Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 10598, Safrinus Dygert, New York
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New York

Dygert, Safrinus or Soverinus

S10598

Carded
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Let. to Geo. C. Ames
27 Jany 1855

Set to N.J. Benton
April 18, 1855

1855 July 25
Transferred from Albany to 
D.C. from 4 March 1831

July 27 55 New certificate issued
payable to H.Y. Fant admt. & sent to him Present

A.W. Dygart March 7, 1866

State of Province of
in the ___________ regiment
by Captain________ of the commanded
by ______________ in the Revolution 
line for 22 Months

N.Y.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 73 Dollars 33 cents per
annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 and ending 10th November 1849.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of January 1843 and sent to F.S. Brackett Alexandria VA

Arrears to the 4th of  F.S Brackett
Semi anl. Allowance ending Alexandria Va

{Revolutionary Claim.  }
{Act June 7, 1832.        }

Recorded by G. T. Gelly Clerk,
Book 16 Vol. 3  Page 153
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No. 1
Province of Canada         }
County of Oxford  to wit }

On this tenth day of October 1834 before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in the for said County and Province personally appeard Herkimer Dygert one of the children and heirs at law of Safrinus Dygert deceased who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of the Congress of the United States passed on the 7th day of June 1832.
That the said Safrinus Dygert applied for a pension under the Act of the 7th June 1832 about the year 1847 or 8 from the State of New York, he then living in Canada for service rendered by him during the Revolutionary War in a Company commanded by his Father Warren Dygert in the regiment commanded by Col. Clyde for the particulars of which service reference is hereby made to said application in the files of the Pension Office at Washington.
He further states that his mother Elenor Dygert died on or about the seventh day of June 1847 and that his said Father died on the tenth day of November 1847 at his residence in Oxford leaving the following children viz Herkimer Joseph, Isaac Catharine wife of John Harris, Elenor Veliet of the late William Putnam Gertrude wife of William Niles
and others Herkimer Dygert
sworn and subscribed the day + year aforesaid before me Chas E Chadwick J.P.
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State of New York   }
Herkimer County    } ss.
Abraham G. Rosecrantz of the town of little Falls County and State aforesaid being duly sworn according to law deposeth and says that he has in his possession the ancient record of Marriages and baptisms which he always understood and believes was solumized by his grandfather the Reverend Abraham Rosecrantz who was the early Pastor of the dutch Reformed Church of this vicinity and that he has this day examined said record and find recorded under the running head of baptisms the following viz. September the fifteenth one thousand seven hundred and sixty six Werner Tyghart and Magdalena, child Severenuz.
That the following is true extract from said record, except the date which is (illegible) on said record in fair legible figures as follows viz.

1766             Parents                       Infants
N.d. Werner Tyghart and             }
B.A. 15th Septem. Magdalena     }  Severenus

and further this deponant saith not
Abraham G. Rosecrantz

Subscribed and sworn before me the 5th day  of August 1846 Robert Casler Justice of the Peace
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I certify that I am well acquainted with Abraham G. Rosencrantz is a man of good standing in society and of good moral character and a man of truth and veracity
Robert Casler Justice of the Peace

State of New York   }
Herkimer County    }  ss.  I certify that Augustus Beardslee Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of John Dygert purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of said affidavit a Judge of the Herkimer County Courts duly commissioned and qualified and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing - verily his signature to the date of said affidavit purporting to be his is genuine -

I also further certify that Robert Casler Esq. before whom several of the foregoing affidavits purports to have been sworn was at the time of taking said affidavits a Justice of the Peace in + for said County duly elected + qualified and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing + verily believe his name subscribed to the jurats to the several foregoing affidavits and also to the foregoing certificates to be in his own proper handwriting, through my hand and official seal August 5th 1846.

Erwin A. Munson Clerk
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Affidavit of _________________ a witness
Province of Canada             }
County of Oxford - to wit    } 

On this 7th day of October 1834 before me, the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and Province personally appeared William Reynolds to me well known as a respectable and credible witness who being first duly sworn according to law, on oath, declares that he was well acquainted with Safrinus Dygert in his life time who was represented to be a revolutionary soldier in the Army of the United States.
That said Safrinus Dygert died at his residence in Oxford on the tenth day of November 1849 leaving the following children viz, Herkimer, Joseph, Isaac Catharine wife of John Harris, Elenor relict of the late William Putnam, Gertrude wife of William Niles and no others, and that Elenor Dygert the wife of Safrinus Dygert died prior to the death of her husband [to wit] A.D. 1847.  He further states that he knows the date of his death from the fact that
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he [many words crossed out] lived neighbor to him about forty years. and that he being well acquainted with the said Safrinus Dygert during his life time and with all his family have a first heard him speak of the number of his children and assert that the said Herkimer Joseph Isaac Catharine Wife of the said John Harris, Elenor relict of the late William Putnam and Gertrude wife of said William Niles were all his children at that time living and that they are at this time living in the neighborhood of the deponent.

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Chas. E. Chadwick JP

Vertically on Right:

Heir of
Safrinus Dygert
New York
Act of June 1832

Vertically on Left:
F.L. Brockett
atty.
Alexandria
Virginia
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Sovrinus Dygert
Declaration
Act June 7th 1832
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State of New York             }
County of Fulton               } ss.
Court of Common Pleas   }

On this third day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty six, personally appeared in open court (the same being a court of seven) before the Judges thereof now sitting at Johnstown in said County Soverinus Dygert aged about eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made the act of Congress session June 7th 1832 that he is a son of Capt. Warner Dygert deceased and Magdalina his wife also deceased that he was born in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty six, and as appears by the word of declarant, babtism [baptism] recorded by the Rev. A. Rosencrants now in the possession of his grandson Wm. G. Rosencrants, he was babtized [baptized] on the fifteen day of September one thousand seven hundred and sixty six.
Declarant further saith that he was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution and served as a volunteer in guarding a fort at a placed called Tab Hill now in Herkimer County and state of New York, that the said service was performed under declarants father the said Warner Dygert in Col. Clyde regiment. Declarant further saith that when they engaged as a volunteer as aforesaid fully equipped for the service and in the service as aforesaid declarant was taken prisoner and his father killed by the enemy at the same time, that declarant was taken prisoner on or about the fourth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty was taken to Canada and then kept a prisoner by the enemy one year and ten months, at which time viz on or about the fourth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, this declarant in company with a large number of other prisoners were exchanged and permitted to return to their home, and this declarant among others did return home from Canada by the way of Lake Champlain and the city of Albany.  Declarant also saith that he now resides in London District, [underline] Upper Canada [/underline] and having been recently informed that he was entitled to a pension by virtue of the
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laws of the United States allowing the time soldiers were imprisoned as so much service and having been informed that it was required by the pension Department that his declaration for a pension must be made before a court of record in the United States, accordingly this declarant has come expressly from Canada as aforesaid to attend the Court in the County and State aforesaid.  Declarant further saith that the reasons he has not heretofore made application for a pension was first that he did not know until recently that persons residing out of the United States were entitled to a pension under any circumstances, and service that he did not know that time of imprisonment was counted as so much service and having service so far from his old associates had no means of knowing (even if he had known he was entitled) whether or not he could have his services and thus he has never made any effort until within the last few months and that declarant rec'd information as to time of imprisonment being counted as so much service, se few months since through the medium of Wm Valentine of Albany N.Y. Declarant further saith that at the time he was engaged in the service as aforesaid he resided in what is now known as the county of Herkimer + State of New York, with his father who then owned + occupied a farm in that place, and that Declarant resided in said county and state until about thirty-five years ago, from whence he removed to Canada as aforesaid where he now resides.  Declarant further saith that the names of the prisoners who he recollects were David Schuyler, Nicholas Schuyler, John Casler, Nicholas Forbush, but at present cannot recollect any others.
Subscribed and Sworn to before me this third day of August 1846  the words "of some" interlined before execution
Stephen Wait Clerk of Fulton County Court

