectable woman and of good character and
in good standing in Society as any other person in our town as for [illegible] and [illegible] her character stands as good as anyone and further [illegible] not.

Schoharie County
Clerks Office
I Stephen Maham, Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Peter Z. Van , Esq whose name is subscribed to the within Deposition was on the date of the same, a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the name Peter Z. Van Any subscribed to the said Deposition is his proper and genuine signature. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 19th
day of July A.D. 1848

Stephen Maham Clerk [signature]
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13450 Aug 24, 47

Nancy Hager
1838

[crossed out [illegible]]

[postmark ovid
AUG 20
NY]

[written sideways]
Hon J.L. Edwards
Coms of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Ovid  Augt 19th '47

Sir

I enclose application for a pension for
Nancy Hager. I understand that her husband 
was an invalid pension from  Seneca Co. N. Y.
his name appears upon the book, the proof in
his favor, may indicate something of his service
please inform me what service he [illegible] & 
what you admit

Respectfully
Your Obd [illegible]
Asad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Coms of Pensions
Washington DC
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Ovid N. Y. Sept 15th '48

Sir 
I inclose proof of the Service of Joseph
Hager,  See your letter in the case of 5th April 
last

Respectfully
Your Obo S[illegible]
Asad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Coms of Pensions
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[written sideways]
Nov 30 '47
[illegible]
Nancy Hager


Hon J L. Edwards
Coms of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Ovid N. Y. Nov 24 '47

Sir
I inclose in good faith proof in the case
of Nancy Hager, whose papers are on file
under the law of 1838 from New York  as 
she was married in the State of New York, it cannot 
be expected that a record can be found, & proof
is given that no to familyy record exists, & proof
[illegible] the eldest child to be over 60. as to the 
[illegible] certificate of course I know not
a thing about it, but as Hager was on invalid
pension, it may be at least some proof of 
her late husband being the soldier who performed 
the service; but pension or no pension I ask 
only the [illegible] of the poor widow

Respectfully
Your Obd Serv
Asad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Coms of Pension
Washington DC
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State of New York Henry Hager whom I certify is Schoharie County} A respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says That according to record his was eighty three years of age on the fifth day of July last past, that during the war of the Revolution he was personally Acquainted with Joseph Hager who was A soldier in that war of the Revolution that this Deponent was in actual service with him that This deponent was under Capt Jacob Hager with the said Joseph Hager in an engagement Against the Indians the said Capt Jacob Hagers Company this deponent and the said Joseph Hager perused the indians some twenty miles Into the County of Delaware when the battle Took place and the said Joseph Hager  was badly wounded in the shoulder in said Battle, that this deponent at that period was well acquainted through all that section of Country with the Hager family that He knows no other person of the name of Joseph Hager, except the one above mentioned, who was wounded, and that this deponent is of the impression that All of the service found in the name of Joseph Hager under Capt Jacob Hager or any other Commanding officer in the [unclear] war of the Revolution was performed by the above mentioned Joseph Hager as he knows of no other person of that name Henry Hager
Subscribed
and sworn before me 
this 4th day of Sept. 1848
John Myers, Justice of the Peace
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Schoharie County
Clerks Office fs J Stephen Maham Clerk of said County
Do hereby certify that John Myers’s Esquires
Whose name is subscribed to the within deposition war at 
The time of taking the same a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn and duly authorized to take to take the same and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said justice and verily believe that the name John Myers’s subscribed their to is his proper and genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
Hand and affixed my official seal this 4th
Day of September A.D. 1848
Stephen Maham Clerk
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10639
New York
Nancy Hager
Widow of Joseph Hager who was a pensioner under the Act of - and who died on the in May 1818 if Tompkins Co in the State of NY who was a Pr Capt and Sergt in the Compy. commanded by Captain -  of the Regt. commanded by - in the Revolution time for 1 m 26 [unclear] pr. 7 m 14 Capt. 5 Sergt.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 33 Dollars 69 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of May, 1819and Hon. W.A.Sackett
Seneca Falls
N York
Total amount, $ -
[Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by H. Lumpkin Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 163
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State of New York
County of Tompkins} SS