Safrinus Dygert
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State of New York  }
Fulton County        } ss.

I Stephen Wait Clerk of the County of Fulton and of the Court of common Pleas thereof do hereby certify that on this third day of August 1846 appeared in open Court Safrinus Dygert and subscribed and executed and recorded oaths of the foregoing declaration  His testimony whereof I have  and [illegible] subscribed  my name and affixed the seal of said County and of the Court of Common Please thereof this third day of August AD 1846
S. Waits Clerk
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State of New York 
Herkimer County ss 
John Dygert of the town of Little Falls in said County of Herkimer being duly sworn says that he is sixty one years old in April last part, and  that he is intimately acquainted with Sovrenus  Dygert. and has been ever since this deponents childhood. That the said Sovrenus Dygert now resides in Oxford Upper Canada where he has resided since the year 1811. That the Said Sovrenus Dygert was born in the said State of New York where he lived until he removed in 1811, to Canada as aforesaid. My knowledge of his residing in Canada is from frequent correspondence with him at that place. That  this deponents further says that his father was an ownbrother to the said Sovrenus Dygert, & that he has been informed by his father who was Captain in the Revolution war. that the said Sovrenus Dygert was taken a prisoner of was during the said Revolutionary War by the Indians + the English and carried to Canada and detained as such prisoner one year & ten months. and this deponent has also been informed of the same + like facts by other persons who were prisoners at the same time with the said Sovrenus Dygert.
 The said Dygert was taken prisoner near Fort Bell  on tall Hill in the said town of
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Little Falls a short distance from where this deponent now resides, as this deponent has been inprisoned, and saith this deponent saith not.
Sworn before me this 4th day of August AD 1866
Johny Dygert
Augustus Beardley one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Herkimer of the clergy of court of pleas and sworn in this herefore county
Herkimer county ss
I Augustus Beardley a judge  [illegible] is as a[illegible] express do certify that I am personally will acquainted with John Dygert the above named deponent + have been an acquaintance with him for last twenty five years I do further certify that said deponent is a man of veracity, high character + standing and of the first worth I perfectabit(?) and every way worthy of full faith I and is witness my name this 4th day of August 1846 Augustus Beardslee judge common pleas as aforesaid
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Rev. and 1812 Wars
Section.

March 24, 1926
Mr. Frank D. Deuel
15 Keyes Ave.
Schenectady, N.Y.

Sir:
In response to your letters of the twelfth and sixteenth [illg], I have to advise you, that you were furnished photostat copies of the papers in the claim for Revolutionary War pension H. 23208, of Severenus Deygert, because the letter of the Honorable Frank Crowther, written on your behalf, requested the copies of the man of that name from Palatine, N.Y. where the above noted resided when he enlisted.

If you wish photostat copies of the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 10598 of Safrinus Dygert, born Sept. 15, 1766, the son of Warner Dygert, the same will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page with twenty-five cents extra for certification if that is desired. The number of pages to be copied is twenty. It is not stated that he lived in Palentine, but that he resided in Herkimer County, and in Canada.
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If you desire photostat copies of the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 26546, of Marillis, widow of Jost Dygert, the same will be furnished you at the same rates. The number of pages to be copied is twenty-two.
 The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior. Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.
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Re War
10598
 INVALID. 
File No. 10,598
 Severinus Dygert
Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 106 
Arrangement of 1870.)
1926 MAR 24TH
F D Deuel ad. of cost of copies out
1926 Apr. 10 photos mailed to F D Deuel
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(Post mark) Buffalo N.Y. Jul 28
Safrinus Dygert 
N M Aug 5
Free
L P Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Appears to be
[illegible] Dygert File 23208
[illegible] Dygert File 10598

Safrinus Dygert

[illegible]
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Commissioner 
Pension Office 
Washington D. C. 
U.S.
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James M. Cook Dec 18 1854 
37.344 Safrinus Dygert 
New York 
Let to Hon C.S. Benton 
August 15 1846 
Det F. C. Nessler, April 21/52 
see Severinus Dygert 
New York (Admitted)
Act 1832 
19aug____ 24, 195 
Sarah Lake Aug 2. 1854 
Same Aug 10 1854
 (over) act 7th June 1832
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N. Y. L.P. Comptrollers Office 
Albany Dec 23. 1854
L. P Waldo Esq.
Comtr
Dr Sir 
Yours of the 18th inst is recd- Enclosed herewith you will find a facsimile of the Bill of Sevrinus Dygart.
 In regard to the identity of the persons named in the two certificates marked No 1 + 2 herewith returned, the records in this office do not afford the means of determining with satisfactorly all I can say is that the service entrance in the two Certificates appear to have been performed under different officers and in different Regiments
 The names of Capt John Bradlake + John Bradley in certificate No 1. are incorrect. By referring to the Roll of officers in the office of the Secretary of State the name of John
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"In Bradlick" or "Bradlick was a Capt. in Col. Jacob Klock's Regt - it appears the two first named captains on the same person and the name has been erroneously transcribed in the records of this office 
Most Respy
H. P. Haswell Clk.
St. Col. Peter Waggoner 
was commissioner in Col. Klock's Reg- Clk,
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Anderson 
Safrinus Dygert
N.Y Aug 3rd

L.P. Waldo Esq
Comn. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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73.326
  6.66
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73.33
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586.64
73.33
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$1,319.94
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Province of Canada
 County of Oxford
 to Wit
 I certify that Charles E Chadwick whose name is set and subscribed to the jurast of the three annexed affidavits marked respectively 1,3,+ 4 and respectively sworn to by Herkimer Dygest Nicholas Taylor and William Reynolds, is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified and Sworn as such in and for the County of Oxford and that the named Chas. E Chadwick set and subscribed his hand to the said respective was in the proper handwriting of the said Charles W Chadwick Given under my hand and the Seal of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace forth County aforesaid this ninth day of November AD 1854 . 
 W Lapenstiere
Clerk the Peace for the County of Oxford
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Washington January 25 1855

Hon S P Waldo
             
         Sir
Enclosed you will find as application for a new certificate in the case of Seberius Dygert of New York act of June 1832, in lieu of one lately issued which is alleged has been illegally withheld from the partner entitled.