Caleb Smith of said county whom I certify to be a highly reputable person and who has for a great many years been an active Justice of the Peace in and for the said county & more recently one of the Judges of the Courts of said County, aged sixty five years & upwards after being duly sworn according to law Deposed & says that for forty  [illegible] years and upwards he has been personally acquainted with Nancy Hager (widow of Joseph Hager late a pensioner) who ia applying for a pension from said county that she is the identical friend & widow of the said Joseph Hager late a pensioner & that she is still his widow that this deponent has for the length of time been personally acquainted with the family the said widow Nancy Hager that this deponent was himself born August (1782) that the eldest child of the said widow Nancy Hager with whom he has resided as a neighbor for more than forty seven years, is three or four years younger that this deponent  & well does this deponent know that the said Peter Hager is the said son is upwards of sixty years of age, that he being over sixty years of age is not liable & has not been for one or two years to be called on as a  [illegible]man - being exempted by law having passed sixty years of age that the second child of the said Nancy Hager was born prior to 1790
Caleb Smith
Subscribed & sworn before
this sixteenth day of November 1847 pp
Grover S Bailey   

Sworn and duly qualified to act as such of  [illegible] that I am   [illegible]
with his hand  writing and  [illegible] believe him  [illegible] to the  [illegible] then to is given 
In  [illegible] when of I have herewith set my hand7 affixed the seal of said County
at Ithaca this 23 day of Nov AD 1847

N Crittenden Clerk of said County
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State of New York
County of Tompkins}ss

Aranthus Everts whom I certify is a highly respectable person aged sixty five years after being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says that for forty seven years and  [illegible] he has been personally acquainted with Nancy Hager & her late husband Joseph Hager, late a pensioner & that he has been for some length of time personally acquainted with the children the family of said Nancy Hager & that the said named Nancy Hager who is applying for a pension is the identical person & widow of the said Joseph Hager late a pensioner that the eldest child of the said Nancy Hager is his son, Peter Hager who is sixty one or sixty two years of age, that this deponent as a  [illegible]man whereby to judge compares his own age as he has done for forty seven years 2 more with the said Peter Hager the said elder child of the said Nancy Hager & he knows from that comparison that the said Peter Hager is sixty one or sixty two years age that he is exonerated from serving on  [illegible] from having passed sixty years of age that the second child another son of  have no was born previous to 1790

Aranthus Everrts
Subscribed & sworn before me
this sixteenth day of November 1847 } pp

Grover S Bailey
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State of New York,
County of Tompkins
Channay W. Smith whom I certify to be
a highly respectable person after being duly sworn according to
law depose and say that for over forty seven years he has
been personally acquainted with Nancy Hager widow of Joseph
Hazen late a pensioner, and that the present applicant
for a pension, ancey Hayer, is the identical person and
of
widow of the said Joseph Hayer late a pensioner, & that she
is still a widow that this deponent has been for some length
6
of time personally requainted with the Children of the said
parties & deposes & says that the elder child of the said
to
parties a son by the name of Peter Hager, is Sixty one or
Sixty two years of age, that this deponant is fifty Eight
years of age & knows the fact of the age of the said
Peter Hager from having been young men together & from
and
having from young men of age that the said
Peter Hager is not able as a union, having passed
Sixty
years of age that the second child of the said
Nancey Hager, a son was born prior to the year 1790
Subscribed & Sworn before the
Chauncey W. Smith
the
Sixteenth day of November 1877
State of New York
Tompkins County ss.
Norman Crittenden Clerk of said County do hereby certify that on Bailey Esq before
whom the five several affidavits hereto attached purports to have been made was at
the date of the same and still is a Justice of the peace in afor said County commissioned
& sworn and duly qualified to act as such & further that I am well acquainted with
his hand writing and verily believe his signature to the Jurat thereto is quine
In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County
at then this 25 day of Nov. AD 1847
N Crittenden Clerk of
said County
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State of New York
County of Tompkins
Andrew Stoughton whom I Certify is a highly respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law depones & says that he is one of the Town Officers of the town of Heaton in said County and has been for a number of years  & one of the officers whose duty it is to make out the Jury list & they are bound to exonerate and strike from the list of Jurors persons who are Sixty years of age & in accordance to that Law the said officers did strike from their Jury list the name of Peter Hager, a Son of the widow Nancy Hager who is at present applying for a pension that the said Peter Hager has the reputation of being over Sixty years of age of which fact this deponent has no doubt.
Andrew Stoughton
Sworn & Subscribed before me
this sixteenth day of November 1847
Grover S. Bailey J P