Very Respectfully,
Your Obt Sert
Geo C. Ames
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Hamilton G. Fant, Banker
Claims against the Government Collected
Pennsylvania Avenue [illegible] 4th and 6th Street

Washington D.C. April 28 1855
L.P. Waldo Esqr.
Comt of Pensions

Dear Sir,
Herein you will receive my application as administrator of Severinus Dygert dec'd for a pension under the act of June 1832.  The certificate in Janry last is herein returned.

Very Respectfully 
Yr Obt Sert
Hamilton G Frank
Administrator
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State of New York
County of Herkimer 

Be it knonwn that before me John Uhle a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Herkimer Dygert and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical Herkimer Dygert supposed to be named in connection with Joseph Dygert, Isaac Dygert, Catherine Harris, Elenor Putnam, Gertrude Niles all of whom together with this deponent being the only children now living of Serveranus Dygert late of Canada West in an original Pension certificate now illegally withheld by Samuel Cole to whom this deponent the said Herkimer Dygert was directed for assistance in drawing the money on said original certificate that they on their way towards the pension agency the said Cole enquired of this deponent if he understood upon what terms deponent was to have the awards of said certificate. He replied that he did not, the terms were then stated by said Cole, which these. Said Cole demanded one half of the avails of said certificate as compensation for procuring the same, which terms were so exorbitant that they were utterly refused to be acceded to by this deponent. To which said Cole replied that he should not give up said certificate and immediately left this deponent.  These deponent further states that he has never neither does he know nor believe that either of the rest of this above-named children have ever seen said original
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certificate but that they were informed by the person authorized to obtain the said certificate that it would be issued and ready to draw the avails of the same in Albany and that they were directed to be there for said purpose on or about the middle of the month of January instant. That this deponent had a Power of Attorney from all of the above and other children to receive for them their portion or share of the avails of the said original certificate which power of attorney is hereto annexed.  That he proceeded to Albany to receive said certificate to draw said avails when he met said Cole above conversation between the said Samuel Cole and deponent took place.  What he with the above-named other children are entitled to a pension as they have been informed of about fourteen hundred dollars on amount of military services performed by their father Severanus Dygert during the Revolutionary War.  That he this deponent and other children above-named now reside in the County of Oxford Province of Canada West and have resided there for the space of about forty years past and that previous hereto they resided in the County of Herkimer State of New York United States of America.

Sworn and subscribed this nineteenth day of January AD 1855        Herkimer Dygert
before me
I also certify that he is a person of truth and veracity.
John Uhle Justice of the Peace of Herkimer County
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 State of New York
 Herkimer County 
Ss
confirmably to the regulations of the war Department of the 27th of October 1832 I John White a magistrate in the County above named do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory Evidence was from the Examination under oath of John Dygert and Solomon Petrie who being both respectable citizens of the Village of Little Falls in aforesaid County & State That Herkimer Dygert who this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity is the identical person or pensioner he declares himself to be in the annexed Affidavits, and I am also satisfied that the Statement made by him in relation to the pension certificate is true Given under my hand at Little Falls Herkin County New York the day and year above written 
John Uhle
Justice of the peace of Herkimer County
State of New York 
Herkimer County Ss
Be it known that I Herkimer Dygert a resident of the County of Oxford Province of Canada West do not only for himself but also for the above named other children hereby constitute & appoint George C Arms of Washington D.C. their true & lawful attorney with power to presents the above to the commissioner of Pensions at Washington D.C. asking him to issue another or duplicate certificate instead of the original certificate which is withheld as stated above & to deliver the document to said Ames for him to send to Solomon
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Petrie of the Village of Little Falls 
Herkimer County New York said duplicate Certificate 
Witness my hand & seal this 19th day of January AD 1855 
signed & acknowledged before me this day & year last above written
 John Wall Justice of the peace of Herkimer County 
State of New York, Herkimer COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE SS.
  E. T. CLELAND Clerk of the County of Herkimer, do certify that John Uhle Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificates and jurats of affidavit of the annexed instrument, was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, dwelling in said county, duly elected and sworn; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the name subscribed to the said certificate and jurat of affidavit to be his genuine signature.
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county, at Herkimer, this day of June A.D. 185 I
E t Cleland Clerk
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Province of Canada County of Oxford to wit
 I hereby Certify that George Washington Whitehead whose name is set and subscribed to the Jurat of the affidavit hereunto annexed is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified and sworn as such in and for the County of Oxford in the province of Canada, and that the name Geo W Whitehead sold and subscribed is in the proper hand writing of the said George Washington Whitehead. Given under my hand and the Seal of the Court of general quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said County of Oxford this Ninth day of November A D 1854 
W. Lapenstiere Clerk of the Peace for the County of Oxford
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Province of Canada
 County of Oxford
To Wit
 Personally official before me George W Whitehead a Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Oxford William Scott of the Town of Woodstock in the said County of Oxford Physician who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he resides in the Town of Woodstock in the said County of Oxford and that the seventh day November in the year of Our Lord 1849 be was called to visit Sylvanus Dygert in the Township of West Oxford in the said County of Oxford who at the time was very ill and at this his first visit found the said Sylvanus Dygert so very ill and having no hopes of his recovery said to several of the family there present that it would be utterly useless to call on him.  the said William Scott again as the said Sylvanus Dygert could not answer from his there illness and that he might survive of few days and might not live a few hours and this Deponent further Saith that he did not visit the said Sylvanus Dygert again and understand that he died on the tenth day of the said month of November 19 1849 and this deponent saith that he had no personal acquaintance with the said Sylvanus Dygert or his family except as above.  Stated deponent further saith that he is certain that his visit as above was on the Seventh day of November 1849 as a reference to his Books of account them the date of entries for Medicine to agree with that time. 
taken and sworn before me this Eleventh day of October 1854 William Scott Goth,a Magistrate in and for the County of Oxford
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Heirs of
Safrinus Dygert
New York
Act 7 June 1832
Evidence of ?
F L Brockett  atty
Alexandria Virg
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Washington City District of Columbia
This 28th day of April, 1855, before the undersigned, an Artary per this in and for the City and District aforesaid, personnaly  (sic)appeared Hamilton G. Fant, who, being first duly sworn, did say that he is the Administrator of the exam of Severinus Dygert, did, serve of the county of Oxford, Canada West; that he has name to suppress that the said Severinus Dygert, performed certain services during the Revolutionary war which entitled him to a pension, and for which a pension certificate (herewith returned) recently if send in the name of the surviving children of said Dygert; that so far he knows and believes the said children therein named and are surviving, and that as Administrator a the as aforesaid he now returns said certificate to the Pension office, and asks that in lieu thereof one may [?] in him as such Administration for the benefit of said children; the son Herkimer  Dygert, Joseph Dygert, Isaac Dygert, Catharine Ferris, Eleanor Putnam and Gertrude Niles. Mr here [?] files his letter of administration.
Sworn to + subscribed on this date  [illegible] Hamilton G Fant
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37344
Safrinus Dygert
NY
Act 7 June '32
Hon C  S Benton
Hon
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State of New York to sundry person for pensioner pay To Safrinus Dygert private Col Clyds Reg milia from 4th Oct 1780 to this day [ Aug 4 1782] is 22 months at 5 3/4 per month. 58.13.4 
Comptroller Office State New York 
Albany 5 Aug 1846 
I herby certify the above to be a true extract from Book B. page 83.  audited Account now remaining in this Office 
Philip Phelph
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State of New York County of Herkimer ss
Daniel Dygert of Little Falls in the county of Herkimer and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law Deposeth that he is personally acquainted with Sevrinus Dygert who now resides in Canada and who is now in a visit to Herkimer Montgomery and Fulton Counties for the purpose particularly of making a declaration before the court in Fulton County in this state, for a pension, and that on or about the first of January last Wm Valentine of Albany N.Y. called on deponent at Little Falls aforesaid+ amoung other names engraved about that of Servinus Dygert, a list of which names said Valentine had in his depssion, on said Valentine mentionin the name of said Dygert and that a person by that name was a prisoner in the Revolution the deponant  informed said Valentine that the deponant was well acquainted with said Servinus Dygert and that he was now living in Canada at the same time deponent gave said Valentine the address of said Dygert which is Beachville upper Canada accordingly a correspondence was commenced between said Valentine + Dygert and Dygerts presence in Canada from which the said Dygert has come to this vacinity for the express purpose of making his Declaration in a court of records which is new sitting in Fulton County aforesaid and that Deponent has this third day of August accompanied the said Dygert in company with said Valentine to the said court when the said Dygert has this day made his Declaration, Deponant further saith that he is now forty eight years of age and has been acquainted with the said Dygert at least forty years + from the time deponant was a small boy. that the said Dygert named from Herkimer County to Canada about thirty-five years ago, since which time said Dygert has visited Herkimer County aforesaid several times + deponant has had frequent correspondence with the said Dygert from which and a variety of other facts + circumstances besides the above meantime, deponant is not mistaken in the pension.
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of said service Dygert and Deponant further saith that he has always understood + believe + it has also always been so understood in the neighborhood thta teh said Servinus Dygert was a prisoner in the Revolution, Deponant has heard old people + soldiers of the Revolution also speak of the imprisonment of said Dygert, and Deponant has never had a doubt or heard a doubt expressed in the neighborhood otherwise than that the said Dygert was so taken prisoner and kept a prisoner in Canada during said war.  Daniel Dygert
Subscribed + sworn to before me this 4th day of August 1846 Robert Casler justice of the peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Dygert the above named deponant and he is a person of good standing in society and is a man of truth + veracity
Robert Casler justice of the peace
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State of New York
Herkimer County 
I Nathaniel Waldren of the Town of Danube in said county afforesaid a pensioner of the United States aged eighty nine years being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that I this deponent became acquainted with Safrinus Dygert after the revolution War that I was personally acquainted and knew the said Safrinus Dygert and that I lived in the neighborhood with the said Safrinus Dygert for upwards of twenty five years and has had a great number of communications with the said Safrinus Dygert about the Revolutionary War and the said Safrinus Dygert always told me that he was taken prisoner at or near Fort Bill at the time his father Captain Warner Dygert was killed by the Indians and this deponent further saith that I have heard other persons state that Safrinus Dygert was taken prisoner and taken to Canada from old persons that were soldiers and had also been taken prisoner during the war and this deponent further saith that I have been acquainted with Safrinus Dygert for Fifty years and upwards and this deponent further saith that.   
Nathaniel X Waldren
his mark
Subscribed & sworn this 4th day of August 1846 before Robert Casler Justice of the peace

Richard Waldren
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named deponent and have been for twenty years and upwards, he is a man of [ illegible]
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Reason of this not writing his given name is that this deponent is now old and has not [illegible]   his home for some time past on account of his being blind.

Robert Casler Justice of the Peace
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Afft of
Nicholas Taylor
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Canada County of Oxford] to wit
Nicholas Taylor of the village of Ingersoll in the county of Oxford Merchant [illegible] oath and saith that he was well acquainted with Safrinus Dygert in his life since also was reported he is a Revolutionary Soldier with Dygert in the United States moreso when he died and that he died on or about the tenth day of November in the year of our lord 1849 [illegible] any children, Joseph Isaac Catharine wife of John Harris, Fleurs Relies of the late William Putnam and Gertrude wife of William Niles and no others.
Deponent further saith that he knows this facts as he was the person who dug the grave of the said Safrinus  Dygert was present at the funeral

Sworn before me at the Village of Ingersoll in the county of Oxford this sixth day of November 1852 
Chas E. Chadwick                 Nicholas Taylor
a [illegible] for the County of Oxford
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Payment to be made at NY Albany by James M. French Esq Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of New York