State of New York
County of Tompkins
John Hager whom I Certify is a highly respectable person after being duly sworn according to Law, depones & says that Nancy Hager who is applying for a pension is this deponents Mother, that that she makes it her home with this deponent and has resided with him for many years, that She has no old family record, that She has no record of the ages of her Children that this deponent is the fourth Child of his Said mother, & that he was born in 1795, that the three eldest Children of his Said mother Nancy Hager, were all born previous to Seventeen hundred and ninety four.
John Hager
Subscribed & sworn before me
the Soxteenth of November 1847
Grover S Bailey J P
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State of New york
County of Tompkins
Nancy Hager whome I Certify is a highly respectable Person after being duly Sworn Deposes and Says that She has resantily [recently?] made aplication for a Pension as the widow of Joseph Hager who was an Invaled Pensioner that having ben maried to him after the close of the Revilutionary [Revolutionary] war She is not able to give a minute hisory of his service he was at that time as She thinks a Resident of Lehohania [?] County New york he Served at various times and as She believes Some in the Rifle Core [Corps] She Recolects of hering him Speak of Col Willet [Willett] Capt Dubois Col Vrooman and Murphy the noted Indian Killer She thinks he Served under and withem all may have ben withe Murphey [Murphy] when he was badley wounded in the Shoulder in Service nere the head of the Deliware [Delaware] was confined more then one year in a hospitle [hospital] withe his wound as She beleives She new of no other Joseph Hager in Service
Subscribed and Sworn before me
Grover S. Bailey
Justace [Justice] of the Peace of the Town of Hector Tompkins County State of New york
[signature] Nancy Hager
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State of New York
Tompkins County ss. I Norman Crittenden Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Grover S. Bailey Esqr before whom the within affidavit purport to have been made was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in + for said County Commissioned and sworn and duly qualified to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature to the jurat thereto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca this 28th day of November A.D. 1847.
N. Crittenden Clerk
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Havanay
July
31. 1849
LUSTADO DE AIGON OF
SEPUSLAP 1878 RISHED BOURODE 10
ROLL of Open
AS APPOINT
Ashbeste pefore
Nancy Hager
Pensioner of New York
A 22 of D
of COLE of SUSAN 1878 Carry
DECTIVLOL
Hon J L Edwards
Court of Pro
Will please
reply to this can
as
Jackson
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF NEW YORK,
County of Tompkins } ss.
On this 23 day of July 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county Nancy Hager a resident of Hector in the county of Tompkins aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Joseph Hager late a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, that she has rec'd a pension under Several acts & under the act  of 17 June 1844 at the rate of thirty three dollars and sixty nine cents per annum; that the said Joseph Hager died in 1818
She further declares that she is a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
Grover S. Baily, Justice of the Peace in and for said County
[signature] Nancy Hager
I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit.
[signature] Grover S. Bailey Justice of the Peace in and for said County
State of New York
Tompkins County ss.
I Norman Crittenden Clerk of said County do herby certify that Grover S. Baily Esq before whom the above affidavit purports to have been made was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County commissioned and sworn and duly qualified [illegible, covered] as such and further that I am [illegible] acquainted with his hand [illegible, covered] and verily believe his signature to the [illegible] and the [illegible, covered] thereunder written [illegible]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca this 26th[?] day of July A D 1849 
[signature] N Crittenden Clerk
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State of New York
Schoharie County
Fredrick Mattice whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to lae, deposes and says that he is Seventy Eight years of age, that during the war of the Revolution, he was personally acquainted with Joseph Hager, and that this deponent was in one of the forts in Schoharie County during the Revolutionary war and knew that Joseph Hager was wounded and was informed at that time that the said Joseph Hager was wounded in an engagement with the Indians in Delaware County, that the deponent at that period was well acquainted through Schoharie County and with the Hager family and that he knew no other person of the name of Joseph Hager except the one above mentioned who was wounded,and that this deponent is of the impression that all of the service found in the name of Joseph Hager under Capt. Jacob Hager or Col. Peter Vroman or any other commanding officer was performed by the above named Joseph Hager as he knew of no other person of that name.
Subscribed and sworn before 
me this 2nd day of Sept 1848
Frederick Mattice X his mark.
John Myers Justice
I certify that the said Frederick Mattice made his mark by reason of his being blind and I father certify that I find him of strong mind and memory
John Myers Justice
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Schoharie County)
Clerks Office ss)

I Stephen Maham Clerk of said County do hereby certify that John Myers Esquire whose name is subscribed to the within deposition was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly Elected and sworn and duly authorized to take the same and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that the name John Myers subscribed thereto is his proper and genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 4th day of September A.D. 1848

Stephen Maham Clerk