Recorded in the Pension Office in Book H Volume 2 Page 153 by
E J T Getty
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I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832.  Severinus Dygert who was a private in the Revolutionary war was entitled to a pension and having died on the 10th November 1849 has only surviving children Herkimer Dygert, Joseph Dygert, Isaac Dygert, Cathatine Ferris, Eleanor Putnam and Gertrude Niles are entitled to the amount at the rate of seventy three 83/100 dollars per annum commencing 4th March 1839 and ending 10th of November 1849 when he died.
Given at the Department of the Interior this ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty five 
C McClelland Secretary of the Interior 
L P Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
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Province of Upper Canada County of [illegible] Oxford}
Be it known that before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Herkimer Dygert, Joseph Dygert, Isaac Dygert, Catharine Harris, Eleanor Putnam, and Gertrude Niles, and made each in due firm of law, that they are the sons and daughters of Severinus Dygert, the identical person whose name was placed on the pension role and is now dead, and to whom a certificate of pension was [illegible], which is herewith surrendered. 
this the deceased pensioner resided in the county of Oxford in the Province of Upper Canada for the space of thirty eight years before his death, and his pension thereto he resided in the State of New York, United Stated of America.
Herkimer Dygert
Joseph Dygert
Isaac Dygert
Catharine Harris
Eleanor Putnam
Gertrude Niles
Sworn and subscribed this thirteenth day of January, 1855, before me. Walter B. Mabee J. P. O. C.
know all men by their presence that we, Joseph Dygert, Isaac Dygert, Catharine Harris, Eleanor Putnam, and Gertrude Niles, children of Severinus Dygert, who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Herkimer Dy
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gert an true and lawful attorney juris and in one name and for each of us and in the name of each, to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in Albany in the state of New York, the balance of said pension from the 4th day of March 1831, to the 16th November 1849, being the day of his death. 
Witness in hands and seals this 13 day of January, 1855.  Herk Dygert 
Isaac Dygert  
Catharine Harris
Eleanor Putnam 
Gertrude Niles
Sealed and believed in the presence of Eli C. Harris
Walter B. Mabee
Province of Upper Canada County of Oxford West ss. Be it known that on the 13th day of January, 1855, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly and charged by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Joseph Dygert, Isaac Dygert, Catharine Harris, Eleanor Putnam, and Gertrude Niles, above named, and veracity, acknowledged the forgoing service of attorney to be thru act and deed, and the act and deed of each of them. In testimony whereof I have hereunto sign my hand this day and year  I above mentioned. 
Walter B. Mabee J.P. U.C.
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Province of Canada County of Oxford U M l
I do hereby certify that the name Walter B Mabee set and subscribed as a witness to the execution of the annexed power of attorney is in the proper handwriting of the same Walter B Mabee and also that the name Walter b Mabee set and subscribed to the certificate written underneath the said power of attorney is in the proper handwriting of the said Walter B Mabee and I further certify that the said Walter B Mabee is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Oxford and that I am well acquainted with him and his Handwriting And I further certify that the County General Quarter Leprais of the Peace for the said County of Oxford is a Court of Record. G[?] under my hand and the seal of the said Court this fifteenth day of January AD 1855
W. Lapenotiere clerk of the Peace for teh County of Oxford. Canada.
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Little Falls May 4 1855
Hon. L.P. Walter Coms. Pensions
Sir, Your letter of the 18th [illegible] is speaking of the matter of the claim of the children of Severinus Dygert deceased to a certificate of pension was duly received and the content noted. On the receipt of that letter I submitted it to the friends of the claimants residing near this place and they told me they would write the claimant in Canada. since then I have not heard any thing of the matter until this morning, I was shown a letter from Washington stating that letter of administration had been granted by the Orphans court of the City of Washington on said Dygerts [illegible] and that the administrator would probably appear at the said office for payment of the pensions ordered to Dygerts children. I have noticed the act of June 1 1849 under which I suppose this certificate of pension money will be remanded or paid over to the administrator. At any case of this kind, need I certify [ illegible] what that act has to do with this case in hand, the first and second section of that act provides only for ordinary cases when administration has him granted on a state [illegible] the pension money under certain restrictions to be paid to the executor or administrator. Those sections do not contemplate the case of an administrator appointed at the City of Washington when the decendent lived and died out of the county and had no assets in this country or within the jurisdiction of the
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court granting administration. The third section in that act is not in my judgement permissive but mandatory the pension must be paid to the children of the pensioner when they prefer it without this intervention of an administrator. They have already made that election and the department has recognized it the issue of a certificate. The  powers of the officer has been once executed He has determined the money to be paid to the children of the pensioner and can he now reconsider the case and adjudge payment to some other party? I think not. But if the money gets into the hands of the administrator what has he to do with it but distribute it in equal shares to the children. what right can he have and this act to claim it or any portion of it except to pay the expenses of the administrator. Can he the administrator undertake to pay any seal in fictitious claims against Dygerts children and set up that payment as a distribution among them in equal  shares? This would be a proceeding, so novel and I must think [illegible] evidence that I can believe such a [illegible] for a moment be sustained by a court of law or equity any where in the United States. Should however the course be taken which seems to be indicated by your letter of the 18th of April last  I hope the administrator or his sureties will informed of sufficient  ability here after  to respond to the claimants for any money or may receive on the pension awarded. Now to close a communication already so long, I object on behalf of the Dygert children to the issue of any certificate or the payment of any money to any other  person administrator or [illegible] than to them as indicated in the first certificate made on  + at the pension office. The certificate money belongs
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them by the laws of the land, and they should have the same without being coerced to pay a sum of money which they believe exorbitant for the service performed, and which they never have as they say, reorganized or admitted. I trust, Sir, you will not exert your authority in such a way, as to subject these parties to submit to a great wrong. I am Respectfully yours N. S. Benton
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Severinu Dygert decd
Oxford Province of Canada act 7th June 1832
Severinus, a private in Capt. Dygert company Col. Clyde's Regt New York militia; imprisoned in Canada for twenty two months from 4th Oct. 1780 to 4th August 17Nov, 1849 this wife Eleanor died on 7th June 1847. proved by William Scott Nicholas Taylor jc. Herkimer Dygert, Joseph Dygert, Isaac Dygert, Catharine Harris Eleanor Putnam, Gertrude Niles, only surviving children proved by William Reynolds and Nicholas Taylor jc. 
The commissioner directs the certificate to be issue to the surviving children
Charles H. Rhett
F.L. Brackell Esqr.
Alexandria Va.
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this letter Queenston UC Jan 24 
Mr Sovrinus Dygert Beachville Upper Canada
Mrs Niles address is Sondon Canada West
26 January 1846
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Albany NY. January 20th 1846

Sir,
I am informed by Daniel Dygert of Little Falls, Herkimer County N.Y. that you were a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that you do not get a pension. He also informed me that you were taken a prisoner & at Danl Dygert requests me to write you, as I informed him you were probably entitled to a pension. I am engaged in the business of procuring pensions and if you will give a full statement by letter as to the circumstances of your imprisonment, the time you were taken + when you were released from prison, where was you when taken prisoner and under what officers were you at the time you were taken prisoner, give me names of as many others as you can recollect who were imprisoned with you. And any other circumstances relating to your service in the war.  On the receipt of your answer, if I think I can find proof as to War imprisonment I will inform you and will at your request undertake the business for you.  Did you not write your name Sovrinus instead of Sylvanus or did not others do so. The reason I make the inquiry is that enquiry you are known as Sovrinus it may be one and the same name, please inform also about how your name was written during the Revolution - The Sooner it is attended to the better for you - over-  Wm Valentine of Albany N.Y.
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Albany August 5th 1846
This letter being the first I wrote to alb Dygert was returned to me with several others. The above writing in particular is in the handwriting of Mr Niles who is a friend of the Dygerts and resides near him + from whom Pha? used several letters written by the Niles for the Dygert, from which I suppose not having made my enquiry contained in the within letter, one of my reasons for the supposition is, that I discover the names of those who the Dygert probably gave to Mr Niles as having been some who were also prisoners in Canada + are named in this declaration for a pension the above was written before the letter was returned to me.   Wm. Valentine
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See the Deposition of Danl Dygert 
next over
Should it be of any service or be required I will furnish evidence of the forgoing in due form " if this letter is returned to me in order to do so  I must send this to Mr Niles in Canada 
Wm Valentine
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Children of Safrinus Dygert or Severon Dygert. He died Nov. 10 1849. His wife died June 7 1847
Joseph Dygert, Isaac Dygert. Catharine wife of John Harris
Ellenor releit of Wm. Putnam
Gertrude wife of Wm. Niles. 
Herkimer Dygert, who makes this affidavit 
Herkimers name is not mentioned in one of the affidavits.
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Hon C.S. Benton Washington
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Albany N.Y. August 5th 1846
Sir I am requested by Mr Dygert, the applicant in the enclosed pension matter, also by his friends at Little Falls, to forward the papers to you requesting them sent to  Mr Edwards in order that he may report to you, Mr Dygert has come from Canada to Fulton County expressly to attend court + make his declaration for a pension + intends to remain a few weeks with a need to return from a pensioner of the United States. Than remark to Mr Edwards that the applicant is writing a report + solicit the earliest practical attention and find the report to you, which you will please forward to me as soon as possible after you receive it. 
Allow me to repeat that I am only induced to take the liberty I have in sending papers to NY being a stranger personally by the earnest solicitations of those above attribute to 
I am yours very respectfully Wm Valentine
Hon Chas S. Benton M. C. Washington P. S. Sherild you know or ia anything Hon Niles is him  have been anything relating to the applicant  imprisoned to a character att/ of him or any of the witnesses please add  a few words by certit [illegible]
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Severinus Dygert de
Canada West 7 June 1832
Pen certificate payable to [illegible]  in leiu of war duties 9 January 1833 which has been cancelled
illegible
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J.S. Edwards Esq Commr Pensions
Washington
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Little Falls August 5th 1845



J.L. Edwards Esq
Court Pensions

Sirs,
I have been many years well acquainted with John Dygert Esq. of this place and know him to be a gentleman of high character and repute in this community and do believe his statement under oath are entitled to explicit confidence & belief.
Mr. Respectfully Your Obt Sert
 N.S,Benton Dygert is a native of the Mohawk Valley and connected with many of the old German families who inhabited the Valley during the Revolutionary War.
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Province of Canada County of Oxford [illegible]

I certify that Walter B. Mabee before whence the annexed Power of Attorney appears to have been executed. and whose name is set and subscribed to the acknowledgement sweared on the said annexed Power of attorney is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified and sworn as such in and for the County of Oxford and that the name Walter B Mabee at and subscribed to the said acknowledgement is in his proper hand writing  given under my hand and the [?] the seal of the Court of Glacer at Quailer Seprois of the Peace for the County aforesaid nineteenth day of November AD 1854
W. Lapenstiere  clerk of the Peace for the County of Oxford
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No.2
Power of Attorney
Province of Canada
County of Oxford } to wit
Know all men by others present that we Herkimer Dygert Isaac Dygert, Catherine Harris, Joseph Dygert, Eleanor Putnam formerly Dygert Gertrude Niles formerly Dygert the only surviving children of Safrinus Dygert dec'd who during his lifetime applied for a Pension under the act of 7th June 1832 for revolutionary services do hereby constitute and appoint Franklin L. Brockett of Alexandria Virginia our true and lawful attorney for us and in our name to receive from the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington a pension certificate for us for the services of our said father. Hereby recognizing and approving whatever our said attorney shall lawfully do for us in the premises as fully as though we were personally present doing the same.

Witness our hands and marks this 25th day of October 1834


Herkimer Dygert            Catherine Harris
Joseph Dygert         Eleanor Putnam
Isaac Dygert      Gertrude Niles
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Acknowledged before me the day and year aforesaid

Walter B. Mabee
Justice of the Peace to and for the County of Oxford

Gertrude Niles

Power of Attorney

Herkimer Dygert
Joseph Dygert
Isaac Dygert
Catherine Harris 
Eleanore Putnam

Only children and heirs at law of 
Safrinus Dygert
New York
Act 7th June 1832

Presented by F.L. Brockett atty
Alexandria Virgina
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Power Attorney
Herkimer Dygert
Joseph Dygert
Isaac Dygert
Catharine Harris
Eleanor Putnam
Gertrude Niles
only children and heirs at law of
Safrinus Dygert
New York
Act 7th June 1832

Presented by F.L.Brockett atty
Alexandria Virginia
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Province of Canada County of Oxford SS:
On this Twenty first day of July 1854 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Herkimer Dygert a resident of the town of West Oxford in said County aged Forty Three years and made oath according to law that he is directly interested in a claim against the United States for arrears of pension supposed to be due to him as heir of Safrinus Dygert deceased who was a soldier in the revolution-
and he hereby appoints SAMUEL LAKE, of Buffalo, N. Y. his Attorney to prosecute said claim, and examine all papers and documents in relation thereto, on file in any of the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere, and to receive from the office authorised to issue the same, a certificate for a pension or any arrears or increase of pension, or any other claim to which Deponent may be entitled, and to do all other acts and things in and about obtaining such arrears of pension as Deponent might or could do, were he personally present at the doing thereof; and he hereby revokes all former powers if any inconsistent with the above; hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever Deponent's said Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises. In witness whereof the said Deponent has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.
Herkimer Dygert
[L. S. [illegible]
SWORN TO, SUBSCRIBED AND ACKNOWLEDGED, before me, on the day and year first above mentioned, and I certify that I believe the Deponent to be directly interested in the claim above mentioned, and the identical person therein alleged and described, and that I have no interest in the result of said claim and am not concerned in its prosecution.
James Ingersoll J P
Canada County of Oxford to Wsh
I hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with James Ingersoll whose name is above subscribed and written and know that the name "James Ingersoll" is in the proper hand writing of the said James Ingersoll and further certify that the said James Ingersoll is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified and sworn for the County of Oxford in the province of Canada. Given under my hand and the Seal of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Alford this twenty first day of July AD 1854
N. Lapenstiere
Clerk of the Peace County of Oxford Canada
[Seal in Lower right side of page is illegible]
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Buffalo N.Y. July 27th 1854
Sir, 
Enclosed please find affidavit of Herkimer Dygert a son and heir of Safrinus Dygert who was a revolutionary soldier.
Mr. Dygert informs me that application was made for pension several years since, but he has not been able to learn what disposition has been made with the claim or whether it has been allowed or not.
The enclosed affidavit is made for the purpose of obtaining a full report in the case, what service was claimed to have been performed, what proof has been made and what objections still exists (if any) to the allowing of
An early and full report in this case is earnestly requested.
I am very respectfully your Obt Servt
Samuel Lake

By H.C. Mead

L. P. Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington  D.C.
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Hon L.P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions










Safrinus Dygert
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Washington Apl 3, 1834
Sir:
The case of Servinus Dygert, N. Y. was originally suspended on the grounds that he was in all probability a mere citizen taken by the enemy and not a soldier. Although the evidence was amply sufficient [illegible] presumption before, we have now succeeded in procuring [illegible] evidence of his military character at the time of his captivity, plenty, which I herewith enclose-
[illegible]
F.F.F. Triplett
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S. Dygert
Col Niles
F. F.C. Triplett Sqr
Rec'd Novr 24th 1834
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Alexandria November 16. 1854
Sir,
I have the honor, herewith, to enclose the proof of heirship &c in the case of the children and heirs of Safrinus Dygert decd under act of 7th June 1832,
As the heirs
Herkimer Dygert
Joseph Dygert
Isaac Dygert
Catharine Harris
Eleanor Putnam &
Gertrude Niles, reside in the Province of Canada I will thank you to make the Certificate payable in Washington
I am very respy Your Obt Servt,
F. L. Brockett
Atty

Hon Loren P. Waldo
of Pensions
Washington, DC.
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N.S. Benton
March 22 1855

Respecting the claim of Dygert.
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Little Falls March 23, 1855
L. P. Waldo Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
My professional attention has been called to the claim of the heirs of Severenis Dygert deceased to a pension certificate granted by the Department on the 9th of January 1855. This certificate was issued or made out in the name of the heirs at law who are the children of the party who performed the revolutionary service, the stipend belongs to them and not to the executor or administrator. I do not understand that the personal representatives of a deceased revolutionary soldier can assert any claim to the gratuity granted by Congress or that it can be taken to pay the debts of such claimant living or dead.
I make this remark because of having been informed by a letter now before me that parties other than the heirs of Dygert are proceeding to take out letters of administration, at Washington with a view of appropriating the gratuity named in the certificate to their own use. This if accomplished would be a strange proceeding. Whose estate is to be administered upon under the [illegible] to be granted, certainly not that of the heirs who are all living. Not that of S. Dygert for he has no estate at Washington or elsewhere in the
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United States to be administered and it may well be asked what court of Probate has any jurisdiction when there is neither property to be administered or any legal claim to be prosecuted before some legal internal officer or department.  Now as I understand this question the whole object has  become res judica before the Commissioner of Pensions. It has been settled by that officer that certain persons as heirs at law of Safrinus Dygert are entitled under certain acts of Congress to a specifies amount of money. Another party who claims that a debt is due to him from these heirs for services performed under a personal contract with them then seeks to enforce his contract by obtaining letters of administration on some body estate, on whom the living parties to this contract this would be strange indeed. On the dead soldiers estate, this would be stranger still for two reasons. The dead soldier has no estate to be administered and he the dead soldier was no party to the pretended contract. But I am detaining with an argument which may be out of place. I respectfully protest on the part of the Dygert heirs against the recognition at your office of any right of a pretended administrator to any moneys embraced or contained in the certificate granted and we also protest against the grant to any new certificates to any one except to the parties named in the certificate now wrongfully held as they say. If the agent who now holds that certificate will send me a copy of the contract signed by the Dygert heirs I will endeavor to have this matter
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assigned upon the data of that contract, if there is any thing in it to guide to such a result. If he will not do this we shall endeavor to assist the claim of the heirs in such mode as we may be hereafter advised. My clients deny that any specified sum of compensation was ever agreed upon between them and the agent and they feel that their offer was sufficiently, liberal
 I am very Respectfully
 Your obt sevt
 N. S. Benton
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L P Waldo Esq Comr of Pensins Buffalo Aug. 5, 1854 
Sir-- I have received your Letter of the 2d Aust, in answer to my enquiry in relation to the suspended claim of T
Safrenus Dygert for a Revolutionary pension. This Letter does not give the fact in relation to the service & imprisonment that enables me to do anything towards removing the objections to allowing the claim. In his Declaration I expect he stated where when and how he was taken prisoner.
 Will you have the goodness to give me these facts as stated by him. The family say that the Father of Safrinus Dygert was killed by the indians at the time he was take prisoner.
 Is this fact stated in the application, and where was he exchanged or liberated, and how.
 I suppose all the facts relating to the service and imprisonment are set forth in the application, as well as the payment for the time of imprisonment, altho I know that man times declarations are not fully drawn up and many things which should be said are omitted. If the several men who have had this claim in charge have produce proof of service performed by others
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as it cannot be admitted, it should not go to prejudice the rights of the parties interested. This Family suffered immently and were nearly annihilated by the war, and I think the Department will give all the information in its possession, and advise what is now necessary to be done to remove the objections. T
The History of our Country tells what it was to be a prisoner of war with the indians at that period, and that it was a mercy to be killed out right without torture-
If any service is deserving a pension it is such, and yet I know of many claims being rejected because the applicants were not in Military Service at the time of being taken- 
Respectfully Yours 
Samuel Lake
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Safrinus Dygert 
Supt 
Act 7 June 1832 
N York
 F. L. Brockett Atty
 Alexandria Virg
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Know all men by these presents that I Herkimer Dygert Administrator of Safrius Dygert decd a Revolutionary soldier who applied for a pension under the act of the 7th June 1832, hereby constitute & appoint F L Brockett of Alexandria Virginia my true & lawful attorney for me & in my name to receive from the Commr of Pensions at Washington a pension certificate for the service said Safrinus Dygert.
Hereby revoking all former powers of atty & confirming all the lawful acts of my said attorney 
Witness my hand & seal t
his 17 day of August 1854 
at rests on fact.  Canada west
 Rosetta Dygert
Merrill Dygert 
Herkimer Dygert 
admr of Safrinus Dygert
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I DO SWEAR, that I will well and truly administer the goods, chattels, and personal estate of Severinus Dygert deceased, to the best of my knowledge, according to law, and will give a just account of my administration when thereto I, shall be lawfully called. So help me God.
Hamilton G. Fant
Swear to in open Court,
Test: Edr N. Roach
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON COUNTY- SCT.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
KNOW YE, That whereas Severinus Dygert late of Oxfin County Providence of Canada deceased, hath died intestate, as it is said, leaving certain goods, chattels, and personal estate to be administered: Now know ye, That administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights, and credits, of the said Severinus Dygert deceased, is hereby granted and committed unto Hamilton G. Fant of the County of Nash nipton, District of Columbia dad that he has entered into bond with security approved by the court. and that the penalty of the Bond is Twenty six dollars 
WITNESS William F Purdle Esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, aforesaid, this 28th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 55 and of the Independence of the United States the 78
Teste Ed. A. Roach Register of Wills.
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Oxford west Feb. 24th 1862
Commissioner of Pention
Sir I beg to inform you that I found an old claim by chance Against the government of state witch my grandfather Dygert Paid in to the army in the time of the Revolutionary war and took it Receite in the tim. he got Kilt therlyt (sic) After by the indians, and the paper All fell in my Father hands for The mintainarice  of my granmother And this never was scento us Yet now. if it is not to late yet + should like to no + had ought to scen to it, in the same time that I Aplide for the pention that was seven years sense, witch I got of My Father Sefrinus Dygert/ It is no doupt but it is in some of the Books, nor sir if it is to leyst

[ all misspellings are as written]
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I will reward you or anny other one that will assist me in gitten it, providing it is right. If it can Be found or think it must be just for it was the money paid out of our hands, your answer would be  accepted with pleasure
 My granfather Warner Dygert 
My father Safrinus Dygert 
my A. H. Dygert
 Address  Beachvill 
Afore west
 Upper Canada
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3-2233 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS 
Finance Division 
Mar 31 , 1928. 
Chief Rev Sect.
 I have this day received from Frank D Deuel M.O. No. 338734. for Six dollars and 80 cents, requesting photostat copy [post-office address crossed out] as per letter herewith .
192six Apr 10
Photos mailed to Finance Div Nort AW
 O. J. RANDALL Chief Finance Div.
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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/54483433?objectPage=85&objectPanel=transcription

Request for Photostating  3-2006
(To be prepared in duplicate.)            Ex. CW
3190       Office of the chief clerk
Job No.........       Date April 2  26,
Subject Safrinus Dygert  Rev. S 10598
1 copies of 4 pieces consisting of 20 pages to be
(No.).          (No.)
forwarded when complete to the Rev. and 1812 Wars [illegible] division.
Remarks
Approved:
[illegible] [illegible] Wilson            Chief Clerk
Chief Sect
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15 Keyes Ave. Schenectady, Ny. March 29, 1926.
Ref: Rev. + 1812 Wars Section U ---- of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
Mr. Winfield Scott  Commissioner
Dear Sir:
In reply to your letter of March 24, will say that I am enclosing P.O. Money order for $6.80 in payment for Photostat copies of the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 10598 of Safrinus Dygert, born Sept. 15, 1766 the son of Warner Dygert, also the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 26546 of Marillis widow of Jost Dygert including certification of both.
In regard to the first paragraph of your letter will say that I am very thankful to have received all of the papers that you have already sent me as I am deeply interested in all branches of this Mohawk Valley Dygert family as I have been working for about 30 years compiling their records.
Truly yours, FRANK D. DEUEL
15 Keyes Ave. 
Schenectady, N.Y.
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Ref. Rev and 1812 War Section
15 Keys Ave.                                   (1)
Schenecetady, NY  March 12, 1926
US Department of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC
Mr. Winfield Scott, Commissioner
Dear Sir:
I am in receipt of your letter dated February 27, 1926
giving me the principal data contained in the Revolutionary war pension claim W. 26546 of Jost Dygert and I wish
to thank you for this information, as I have been searching
for over 30 years to find out whom and when Jost Dygert
married but have been unsuccessful, until you sent me
this information.   Jost Dygert was a son of Warner
Dygert and Magdalene Herkimer, Warners wife was a sister of
General Nicholas Herkimer, the hero of Oriskany Battle.
Warner Dygert who was my ancestor , was shot and
scalped by the Indians in 1780 and his little son, Saffre[illegible]
who was with him at the time was taken a captive to Canada
He returned to Fall Hill, near Little Falls, NY after the
war and married Lena, daughter of Henry Herkimer a brother
of the General and some years later, moved to Canada
later he again returned to the Mohawk Valley and made
an unsuccessful attempt to get a pension from our
government, after which he returned to Canada and
      he never asked for this

died there. But, as you have already made a  search
    one before he asked for the S. of  [illegible]NY
in your pension application files for Severinus or Syhienus
     copies were sent [illegible]
Dygert under all the different ways the name Dygert

might have been spelled. I do not think his application
papers can be on file in your office.  Did you look
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(2)

under the name of Suffrenus, Suffrenas or Saffrenus as the name was sometimes spelled?
His papers, if they could be found, ought to be very interesting as they probably would give a narrative of his captivity. His descendants now live in Canada. The D.A.K. intend to place a marker on the site of Warner Dygert's tavern on Fall Hill, probably this coming summer.

Truly Yours
Frank D Deuel
15 Keyes Ave.
Schenectady, n.y.
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Severinus Dygert youngest son of Itarnel Dygert & wife Magdalena Herkimer dau. of Johann Jost Herkimer
born Sept. 15, 1766
died Nov. 10, 1849 buried at Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.
married Aug. 8, 1790 to
Magdalena Herkimer dau. of Henry Herkimer
born March 7, 1769
died                 1846
Children; -
1. Warner b.Nov. 28, 1791 killed by a horse
2. Anna b. Feb. 21, 1793
3. Henrich b. Jan.11, 1795
4. Catherine b. about 1797 m Rev. John Harris
5. Lena b. about 1799 m William Putnam
6. Gertrude b. Oct 9, 1801 m William Niles
7. Nancy b. about 1803 m Thomas Putnam
8. Joseph b. about 1805 m Clarissa Cook
9. Isaac b. about 1806 m Abigail Janes b. 1812
10 Herkimer b. about 1808 m Ruby Janes
Descendants all live in Canada, 20 years ago I was in correspondence with them, F. D. Devel
J. R. Simms in his book "Frontiersmen of New York" calls him Suffrenas Dygert, and says "that he made an unsuccessful attempt to get a pension from our government." Simms was informed by a daughter of Suffrenas Dygerts older sister, his informant was nearly as old as Suffrenas Dygert. If the Pension papers are filed under the classification according to residence? look under Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.
F. D. Devel